Sato Japanese Cuisine

Sato is located on Second Avenue close to 73rd Street.

The restaurant’s good points are that the decor is trendy. The chairs at the sushi bar have red back cushions. It’s a nice place to go on a Friday or Saturday night, with a date.

It’s slightly more pricey than Marumi, (reviewed below) but still not very expensive. Their deluxe sushi comes with one california roll, which I don’t like. However, they agreed to substitute it for a tuna roll, which I appreciated.

The main courses come with your choice of either miso soup or salad. Many Japanese restaurants have that very sweet ginger dressing, which I absolutely hate with a passion. (The best salad dressing in my opinion, can be found at the East chains. The dressing is not sweet at all, and has soy, along with ginger.) Sato’s salad came in a nice oblong bowl, with what appeared to be that same kind of dressing. Fortunately, it was also sesame based, which made it less sweet.

The sushi deluxe certainly looked nice enough. But I just wasn’t crazy about the fish. It’s not like it was rancid or anything. It just wasn’t as good as Marumi. And the individual pieces of sushi were also smaller than Marumi’s.

Anyway, to sum up, it was a very nice looking place. But the sushi was so so. Here’s their contact information if you want to try the place out for yourselves:

Sato Japanese Restaurant
1395 Second Avenue (73rd St.)
New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-737-1838

Here’s their very trendy looking website.