The Manhattan location, the family’s first outside Japan, required an entirely new piscine supply chain. Aside from the Maine lobsters, all the inventory is trucked in from farms: salmon from New York and striped bass from Northern Carolina. My rainbow trout grew up in Pennsylvania. The trout, salmon, and striped bass are kept together in two different tanks. Upstairs, 50 flounder doze in a separate tank like a smattering of sleepy-eyed welcome mats, with fluke, lobster, rockfish, and abalone as friends. The flounder are the most exotic fare, having flown in from Japan.

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