If you can be satisfied on hype, well then you're okay...

Arriving after 9pm on a Thursday night at a place so full of it's own coolness is worth the stated "20 minute wait".  Standing with a bunch of after-hour suits for 45 minutes while the extremely attractive hostessess walk back and forth is not.  Once we were actually seated, you find yourself in the extremely secluded and much quieter upstairs room, with perfunctory cherry blossoms decorating the walls coupled with hanging metal curtains, which one can only hope is an attempt at a fusion with modernity. 

We had a so-so monk fish liver with uni appeteizer, followed by a parade of forgetable rolls and an overly diverse and really disappointing chirashi, and the highlight of the entire meal was the mochi dessert.  Another plus, the extremely exstensive sake menu.  I'm always happy to be seated and eat food, but when the time you need to wait for a menu, to order, to get a single dish of food, is always at least 15 minutes long, something is seriously wrong.

At the end of the night, all I wanted to do was get out of that place with it's too narrow walk ways, crappy "fake chic" food, drawn out to a snails pace service, and overpriced everything.

Geisha
33 E. 61st St. (bet. Madison & Park Ave.)
New York, 10021
Tel: (212)813-1112

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mmm. mochi.

Posted by audrey, Oct. 27th at 12:55AM

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