I was trying to figure out where to eat tonight. i was thinking sushi since I had Italian yesterday and was going to have French tomorrow. I did some quick searching on google, yelp, tripadvisor, and reddit. AYCE (all you can eat) places are apparently very popular here in LV, but that’s not what I was looking for (i.e. I wanted quality over quanitity) and ending up settling on Kame Omakase based on everything I read. i ended up calling them to see if they could seat me for the 5:30PM seating, but in that case, I would have to do the Signature Omakase instead of the Premium Omakase which they only did at 8pm (too late for this old man). I hemmed and hawed (let me just say, prices would be very expensive even for San Francisco…), but decided to go for it since I’m here (I also tried to get into the secret 6-seat Omakase bar at Wakuda, but I never heard back from them…)
The restaurant is in the unassuming strip mall on the other side of the highway from the Strip. The counter seating could seat up to 10, but it only ended up being 5 of us…a couple guys from DC celebrating a b-day and a local couple to my left celebrating an anniversary, so I was just the rando dude in the middle 
To drink, there was only one sake that they had in half bottle size and that was Dassai 23, which was fine since that is our go-to sake at home. I kind of wish they had something else just for variety sake, but I, of course, enjoyed the sake (although their markup is about 200% which to be fair is pretty standard).
The menu for the meal looked pretty expansive. There were a lot of ingredients from Japan…fish of course, two kinds of uni (the one in the wooden box and the one in the plastic container with seawater), Australian winter truffle, foie gras, wagyu, caviar made for them from an unspecified producer in norcal (Tsar Nicolau? Caviar Co.?). oyster (shigoku from PacNW), crab and softshell crab from MD, lobster from Maine, wasabi from Japan, crown melon from Japan ($150 for 1 melon!), abalone, and so on.
I won’t go into every dish (there were so many!). Overall impression was generally nice ingredients, esp. the ones from Japan. Some decent flavors and often some very interesting preparation, ingredient combos, and presentation. I can understand the pricing because of the ingredient cost, but ultimately, I felt it was overpriced.
Service was very attentive and the chefs were both very engaging the entire time. The pacing was just a bit too fast for my taste. i was routinely the last one to finish a dish, but really as soon as a dish was cleared, the next one was soon to come out. For 16 courses (if you include each of the 6 individual nigiri to be a course), was all completed in 90 minutes from when we sat down to when our bill was paid.
To sum it up, I did enjoy the meal, the ingredients/preparation/presentation, the engagement by the chefs, and my dining companions…I just didn’t love it at that price.
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