"If it's not there already, add Morihiro’s $400 counter omakase to your sushi bucket list. At this Atwater Village sushi bar, which looks like a slightly nicer version of an average neighborhood spot, servers explain dishes in painstaking detail, much of the dinnerware was made by the chef himself, and you theoretically could swallow your slab of soft hamachi without chewing. There's also a somewhat cheaper $250 table omakase, but it's far less intimate. Dinner bounces between traditional nigiri and creative seasonal dishes— on pasta visits we’ve had sea bream, red surf clams, fresh tofu that cuts like custard, and the chef’s favorite, oily silver-skinned kohada." - garrett snyder, brant cox, cathy park, sylvio martins