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Best Omakase
NYC
What it actually costs, where lunch is half price, and which counters pour the sake for free.
No counters serving right now — lunch omakase starts around noon, dinner around 5pm
- 31 verified counters
- lunch from $38
- dinner to $950
- 8 outside Manhattan
Best omakase NYC prices start at $38 and end at $950, and almost every guide in this city prints only the top half of that range. This one prints both. The cheapest real counter is Uka Omakase at $38 for ten courses at lunch; the best value in Manhattan is Tanoshi, where lunch is $60–65 and you bring your own bottle with no corkage; the best night out for the money is Sushi on Me in Jackson Heights, $99 for fifteen courses with unlimited sake included. At the other end, Masa is $950 at the counter for dinner and $495 for the same counter at lunch — a $455 gap almost nobody mentions. Thirty-one counters below, grouped by what you are actually spending, each one verified against the venue’s own site or its live booking page in August 2026. Two restaurants that were on this page in July have closed, and I have said so.
At a glance: all 31 counters
Sorted by section, cheapest tier first. The number in each row matches its pin on the map.
| Counter | The price | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uka Omakase | $38 lunch (10 course) · $56 classic (16) · $99 VIP counter (18) | Daily | 1–3:30pm | $$$ |
| Tanoshi Sushi Sake Bar | $60–65 lunch · $125–130 dinner · BYOB, no corkage | Mon–Sat | 11:30am–2:30pm | $$$ |
| Sushi W | $38 lunch · $45 basic (12 nigiri) · $58 premium (15) · no tipping | Daily | 12pm & 1pm | $$$ |
| Omakase Osukāā | $48 lunch (10 course) · $79 (13 course) · $109 (17 course) | Mon–Sat | 12–3pm | $$$ |
| Sushi by Bou (Times Square) | $70 signature (12 course, 30 min) · $100 Bougie · $150 Reserve | Daily | 12–3pm, 5–11pm | $$$ |
| Sushi by Bou (Chelsea) | $70 signature (12 course, 60 min) · $100 Bougie · $150 Reserve | Daily | 5–11pm | $$$ |
| KAWA Omakase | $88 for 14 courses — 2 apps, 10 nigiri, canapé, hand roll | Tue–Sun | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Sugarfish | Lunch $30–76 · dinner $34–76 · lunch pricing ends 3:30pm | Daily | 11:30am–3:30pm | $$$ |
| 15 East at Tocqueville | $75 sushi omakase (10 pc) · $75 sashimi · $120/$160 combined | Tue–Sun | 5–9:30pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Seki (Chelsea) | $38 sushi bar set (9 pc + roll) · $45 Seki Special · $55 sushi & sashimi | See venue | Not published | $$$ |
| Sushi on Me | $99 for 15 courses with unlimited sake included | Daily | 5–11pm | $$$ |
| Sushi on Me BK | $99 for 15 courses with unlimited sake included | Tue–Sun | 5–10:30pm | $$$ |
| Kaiyo Omakase | Free house sake on weekdays · 15- and 18-course menus, price unpublished | Tue–Thu | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Kinjo | $95 for 11 courses · walk-in cocktail lounge next door | Tue–Sun | 5–11pm | $$$ |
| Mido Williamsburg | $100 classic (13 nigiri + kaisendon) · $150 seasonal · weekend brunch service | Daily | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Omakase Osukāā (LIC) | $90 for 15 courses — dinner only, closed Sunday | Mon–Sat | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Yashin | $85 sushi omakase (12 pc, hand roll, app, dessert) · open-style at market price | Daily | 1–9:45pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Katsuei | $45 sushi tasting / $65 sashimi & sushi — counter is phone-only | Mon, Wed–Sun | 3:30–9:30pm | $$$ |
| Masa | Lunch $495 vs dinner $950 counter / $750 table · Reserve $1,200 | Tue–Sat | 12–2:30pm | $$$ |
| Odo | Lunch $150 vs dinner $270 · same kaiseki, same counter | Tue–Sun | 11:45am–2:30pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Nakazawa | Lunch $150 · dinner: counter $190 / room $160 · Chef’s $250 / $220 | Check calendar | Not published | $$$ |
| Kurumazushi | Omakase $300 at lunch AND dinner · but lunch sets from $35–55 | Check venue | Not published | $$$ |
| Noda | $400 for 20 courses · counter only · seatings 5:45 & 8:45pm | Nightly | 5:45 & 8:45pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Sho | $450 shorter omakase · full omakase price not published | Prepaid | Releases Sept 1 | $$$ |
