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Where Eric Ripert Eats Seafood In NYC (Other Than Le Bernardin) - New York - The Infatuation

"“Ito is downtown, very close to the World Trade Center. You can pass by the restaurant 1,000 times and not see the entrance. They have a small counter, and I think the quality of the sushi is pretty amazing. The size of the sushi is really interesting because it's in between Tokyo-style and Kyoto-style. In Kyoto, they made their sushi very small, because centuries ago when Kyoto was the capital of Japan, they had a lot of theaters, and when the actors were starving, they would give them sushi through the mask. Maybe it's a legend, but I heard that in Kyoto, and I heard that in Tokyo, and I heard the same story in Kanazawa, which is in between.”" - bryan kim