Matsuhisa — Restaurant in Beverly Hills

How do I start this, this is such a Huge disappointment! Low quality NON Authentic Japanese food experience. Think Fusion at its lowest quality. I spent $200 for an 8 course omakase and not even ONE single item was good. First course a veggie hand roll. Really just veggies seaweed, Cucumber, carrot, avocado and sesame dressing. Nothing special. 2nd course Tuna tartar with caviar soaked in Ginger soy sauce, tuna tartar at BJ tasted the same as this... 3rd course nigiri 4 pieces (red snapper, toro, ikura, sardine) 4th- 6 pieces of Heavily sauced paperthin sashimi that is so salty, you can't tell what the fish is... first type of Paperthin sashimi has Yuzu sauce with bell peppers on it, the second paperthin sashimi has olive oil and red salt on it, the third one has oh yeah again yuzu sauce with Sriracha.... We should stop the courses right at this point....The sashimi is the worst fusion mix of overly oil, sauced, salted, sashimi I have ever had. I mean really who put oil and seasoning salt on sashimi so thin that all the sauce over powering the fish.... Believe me, the small sushi stand in the supermarkets taste better than this. And, again, one sashimi is red snapper again. 5th course-3 pieces of sashimi salad they Called it. The so call baby Artichoke that was not freshly chopped because the edges was Turing brown ... unpleasant to see and taste plus it's so hard feel like chewing on cardboard. The three piece of Sashimi with again ginger soy sauce over powering everything pieces of fish.... Everything at this point taste the same. With the repeating overpowering sauces. Next is Fried softshell crab with overpowering vinegar Bell pepper sauce. An very badly twisted/ take of the sweet and sour sauce from Chinese food... the Vinegar taste over powered everything also was super salty. Next the sizzling hot plate of super salty oily toro. This dish was so bad we send it back because it smelled and tasted so bad. I Took one bite, the salty regular soy sauce taste they used as base was so salty I couldn't take a second bite. We had to send the dish back they remade it for us... still .... Let's move on, Next was Macha Soba, soba was not so special, soy sauce based with a bit of Bitter taste because of the Matcha and raw green onions....and last two was ice cream and shaved ice. Yes, Macha flavored, Looks ok, taste really sweet... just go JP supermarket randomly buy an ice cream will taste better. I really want a refund...the after taste of the soy sizzling Toro was so fishy and bad, I threw up when I got home. And, needed to go shower to get rid of the fishy taste and smell. Nothing about this meal is worth the money. One more thing is The hot tea is hot, good! but, it was too hot for the servers to hold the cup. Therefore, they held the cup at rim, touching the rim of the cup...holding the cup at the rim where we drink from really don't feel Sanitary and professional to me at all. don't understand why they don't use a tray if it's that hot...

Overall, worsts overly price + overly salted + non Japanese like Food I ever had. If u r looking to eat fresh sashimi and sushi Do Not order the omakase it's so far off of the jp Authentic style.

AVOID! Be Smart. Read the one star reviews before u go... trap... money wasted and...

On my latest trip to Los Angeles I got a reservation, thanks to my Uncle Isreal to the famous Matsuhisa it normally takes a year to get a reservation, so this is a HUGE deal.

Matsuhisa is Chef Nobu's very first restaurant, it is arguably the best sushi place in the USA!

The restaurant is very, very tiny the sushi bar is very narrow not even two people can fit through! The dinning room is also very small but there is still room for lots of famous people. I sat at a table and Kenny G was eating behind me, how cool!

But now on to the yummy part, for an appetizer I got the toro tartare with caviar in a dashi broth. The toro tartare was intricately flavored yet keeping the fish's natural flavor and the caviar nicely complemented the fish, The toro tartare had a very bold dashi broth that was very strong in that great mouthwatering umumi flavor.

Overall,it was an awesome way to start a meal.

Next, I ordered some tuna sushi and it was interesting how the tuna had a vinegary sauce and Chef Nobu's dry miso seasoning. It was very good and a new experience for me and a very interesting way to make sushi.

My Aunt ordered the tempura plate and I got to try the shrimp tempura, which was very light with a dipping sauce, always a classic.

Dad ordered the fish and chips it was very simple but it was the best fish and chips I have ever had. I also got some normal tuna sushi it was absolutely perfect the rice was sticky and absorbed the soy sauce perfectly the tuna was rich, tender, umaumi, and every thing you could want one bite of sushi to be, no other sushi will ever top it.

Except another order of sushi from Matsuhisa!

We got desert from Chef Nobu and it had shaved ice and great mochi and some banana tubes they were all very good.

Chef Nobu made an unexpected stop at Matsuhisa and came around meeting the dinners and I talked to him and he was very happy! I got to tour the very, very ,very tiny kitchen, I saw the dish washers and how the restaurant can't function with out them and I saw the little grill area and the tiny sushi bar and how each plate is like a canvas and they put the seasoning and oils on it like art. Art that is why I love sushi so much- simple, elegant, purposeful food.

I will forever remember the advice Shihan Chef Nobu gave me.

Love the tuna, Leaf Logan

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What an immense disappointment. Having eaten at Nobu previously I was excited to try his first restaurant Matsuhisa. The experience here couldnt have been more opposite than that of Nobu.

Vibe: we were seated outside in a side patio because the restaurant was completely booked for a private party on a Saturday night? The first table they placed us at was right next to the waiter station and the view was of cleaning supplies and dirty plates. We asked to be moved to another table. Still the surroundings is a picnic table on AstroTurf. The outdoor heaters were on so strong and so hot I was afraid they would cook the sushi. Thankfully they turned them off.

Service: Our server could not have been more disinterested or uncaring. She was going through the motions. On four separate occasions we had food delivered to our table that wasn't ours. Right after we ordered, a server dropped off take home containers in the middle of our table which we never asked for. The tempura shrimp was soggy and limp and I asked the waitress if it was supposed to be that way or crispy. She said crispy. I said again that it was soggy. She suggested I not order it anymore!? At the end of dinner we were delivered the wrong check.

Food: it was good but most of the fish was very salty and as I stated previously the tempura was soggy. While the food was good it was nowhere near worth the price paid.

You expect for the cost of $200pp to have an exceptional experience in ambiance, service and food. Honestly they failed in every regard and I cannot recommend wasting your time or money here. It is obviously a management issue if they fail in every regard as they did. I'll be surprised if the restaurant management responds to this at all. I really don't think they care.

This restaurant was Nobu's first and it seems largely abandoned and forgotten. Like a forgotten grandmother at a nursing home. It feels tired and dated and well beyond its expiration date. What a waste of time and money. I could have had a much more elevated experience at so many other places at...