What locals are saying
Chef Sean Park — formerly of Upper King's O-Ku — runs this BYOB shoebox in a Mt. Pleasant strip mall with his wife, turning out some of the most precise and inventive sushi in the metro: omakase, a kabocha bisque with crème fraîche and fried tofu, truffle edamame, soft shell crab, and Scottish and Norwegian salmon nigiri that regulars have spent years actively gatekeeping. The QR-code-only ordering model draws genuine frustration — no tableside interaction, no verbal recommendations, no deviation from the phone — but loyalists frame it as Park channeling everything into the plate. The extended seasonal closures (the restaurant shuts down for stretches to allow Park to visit Korea) can blindside first-timers who finally work up the courage to go.
