The Best Sushi Restaurant in San Francisco

Kyo-ya is considered by many restaurant guides and reviewers to be the premier sushi establishment in San Francisco. It has a modern, clean, decorative style and an open sushi bar where patrons can sit and watch their food being prepared by some of the most highly trained sushi chefs in the city. Kyo-ya's large sushi menu includes items such as salmon, scallop, seaweed, halibut, squid and bass sashimi, or rolls such as the financial tower (with shrimp tempura, avocado, furikaki rice cracker, chili pepper and wasabi mayonnaise) and the unique American roll (ham, cheese, sesame seeds and pickles). The happy hour menu includes special prices on cocktails made with sake and mixers. If you are looking for elegant atmosphere and top-of-the-line sushi menu items, and are willing to pay a slightly higher price for them than at some other sushi restaurants, Kyo-ya is one of your best choices.

Kyo-ya
2 New Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 546-5090
www.sfpalacerestaurants.com/kyoya

Tokyo Go Go was designed to be a place where people can socialize, dine and drink, just as a traditional Japanese sushi bar would be. Its sashimi includes items such as sweet shrimp, tuna, crab legs, Japanese sea bream, fluke, salmon roe and eel. Its roll options include the simple, such as basic cucumber or tuna roll, and the more inventive, such as the Fort Point roll with grilled asparagus, avocado, seared Kobe beef, shallots and garlic ponzu, and the off the wall roll with tempura shrimp, cucumber, spicy tuna, avocado and wasabi tobiko. During happy hour, there is a special menu of hand rolls, such as the sunshine with hamachi, cilantro, wasabi tobiko and quail eggs, or the unagi with unagi and cucumber, offered at a low price. If you are looking for a place with good sushi and a great atmosphere where you can socialize to your heart's content, Tokyo Go Go is the best place for you.

Tokyo Go Go
3174 16th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 864-2288
www.tokyogogo.com

Tsunami Sushi Panhandle is a sushi and sake bar with modern Japanese style, house music and over 150 sake options. This restaurant stays open later than most, with hours until midnight during the week and until 1 a.m. on weekends. It also has a storefront called Corkage that sells a wide selection of wine and sake and offers tastings of both. It has a traditional menu of sashimi such as tuna, eel, egg, octopus and shrimp, as well as special items such as the Papa San roll, which is a spicy California roll topped with sea bass, jalapeno rings and aioli. During happy hour, it offers both bottles of sake and hand rolls at half off the normal price. If you are out late and looking for a great place to have some sushi, Tsunami Sushi Panhandle is the best place around.

Tsunami Sushi Panhandle
1306 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 567-7664
www.dajanigroup.net/establishments/tsunami-sushi-panhandle/

Blowfish Sushi to Die For also has locations in San Francisco, West Hollywood, San Jose and Auckland. This restaurant combines modern Japanese design with music and video screens that play Japanese animation. They have both lunch and dinner menus that include sushi, sashimi, cooked appetizers and desserts, as well as imported sakes and sake cocktails. The sashimi offerings at Blowfish Sushi to Die For include items such as tuna, shrimp, halibut, tofu, squid, octopus and egg, and the roll offerings include the dragon roll (with tempura shrimp and cucumber topped with unagi and avocado) and the San Francisco roll (with ebi, salmon and cream cheese). If you are looking for a sushi restaurant that is young, hip and has an exciting atmosphere and top-notch food, Blowfish Sushi to Die For is the place for you.

Blowfish Sushi to Die For
2170 Bryant St.
San Francisco CA 94110
(415) 285-3848
www.blowfishsushi.com

Hime boasts that it has sushi and Japanese-fusion cuisine. The restaurant has an open sushi bar where you can watch the chefs make up the food, as well as a dining room with a mixture of modern furniture and Asian-inspired decorative touches. Hime offers menus of hot and cold dishes as well as sashimi, rolls, sake and wine. Its extensive sushi menu offers sashimi items such as sweet shrimp, unagi (eel), scallops, tuna, crab and mackerel, or rolls like the Kobe roll, which is a vegetable roll topped with Kobe beef, and the dynamite roll, which is a California roll topped with scallops and shrimp. This is an extremely elegant restaurant that caters to those looking for a nice night out on the town. If that is the kind of sushi restaurant you are looking for, Hime is the best place for you.

Hime
2353 Lombard St.
San Francisco, CA 94123
Telephone: (415) 931-7900
www.himerestaurant.com