O YA
Boston, MA 9 East St. 617.654.9900
In Japanese, one meaning of "o ya" is "discovery". No website. No sign out front, just a little flag. No lights by the descreet wooden door. O Ya lives up to it's name. You either know where it is or you don't. Once you discover it, you're changed forever.
Inside is a very upscale Japanese Izakaya serving the possibly the most perfectly prepared Japanese dishes in the whole of the United States. The best Sake list in Boston hands down. The best Tonkatsu in the Western hemisphere. And an 8oz Wagyu fillet priced at $149.99 instead of $150 even, to help make you smile as you order what you think is perhaps the stupidest waste of money of your life.
You will be wrong.
If you love steak, one bite and you won't regret the price. It's that good.
Now I'm a "Kobe Beef" chaser. I've ordered it here and there and it's never the real thing and it's kind of too fatty and it's not prepared with love and blah blah blah. It's always a bad choice. Not here.
There are only 3 places in the U.S. you can get this meat. French Laundry, the other is another Thomas Keller place, and the last is O Ya.
My world melted. I took the first bite and just started laughing. I laughed right into the second bite. Then I held my head in my hands. I had found the Holy Grail of Beef.
I almost cried.
Add to that the sea urchin, the chicken yakitori, the hamachi taretare, the shitake and chanterelle plate, the tonkatsu, the smoked Wagyu sashimi, a couple of glasses of sake, a couple of glasses of white wine for my dining companion, and two desserts and you get one of the best meals I've ever had anywhere in the world at any time. And also, the most expensive at $420.00. Beating my old record set at Bouchon in Las Vegas of $350 for a 6 person brunch.
If it's a special occasion, go to Il Panini.
If it's a really special occasion, go to Teatro.
If it's a meal you want to remember for the rest of your life, go to O Ya.
I've been talking about it to everyone I know for two days.
Boston, MA 9 East St. 617.654.9900
In Japanese, one meaning of "o ya" is "discovery". No website. No sign out front, just a little flag. No lights by the descreet wooden door. O Ya lives up to it's name. You either know where it is or you don't. Once you discover it, you're changed forever.
Inside is a very upscale Japanese Izakaya serving the possibly the most perfectly prepared Japanese dishes in the whole of the United States. The best Sake list in Boston hands down. The best Tonkatsu in the Western hemisphere. And an 8oz Wagyu fillet priced at $149.99 instead of $150 even, to help make you smile as you order what you think is perhaps the stupidest waste of money of your life.
You will be wrong.
If you love steak, one bite and you won't regret the price. It's that good.
Now I'm a "Kobe Beef" chaser. I've ordered it here and there and it's never the real thing and it's kind of too fatty and it's not prepared with love and blah blah blah. It's always a bad choice. Not here.
There are only 3 places in the U.S. you can get this meat. French Laundry, the other is another Thomas Keller place, and the last is O Ya.
My world melted. I took the first bite and just started laughing. I laughed right into the second bite. Then I held my head in my hands. I had found the Holy Grail of Beef.
I almost cried.
Add to that the sea urchin, the chicken yakitori, the hamachi taretare, the shitake and chanterelle plate, the tonkatsu, the smoked Wagyu sashimi, a couple of glasses of sake, a couple of glasses of white wine for my dining companion, and two desserts and you get one of the best meals I've ever had anywhere in the world at any time. And also, the most expensive at $420.00. Beating my old record set at Bouchon in Las Vegas of $350 for a 6 person brunch.
If it's a special occasion, go to Il Panini.
If it's a really special occasion, go to Teatro.
If it's a meal you want to remember for the rest of your life, go to O Ya.
I've been talking about it to everyone I know for two days.
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