"West Midtown’s Omakase Table is no longer BYOB. While we’re sad to see that cost-savings opportunity go (now there’s a $100 corkage fee), we welcome their list of craft cocktails like their Old Fashioned made with a charred orange peel, black pepper notes, and a yuzu liqueur that works as a gently sweet cushion to balance the heavy pour of Japanese whisky. It's a more stylish complement to the $235 per person, 20-course tasting than your grocery store wine. Bring one friend or 11 to fill the 12-seat omakase table, which already feels like an invitation to a dinner party inside a fancy minimalist studio apartment. Bright overhead lighting will make all your crappy group photos and selfies look half-way decent, but you might prefer to point your camera at the real stars—silky cuts of fish like toro and kanpachi, flown in from Japan. In fact, scrap the photos altogether and go with video because it's worthy of a movie." - nina reeder, juli horsford, demarco williams