| Nakaji | $365 for 14 courses + appetisers · 10 bar seats · tax and tip on top | Tue–Sun | from 5:30pm | $$$ |
| Kosaka | Sushi bar $295 · table $270 · the counter premium is $25 | Dinner | See venue | $$$ |
| Sushi Amane | $250 per person · nine-seat counter · no lunch service | Dinner | Seatings 6 & 8:30pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Yasuda | $195 omakase · okonomi: order per piece, set your own bill | Lunch & dinner | See venue | $$$ |
| Mitsuru | $175 sushi-only (14 nigiri) · $275 chef’s full (14–18 + otsumami) | Tue–Sat | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| Sushi Noz | Price published nowhere · corkage $175 a bottle · 12–14 nigiri | Mon–Sat | 4 seatings nightly | $$$ |
| Bar Masa | No tasting menu — à la carte, from a $10 beer up | Tue–Sat | 12–2pm, 5–9:30pm | $$$ |
Map: where the 31 counters are
Manhattan clusters in Midtown East and the Village; the value seats are in Queens and Brooklyn. Tap a pin for the price and directions.
Pins are numbered to match the table. A card glows when that counter is currently serving — lunch windows included, which is where most of the discounts on this page live.
Omakase under $100 — and worth the seat
Every price here is published by the venue or its booking page. Cross-check against our cheap eats guide and the best sushi in NYC roundup.
Uka Omakase Serving now
The cheapest real omakase counter in Manhattan that I would actually send someone to. $38 buys ten courses in sixty minutes at lunch, 1–3:30pm daily. The 16-course Classic is $56, the 18-course VIP counter $99. And there is a live drink deal on top: one free 720ml house sake for every two guests, Sunday through Thursday — but only on the 5pm and 8:45pm Classic seatings, and it runs through September 30, 2026. The local move: two of you, Tuesday, 5pm Classic. That is $112 of food and a full bottle of sake for nothing. The honest caveat: every tier is on a clock. Sixty minutes at lunch, seventy-five at Classic, and they mean it.
ukaomakase.com · See our cheap eats guide
Tanoshi Sushi Sake Bar Serving now
The best value on this entire page, and it is not close. Lunch is $60–65 for six nigiri, half a roll and a hand roll, Mon–Sat, four seatings from 11:30am. Dinner is $125–130 for ten nigiri. The part nobody prices in: it is BYOB and they charge no corkage. At Sushi Noz, twenty blocks south, opening your own bottle costs $175. Here it costs nothing, which means a $40 bottle of sake and the $60 lunch lands under $110 all in. The honest caveat: chef Toshio Oguma died and the room is carrying on without him — worth knowing before you go expecting the old experience. Also, a stale page on their own site quotes $150 and still shows a San Francisco placeholder address. Ignore it; the reservations page is the live one.
tanoshisushinyc.com · Full profile · See our BYOB restaurants in NYC
Sushi W Serving now
Three locations, seven days, and the only counter here with a published no-tipping policy — which is worth roughly 20% and almost nobody factors it in. $38 gets ten nigiri and two hand rolls at lunch; $45 the twelve-piece Basic; $58 the fifteen-piece Premium. The move is the discount window: $8 off Basic and $10 off Premium at lunch and the 5pm and 9pm sessions, Monday through Thursday. That is a $58 Premium for $48, no tip, in an hour. Worth it. Also on Lexington at 97th and East 13th if the UWS is wrong for you. The honest caveat: sessions are exactly an hour, and the discount skips federal holidays.
sushiwny.com · See our best lunch deals in NYC
Omakase Osukāā Serving now
A $48 ten-course lunch two blocks from Grand Central, which is a strange thing to be able to write. Dinner steps up to $79 for thirteen courses and $109 for seventeen. The reason it makes this list over the other Midtown lunch counters: they publish no time limit, so you are not eating against a stopwatch the way you are at most sub-$100 rooms. The local move: the $79 thirteen-course is the sweet spot — three more courses than the lunch for thirty-one more dollars is the best marginal dollar on the menu. The honest caveat: closed Sunday, and the Long Island City sibling runs a different, dinner-only menu.
