a page from my must try this out soon notes (spelling mistakes intact):
Go - sushi delux - $10
Lan - 56 3rd ave - 10st - shabu shabu
Esashi - 32 Avenue A, around 3rd street - $15 sushi delux
Ushiwaka Maru - 136 West Houston - expensivish - $38 special
Ajisai - 1466 1st Ave Btwn 76th & 77th St - great dinner box special - ok sushi
Tsuki - 1410 1st Ave - 75th st
Tomoe Sushi - 172 Thompson St Btwn Bleecker & Houston St - big fish
Sugiyama - 251 W 55TH St - Between Eighth Avenue and Broadway - traditional kaiseki style
Minca - 536 E 5th St - ramen
Nadaman Hakubai in the Kitano Hotel - 66 Park Avenue At 38TH Street - kaiseki
Uminoie - 86 East Third Street (First Avenue and Second Avenue) - Goto udon; dashimaki-tamago
(rolled omelet) nikujyaga (beef stew); kakuni (pork belly); gyoza
Japanese bars - some no english - (also some on 43rd and Second Avenue) - "53rd street (it's the street
the south side of the Lipstick building is on), between second and third avenues, midway down on the south side of the block, up a short flight of stairs from the street"
Katsuhama - 11 E 47th St - Btwn Madison & 5th Ave
Poke - 305 East 85 street btw 1st and 2nd ave - byob - great sushi
Donguri - 309 East 83rd Street (Second Avenue); (212) 737-5656 - reservations needed - kinda expensive