Ogawa Miami
Sushi restaurant · Little Haiti ·
Omakase sushi, tempura, seasonal ingredients, Japanese garden
Omakase sushi, tempura, seasonal ingredients, Japanese garden
"Ogawa sticks the landing on one of Miami’s most expensive omakase meals. The 11-seat counter serves a 19-course meal that walks that impossibly narrow tightrope between reverence and relaxation. Chefs bounce from silly to serious, reading your emotional needs as if they were provided a 500-page memo on you the moment you made your reservation. The food is a perfectly paced march of highly seasonal seafood and nigiri. This is a meal for people who have been mentally planning a trip to Japan since their very first paycheck—and it'll cost nearly as much as a one-way ticket." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo
"As more and more multi-hundred dollar omakase concepts open in Miami, you have a right to be skeptical. But Little River's Ogawa sticks the landing on its $350 per person meal. The 11-seat counter serves a 19-course meal that walks that impossibly narrow tightrope between reverence and relaxation. Chefs bounce from silly to serious, reading your emotional needs as if they were provided a 500-page memo on you the moment you made your reservation. The food is a perfectly paced march of highly seasonal seafood and nigiri, like sea bream marinated in cherry blossom leaves. This is a meal for people who have been mentally planning a trip to Japan since their very first paycheck—and it'll cost nearly as much as a one-way ticket too." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo
"This 11-seat restaurant has considered all the details and then some. Arrive a little early and you’ll be invited to the peaceful back garden and offered a highball so carbonated that each sip makes your head feel like an inflating balloon. The meal is highly seasonal, lasts about two and a half hours, and much of it is sourced from Japan. Nigiri makes up the bulk of the evening—cuts like kinki, scallop, and sea bream marinated in cherry blossom leaves. This is a meal for people who have been mentally planning a trip to Japan since their very first paycheck." - ryan pfeffer
"Ogawa Miami is the highest-rated fine-dining restaurant in the U.S., specializing in Japanese cuisine. It has earned one Michelin star and boasts a perfect five-star Google review score. The restaurant is known for standout dishes such as its baby sea eel and soy-cured quail egg appetizer, bigfin reef squid in shiso-miso sauce, and baby snow crab topped with Japanese-style herring roe." - Stacey Leasca Stacey Leasca Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel journalists. Her photos, videos, and words have appeare
"Yes, Ogawa is very expensive, but it’s the best sushi omakase in Miami. As a freight train rumbled past the restaurant mid-bite of sea bream marinated in cherry blossom leaves, and we felt closer to Tokyo than Little River. Relax and let the sushi chefs do their thing. Your only job is to start with a Hibiki highball. Making everyone who watches your Instagram stories unfathomably jealous with videos of transparent baby eels and beautifully prepared scallop, kinki, and ebi nigiri." - virginia otazo, ryan pfeffer, mariana trabanino, virginia otazo, ryan pfeffer, ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, virginia otazo, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino, mariana trabanino, mariana trabanino
