Tokugawa Sushi Restaurant — Restaurant in New York

The female hostess is pretentious, judgmental and just rude. My partner (Black) stopped in for sushi, which he loves. We had passed the place before and he was excited to go back. He was immediately met work a weird look from this "hostess " when he entered, and she asked something along the lines of "How can I help you?" It's a restaurant, girl. How do you THINK you can help???

So she seats him, then goes around the corner where she assumes she couldn't be heard and tells someone "I don't think he's going to order anything." And I truly wish he didn't. They didn't deserve his money nor time. Not when there are better sushi restaurants in this city with less microaggressive service. So lesson learned. Places like this (and people like this)...

A great new addition to the Lenox Hill neighborhood, this is the second omakase-level sushi restaurant to open here recently (following Hiramasa at 94th and Madison). Note that this is not just a typical local sushi bar; it is a high-end, gourmet experience, so be prepared for the attendant quality, pricing, and wine list. Tokugawa is small but elegant, with a large wait staff and multiple sushi chefs behind the counter. If you are a real sushi lover, you definitely owe it to yourself to give it a try. But if you’re just looking for a quick, cheap, assorted sushi to go, this might not be the right match for you (as apparently it wasn’t for a couple of other...

There was a heat wave going on outside. We went in to ask for a glass of water. I think what we experienced was some form of racism. When the first guy went to ask for 2 glasses of water, she gave it. But, the second time I went to ask for 2 glasses of water, she was rude about it. The difference was that the first guy was white and the second person was an Asian woman. Two people asked for the same thing. The only difference is that they were of different races. Clearly the girl working there thought a white man deserves a glass water but not an...