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Sushi by Bou (Times Square) Serving now
Worth it for exactly one reason: the curtain. Twelve courses in thirty minutes for $70 is a gimmick everywhere else in the city and a genuinely useful tool in the Theater District, where you have got ninety minutes and a 8pm seat to make. The Bougie is $100 and the Reserve $150, both seventeen courses over an hour. Go here instead: if you are not seeing a show, go to their Chelsea or NoMad rooms — same $70, same twelve courses, but sixty minutes instead of thirty. Identical money, double the time, and nobody tells you that. The honest caveat: thirty minutes is thirty minutes. Order the drink before you sit down or you will be drinking it in the lobby.
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Sushi by Bou (Chelsea) Serving now
Same company, same twelve courses, same $70 — and twice the time at the counter. This is the arbitrage on the whole Sushi by Bou group and it is hiding in plain sight on their own booking pages: the Times Square and FiDi lunch rooms run thirty-minute seatings, Chelsea and NoMad run sixty. The verdict: unless you are catching a show, there is no argument for the thirty-minute room. The counter sits behind a working coffee shop between 23rd and 24th, which is the part people actually enjoy. The honest caveat: it is a small, loud, low-ceilinged room. Fun, not reverent. Do not come expecting silence.
sushibybou.com · See our Chelsea happy hours
KAWA Omakase Serving now
$88 for fourteen courses — two appetizers, ten nigiri, a canapé and a hand roll — is the best full-dinner omakase price in Manhattan that does not put you on a stopwatch. The why: at this number you are usually being handed a timed seating and a smile. KAWA publishes no time limit, takes reservations only, and runs a proper progression rather than twelve pieces of fish and a bill. The local move: Sunday. Same menu, same price, and you can actually get the seat you want. The honest caveat: closed Mondays, and reservations are required for every seating — there is no walking in.
kawaomakase.com · See our East Village happy hours
Sugarfish Serving now
Not a chef’s-counter omakase and I am not going to pretend otherwise — it is a set menu at a table. It earns its slot because the price is public, fixed, and drops before 3:30pm: Trust Me Lite $30 at lunch against $34 at dinner, the standard Trust Me $41 against $46, the Nozawa $52 against $60. The local move: walk in at 3:15pm. Lunch pricing runs until 3:30 and the room is empty at that hour. Skip it if you came for a chef handing you fish across a counter — that is not what this is. Worth it if you want good sushi, a known price and no reservation. Six locations, including Williamsburg.
sugarfishsushi.com · Full profile · See our best lunch deals in NYC
15 East at Tocqueville Serving now
The cheapest way into a genuinely serious sushi room in Manhattan. Most of the counters in this city with this kind of pedigree start at $250. Here the sushi omakase is $75 for ten pieces of chef’s choice, the sashimi omakase is also $75, and if you want the full thing the combined menus run $120 and $160. The why: it is ordered à la carte rather than as a fixed tasting, so you set your own ceiling — a move the $400 counters do not offer. The honest caveat: book through their own website, not OpenTable — they took themselves off the booking network and the site is the only channel. Closed Mondays.
Sushi Seki (Chelsea)
Twenty-four years in and still one of the least pretentious counters in Chelsea. I am publishing the sets, not the omakase, and here is why: Seki’s own menu page shows a $125 figure floating in an unfinished section with placeholder text still on it, and I will not print a price I cannot tie to a menu item. What is solid: $38 for nine pieces and a roll at the sushi bar, $45 for the Seki Special, $55 for sushi and sashimi. That is real food at a real counter for less than most people spend on cocktails. The honest caveat: their old domain, sushisekinyc.com, has expired and now redirects to a domain broker — the live site is sushiseki.com. Call for the omakase number.
