The Finest Sushi Eating places in Seattle

Certainly one of Seattle’s highlights is the abundance of contemporary seafood, which is helpful for town’s plentiful sushi eating places. Shiro Kashiba — who, at 81 years outdated, nonetheless shapes nigiri at Sushi Kashiba at Pike Place Market — launched Seattle to Edomae-style sushi over 50 years in the past behind town’s first sushi bar at Maneki. Since then, sushi has turn out to be a mainstay of Seattle’s eating scene, with rolls, nigiri, and sashimi now obtainable at sushi bars, izakayas, and kaiseki eating places throughout town. Cooks resembling Sushi Kappo Tamura’s Taichi Kitamura have since developed shut relationships with native fishermen, studying to supply essentially the most sustainable and scrumptious native elements. Different cooks fly their fish in in a single day from Japan.

Seattle is blessed with greater than its share of high-quality neighborhood spots like Kisaku Sushi, the place rolls are largely beneath $10, however there are additionally a number of modern eating places specializing in omakase, or “I go away it as much as you,” the sushi model of a tasting menu. This contains Capitol Hill’s extremely embellished LTD Version Sushi — a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for its cutting-edge sake pairings — and Sushi Suzuki, a Madison Park sushi bar from Kashiba apprentice Yasutaka Suzuki.

The next checklist options a few of the most memorable sushi in Seattle. Eater Seattle maintains one other checklist of Japanese eating places with extra numerous menus (which frequently additionally embrace sushi). New to the map as of February 2025: Tori Sake and Grill, a Burien strip mall joint that mixes inexpensive rolls with high-end-quality service.

As regular, this checklist is just not ranked; it’s organized geographically. Know of a spot that ought to be on our radar? Ship us a tip by emailing seattle@eater.com.

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