So, exactly what is omakase sushi and what does omakase mean? The Japanese phrase means “I’ll leave it up to you” and comes from the Japanese word for entrust. Basically, you’re leaving what you’re eating during the meal up to the chef. When you sit to have an omakase meal, y...
Omakase style sushi was popularized in the West in the 1990’s as sushi became more and more popular, and large numbers of people who were unfamiliar with sushi didn’t always know what particular items were called and what the Japanese words for different foods (or even different parts of ...
this only applied to fancier restaurants like Tempura Shinjuku that we visited. If you plan on doing omakase, lunch is always cheaper than dinner if