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Where the sake is free, unlimited, or yours to bring
Three counters pour on their own dime, and one lets you carry the bottle in. More BYOB rooms in our BYOB restaurants guide.
Sushi on Me Serving now
The only all-you-can-drink omakase I could verify in the entire city. $99 for fifteen courses in a one-hour seating under the 7 train, and the sake does not stop. Do the arithmetic against any Manhattan counter that charges $60 for a pairing and this stops being a novelty. The verdict: it is loud, it is fast, it is a party, and it is the best value-per-dollar night on this page. The honest caveat — and it is a real one: cash only. They take a 50% deposit to hold the seat and charge $50 a head if you cancel late. Tax and tip are on top of the $99. Bring more cash than you think you need.
opentable.com · See our more Queens deals
Sushi on Me BK Serving now
The Brooklyn room, and the reason to know it exists is that the Williamsburg listing you will find first is the dead one. There is an old “Sushi on Me — Williamsburg” page at this same address flagged permanently closed; the live operation books as Sushi on Me — BK. Same $99, same fifteen courses, same unlimited sake, same one-hour seating. The local move: Tuesday or Wednesday. Weekend seatings here go fast and the room does not get calmer. The honest caveat: cash only, 50% deposit, closed Mondays — and they state plainly they cannot accommodate vegetarian, celiac or pregnant guests. Worth knowing before you book for four.
opentable.com · See our Williamsburg happy hours
Kaiyo Omakase Serving now
Free sake, and you have to ask for it. Kaiyo pours complimentary house sake on weekday visits — their own wording, and the booking page phrases it as sake “on the house when asked,” which is the detail that matters. Nobody is going to volunteer it. What I will not tell you is the food price, because Kaiyo does not publish one anywhere — not on either of their two websites, not on the booking page. Fifteen- and eighteen-course menus exist; the numbers floating around third-party lists are not sourced and I am not repeating them. Call before you go. The honest caveat: closed Mondays, and the sake perk is off on Friday and Saturday.
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Brooklyn & Queens
Eight of the thirty-one counters on this page are outside Manhattan, and two of them are the best-value seats in the city. More in Williamsburg and Long Island City.
Kinjo Serving now
The best-looking room in this price band, and the only one on the page with a proper cocktail lounge attached that takes walk-ins. $95 for eleven courses over an hour and a half to two hours — a real dinner, not a timed sprint. The local move: book the counter, then move to the lounge after instead of paying for a sake pairing. You will spend less and the room is the point. The why it is here: Brooklyn’s omakase scene is mostly $99 one-hour seatings; this is the one that behaves like a restaurant. The honest caveat: closed Mondays, and they run a custom sake with Brooklyn Kura whose price they do not publish — ask before you nod.
kinjodumbo.com · See our DUMBO happy hours
Mido Williamsburg Serving now
$100 on the nose for an appetizer, thirteen nigiri and a kaisendon; $150 for the seasonal menu with three appetizers, a hand roll and dessert. The thing worth knowing is the weekend service: Mido runs Saturday and Sunday from noon to 3pm as well as dinner, and omakase at lunchtime on a Saturday in Williamsburg is a genuinely short list. The verdict: at exactly $100 it sits at the top of the value band rather than inside it, so judge it as a dinner, not a bargain — and as a dinner it holds up. The honest caveat: no published time limit, but no published sake prices either. Ask.
Omakase Osukāā (LIC) Serving now
Fifteen courses for $90 inside The Factory building on 47th Ave, and the reason to point at it rather than the Midtown flagship is simple arithmetic: $6 a course, which is the lowest per-course number I could verify anywhere in this guide at a sit-down counter. The local move: it is a six-minute walk from the Court Sq stop on the 7, E, M and G — easier to reach from Midtown than half the Manhattan counters on this list. The honest caveat: dinner only, closed Sunday, and unlike the Madison Ave room there is no cheap lunch tier here. If you want the $48 ten-course, that is the Midtown location.
