Akoya Omakase

Akoya Omakase is an intimate chef-driven Japanese omakase counter inside downtown Kansas City’s historic Hotel Phillips, opened in 2025 by chef-owner Peter Hoang — son of longtime KC sushi figure Sam Hoang — as the metro’s second dedicated omakase restaurant.

Description

Akoya Omakase is a chef-driven Japanese restaurant located inside Hotel Phillips, a historic 1920s hotel in downtown Kansas City. The room centers on a sushi counter — reported at ten seats — with a small number of à la carte tables alongside. The format follows the traditional omakase model (“I leave it up to you”), in which the chef determines each course based on the day’s available fish rather than from a fixed à la carte order. The restaurant describes its approach as one where tradition and innovation work together, emphasizing seasonality and ingredient quality.

Reporting at the time of opening positioned Akoya as the second dedicated omakase restaurant in Kansas City, part of a wider expansion of the metro’s Japanese dining scene. Akoya publishes three omakase tiers on its own site: the dinner sets Umi 海 ($85 — two specialty sashimi sets, eight pieces of chef-selected nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert) and Akoya アコヤ ($165 — three specialty sashimi sets, ten pieces of premium nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert), and a lunch set Mizu 水 ($45 — eight pieces of chef-selected nigiri, temaki, miso) [sources 7, 8]. Course counts and pricing are first-party as of 2026-08-13; the earlier on omakase pricing and course counts is cleared.

The restaurant operates Monday through Saturday with both lunch (11 am–2 pm) and dinner (5–10 pm) service, and is closed Sunday —against the official Hours & Location page, re-confirmed 2026-07-18 [source 5].

Ownership and history

Akoya Omakase is owned by chef Peter Hoang, who works behind the counter shaping rice, fish, and nori. Hoang is part of a Kansas City sushi lineage: his father, Sam Hoang, helped shape the metro’s sushi culture over decades through restaurants including Parkville’s Sakae Sushi, and Peter worked in his father’s restaurants early in his career. Hoang’s own training included time in other cities — reported to include Chicago, New York, Denver, and Jackson Hole — before he returned to open his own restaurant in Kansas City.

The restaurant opened inside Hotel Phillips in 2025. Earlier reporting had projected a 2024 debut, but the opening ultimately occurred in 2025 (reported as roughly mid-to-late August 2025).

Links

• Website: https://www.akoyaomakase.com
• Menus (dinner + lunch): https://www.akoyaomakase.com/menus/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/akoya_omakase/
• Facebook: not found (Instagram and TikTok are the listed channels; no official Facebook page located)

See also

• downtown-kc
• sushi-kodawari
• Registry

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: official site — the combined Menus page (dinner + lunch) and the standalone Dinner page · URL(s): https://www.akoyaomakase.com/menus/ · https://www.akoyaomakase.com/menu/ · Confidence: High (every item Akoya publishes, with the operator’s own description and price where one is given; three omakase tiers, not two)

Descriptions pass (2026-08-13). The 2026-07-24 capture recorded item names and prices but dropped the descriptions the operator publishes alongside them. Those descriptions have now been added verbatim for the composed sashimi, makimono, salad/sides and dessert sections, and the à la carte glosses have been corrected to the operator’s exact wording. Nothing on this page is paraphrased or inferred from a dish name; items Akoya publishes without a description (Sushi Rice, Seasonal Dessert, A5 Wagyu, the caviar add-on) remain name-only, which is what the menu itself does.

A whole menu was missing. The previous pass used /menu/, which carries dinner only. The site’s Menus page, /menus/, carries dinner and a Lunch block — Lunch Specials and Sushi Donburi, seven items with descriptions and prices, including a third omakase tier (Mizu 水, $45) that this page did not have. The dinner content is identical on both pages, item for item and price for price; the lunch block exists only on /menus/.

Corrections to names already on this page. Three item names had been silently normalised away from the operator’s own spelling. They are restored as printed, since a first-party menu’s own text — typos included — is the record:

• Gindara was glossed “sablefish”; the menu reads “Stable fish”. Reproduced as printed. (Gindara is sablefish; the operator’s line is an evident typo, but the correction is not sourced to Akoya and so is not presented as their copy.)
• “Shiro Hama” is printed “Shito Hama”.
• “Sashimi Moriawase” is printed “Sashimi Moriwase”.

