Raquel Livingston’s current dinner at New York’s Koete Omakase wasn’t like most different nights out for Japanese meals. For one factor, she says, it felt extra like a “biology class with a tasty reward.”
The software program engineer attended a $218 dinner constructed round a chef breaking down an entire tuna. She was shocked by how a lot she realized: The restaurant distributed a pamphlet with a diagram to spotlight the rarest cuts. Livingston left with much more contemporary tuna — sufficient for 2 subsequent nights.
By the third day, “it was a bit of overwhelming,” she says. She and her boyfriend nonetheless loved the rolls they made that evening.