osukaanyc.com · See our Long Island City happy hours
Sushi Yashin Serving now
The widest door on this page. Yashin is open 1pm to 9:45pm, seven days — no seatings, no sessions, no closed Monday. If you want omakase at 3pm on a Tuesday, this is very nearly the only answer in Brooklyn. The sushi omakase runs $85 for twelve pieces, a hand roll, a kitchen appetizer and dessert, with an open-style menu at market price if you want to keep going. The honest caveat, stated plainly: Yashin does not publish prices on its own site. The $85 comes from its menu listing rather than a live booking page, and older guides still print $50 — a number that no longer matches anything. Call and confirm before you build a night around it.
sushiyashin.com · See our Park Slope happy hours
Sushi Katsuei Serving now
The Park Slope omakase most people in the neighbourhood name first, and the one where booking it wrong gets you the wrong meal. Resy only books dining-room tables; the sushi bar counter — the actual omakase — is phone only, and their own reservation page says so in capital letters. Call (718) 788-5338. On the price, I am giving you a range and the reason: Katsuei posts its menu as images, is off the booking network, and the figures in circulation disagree — a menu listing says $45 and $65, press from last year says $60 and $65. Confirm on the call. The honest caveat: Tuesdays are closed, and their site marks it as temporary, which it has been for a while. There is a West Village sibling on Sixth Ave.
sushikatsuei.com · See our Park Slope happy hours
Same counter, less money: the lunch discount
Four rooms where midday genuinely changes the bill — and one where it famously does not. See also our best lunch deals in NYC.
Masa Serving now
The single largest lunch discount in New York dining, and it is $455. The hinoki counter at dinner is $950 a head. The same counter at lunch, Tuesday to Saturday, is $495 — and at lunch there is no counter premium at all, so a table costs the same $495 while at dinner a table saves you $200 off $950. The verdict: nobody is calling $495 a deal with a straight face. But if you were ever going to do this, doing it at 12pm is a materially different decision than doing it at 7pm, and almost every “best omakase” list in the city prints the dinner number and stops. The honest caveat: Tock takes it as a prepaid deposit, add-ons are extra, and they are closed Sunday and Monday.
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Odo Serving now
The best lunch-versus-dinner gap on this page that a normal person might actually act on. The kaiseki tasting is $270 at dinner and $150 at lunch — same counter, same kitchen, $120 less, Tuesday through Sunday from 11:45am. At lunch they open the dining room as well as the chef’s counter and charge the same for both. The local move: you get in through HALL, the bar out front — walk in and ask the host, do not stand on 20th Street looking for a door. There is also an Odo Lounge doing à la carte at dinner if you want the room without the $270. The honest caveat: corkage is $150 a bottle, closed Mondays, and Tock holds a deposit.
odo.nyc · See our Flatiron happy hours
Sushi Nakazawa
The most famous omakase in New York and the one where the counter-versus-room maths is clearest: $190 at the sushi counter, $160 in the dining room, for the same twenty-course Classic. The Chef’s menu runs $250 and $220 on the same split. Lunch is published at $150. The local move: if you are here for the fish rather than the theatre, take the dining room and put the $30 into sake. If you are here for Nakazawa himself, the counter is the entire point and you already knew that. The honest caveat — and this is why there is no live badge on this card: the $150 lunch price is on their site but the days and times are not, and it does not reliably appear on the booking calendar. Confirm it is running before you plan around it. The Lounge does à la carte if it is not.
sushinakazawa.com · Full profile · See our West Village happy hours
Kurumazushi
Here is the trap, and it is a good one. Kurumazushi’s omakase is listed at “starting at $300” on the lunch menu and the dinner menu. Identical. There is no lunch discount on the omakase at all — which is the opposite of what every “go at lunch, it’s cheaper” guide implies. Where the lunch discount actually lives is the sets: Sushi Deluxe is $40 at lunch against a $160 sushi dinner; the Sashimi Special is $45, the Tekka Regular $35. That is the play here — not the omakase. The honest caveat: both menus say the price depends on what you are served, and the lunch page openly advises telling them your budget in advance. Do that. It is second floor, easy to walk past.
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The top of the market, and what it actually costs
The counters people save up for, with the numbers stated plainly and the blanks left blank. More in Michelin-starred restaurants in NYC.
