Japanese in Dallas

5765 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony Far North Suburbs

945-224-0505

Japanese

Akira Back opened in the summer of 2022 in The Colony with chef Akira Back at the helm. Many might remember the former snowboarder-turned-restaurateur from his 2008 appearance on Iron Chef America where he competed against Bobby Flay.

That same year, Back's Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant and Lounge opened inside the Bellagio in Las Vegas with great success. Since, Back has built an empire that boasts 22 global outposts including locations in Paris and Dubai. In 2017, his Seoul concept Dosa was awarded a prestigious Michelin star.

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Asian Mint

11617 N. Central Expwy, Suite 135 North Dallas

214-363-6655

Asian Fusion, Japanese, Recommended, Best Of, Readers' Choice

There are few surprises at Nikky Phinyawatana's Asian fusion restaurant. The Mint menu, much like its North Dallas counterpart, lists the regular players at first glance-satay, rolls, piquant Thai soups, stir fries, Mongolian beef. Then comes the house's special pad Thai, which is available in the form of crunchy wonton strips, crab haul, low-carb (sans noodles), among others. There is a daily martini special. If you like the spice, request it. Otherwise, the kitchen will play it safe.

15 articles

The Blue Fish

3519 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-824-3474

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended, Best Of, Readers' Choice

A hip vibe bolstered by mixed wood and metal design elements bestow upon this Japanese restaurant specializing in sushi a sleek sheen. Whimsical signature rolls like the South Beach set atop a martini glass only accentuate it. As does the price. Salmon, crab, shrimp and avocado wrapped in cucumber with a vinaigrette and masago will set you back $12.95. The folks behind Blue Fish have been at it in this first area location since 1998. With restaurants all over DFW, the price doesn't keep sushi lovers from biting. The hip masses come for more than the raw fish and tangy rice. The restaurant offers a full menu, from potstickers and hibachi to the ubiquitous ahi tower and bento boxes.

9 articles

Carrollton Town Center

2540 Old Denton Rd Carrollton/Farmers Branch

832-768-3722

Dallas Fish Market

1501 Main St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-744-3474

Japanese, Seafood, Steak, Best Of

Dallas Fish Market chef Anupam Joglekar mans the kitchen of this fish market with a steakhouse feel. The restaurant serves some of Dallas’ better seafood in a sleek dining room. Steaks and sushi share menu space with pan-seared fishes dressed with sauces incorporating flavors from around the globe. It’s a something-for-everyone kind of place with good execution in the kitchen.

12 articles

Deep Sushi

2624 Elm St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

469-530-0527

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended, Best Of, Readers' Choice

What happens when a group of doctors with appetites for sushi decide to open their own restaurant? This place happens. Since 1996, Deep Sushi has not only served the predilections of its owners but also those of the surrounding neighborhood and beyond. Its green-tile façade is reminiscent of the green shades of nori, the seaweed paper used to wrap certain types of sushi. Inside, passionate reds glow as a counterpoint to the cool warmth of the storefront. A passion for creative sushi is evident at first glance, especially at the bar. But it's more than just sushi that shines on the menu. From the kitchen, there are sobas, tempuras, traditional starters and teppan yaki. Then there is the everything-but-the-net salad of yellowtail, tuna, salmon, white tuna and shrimp sashimi with fresh seaweed, radish, cucumber, asparagus and citron sauce. It's almost as large as the popular aircraft carrier-sized sushi boats.

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Ebesu Robata & Sushi

1007 E. 15th St Plano

972-212-4564

Japanese, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Essentials

Ebesu is an all-around excellent Japanese spot with no weaknesses and some unique strengths. Most excitingly for many diners, it brought the kind of excellence and attention to detail usually associated with Tei-An and Tei Tei Robata, in central Dallas, to the suburbs with its location in downtown Plano. Now suburbanites, too, can enjoy great grilled fish collars, exquisite specialty sushi rolls and boxes of rice topped with salmon roe.

Top pick: The flamboyant house specialty sushi roll, “Super-Long Niku!”, absolutely earns its exclamation mark. Its rice is topped with thin slices of grilled beef, fried leeks and an arugula puree. Bring friends, because there are 16 pieces. (Alas, Super-Long Niku! is not available as takeout.)

