13 Best Sushi Restaurants In Dallas, Texas

Sushi in Dallas runs from prepaid omakase counters, where the chef serves a fixed run of nigiri, to neighborhood Japanese restaurants with a roll menu and a lunch set. For a special occasion, book a counter at Tatsu, Namo or Sushi Kozy. For an easy dinner ordered piece by piece, Uchi, Shinsei, Zen Sushi and Tei Tei all take à la carte orders.

1. Tatsu Dallas

Chef-owner Tatsuya Sekiguchi serves Edomae-style sushi at Tatsu Dallas in Deep Ellum, curing and seasoning the fish before it meets the rice. He ran the counter at Sushi Yasuda in Manhattan for ten years before moving to Texas. The Dallas room holds a Michelin star.

Dinner is omakase only: one or two appetizers, 13 to 15 pieces of nigiri, a hand roll, miso soup and dessert. Seats are released on Tock on the 1st and 15th of each month, and every booking is prepaid. The cocktail bar inside, Kirameki, makes maki rolls to order for anyone who only came for a drink.

2. Namo

At Namo, in the West Village, the specials board follows the Japanese seasons. The restaurant sources nearly all of its fish directly from Japan, and executive chef-partner Kazuhito "Kaz" Mabuchi came here from Sushi Ginza Onodera in Los Angeles.

You don't have to commit to a full course. Lunch and dinner both have an à la carte menu. There's a prix-fixe omakase at lunch, and dinner offers two formats, a nigiri course and the house "signature namokase."

3. Sushi Kozy

Paul Ko spent seven years at Uchi, the last of them as head sushi chef, before opening Sushi Kozy downtown. His omakase borrows from kaiseki, Japan's seasonal multi-course dinner, so cooked plates come between the nigiri.

The menu is a 17-course omakase at $195 per person, booked on OpenTable. Groups larger than four reserve by email. The restaurant is at 2000 Ross Ave., Suite 150, where valet costs $25 for up to four hours.

4. Tei-An

Tei-An makes soba its house specialty, and the noodle menu includes truffle soba, a curry broth and a soba carbonara.

Chef TaeJin Kim runs a sixteen-seat omakase here as well. Its finale is always soba. That makes it the counter for a diner who wants sushi and noodles in one sitting. At a table, the à la carte nigiri goes from kinmedai and kohada to Hokkaido uni.

5. Uchi

Uchi, on Maple Avenue, treats sushi as one part of a small-plates dinner. Featured dishes include madai crudo with yuzu kosho, otoro nigiri and a wagyu hot rock, and the gyutoro is short rib cooked for 72 hours.

A shorter visit fits into happy hour, 4 to 6 p.m. every day.

6. Nobu Dallas

Nobu Dallas heads its signature list with yellowtail jalapeño, rock shrimp tempura and black cod miso.

The sushi bar omakase runs 17 courses, served on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to four guests at a single seating. It costs $225 per person plus tax. The Seasonal Signature Tasting Menu mixes Nobu standards with seasonal dishes for $140 per guest, nightly.

7. Tei Tei Robata Bar

On North Henderson Avenue, Tei Tei Robata Bar puts a charcoal grill for seafood and vegetables in the same room as the sushi bar. Service is dinner only, and it's closed on Mondays.

Founder Teiichi Sakurai opened it in May 1998, and the restaurant's own history credits it with bringing Washu "beef on the rock" from Japan to Dallas. A credit card holds each reservation, and a no-show or late cancellation costs $25 per person.

8. Shinsei

Shinsei, on Inwood Road, puts raw fish and a Pan-Asian kitchen on one menu, so a table that doesn't all eat sushi still orders well.

A private room seats up to 24 guests. The restaurant is closed on Sundays.

9. Zen Sushi

Chef Michelle Carpenter's Japanese-American cooking has been in the Bishop Arts District since 2007. The menu at Zen Sushi splits into a kitchen side, a raw bar and a plant-based menu called Green.

It opens for dinner only, from 5 p.m. every day.

10. Mr. Sushi

One family has owned this restaurant on Belt Line Road in North Dallas since 1984. Lunch is Wednesday through Saturday only; dinner runs every night.

The menu at Mr. Sushi goes well past sushi. Yakitori, bento boxes and teriyaki sit beside the nigiri and sashimi, and the kitchen keeps vegetarian and vegan rolls.

11. SASA Sushi

SASA Sushi specializes in seasonal Japanese fish. It buys through suppliers connected to Tokyo's Toyosu Market.

Both branches open at 11 a.m. on weekdays, and the choice between them comes down to booking. Lakewood, at 6340 Gaston Ave., takes walk-ins only. Uptown, at 2301 N. Akard St., takes reservations.

12. Blue Sushi Sake Grill

Blue Sushi Sake Grill gives vegan nigiri a full section of the menu, including Unami, barbecued eggplant served like eel, and Kaluna, a plant-based tuna. For fish eaters, the Godzilla Bomb stacks tempura kani, bigeye tuna and yellowtail with serrano and sriracha.

The chain's Dallas branches are on McKinney Avenue in Uptown and Walnut Hill Lane in Preston Hollow Village. Happy hour runs Monday through Saturday until 6:30 p.m., plus all day Sunday for dine-in.

13. Sushi Robata

Lunch at Sushi Robata, on Frankford Road in far North Dallas, is built around sets: udon with barazushi, chirashi and a make-your-own bento. The Sushi A combo costs $16.50 at lunch, which runs weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.