Noda
$400 a head for twenty courses, everyone at the counter, two seatings a night at 5:45 and 8:45. No lunch, no dining room, no cheaper way in — which is worth saying because Noda appears on a lot of “lunch omakase deals” lists that have clearly never checked. The why it earns the money: one of the deepest Japanese whisky lists in the city sits behind the same counter, and the drinks programme is built for the meal rather than bolted on. The honest caveat: Tock takes it prepaid, parties over four go through their events inbox, and there is no pairing price published anywhere — so ask what the whisky flight costs before you say yes to it.
noda.nyc · Full profile · See our best date-night restaurants
Sushi Sho
Start with the address, because most of the internet has it wrong. Sushi Sho is at 3 East 41st Street. The Ritz-Carlton listing you will find on a dozen guides is out of date. Turning up at a hotel lobby for a $450 prepaid reservation is a bad evening. The Shorter Omakase at the hinoki counter is $450, prepaid, one to four guests. The full-length omakase price is not published on the booking page or the FAQ, so I am not printing one. The honest caveat: bookings run in windows — the current calendar goes to the end of November and new reservations drop September 1 at 3pm. Set an alarm or do not bother. Also: the Tock page for “sushisho” without the -nyc is the Honolulu restaurant.
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Nakaji Serving now
Nakaji moved. It is at 48 Bowery now, not the old Hester Street address that half the guides in this city still print. Ten bar seats, a fourteen-course sushi omakase with an assortment of appetisers, $365 before tax and gratuity, and they ask you to allow about two and a half hours. The why: ten seats means the chef is genuinely cooking for you rather than performing at a room, and at this level that is what you are paying for. The local move: book through Resy or call (646) 478-8282 — both are first-party. The honest caveat: closed Mondays, and the $365 is before tax and tip, which their menu says out loud. Budget closer to $450 a head.
nakajinyc.com · See our Lower East Side happy hours
Kosaka
The most honest pricing on this page. Kosaka publishes both numbers side by side: $295 at the sushi bar, $270 at a table. That $25 is the counter premium, stated out loud, which almost nobody else in this city does — Nakazawa charges $30 for the same privilege and you have to read two menus to work it out. The verdict: at a $25 spread, take the counter. That is the smallest premium on the page and the counter is the entire reason to come. The honest caveat: the course count is not published, so you are buying on trust and on the room. Booking runs through Tock.
kosakanyc.com · See our West Village happy hours
Sushi Amane
$250 is the lowest price on this page that buys you a Michelin-starred sushi counter, and the nine seats underneath a Midtown office block are the reason it stays under the radar. The why: everything above it on this list starts at $270 and climbs to $950. If you want the one-star experience and $400 is not happening, this is the entry point. The honest caveat: the schedule is a genuine mess right now — their own site says Tuesday to Saturday at 6pm and 8:30pm, Tock lists seven days with a 5:30 seating, the booking page says daily until 9:30. Something changed and nobody updated everything. Call before you go, and note the domain has a hyphen: sushi-amane.com. The one without it is not theirs.
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Sushi Yasuda
$195 for the omakase, and the smart order here is not the omakase. Yasuda’s menu lists okonomi — you order sushi and sashimi piece by piece, charged per piece, at the same counter with the same fish. It is the only room at this level in Midtown where you set your own ceiling instead of the kitchen setting it for you. There is also an “omakase 15” — fifteen pieces, no sashimi, half a roll — sitting between the two. The honest caveat: Yasuda has a long-standing reputation for a no-tipping policy and I could not confirm from anything first-party that it still stands, so do not budget around it. Their lunch menu link is dead too. Reservations are by phone: (212) 972-1001.
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Mitsuru Serving now
Two prices, both published, and the cheaper one is the interesting one: $175 buys roughly fourteen pieces of seasonal nigiri and a hand roll, sushi only. The Chef’s Full at $275 adds two otsumami, up to eighteen pieces and dessert. The local move: take the $175 and spend the difference on the wine list, which runs past 500 bottles and is built with Parcelle — a genuinely unusual thing to find behind an eight-seat sushi counter. The honest caveat, and it is live right now: chef Mitsuru Tamura is in Japan and Parcelle is running a takeover of the room 4–15 August 2026. Omakase service during that window is not something I can confirm — call (917) 995-0747 first. Omakase is counter-only at fixed seatings; you cannot order it at a dining-room table. Closed Sunday and Monday.
