Kibo

Ki’ Master

A Steak and Sushi Suite in Gramercy

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Important second-date-sushi-related development.

We’re replacing your regularly scheduled sashimi boat for two with a sashimi boat for one.

It was necessary.

Especially if you’re going to leave room for lobster ramen, chunks of Wagyu and furious beats.

Get to know Kibo, a huge, bi-level, Japanese palace in Gramercy that’s rewritten the sushi rule book to include robata-grilled meats, pork belly ramen and a Guinness Book of World Records–sized collection of sake, taking reservations now and opening next Monday.

Rare is the sushi spot that comes with its own house DJ and glass-enclosed yakitori grill pit. Even rarer is the sushi spot replete with its own red-light district (read: crimson-bathed, sunken, small-plate lounge, not Amsterdam).

So where you’d normally be confined to a small corner table, your only entertainment being a bowl of edamame and an impromptu chopstick drum solo, here you’ll have an embarrassment of riches (loosely defined as two lounges, one open-air veranda and multiple Wagyu steak skewers) at your disposal.

Starting at the bottom, you’ll begin with appetizers/drinks by reading light in the plush scarlet den. The next move: front-row robata seats for scallion-accented Kobe. Lastly, slip upstairs to a DJ-equipped alcove for dessert.

Or a musical sake interlude.

Vitals

Kibo
111 E 18th St
(at Park Ave S)
New York, NY, 10003
212-824-2770
website

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