Masa (restaurant)
Masa | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 2004 |
Owner(s) | Masa Takayama |
Chef | Masa Takayama |
Food type | Japanese and sushi |
Rating |
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Street address | The fourth floor of the Prix fixes start at $595 per person |
Website | Official website |
Masa (雅) is a
The restaurant was opened by Chef
Menu
The offerings are
Recognition
Masa garnered the Michelin Guide's highest rating starting with the 2009 guide and was the first Japanese restaurant in the US to do so.[7][8] It received three out of four stars from The New York Times.[9] It has also received five out of five stars in the Forbes Travel Guide (formerly known as the Mobil Guide).[10] It has been named as one of New York's Top 50 by Travel + Leisure.[11] Forbes named Masa as the Most Expensive Restaurant in the US for 2005 through 2009[12] as well as The World's Most Expensive Sushi in 2007 through 2009.
Chef
Masa Takayama was born and raised in Japan. After high school, he worked at Tokyo's famous Sushiko in Ginza. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles, where he eventually opened his own Ginza Sushiko. He established Ginza Sushiko as one of the most expensive restaurants in Los Angeles at an average meal price of $105 per person.[13] Nearly 20 years after opening the restaurant, he sold it to his sous-chef and moved to New York to open Masa, and later Bar Masa in both New York and Las Vegas.[2] He opened a second restaurant in Las Vegas in 2009.
See also
- List of sushi restaurants
- List of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States
- List of Michelin starred restaurants in New York City
References
- ^ Michelin rolls out 2011 NYC restaurant guide Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, CNN, October 6, 2010, Accessed November 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Masa". Masanyc.com. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
- ^ "Masa Menu – Upper West Side – New York Magazine Restaurant Guide". Nymag.com. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
- ^ Schultz, Patricia: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Workman Publishing Inc., 2007, p. 179
- New York Times, March 17, 2004
- New York Magazine, April 26, 2004
- ^ Masa and Mas Win in New Food Guides, The New York Times, October 8, 2008, Accessed November 8, 2010.
- ^ Ryan Sutton, Masa's $1,000 Meals Earn 3 Michelin Stars; Ko Gets 2, Bloomberg.com, October 6, 2008, Accessed November 8, 2010.
- ^ Masa Review, The New York Times, June, 2011.
- ^ Masa, Forbes Travel Guide, Accessed November 9, 2010.
- ^ New York's Top 50, Travel + Leisure
- ^ Sophia Banay,Most Expensive Restaurants In The U.S. 2006, Forbes, Oct 19, 2006
- ^ Christina Valhouli, The Most Expensive U.S. Restaurants, Forbes, October 14, 2004