3 articles

Edoko Omakase

1030 W. John Carpenter Freeway, No. 100 Irving/Las Colinas

972-600-8626

Japanese, Critics' Pick, Essentials

Chef Keunsik Lee, a Nobu veteran, presides over a thoughtful menu at this hidden spot in Irving. Some of the sushi items are traditional, but others reflect his Korean heritage or his decades of living in Texas, like the incorporation of wasabi into salsa verde, or the choice to top a spicy tuna roll with dollops of guacamole and yucca chips. If you want, you can even have your sashimi served on corn tortillas as a taco.

Top pick: The specialty here is in the name — a playful, fun, memorable omakase tasting in seven courses, in which Lee and his kitchen team will serve whatever they like, finishing with a parade of nigiri and sashimi. We also love the seaweed salad, a sampler that presents several varieties of seaweed in different dressings.

Fuji Steak House & Sushi Bar

12817 Preston, Ste. 112 North Dallas

972-661-5662

Japanese, Steak, Sushi, Best Of, Menu

With a menu as big as the namesake mountain standing sentinel over Tokyo, Fuji offers something for everyone, from the neophyte making short forays into foreign cuisine to the old pro looking for something new to gobble. The appetizer menu is proof enough. It includes gyoza dumplings and grilled yellowtail collar, a delicacy. The kitchen doesn't stop there. The Fuji Special is a mammoth meal of options. Whether you choose the 12-oz. Kobe beef with shrimp tempura and fried rice or the humble sirloin, chicken and shrimp trio, every order comes with soup, salad, hibachi vegetables, a shrimp appetizer and steamed rice, excluding the Kobe. However, the real draw here is the dinner theater that is hibachi, at which diners can select from several surf and/or turf options.

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Fujiyama Sushi & Yakitori Bar

18217 Midway Rd. Carrollton/Farmers Branch

972-362-5797

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended

Where Fujiyama lacks the flash of Uchi, the intimacy of Yutaka or the reputation of Tei Tei Robata, it more than makes up for it with some of the best sashimi and nigiri in the area, and getting them doesn’t require an hour’s wait for a table. Fujiyama’s talented chef Ilon Suhr and his high quality fish won’t disappoint.

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Genki Sushi & Steak

14902 Preston Rd. North Dallas

972-788-2629

Japanese, Steak, Sushi, Recommended, Menu

Genki is Japanese for energy and vigor. It is those qualities that the restaurant's conveyor-belt sushi presentation puts to the test. It's easy to stare wide-eyed at the yellow, blue and red-rimmed plates and want nothing more than to attempt to clear the belt. Pace yourself. There are more than enough volcano rolls to go around at this strip-mall joint. Diners uninterested in the endurance race of the sushi bar can sit at one of the tables with mismatched chairs, where any number of standard stateside Japanese entrées is enjoyed. Go for the signature, though. The Genki-style steak arrives atop a bed of grilled onions on a metal sizzle plate resting in a basket platter.

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Gui Korean Japanese Bistro and Bar

2719 Mckinney Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-720-9229

Japanese, Korean, Best Of

There is no Korean food here. Well, there are some rice bowls, but they only pay lip service to the complexities of authentic Korean cookery. There’s sushi, though, and lots of it. The sushi bar turns out enough rolls with goofy names to fill the entire side of a one-page menu. That menu is geared for the timid. Want to try sushi but afraid of the seaweed? Have the superman burrito: a sizable tuna crab and salmon roll bound in soft soy paper instead of seaweed. Other items aren’t inventive, but they taste fresh. It’s like better-than-average strip-mall sushi dressed up for the ball and tucked into Uptown right on McKinney Avenue.

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Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ

5290 Belt Line Rd. Addison

Japanese

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Hanasho Japanese Restaurant

2938 N. Belt Line Rd. Irving/Las Colinas

972-258-0250

Japanese, Sushi, Best Of

Hanasho is located in a slightly dingy Irving strip mall, but don’t let that dissuade you. Sushi and sashimi are impeccably fresh, and certain varieties can be had during happy hour for just a buck. Hamachi collar and delectably fatty toro are standouts. Besides the requisite raw fish, this traditional sushi joint also offers other Japanese specialties like shabu-shabu -- raw beef and vegetables served with a pot of hot water for DIY cooking at your table -- shrimp and vegetable tempura, teriyaki and ramen and udon noodle soups. If you’re lucky, they might just have takoyaki (the round octopus dumplings that are popular as street food in Japan) on the specials menu, but call ahead to check, lest you be left crying into your sushi rice.

