Masa is located in Boston’s South End neighborhood between Arlington and Berkley streets. The restaurant has an elegant casual southwestern feel to it with muted abstractions of the southwestern landscape, creams and natural tones with Spanish influenced mahogany accents. Masa offers a $1 tapas menu at the bar with a wide variety to choose from. Masa is open for dinner seven nights a week and even offers a Sunday brunch. There is an extensive wine list and even an extensive tequila list, if you cant find anything on the specialty cocktail list to go along with all meals. There is a semi-private dining section that can accommodate up to 32 people for all of your private or corporate events. Thursday is now salsa night at Masa from 9pm to 1am. You can even get salsa dancing lessons at Masa on Thursdays.

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, at 723 Chestnut Street.

To complete their visionary team and develop the original concept, Starr hired world-renowned designer Karim Rashid.

Throughout the space, he blends traditional Japanese design with organic and sensual elements.

With his cutting-edge design, Rashid stimulates and awakens the senses.

“Rashid’s unusual surroundings set the stage for the inspired cuisine of Chef Morimoto,” says Starr, who is credited with bringing two other high-concept Asian restaurants, Buddakan and Pod, to Philadelphia.