The Best Sushi Near Meat Papi, by the Record

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
2. Texas Monthly #3 · Texas’s Best New Restaurants
3. Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America

Ten counter seats inside a renovated gin building, and getting one of them is genuinely the hard part. This is an intimate edomae omakase, Michelin-starred, where the chef sequences around fourteen nigiri pieces so the flavors build steadily from delicate to deep. The rice comes from Hokkaido, the movements are unhurried, and the chef will quietly adjust the size of a piece if you ask. Everyone sits down together, so don't be late.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. D Magazine 2024 · Best Omakase · Best of Big D
3. D Magazine 2023 · Best Tasting Menu · Best of Big D

1. D Magazine #4 · The 50 Best Restaurants
2. Eater The 38 Essential Dallas Restaurants
3. Dallas Observer Splurge Worthy Spots · The Top 50 Restaurants in Dallas Right Now

The cypress wood counter is the only seat that matters at this omakase spot tucked into Ross Avenue, where the format blends kaiseki composed bites with a procession of nigiri. Chef Paul Ko's cooking reads refined and quietly global, duck confit in phyllo giving way to delicate anago dusted with sansho pepper. "Kozy" is doing some heavy lifting in the name, given how sleek the room actually is, but the Michelin Guide listing is not.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. D Magazine The Best New Restaurants in Dallas