mitsurunyc.com · See our Greenwich Village happy hours
Sushi Noz
I could not find a price for Sushi Noz anywhere, and I looked hard. Not on noz.global, not on sushinoz.com, not in the FAQ, not on the booking preview. It surfaces only once you are inside the checkout. Twelve to fourteen seasonal nigiri plus five or six otsumami, four seatings a night Monday to Saturday across two counters. What they do publish is the corkage, and it is a number: $175 a bottle, $350 a magnum, rising to $250 and $450 after your second. Bringing one bottle costs more than the entire fifteen-course dinner at Sushi on Me — unlimited sake included — twice over. The honest caveat: cancel inside 72 hours and the deposit is gone. Their own two sites also disagree on whether the small counter starts at 5:30 or 5:45.
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Bar Masa Serving now
The back door to the most expensive sushi in America. Bar Masa is on the same fourth floor as Masa, run by the same kitchen, and it has no fixed omakase at all — it is à la carte, top to bottom. Which means the floor is a $10 beer and the ceiling is whatever you decide, rather than $950 decided for you. The local move: lunch, Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 2pm. Sit down, order four or five things off the sushi assortment, and walk out having eaten Takayama’s fish for a fraction of next door. The honest caveat: restraint is on you. Cocktails run $28 to $55 and the toro caviar roll is $290, so the “cheap” version only stays cheap if you are paying attention. Book on Resy.
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The traps, the closures, and our own corrections
The corrections, the closures, and the things this page got wrong until today.
Four names still near the top of most “best omakase” lists are closed. Shuko served its last dinner on 24 January 2026 after thirteen years — its own site no longer even completes a secure connection. Sushi Ginza Onodera is closed and carries a closed banner on Yelp. Sushi Azabu in Tribeca closed 21 January 2025. Sushi Ichimura closed in August 2025 when chef Eiji Ichimura retired — and its website is still live, still listing hours, which is exactly how a dead restaurant stays in circulation for years.
And the brands keep the lights on after the room goes dark. Sushi Zo’s New York room is permanently closed while the brand’s global site still carries “New York” in its masthead. Ichimura at Uchū closed at the end of 2021 — the closure notice is still the live text on Uchū’s own reservations page, five years on, and Uchū itself now reads closed too.
Two of the cheap ones are gone as well. Sushi on Jones — the $50 standing counter everybody sent people to — left the Bowery Market in 2023 and the brand now trades in London. Tomo Omakase on Barrow Street is closed and its domain no longer resolves. Both still appear on live “cheap omakase NYC” lists.
Nakaji moved and Sushi Sho was never at the Ritz. Nakaji is at 48 Bowery, not the Hester Street address still printed all over the internet. Sushi Sho is at 3 East 41st Street. Turning up at a hotel lobby holding a $450 prepaid reservation is a bad way to find out.
The “go at lunch, it’s cheaper” advice mostly does not apply at the top. Sushi Amane, Nakaji, 15 East, Kosaka, Mitsuru, Noda and Sushi Noz do not serve lunch at all. Of the expensive rooms, only Masa ($495 against $950), Odo ($150 against $270) and Sushi Nakazawa ($150 against $190) run a genuinely cheaper midday service.
Kurumazushi is the trap that proves it. Its omakase is listed at “starting at $300” on the lunch menu and the dinner menu — identical. The lunch bargain there is the $40 Sushi Deluxe set against a $160 sushi dinner, not the omakase everyone assumes.
Under $100, you are usually buying a stopwatch. Sushi by Bou runs 30 minutes at Times Square and 60 minutes for the same $70 in Chelsea and NoMad. Uka is 60, 75 or 100 minutes by tier. Sushi W and both Sushi on Me rooms are one hour flat. None of that is hidden — it is on their booking pages — but no roundup mentions it.
Four counters on this page publish no price anywhere, so this page publishes none for them. Sushi Noz, Noz 17, Sushi Seki’s omakase and Sushi Sho’s full-length menu. The numbers you will find elsewhere are not sourced to the venue. What Noz does publish is corkage: $175 a bottle, rising to $250 after your second — more than the whole fifteen-course dinner at Sushi on Me, unlimited sake included.