Source reconciliation note. /menu/ and /menus/ are both first-party and are matched here on exact item name plus exact price within the same section. Every dinner item matches on both keys — no divergence in item, description, or price between the two pages, and no price on this page comes from any third-party or archived source. Asterisks appear against most raw-fish items on the menu; the site publishes no legend explaining them, so they are not reproduced and no meaning is assigned to them.

Japanese omakase counter. Downtown KC, inside Hotel Phillips, 106 W 12th St. Mon–Sat 11am–2pm (lunch) + 5–10pm (dinner) · Closed Sunday. Reservations via Tock (source 6). Chef-driven format — Peter Hoang selects each course based on the day’s fish; ~10 seats at the sushi counter + small à la carte tables (source 1)(source 3).

Omakase (source 7)(source 8)

The menu’s own framing: “‘omakase’ means leave it to the chef. We offer a course menu that has been meticulously curated depending on seasonality and proper sourcing let us take you on a tastebud adventure.” (reproduced as printed, including its punctuation).

• Umi 海 Omakase — 2 sets of specialty sashimi, 8 pc chef selection of nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert — $85
• Akoya アコヤ Omakase — 3 sets of specialty sashimi, 10 pc premium nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert — $165
• Mizu 水 Omakase — 8 pc chef selection of nigiri, temaki, miso — $45 (lunch only; listed under Lunch Specials)

À la carte — “nigiri 1 Pc | Sashimi 2 Pc” (source 7)(source 8)

Glosses below are the operator’s own one-line descriptions, reproduced as printed.

• Tai — Japanese sea bream — $5–$9
• Suzuki — sea bass — $5–$9
• Hirame — olive flounder — $5–$9
• Unagi — freshwater eel — $5–$9
• Gindara — “Stable fish” (as printed; the fish is sablefish) — $5–$9
• Kinmedai — golden eye snapper — $7–$12
• Masu — ocean trout — $5–$9
• Ikura — zuke salmon roe — $5–$9
• Hamachi — yellowtail — $5–$9
• Akami — lean bluefin — $6–$10
• Chu-Toro — zuke mid fat bluefin — $8–$14
• O-Toro — fatty bluefin — $9–$16
• Hotate — Hokkaido scallop — $5–$9
• Amaebi — sweet shrimp — $5–$9
• Zuwaigani — snow crab — $6
• A5 Wagyu — (no description published) — $12–$20
• Add 3 Gm Kaluga Caviar — (no description published) — $18

Composed sashimi (source 7)(source 8)

• Shito Hama — sliced yellowtail, sauteed shishito, cilantro, and yuzu shoyu — $18
• Miso Shiromi — sliced sea bass, dried saikyo miso, yuzu juice, chive, flake salt, and evoo — $18
• Masu San — torched ocean trout, fried shallots, chili ponzu — $18
• Tai Truffle — Japanese sea bream, black truffle paté, white truffle oil, moshio, and tosazu — $21

Makimono (rolls) (source 7)(source 8)

• Toyama — spicy tuna and cucumber, topped with ocean trout, micro green, chili garlic, ponzu — $22
• Aka Toro — blue fin fatty tuna, shiso, taukan, chives — $22
• Midori — assorted veggies with yuzu miso — $13
• Daikon Maki — akami, hamachi, masu, yamagobo, cucumber, chives, and shiso, wrapped with marinated amazu daikon sheet — $23

Salad | Sides (source 7)(source 8)

• Hotate Sunomono — Persian cucumber, seaweed, scallops, tosazu jelly — $12
• Gomae — blanched spinach, katsuobushi, sesame dressing — $6
• Miso — shiro miso dashi, wakamae, tofu chives — $4
• Sushi Rice — (no description published) — $4
• Sashimi Moriwase — 30 pc chef selection of premium sashimi — $285

Dessert (source 7)(source 8)

• Seasonal Dessert — (no description published) — $8

Lunch Specials (source 8)

Header, as printed: “Comes with gomae salad and miso soup, sub sunomono salad +3.”

• One Roll & 5 Pc Nigiri — chef choice maki and 5 pc of assorted nigiri — $18
• 10 Pc Sashimi — 10 pc of chef’s choice assorted fish — $22
• Mizu 水 Omakase — 8 pc chef selection of nigiri, temaki, miso — $45

Sushi Donburi (source 8)

Header, as printed: “Donburi: protein on top of vinegar rice and pickled vegetables. Comes with gomae salad and miso soup. Sub sunomono salad +3.”

