Pete Files on Neta

Pete Wells awards two stars to Neta, the sushi spot a couple of Masa vets opened earlier this year on West 8th Street in G Village. 

Wells says of the decor, "The interior of Neta is defiantly plain," and that, "There are diners on Route 4 in New Jersey that give you more to look at."  It isn't until certain creations by Nick Kim and Jimmy Lau are placed in front of him that he forgets about his surroundings.  "In the presence of unusually well-made sushi, a kind of tunnel vision sets in. Anything else in the room might as well be invisible as the world narrows down to a gleam of fish on a finger of rice in a tight circle of light."

Allergic to fish?  No problem!  Neta has nearly a dozen different vegetable rolls available a la carte, a part of the menu Pete "might have read with as much attention as I give to sponsored posts on Twitter.  Curious, I tried grilled shiitake caps pressed around rice, a lotus root roll with minty shiso and another roll of asparagus tempura. They were some of the purest vegetable preparations I’ve tasted all spring."

Masa Veterans to Open Neta in Greenwich Village Friday

Greenwich Village is set to serve some serious sushi.  Neta is slated to open this Friday by the hands and knives of two former Masa employees.

Grubstreet brings us a mouthwatering slideshow and you can check out the menu here.

61 West 8th Street (btwn 6th and MacDougal)

Let the sushi good times roll.