Katsu Sushi - Beverly Hills

Wonderful. All-around best high-end sushi place. Highest quality fish and all other ingredients, up to freshly ground black salt from Cyprus. And a large part of this great experience is Chef Katsu himself, who was our sushi cook for the evening. Chef Katsu is so warm, welcoming, relaxed, to the earth, laughs a lot and really knows his stuff. Besides, he really loves his wife; so sweet. Speaking of, he closed Tama and guessed who caught the room – the Katsuya chain kingdom. The sushi cook sets the tone so that the feeling and service are relaxed and friendly. And very professional, and everything and all work at a very high level. They even replace your cup of tea when the tea cools. NIce. The wishlist is not too large, well selected and with a sophisticated wide range of prices. We asked chef Katsu to serve us what he wanted; Grandmakase. 1. A cold seaweed “soup”: a little tart, very refreshing. 2. Sashimi: Halibut Roe wrapped in Halibut shaped into a ball; Spanish mackerel; Japanese red snapper; Lachseier marinaded in soy sauce - that was excellent soy sauce, I usually don't like salmon roe, but that was very good. 3. Spanish mackerel with Arugula salad, with thin slices of a Japanese soot, it sounded like Koch Katsu said “milgra” but I could not quite remember; it was wonderful, it has a taste similar to Yuzu. Sashimi: Soy marinated tuna, yellowtail bell, huge shell. The tuna became with something similar to capers, but much better. Wonderful. Served with two sauces: these special soy sauces, and a ponzu with cut liquor. 5. Matsutake soup. Served with a lime wedge, in a small teapot. Squeeze the lime and pour the liquid into the small tea cup, then eat the matsutake, and if I remember correctly, there were also thin slices of chicken. 6. Albacore Sushi, beautiful. 7. Sushi: saba sardine, mackerel, scallop with this Cyprus black sea salt bottom directly on the scallop by Chef Katsu, blue Flo Tuna. 8. Sushi: Dungeness crab tomalley covered with pieces of crabs; Lachsroe. 9. Made with this special shiny, thicker, very crispy nori. But wait – we wanted more. 10. Anago and Unagi Sushi. 11. Uni Sushi. Mmmm, nice university. One with a piece of ground black sea salt, the other with a piece of ground red salt. 12. Dessert: homemade pineapple, macerated fig (not sure what the liquid was, slices of fresh pineapple and watermelon. The three of us shared a bottle for heaven's sake, I think it was around $70. $156 per person incl. Tax/Tip and value every penny, and there was so much good humor and good conversation with Koch Katsu, thrown free. One of my friends had dinner quite regularly here and was always served something else – great variety. I also went to lunch a few days before. Lots of $15 lunch specials, hubs for around $12. And yes, I was in the original Katsu on Hillhurst, opened in the 80s, and chief Katsus was another place on Sawtelle. But I don't think I've ever made it to his third place, and never made it to Tama.