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Kissaki is making their mark in the out east! O by Kissaki opened in the Hamptons this past summer at the former Bamboo and Zokkon space on Montauk Highway in East Hampton. This sushi and crudo hotspot joins their sister restaurant in the Hamptons, Kissaki, located in Water Mill.

If you've ever wondered where Jimmy Fallon dines on a night off, you could have found him noshing on vegetarian crudo at East Hampton's new robata and seafood spot, O by Kissaki, on a steamy mid-August Saturday. During the restaurant's opening night, the dining room and patio saw the likes of Fallon, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Bobbi Brown, according to owner Garry Kanfer, as the kitchen debuted a menu of crudo, sushi and maki rolls, but also hot Japanese dishes grilled over coals, robata-style.

For the best sushi in the Hamptons, head to Kissaki. Their superior omakase sushi experience has lured fans to Water Mill and Montauk (for a pop-up collab with Thai restaurant Fish Cheeks), and they’ve just opened their doors at O by Kissaki in East Hampton. O is already a Hamptons hotspot for dinner Wednesday through Sunday night and will be offering otsumami (small plates), kushimono (skewered foods), hot ingredients fresh of the robata grill, craft cocktails and sake.

Kissaki, a Japanese restaurant that opened in NoHo in 2020, just before the pandemic, quickly expanded to other locations in Manhattan, and also to Queens, Greenwich, Conn., and Water Mill, N.Y. Now, it is enlarging its Hamptons footprint with this new restaurant. It will feature sushi, crudo and dishes seared on a robata grill.

O by Kissaki, a Japanese restaurant, will open tomorrow in the space formerly occupied by Zokkon on Montauk Highway in East Hampton. The menu includes raw fish dishes such as akami tuna crudo with gochujang vinaigrette, micro shiso, shaved onion, and chili threads for $20, and kanpachi crudo with barley miso sauce, and a daikon sprout gremolata for $24. Cooked dishes include spiced beef filet with uni butter and sweet potato gratin for $38, and fried yellowtail with ginger aioli and lime for $18. Traditional maki rolls include spicy tuna for $12, shrimp tempura with yellowtail sashimi, avocado salsa, micro cilantro, and pickled red onions for $24, and baked king crab with spicy mayo, avocado, chanterelle, and asparagus tempura for $28. The restaurant will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 5 to 10 p.m.

Kissaki, the Japanese restaurant that branched out from Manhattan to Water Mill last summer, has taken over the Zok-kon restaurant and will open O by Kissaki in June, with sushi, small plates of crudos and ingredients hot off the robata grill, 47 Montauk Highway.

Kissaki is in serious expansion mode. After opening an outpost in Water Mill last summer, owner Garry Kanfer has set his sights eastward, unveiling a robata and sushi restaurant called O by Kissaki at 47 Montauk Highway in East Hampton.

As omakase and high-end sushi continue to be one of Miami’s most popular restaurant trends, NYC restaurateur and owner of Kissaki, Garry Kanfer has announced he will be opening two restaurants in Miami over the next year. A sixth location of his already successful Kissaki will take residence in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood, while a new concept O by Kissaki will be located in the heart of Wynwood.

You could argue that 47 Montauk Highway in East Hampton is the graveyard of Asian restaurants. From Bamboo to Shiki to Zokkon, one venture after the other has tried and failed to make the space work for the long haul. Now comes O by Kissaki.

We’re told actor and party boy about town Gooding burst into the kitchen during the opening of Japanese joint O by Kissaki in East Hampton this weekend, and began riffing on his famous line from “Jerry Maguire.” “He was personally thanking staff for the amazing sushi,” says a witness. “He kept yelling ‘Show me the sushi!’ based off the [oft-quoted (in 1996) line] ‘Show me the money.'”

When it comes to 2020-2021 food industry stories, many are rather bleak and unfortunate, and while those are important stories to record, the same can be said for success stories of this time period, as well. These glimmers of hope shine even brighter when viewed against the dark year and a half the East End, and the world, has endured. Kissaki, which first opened in NoHo in January 2020 and has opened five locations in the tri-state area, is one such success story and will celebrate the debut of the new O by Kissaki in East Hampton this weekend.

Japanese eatery O by Kissaki is set to open in East Hampton on August 13th. Owner Garry Kanfer, founder of the full-service digital agency Big Drop, opened Kissaki’s flagship location in NoHo in January 2020, mere months before lockdown. Despite this, Kanfer expanded quickly, opening Kissaki locations on the Upper West Side, Long Island City, Water Mill and Greenwich, Connecticut, and is set to debut in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami next year.

Opened during the pandemic and quickly expanding, Water Mill’s Kissaki is opening an East Hampton outpost called O by Kissaki later this month. And if you can’t wait that long for more of their signature sushi, you can now find the special Kissaki X Fish Cheeks pop-up at the Montauk Angler’s Club on East Lake Drive in Montauk.

Opened during the pandemic and quickly expanding, Water Mill’s Kissaki is opening an East Hampton outpost called O by Kissaki later this month. And if you can’t wait that long for more of their signature sushi, you can now find the special Kissaki X Fish Cheeks pop-up at the Montauk Angler’s Club on East Lake Drive in Montauk.

New York restaurant group Kissaki Sushi will open its first Miami outpost at Cube Wynwd, a mixed-use office building in Wynwood. Owner Garry Kanfer, who has Kissaki locations in the Bowery and on Madison Avenue in New York City, as well as in the Hamptons, Long Island City and Greenwich, Connecticut, inked a lease for a rooftop space at the eight-story building at 222 Northwest 24th Street, near Panther Coffee. The restaurant will be called O.