Where the Locals Eat rating
Best Japanese/Sushi
Top 100 Restaurant, Philadelphia
"Stephen Starr, one of the country's top restaurateurs, and Chef Masaharu Morimoto, star of television's immensely popular cooking show Iron Chef, opened Morimoto, a brilliant restaurant featuring contemporary Japanese cuisine."
– Morimoto website
"The pyrotechnic cuisine of Masaharu Morimoto gets the theatrical setting it deserves from hotshot designer Karim Rashid."
—Food & Wine
"The walls are so rounded and smooth that they're almost liquid, while glass-top tables are framed by opalescent, lit-from-within benches that slowly shift from blue and green to fuchsia."
—Travel and Leisure
"The omasake meals are multiple courses of what the chef thinks looks good that night, and if you put yourself in his hands you will not be disappointed."
—Gayot
"This is clearly Stephen Starr's best restaurant, in part because he has stepped back and let a big-name chef drive the concept."
– Craig LaBan, Philadelphia Inquirer
How others rate Morimoto
Zagat 2009
26 food rating (extraordinary to perfection)
Philadelphia Inquirer
*** (excellent)
Philadelphia magazine
No. 10 on Top 50 Restaurants list, 2008
Gayot
16 (of 20, very good)