Your mind will compare fish bites with the finest sips of wines, as
both have delicious, lingering finishes. Your fish will come gracefully
scored by the deftest of knife slashes to help hold its sauce, to
tenderize. Your kitchen knowledge will grow, as you will now know why to
score fish at home. Your cup will runneth over, as it’s a celebration
of abundance. Your sense of an outside world will fade away amid a
soundtrack of 1930s and ’40s Japanese jazz and the centering presence of
a room rich in wood and golden tones.
You are dining at Sushi|Bar, the third attempt to make the old bar
space of the Montecito Inn work — RIP Frankland’s Crab & Co. and
Chaplin’s Martini Bar. This one sort of has to make it, as it’s
practically perfect, if certainly dear. Now a 10-seat jewel box of an
omakase
restaurant — that is, the chef serves you what he thinks you need —
it’s the second such sushi spot owned by Phillip Frankland Lee, whose
original is in Encino.
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