2 articles

Harumama Noodles + Buns

1060 W. Frankford Rd. #200 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

972-492-3622

Korean, Japanese, Fusion

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Hibachi Rock Live Grill & Sushi Bar

8910 S.H. 121,Suite, #220 Allen/McKinney

214-383-9560

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended

This Hibachi grill sushi restaurant is heavy on Elvis (there's a King swivel hip clock in the sushi bar) and other rock rambunctiousness. Though the food isn't stellar, it is very good (Cajun volcano roll is a zesty power chord), and the staff is as affable and considerate as the best in the city. Raw rock fun.

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Hibashi Teppan Grill & Sushi Bar

13465 Inwood Rd., #100 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

972-620-3474

Japanese, Korean, Sushi, Recommended

Massive space near the Galleria still manages to provide both dark, cozy corners and big time entertainment-as well as a cool lounge area. Holding it all together: Japanese dishes with a Texas flair. That's right, sushi fired up with slivers of jalapeno.

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Hon Sushi

1902 E. Belt Line Rd. Carrollton/Farmers Branch

469-454-0058

Sushi, Japanese, Critics' Pick, Best Of

Hon Sushi offers a full slate of main courses — chicken katsu, udon bowls, teriyaki while presentation flourishes abound, like an upended martini glass with sushi pieces balanced on top and herb and veggie garnishes captured underneath the glass’s rim. But happily, the food is the real star here: salmon belly sashimi is a first-rate cut of fish, richly flavorful, just fatty enough and judiciously sliced. Between the very affordable sushi, surprises like house-made soy sauce and bowls of fresh sliced fruit, and the silly-cheap Japanese bottled beers, Hon Sushi presents a remarkable destination for Carrollton diners.

4 articles

Ichiro Ramen

4906 Maple Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

Ramen, Japanese

3 articles

Ino Japanese Bistro

1920 N. Coit Rd. Ste. 250 Richardson & Vicinity

972-889-3200

Japanese, Recommended

Delicious, exotic, startlingly good food is served in this stark but tasteful little suburban Japanese dining room.

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Izakaya Roman Japanese Cuisine

3211 Oak Lawn Ave. Uptown/Oak Lawn

972-308-6149

Japanese, Menu

Japan House

300 W. Plano Parkway Plano

972-633-8000

Asian, Japanese, Sushi, Menu

Japon Steak House & Sushi Bar

4021 Preston Rd. Plano

972-781-2818

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended, Menu

The sushi is just so-so, plus it's served on generic tableware instead of rippled clay sushi dishes or wood service platforms. But the hibachi grills are where the real action takes place. Here skilled swashbucklers take steaks, shrimp, lobster and chicken and transform them into circus animals, a mighty hard act for a strip of raw tuna slumped on a rice billet to compete with.

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Jinbeh

301 E. Las Colinas Blvd., #301 Irving/Las Colinas

972-869-4011

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended

The fact that Jinbeh is always busy and patronized by traveling Japanese businessmen means a couple of things to us: The high volume indicates you'll get exceptionally fresh sushi, and its authenticity passes muster on some level. As for us, we just like the food, especially the tempura udon, rice noodles topped with tempura shrimp and vegetables; gyoza (steamed pork and vegetable dumplings served with a peppery vinegar sauce); and the teriyaki dishes (try the tender, charcoal-broiled filet mignon served with sautéed vegetables and rice). For those of you who like to eat with strangers and watch diced bits of food flung across a grill, there's also a hibachi room. Efficient, very friendly service; sushi bar and full bar.

Kaiyo

2014 Greenville Ave. North Dallas

214--484-1888

Japanese, Asian

Kaiyo has the 90's Japanese vibe you've been waiting for in a sushi restaurant. With expert chefs willing to answer your every question, and even make suggestions based off what you like, you can give the California rolls a rest tonight. The perfect time to grab some friends and get experimental with your seafood.

Kenichi

2400 Victory Park Lane Uptown/Oak Lawn

214-871-8883

Japanese, Sushi, Recommended, Menu

This Austin import has delicious sushi, an intensely varied sake list, and creative renditions of lamb, venison and duck confit doused with Japanese sensuality. The 1,000-degree hot rock lets you sear your own kobe beef, fish, scallop and shiitake caps right at your table (10 minutes worth of searing power, so eat fast or order another rock). Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. And if you can get used to the numbing noise and the bank lobby feel, Kenichi is a great place to regularly visit and leer at the kitchen experiments - among other things.