Venues contradict themselves, and it is usually an old page nobody deleted. Tanoshi’s own site carries a leftover template quoting $150 that still shows a San Francisco placeholder address. Sushi Seki’s old domain now redirects to a domain broker. Sushi Noz’s two sites disagree on whether the small counter starts at 5:30 or 5:45. Sushi Amane’s site, Tock and OpenTable list three different schedules.
Best omakase NYC: FAQ
How much does omakase cost in NYC?
Anywhere from $38 to $950 a person. A ten-course lunch omakase at Uka Omakase is $38 and a fifteen-course dinner with unlimited sake at Sushi on Me is $99. The middle of the market sits around $85–100 — Sushi Yashin $85, KAWA $88, Omakase Osukāā LIC $90, Kinjo $95. At the top, Mitsuru is $175, Sushi Amane $250, Nakaji $365, Noda $400, Sushi Sho $450 and Masa $950 at the hinoki counter.
What is the cheapest omakase in NYC?
Uka Omakase and Sushi W both start at $38. Uka is ten courses in a 60-minute lunch seating at 238 E 60th St; Sushi W is ten nigiri and two hand rolls, seven days, with a published no-tipping policy. Omakase Osukāā on Madison Ave is $48 for ten courses at lunch, and Sugarfish’s Trust Me Lite set is $30 before 3:30pm.
Is lunch omakase cheaper than dinner in NYC?
Sometimes, and less often than people assume. Masa is $495 at lunch against $950 at the dinner counter, Odo is $150 against $270, Sushi Nakazawa is $150 against $190, and Sugarfish drops every set by $4–8 before 3:30pm. But Sushi Amane, Nakaji, 15 East, Kosaka, Mitsuru, Noda and Sushi Noz serve no lunch at all, and Kurumazushi charges the same $300 for its omakase at both services.
Which NYC omakase includes sake?
Sushi on Me includes unlimited sake with its $99 fifteen-course menu at both the Jackson Heights and Williamsburg rooms — the only all-you-can-drink omakase we could verify in the city. Kaiyo Omakase in Long Island City pours complimentary house sake on weekday visits, but you have to ask. Uka Omakase gives one free 720ml bottle per two guests Sunday to Thursday on the 5pm and 8:45pm Classic seatings, through 30 September 2026.
Can you BYOB at an omakase in NYC?
Tanoshi Sushi Sake Bar on York Ave is BYOB and charges no corkage, which makes its $60–65 lunch the best value on this page once you factor drinks in. Most other counters charge heavily: Sushi Noz is $175 a bottle rising to $250 after two, and Odo is $150 a bottle. Always confirm the corkage before you carry something in.
Do you need a reservation for omakase in NYC?
Almost always, and at the top end you pay up front. Masa, Odo, Noda and Sushi Sho take prepaid deposits through Tock. Sushi Sho releases new dates on 1 September 2026 at 3pm. KAWA requires a reservation for every seating. The exceptions worth knowing: Sugarfish takes no reservations at all, Sushi Yashin runs 1pm to 9:45pm seven days without seatings, and Kinjo’s attached cocktail lounge takes walk-ins.
Where can I get omakase in NYC under $100?
Ten counters on this page come in under $100, and three of them are $38: Uka Omakase on E 60th for ten courses at lunch, Sushi W for ten nigiri and two hand rolls, and Sushi Seki Chelsea for a nine-piece sushi-bar dinner set. Sugarfish’s Trust Me set is $41 at lunch, Omakase Osukāā is $48, Tanoshi runs $60–65 and is BYOB with no corkage, Sushi by Bou is $70 for twelve courses on a timer, 15 East at Tocqueville is $75 and KAWA is $88 for fourteen courses. The rule worth knowing: lunch is where the discount lives, and several of these counters serve the same fish at dinner for close to double.
Last verified: August 2026. Every price on this page was checked against the venue’s own site or its live booking page. Where a venue publishes no price, this page says so instead of guessing. Prices and hours change — confirm before you go, and tell us if something here is out of date.
