Philadelphia restaurateur Stephen Starr is taking over the MPD. Down the block from his Buddakan is his partnership with Iron Chef alum Masaharu Morimoto. And thank heavens the two stepped in to finally do something with this space in the Chelsea Market, which was once supposed to become Buddha Bar (remember the non-opening, opening party we threw years ago? No, we don’t either; it was so long ago.) Needless to say, now that these two brilliant minds plus architect Tadao Ando have taken over, it’s a 24 seat sushi bar, 8 seat omakase table, 160 dining room seats and we just love the 17,000 Tynant water bottles in the 40 seat lounge. Enough numbers for you? We expect another one to be the number of, what else, stars, they get for the excellent raw fish. Fortunately the only digits you need to know are for your credit card and the reservations line.

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