"Your highly opinionated New York boss is in town and keeps mumbling things like, “Aren’t you supposed to have good sushi in this town?,” as if you’re to blame that Nobu opens at 6pm. Well, Matsuhisa, a nondescript sushi bar along La Cienega, is where the whole Nobu empire began. The menu is huge, with everything from tempura to sushi to all those signature Nobu dishes. But, here it’s served sans scene or pretension. If you’re feeling splurgy (read: your boss is feeling splurgy), do the lunch omakase for a greatest hits parade of hot dishes and sushi that starts at $200 per person." - sylvio martins, brant cox