Chilean chef Ignacia Valdés cooks a seven-course omakase in the subterranean room beneath Tokyo Listening Bar — sixteen seats at 127 MacDougal, three nightly seatings for $88. Valdés came up through Paris's Michelin kitchens before three years at FREVO during its 1-star run and time at Contra; her counter is global-leaning rather than traditional sushi, with seafood-forward courses sent out family-style while guests work through owner Ariel Arce's vinyl library. The closer is the signature: a slice of made-in-house Sicilian focaccia pizza, handed off on the way out — vinyl, omakase, and pizza working as a single conceit, not three layered gimmicks. Arce, who also runs Niche Niche and Special Club nearby, built the upstairs listening bar around her former Air's Champagne Parlor footprint. For a low-Michelin-stakes counter where the chef pedigree is real and the vinyl-and-pizza framing is execution.