When you have cause for celebration, reserve a table at Wakuriya. The swanky Japanese restaurant is almost always booked solid, so it’s smart to call ahead. There’s a good reason that Wakuriya enjoys such popularity. Its chef crafts an ever-changing roster of dishes for a prix fixe menu, which gets revamped every month. He uses only the highest quality ingredients, which vary from season to season.

The nine-course menu is usually priced around $100 per person, but it’s well worth the splurge. You might see bites like oven-baked sesame tofu with lobster or assorted Japanese appetizers, like squid with asparagus tempura and tuna tartare. Maple Leaf Farms duck soup, Alaskan black cod with oysters, and American Kobe beef are a few of the other items on the current menu, each prepared using contemporary culinary techniques and creative flavor combinations.