WOKUNI

"Wokuni is a big Japanese restaurant a few blocks south of Grand Central, and the main draw here is the sushi and sashimi. The fish is high-quality, and this is the perfect sort of place for a nice meal with a coworker or a dinner with your aunt before a show at Radio City. It’s also not outrageously expensive - sushi and sashimi combos start at $29, and the best move is to get one of those. If you’d like to supplement your main course, we highly recommend an additional order of salmon sashimi and/or a couple of the tender chicken yakitori skewers." - Bryan Kim

"Midtown has a number of places where you can sit and eat omakase sushi for roughly the cost of a new iPad. Wokuni is not one of them. Yes, there are omakase options here (for $75 and $95), but you don’t need to splurge. Instead, get a sushi or sashimi combo, and start with a few yakitori skewers if you’re especially hungry. The fish is all high-quality, and the space is nice enough for any relatives who may or may not have cornered you into getting dinner with them." - Hannah Albertine, Bryan Kim, Hillary Reinsberg, Matt Tervooren

"This is the first U.S. restaurant from Tokyo Ichiban Foods, a Japanese restaurant group, food distributor, and aquafarm company. The latter means that Wokuni’s fish, like bluefin tuna and king yellowtail, are raised on a fish farm in Hirado City, Nagasaki and flown daily from Japan to NYC. A favorable outcome of a sushi spot operated by a parent company with its own fish farms is the affordable pricing: Order a platter of five pieces of sushi and 1 roll for $27. The large, dimly lit space also has a retail counter in the front, for buying raw fish to cook up at home." - Alexandra Ilyashov