The Ama frontage in hard Miami sun

Ama, a sushi counter in Miami

Today

The boat decides

EIGHTEEN SEATS. TWO SEATINGS. WHATEVER THE BOATS PUT ON THE DOCK THAT MORNING. THE CARD IS PRINTED AT 6:04 AM AND IT IS DIFFERENT TOMORROW.

Today

Printed 6:04 AM · 7 lines

  • UniRausu, HokkaidoKaiyo Maru 804:10
  • Shima ajiEhime, UwakaiHamasaki04:55
  • KinmedaiIzu, Sagami BayNagisa 205:20
  • SawaraCape Canaveral, FLMiss Ruby05:31
  • KanpachiKagoshima, Kinko BayRyusei05:48
  • HotateMutsu Bay, AomoriAoi Maru05:52
  • AjiNagasaki, GotōChidori06:00

Yesterday

Gone

  • Botan ebiToyama BayShirokaze04:20
  • MadaiAkashi StraitEiko Maru04:44
  • KatsuoKōchi, Tosa BayTosa 705:15
  • HirameAomori, HachinoheNanbu05:30
  • IkuraShiretoko, HokkaidoKaiyo Maru 805:41
The eighteen-seat counter in hard midday sun, terracotta walls and an indigo noren at the door

No menu until you sit

One counter. One course. The chef reads you the card, then cooks it. Ask the port, not us.

18
Seats
6:00 PM / 8:30 PM
Seatings
$165
Per person
Ninety minutes
At the counter
The chef shaping nigiri behind the counter while six guests watch from their seats, hard midday light on orange plaster

The chef. Uni. Hokkaido. This morning.

One chef, eighteen seats, every piece cut in front of the person eating it.

Yours to keep

Printed at six. Changed by tomorrow.

The card at your seat carries the date, your seating, your seat number, and every fish with the water it came from. Nothing about the chef.

The Ama catch card for 27 July: six fish, each with its port, on cream stock against terracotta

Today's card

Every fish, and the water it came from

The seat card: Ama, tonight, 27 July, first seating, seat 6 of 18, 7:00 PM, beside a pair of chopsticks

Your seat

Seat 6 of 18, first seating

The place setting from above: off-white plate, cobalt dipping dish, chopsticks in a printed paper sleeve, indigo napkin, matchbook, shiso and half a lemon

At your seat

Plate, dish, sleeve, napkin, matchbook

The counter selection on a pale ceramic plate against terracotta

The counter selection

Seven pieces, first seating

A second course of six nigiri on a wide rice-white plate

Second course

Six pieces, whatever landed

A yuzu highball and a shiso sour on the counter in hard sun

Two to drink

Yuzu highball, shiso sour

Four guests at the counter mid-conversation in hard midday light

Second seating, 8:30 PM

18 seats

Take a seat

Wednesday to Sunday, two seatings a night. Your seat is held ten minutes past the hour, and you pay at the counter.

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Night

Wednesday to Sunday.

Seating

Seats

Four is the largest the counter takes. Five or more, call 305 555 0142.

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