Nishi-Azabu Sushi Shin

An amazing sushi restaurant with only nine seats, creating an intimate and cozy atmosphere. The fish is incredibly fresh, with an impressive variety. Watching the chef work is like watching a musician perform — precise, elegant, and mesmerizing. The appetizers are creative and beautifully executed.

Holy moly. Basically perfect. The sushi was worthy of its high rating on Tabelog and it's 2 Michelin stars. Small seating area (8 seats) so of course book early. Sake selection was a nice touch as they had an off-menu one that was delightful!

Michelin two stars? More like Google 2 stars.. 3 dishes had a total of 9 bones?! Started off with 1 found in the very first appetizer (seared tai?). Bones found in dish is off limits for restaurants like this so never would I have imagined I would go on to find another 6 in tachiuo appetizer! Absolutely unforgivable at a high end establishment. Huge shocker when yet another 2 were found in the iwashi nigiri. By then I was utterly disappointed. Informed staff about bones on all 3 occasions but there was no service recovery. He just said he told the chef so let's see if chef will do anything. Money can be better spent on any other omakase.

I rarely write reviews except when the experience is so utterly disappointing. Best is when our hotel concierge called to follow up they were told the restaurant wants to focus on just locals but doesn't say no to tourist, wish we knew that before spending $800 there. Literally go to one of the many other Michelin places in Tokyo. Details on the experience below: #Asked to get there 10 mins early for 830. At 830 they seat a Japanese couple. 3 more non local couples were waiting. Asked at 845 were told previous seating was still eating and weren't sure when we would be seated. seated at 8:50. # Japanese couple got select pieces of fish that rest of table didn't get. #Asked for sake recommendation when seasonal was not available. Carafe appears but no explanation on sake. Japanese couple got an explanation, and the bottle was brought out. Sake was not very good, and not appropriate pairing for early courses. #flagged a server to ask for a different sake recommendation, had to tell them I wanted an explanation and to see the bottle (aka explain the service we expected at a 2 star) # Japanese couple got the nigiri served one at a time as soon as it was made. The rest go to see the chef see prep the nigiri, leave it on the board prep the rest before being served. Not one at a time. #overall condescending service by the staff. Got told end of night they started us with not good sake so we can appreciate the good stuff when we ordered the third time. #third the most expensive sake served in glasses instead of carafe to limit portion. #asked for junmai daiginjo specifically. When asked for explanation on the brewery or origins we got a condescending description of what that type of sake it is instead of any information about the brewery or tasting notes. #no description of nigiri being served #nigiri ratios not correct, too much fish #wasabi amounts all over the place #soy application, a point of distinction for this restaurant, was done sloppily and without visual checks for non local customers #bones in unagi # over cooked half a scallop served in optional course, rubbery and unappetizing #6 nigiri out of 11 we were served were tuna- lack of variety, and English explanations lacking or wrong ie "toro" when served chutoro vs otoro #no attempt to take coat when first walked in. Had to be told I expected coats taken like the Japanese couple that was already seated. #reading my husband phone while texting me. Immediate things were followed up on that were being discussed in text.