"This is the first U.S. restaurant from Tokyo Ichiban Foods, a Japanese restaurant group, food distributor, and aquafarm company. The latter means that Wokuni’s fish, like bluefin tuna and king yellowtail, are raised on a fish farm in Hirado City, Nagasaki and flown daily from Japan to NYC. A favorable outcome of a sushi spot operated by a parent company with its own fish farms is the affordable pricing: Order a platter of five pieces of sushi and 1 roll for $27. The large, dimly lit space also has a retail counter in the front, for buying raw fish to cook up at home." - Alexandra Ilyashov
Jean Schwarzwalder
