This place prides itself on the omakase style of dining - pick a price, and let the Chef choose dishes for you. I've done it 3 or 4 times with varying results. One time it was truly exceptional and my two dining partners agreed. Other times it's been just good, not great.


The place goes a little overboard with the "trust us" mentality -- the let us tell you what's good omakase dining. They have "trust us" on a sign in the front, and printed on the chopstick wrappers, and I think somewhere else I forgot. When you come in they always ask you "have you eaten here before?" I've never said, "no" so I don't know what they might say in that situation. But in one instance (even though we said yes), the hostess looked at our round-eye pale faces and said "We don't serve California rolls," and hung there waiting for us to verbally acknowledge that we were ok with that. Now maybe that's because they've had people see the menu and be unsatisfied/decide not to eat there... Maybe. It just comes across as pretentious and a little annoying.


I've been coming here since it was over in the little house on Sawtelle. The new location is bigger, never full (you can always get a seat) and the decor is not exactly nice. It's not distractingly bad, but it could use some improvement. It's at the bottom of an office building and it feels like it. I tend to be coming here more often because the lesser priced sushi places around the neighborhood are always full. That's not a knock on Sasabune, I think there are just less people willing to pay their prices, even though I've heard people refer to this as some of the best Sushi you can get in the US.

Yum.