Omakase Por Favor - Midtown — Restaurant in Sacramento

Our reservation for our dining experience was at 6:45 p.m. and the restaurant was a little busy but not too crazy there was one large party of almost 10 and another one of eight closer to the bar..

Let us start off with the Ambiance of the restaurant. The space has dim lighting which is nice as it creates a soft atmosphere for the restaurant. The details of the chairs and tables like fixtures and even the glasses that are used are very clean so it gives the restaurant an upscale feeling while still being cozy. There's also a small section that seems to be a private wine display that everyone can look at and potentially walk into if you would like.

As we entered the space we were getting very well by the maitre d and they took us to our seats quite quickly which was nice. After a few minutes a waiter came to check on us explain the menu and how it works and what the recommendations were three out of the four guests decided to do the tasting menu and those same three also tried the cocktails which were the omakase seasonal cocktail with persimmons, the flamingo cocktail, and then the mocktail of high spirits.

The service overall was okay. Our waiter at the very beginning was very helpful and definitely helped us understand the menu after that though it was pretty lacking in the attention given afterwards. We had to ask a couple of times for our table to get refilled with both still and sparkling water quite often. I called this out because one of the individuals in our party was not drinking and so he was definitely going through the water on the table quickly and so it would be nice to have that refreshed often so we didn't have to have him wait for the water. In addition the food itself was taking a while to come out by course number two and the waiter did come say it was going to be a bit and he apologized could have been done a little sooner cuz we waited about maybe 15-16 minutes before that happened. Again very nice very polite it would have been amped up if there was a little bit more attention to coming to check on our table.

Caveat the menu does change based on the season so this may or may not be available to you if you decide to go.

The first dish which was the albacore and roasted cabbage was one of those items that I particularly enjoyed. The albacore was seared perfectly on the outside and the roasted cabbage gave a very nice earthiness to the dish.

The next course was glass noodles with Farmers mushrooms. This one had really nice glass noodles and the presentation was definitely beautiful. A slice of citrus or even a splash of vinegar would have really helped this dish out and not make it so intense on the palate and leave an oily residue behind in the mouth.

After that was the shrimp plus crunchy rice lettuce wrap. The taste here for the dish was really nice it could have had a little bit more of a crunch to it or a little extra sauce.

The snow crab in pomegranate tostada was my second favorite dish because the chunks of snow crab were very succulent and the pomegranate added on top was a really nice burst of sweetness.

Next was the tuna Maple with tofu. This dish definitely had a lot of potential the one thing that made it a little bit unappealing was the big chunks of candied walnuts that were in it. The main complaint was that the walnuts were so huge and so when you bit into them sometimes it felt like you were biting into a hard piece of candy which is not what you want when you're trying to enjoy this meal. The recommendation there would be to chop up the candied walnuts a little bit more.

And the last dish which was the ginger jalapeno chicken skewer was hands down the least favorite course that came out. The flavors were a total miss, the texture was very odd when you bit into it.

Overall I give this place three stars as it had some good qualities but the price that we paid which was $75 for the tasting menu in my opinion was not worth it because the flavors were a bit all over the place and I expected a bit more from this style...

There are some dishes which are tasty (ie the Tuna Tostada, tuna tar tar, scallop tostada). There are some other dishes which were okay, however grossly overpriced. I feel like the restaurant should be re-branded to "Tapas" por favor. I get that they're trying to get people to do the omakase menu, but when I think of omakase, I'm thinking nigiri sushi, not a tostada or mabo tofu.

As I stated earlier, I feel like the food was over priced. You're almost forced into eating a $75 omakase.... which honestly doesn't really fill you up. If you're trying to eat a la carte, you're paying $20-$ 30 per dish. A single tostada is about $20 :-(. I understand that expenses are pretty expensive these days for a restaurant, but the value really didn't seem to be there for what you get (3.5/5 for food due to value).

Another thing that I didn't really enjoy was how long it took between omakase dishes for things to arrive. We waited on average between 20 minutes per dish... our dining experience lasted almost 3 hours on a Sunday night. We have jobs to go to on Monday morning to pay for this lol.

I do appreciate that once we did explain to the server that we wanted food quicker, they came out to give us the food in a much more efficient manner (literally one dish came after another). They also switched out my drink when my original one was too sugary. They gave me a nice persimmon drink which was really tasty. I do appreciate their extra effort they go for their customers to accommodate them (5/5 for service).

Overall I'd say that this restaurant is worth a try if you're willing to accept the fact that you'll have to pay about $110/person in order to be full. The menu is always changing, and there might be some tasty things that are a hit. However, I wouldn't go out of my way to go eat at the restaurant again given how small the portion is and how much...

Omakase option was pretty steep for $75. For transparency, this isn’t true omakase that you would expect at a sushi restaurant. Omakase Por Favor excels at fusion Japanese-Mexican. Our courses felt rather small and we left still feeling hungry — which is sad, because I thought they did a nice job executing flavors. One dish was actually just a piece of shrimp sliced in half accompanied with well-seasoned beans. I am having a difficult time understanding why it costs $75 for what we were given to be honest with you. Omakase should allow the fish to shine and shouldn’t require a whole lot of “extras,” especially if the fish is high quality. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that here and maybe my expectations should have shifted from “omakase” to “prix fixe.”

For context, Hikari in Davis does a $65 10-piece nigiri omakase dinner, which we felt was on par with the omakase we have had elsewhere. Prior to Sacramento, we had lived in Manhattan where omakase is pretty much everywhere. Even for NYC prices, it was only $65-80 pp and we never left hungry. So we came here expecting something of similar value (note: not just taste).

We also went on a separate occasion for happy hour, which I felt was more bang for your money. You can only pay so much for a tuna tostada in my opinion.

I really wanted to love the prix fixe here, but our group collectively could not justify coming back for the “omakase” option. Would come back for the happy hour though as the cocktails were lovely, service was top tier, and vibe...