Is BAR MASA Worth It?

March 20th, 2010 admin

To be quite lawyerly about it…it depends. [Show as slideshow] Steve Dolinsky considered it the only disappointment in last week’s eating tour of big hitter Strip restaurants — not because he didn’t like the crisp, pristine quality of everything tasted, but only because he felt the price-to-value ratio just wasn’t justified. We at ELV both agree and disagree with Steverino. True, it is hard to rationalize a price tag of at least $150/person for raw fish, tiny amounts of meat, and vegetables — no matter how precious they may be — since the inscrutable nature of Japanese food is often lost on the western palate. Japanese…


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