Yoshitomo opened in a former Subway restaurant at 6011 Maple Street in Benson in 2017, the first of three highly acclaimed restaurants from chef and owner David Utterback. Ota is Yoshitomo’s intimate omakase counter, tucked into a small side room inside the restaurant, while Koji is a Japanese izakaya restaurant in Countryside Village.
Utterback is an Omaha culinary legend with national recognition from The Washington Post, which called one of his sushi restaurants one of America’s best. He has been a James Beard Award finalist for Best Chef: Midwest multiple times, including 2023, 2025 and 2026.
It didn’t start out that way…