Fish from the best counters
The same grade of tuna, uni, and seasonal catch you'd find at Houston's finest omakase rooms. Sourced, flown in, and graded by hand. Nothing on the board is a compromise.
Private Omakase · Houston
Your table.
Our counter.
A meal they'll never forget.
Itamae brings a private sushi chef and top-tier fish to your space: a home, an office, a celebration. Course after course, cut to order, built around the morning's market. Lunch, afternoon, or evening.
Why Itamae
Dinner is forgotten
by morning.
This isn't dinner.
A Michelin Guide pedigree
Kaelyb trained for years at a Michelin Guide omakase counter in Houston, shaping nigiri night after night before founding Itamae. The same standard, now at your table.
Memories that outlast the meal
The best meals become the story people retell for years. Itamae is built around that moment. The fish is the craft, but the memory is the point.
The chef
Kaelyb Lim
Before founding Itamae, Kaelyb spent years at a Michelin Guide omakase counter in Houston, slicing, shaping, and refining the craft night after night. Itamae is the counter he built to call his own.
It's where he brings that counter to you: top-tier fish and real precision, in your space. No reservation six weeks out. No drive across town. Just the chef, the board, and your people.
"Great sushi isn't just eaten. It's remembered."
Where & when
Any occasion. Any hour.
Anywhere you gather.
A home kitchen, a boardroom, a rooftop, a backyard. Lunch, an afternoon, an evening, or all three for a full day of service.
How it works
We bring the whole counter to you.
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We arrive & set up
Fish, rice, knives, board. We bring it all. Your space becomes the omakase room; you don't lift a finger.
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Cut to order
Each piece shaped in front of you and paced to your table. The menu is built around what's best at market that day, so no two are alike. Allergies and preferences, just say the word.
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You keep the memory
We handle the cleanup and leave your space exactly as we found it. You're left with the meal everyone keeps talking about.