• Masu & Ikura Don — ocean trout with marinated salmon roe — $18
• Hamachi Don — yellowtail, lime zest — $18
• Unagi Don — charbroiled freshwater eel, nitsume — $18
• Chirashi Don — assorted sashimi — $20

Reservations: akoyaomakase.com/reservations or Tock

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Sources

1. Kansas City Magazine — “With the opening of Akoya Omakase and Anjin, Kansas City’s Japanese dining scene is raw, refined and heating up the metro” — https://kansascitymag.com/with-the-opening-of-akoya-omakase-and-anjin-kansas-citys-japanese-dining-scene-is-raw-refined-and-heating-up-the-metro/ — accessed 2026-05-30
2. Akoya Omakase — official site, About page — https://www.akoyaomakase.com/about/ — accessed 2026-05-30
3. IN Kansas City Magazine — “Reservation for One: Akoya Omakase” — https://www.inkansascity.com/eat-drink/restaurants/reservation-for-one-akoya-omakase/ — accessed 2026-05-30
4. Yelp listing (address/phone + recent-activity verification; “Updated June 2026”, 105+ reviews) — https://www.yelp.com/biz/akoya-omakase-kansas-city-2 — accessed 2026-05-30; re-checked 2026-06-23
5. Akoya Omakase — official site, Hours & Location page (active hours, no closure notice) — https://www.akoyaomakase.com/location/akoya-omakase/ — accessed 2026-06-23; re-confirmed 2026-07-18 — Confirms: hours Monday–Saturday 11:00 am–2:00 pm and 5:00 pm–10:00 pm, Sunday closed; address 106 W 12th St, Kansas City, MO 64105
6. Akoya Omakase — official Reservations page / Tock booking (new reservations released June 1, 2026) — https://www.akoyaomakase.com/reservations/ — accessed 2026-06-23; Tock: https://www.exploretock.com/akoya-omakse-kansas-city
7. Akoya Omakase — official site, Dinner menu page — https://www.akoyaomakase.com/menu/ — accessed 2026-07-24; re-scraped 2026-08-13 — Asserts: omakase tiers Umi 海 $85 (2 sets of specialty sashimi, 8 pc chef selection of nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert) and Akoya アコヤ $165 (3 sets of specialty sashimi, 10 pc premium nigiri, temaki, miso, dessert); the full à la carte nigiri/sashimi list with the operator’s one-line glosses and prices; composed sashimi, makimono, salad/sides and dessert with descriptions and prices; the “‘omakase’ means leave it to the chef” framing paragraph. Dinner only — this page carries no lunch menu.
8. Akoya Omakase — official site, combined Menus page (dinner + lunch) — https://www.akoyaomakase.com/menus/ — accessed 2026-08-13 — Asserts: the dinner content of source 7 verbatim (identical items, descriptions and prices), plus a Lunch block absent from /menu/: Lunch Specials (“Comes with gomae salad and miso soup, sub sunomono salad +3”) — One Roll & 5 Pc Nigiri $18, 10 Pc Sashimi $22, and a third omakase tier Mizu 水 $45 (8 pc chef selection of nigiri, temaki, miso); and Sushi Donburi (“Donburi: protein on top of vinegar rice and pickled vegetables”) — Masu & Ikura Don $18, Hamachi Don $18, Unagi Don $18, Chirashi Don $20. Site is a BentoBox build; no PDF menu is published. Does not publish a legend for the asterisks marking most raw-fish items.

Verification

Drafted 2026-05-30 from web research; 4 sources. Address verified (106 W 12th St, inside Hotel Phillips). Chef-owner Peter Hoang and 2025 opening confirmed across two-plus independent sources. Unverified: exact opening date, current seat count (reported ~10). No Facebook page found. Omakase pricing and course counts verified first-party 2026-08-13 across all three tiers (Umi $85, Akoya $165, Mizu $45) — sources 7 and 8.

operating-status re-verification (2026-06-23): CONFIRMED OPEN. registry_status held at active. Official Hours & Location page shows active service hours with no closure/pause/relocation notice; Tock reservations live with a June 1, 2026 release; Yelp listing updated June 2026 with 105+ reviews. No successor, rebrand, or relocation found. Sources 4, 5, 6. Official domain (akoyaomakase.com) verified live and not hijacked.