The Bay Area is awash in choices for high-end sushi — but there’s only one that serves uni and Wagyu nigiri inside the fantastical Flintstone House in Hillsborough.
Stoneage Omakase will launch July 12 with a 15-course, $230 omakase menu inside a dimly lit, cave-like private dining room at the Bay Area landmark. A temporary pop-up run by a catering company, it’s the first time the Flintstone House, which sold in 2018 for $2.8 million, has been open to the public. (It was available to rent on Airbnb in 2016.)
The acclaimed chef behind the sushi is Masa Sasaki, who previously worked at the Michelin-star Maruya in San Francisco and his own restaurant Sasaki, both now closed. Sasaki was also slated to open a sushi bar as part of a splashy project at the Salesforce Transit Center rooftop before the plan fell apart. An Instagram video shows a menu with dishes like kurodai (black sea bream) nigiri and akami zuke (marinated tuna).
Before dinner, according to social media posts, customers get a tour of the colorful house and menagerie of 15-foot-tall dinosaur statues (which became the subject of a yearslong legal battle between owner Florence Fang and the city of Hillsborough). The house was designed by Bay Area architect William Nicholson and built in the mid-1970s.
Stoneage Omakase will also offer other private dining experiences, owners said. Reservations are available on the business’ website starting Wednesday, July 3, at 6 p.m.
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Source: sfchronicle.com
