Frankie's

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Peter B

Fantastic experience for a romantic dinner. We sat at the bar and the sushi chef immediately started a welcoming rapport describing the drinks and menu items. We had delicious sushi a la carte and fantastic sake. Highly recommend for a nice dinner and sitting at the bar to get to know the amazing staff here.

J Kit

My husband and I came to WANO on a NYC restaurant week and they didn’t disappoint us at all. The food is a fusion between Japanese and western. The price is reasonable. We would definitely come back.

Ellen

Great value for money in midtown for lunch! The food and interior is great for a sit down lunch with coworkers. The udom noodles are very chewy and fresh. The chirashi bowl was good too and the rice is flavored unlike the normal vinegar sugar mixture. Highly recommend!

Patrick Wong

TLDR: Wano is an omakase experience for all but definitely will appeal to you if you're more of a traditional purist eater. Omakase is excellent and if you're going to pop in to have one singular item - don't leave without the tossaki roll. You won't find that anywhere else. I came across Wano after seeing some picture on IG of their tossaki handroll. Now this is not any ordinary hand roll, it's a signature item of Chef Sato who helped launch Wano. I was trying to eat this myself in Ginza but the fact I could now get this in New York - I knew I had to go. A random Saturday night and we found ourselves at the sushi bar. Wano is in the same space and same company behind of MIFUNE. Chef Tomomi who worked with Chef Sato in Hakkoku is now here and it truly was a treat to be served by him. Ayana and Daniel were also wonderful hosts and we stayed long after our dinner service because we had a great time. Food-wise, the omakase had a slightly different format but enjoyable nonetheless. First was the tossaki hand roll, a tuna temaki made from a cut near the neck of the tuna. Very tender, flavor-forward and the perfect accompaniment with crisp roasted nori and well-seasoned sushi rice. The sushi rice is so distinct, it almost looks dark brown from all the vinegar. Not salty as you might imagine, perfectly al dente and well balanced. This rice is dark, like Chinese takeout fried rice dark. It's so good though and like any omakase fan boy or girl knows - the most memorable thing from all great omakases is the rice! All the nigiri was excellent. The chawanmushi was especially luxurious with the piled on uni, caviar, chives, etc. The botan ebi was especially memorable, it was slightly cooked almost like a poached texture but so full of flavor. I love a good spotted prawn raw too but this was really unique. Almost reminded me of the flavor of a great langoustine. I also was fortunate to try the abalone and mushrooms which was super unique. Nice, bouncy chunks of abalone paired beautifully with the nice earthy mushrooms. I was hoping for some silver-skinned fish but chef said he had not yet found the optimal fish to source and that's why there was none. That was a very respectable answer. Everything was awesome but 100% my favorite was the hand roll. So nice, had to have it twice. I genuinely think Wano is a place you should try whether you're just your feet wet or you're a seasoned omakase diner. With the right marketing and word of mouth, I think Wano will become a destination sushi-ya. Much like Takeda on the UWS was when they first opened so many years ago.