[1][2][3] Ota is a six-seat sushi counter that opened in July 2023.

[1][3] The restaurant is owned by David Utterback, whose mother was Japanese.

[1] He owns two other Japanese restaurants in Omaha, including Yoshitomo, which opened in 2017 and is located next door to Ota in a former Subway location, and Koji, a yakitori restaurant.

[1] In 2023 Utterback was the first chef in Nebraska to be named a finalist for a James Beard Award.

[1] In 2023, The Washington Post called Ota one of the country's best sushi restaurants.