Sushi by Scratch Restaurants: Miami

Best dining experience I’ve had in Miami, bar none. Incredible omakase and exploratory whiskey pairing was only only outdone by the incredible chefs that night. Go soon and go often.

I thought the food and service was excellent. It is pricey but the quality of the fish is top notch. We celebrated my fiance’s 30th birthday here and had a wonderful dining experience.The bone marrow is a showstopper. Thank you to Washington and Havanna for your hospitality! We will absolutely be back.

Excellent quality fish, the bone marrow parts are absolute highlights of the day and the fish used in the nigiri melt in your mouth so it’s definitely worth doing if you don’t care about the money too much, although the whole process is a bit overdone.

They use quality ingredients so it tastes yummy as it would if they just served you the raw fish, but if you’re doing a big thing out of the meal in order to charge that much, you should probably teach your head chef how to pronounce the japanese words you’re trying to impress people with and the sous-chef to use the knife

We love everything from beginning to end. The bar has a total of 10 seat and 3 chefs. They are all so nice, knowledgeable and have great conversation.

Each nigiri was just a mind blowing experience. You can tell in every single bite the layers of flavor and all the work there is in each piece. I think I do have favorites but overall each piece was espectacular.

They explain everything they serve and you can enjoy looking at the chef preparing each piece. They is a lot of fun part such as the torching and cutting of each fish. We love it

There is a great bartender with you the whole experience and he does recommend the best drinks and sake for you to complement the food.

We cant wait to be back

My review is a combo of both the 5 starts & the 1 stars. We booked our 5pm reservation about a month prior. When we arrived we were greated by a very kind staff member who provided us with a welcome drink. To say it's a full drink would be a mislabel, it was more of
A shot of Japanese whiskey and ginger. Delicious, but definitely nothing to write home about.

Once you enter the sushi bar the seats will be labeled and parties grouped together. I did love the intimacy of the small dark room and mingling with just a few guests. The chefs are friendly and knowledgeable . The courses consist of one nigiri (16) and one dessert cube. The quality of the fish is unmatched. However with a dozen omakase opening in Miami they need to be a bit more edgy/competitively priced.

Which leads me to my first true negative - the cocktails and beverages over all were wildly over priced. I'm used to Miami cocktails being $16+ but $18 for a 5oz simple cocktail seems insane.

Second- we left hungry. 16 nigiris over an hour and a half may seem like a lot of food. But it's definitely not for the price. And on top of that, I feel like they know this bc they continually tried to upsell additional al a carte items , pairings etc.

Finally- we left paying $260pp for the omakase and two drinks. And let me reiterate, we left hungry! It's definitely nothing I need to repeat even tho the bites were delicious.

For that amount and the overall satisfaction I would recommend either a lesser price point , an additional serving or larger portions. Too many other omakase with the same quality and lower price tag. This was a definite one and done for me.