Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion - Page 9930

On January 13 2019 20:17 eieio wrote:
Masa was rly good. The most ridiculous dishes were
* glass of toro topped with caviar
* waygu beef topped with grated black truffle
* a huge ball of mozarella completely covered in black truffle (lol)

But honestly the best part by far was just how great the individual pieces of sushi were. It felt like just the rice and soy sauce and wasabi on the rolls was substantially better than most of the food that I've had in the past several months. I could eat it for ages.

We sat at the bar and talked to the chef, which was pretty fun. While we were there a table ordered the single most expensive bottle of sake on the menu (they only had one bottle of it!) and sent the chef a glass, which made him super exicted. He offered the glass to everyone at the bar lol (I did not drink don't worry).

Some folks that were friendly with him came in at some point. They seemed super determined to show off that they knew stuff about him and were a lot more determined to talk to him than he was to them which was funny, but we got to learn a bit about his life which was cool. My favorite moment was at one point one of them mentioned traveling to Puerto Rico (I think) and he just instantly perked up and got this huge grin on his face and shouted BASEBALL!!! which was adorable.

It was a little silly the folks to our left were there for some dude's birthday and the folks on our right were there for an aniversary andI was just there with my ex (we considered ourselves "amicably divorced" at this point) because I...lost a bet? Kind of?

Anyway it was really great, I think whether it's "worth it" pretty strongly depends on your relationship with spending money on food obviously, but I didn't leave sad that I had spent what I did. And that's pretty separate from how I've felt after eating at plenty of fancy places (particularly two-star michelin restaurants) where it feels like the meal wasn't THAT good.