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Kessaku

1401 Elm St., 50th Floor Denton

214-239-9999

Japanese, Menu, DrinkHere

Fifty floors atop The National building in downtown sits Michelin-star chef Danny Grants’ cocktail and sushi den, Kessaku. To find it, take the elevators to Monarch on the 49th floor, but instead of going to the restaurant, take a left into a hallway and head upstairs. You’ll find a posh cocktail lounge with floor-to-ceiling windows delivering a stunning skyline view. Hip-hop music overhead is turned up, and when the place is packed, it’s loud. We can’t report much on the cocktails and sushi, other than they went down real easy; perhaps it’s asking too much to compete with this view and big boss energy. Valet is available and reservations are a must.

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Kobe Steaks

5000 Belt Line Rd., Suite 600 North Dallas

972-934-8150

Japanese, Steak, Recommended, Menu

Since opening his first restaurant in Atlanta more than 30 years ago, owner Katsuhiko "Vic" Watanabe's brand of Japanese steakhouse has spread across the south to Nashville and now Dallas. Mike Komachi, who manages the latter location, runs a restaurant replete with traditional Japanese furnishings and decorations, like the original store, which was designed by a Japanese architect. Diners can opt to sit on chairs with backs but no legs or use traditional Western seating for the spectacle of hibachi. The menu follows the regular hibachi standbys, with protein leading the way to the knife-juggling cook behind the fire-breathing grill across from you. Among the specialties is the quartet of filet mignon, shrimp, scallops and chicken, which your server and chef will suggest be paired with a house drinks. These include themed drinks, like the kanpai ("cheers") and the samurai's sword.

Kotta Sushi Lounge

2301 N. Akard St. Uptown/Oak Lawn

972-773-9101

Japanese, Sushi

Kurobuta Ramen and Tonkatsu

2625 Old Denton Rd. #612 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

972-446-8282

Japanese, Ramen, Recommended

At Kurobuta Ramen and Tonkatsu, “super spicy” ramen and cheese katsu — yes, that’s big chunks of fried cheese — share a menu with more traditional tavern snacks.

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Lemongrass

2711 Elm St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-745-0001

Fusion, Japanese, Pan-Asian, Vietnamese, Recommended, Menu

Owner Khoa Nguyen has created an Asian fusion restaurant that doesn't feel like a "fusion" restaurant. Instead, Nguyen has toyed traditional dishes while retaining authenticity to provide diners with "refined Vietnamese" -- his words. The Vietnamese rib-eye carpaccio appetizer is an example of this. The thin slices of steak are presented in the authentic Vietnamese salad format with its traditional accompaniments of shrimp chips and fish sauce. Lemongrass' banh xeo (a savory pancake made with rice flour), which Nguyen says is the restaurant's specialty, is a favorite. Nguyen will likely recommend the charcoal-broiled lemongrass pork with vermicelli and the steak cubes with garlic and fresh pasta if he takes your order. In keeping with such inspired dishes, diners would do well to keep in mind such creativity comes with a higher price point.

7 articles

Manpuku

2023 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

469-677-0818

Japanese

Manapuku is originally from Tokyo and offers an interactive Japanese dining experience called yakiniku. Customers cook meats and vegetables over a small grill that is built into the table. They also serve omakase-style meals for two or four. Manpuku serves U.S. Prime beef exclusively raised in Nebraska, American Kobe and Wagyu from Japan.

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Marugame Udon

5500 Greenville Ave., Suite 1102 Northeast Dallas

469-343-0808

Japanese, Noodles, Menu

Originating in Tokyo, Marugame Udon now has two locations locally, one in the Old Town Shopping Center at Lovers and Greenville, the other in Carrollton. Their only other U.S. brick and mortars reside in California and Hawaii.

Udon, ramen’s beefier, longer “big brother," as Cudd refers to it, is an exceptionally versatile wheat-flour noodle capable of carrying an array of ingredients seamlessly. The noodles are handcrafted on-site at Marugame.

Orders are placed at the counter where you choose your bowl, and tailor it with your desired medley of toppings like egg, scallions, tempura flakes and shichimi peppers. Top it off with your pick of tempura, which includes a vast selection ranging from traditional shrimp tempura to potato croquette and several in-between: zucchini, squid and a tempura-fried egg done omelet style, to name a few.

The nikutama is their go-to bestseller on the menu. It’s served with sweet and savory beef and a custard-like hot spring egg in a bold house-made dashi broth. The curry nikutama is another customer favorite, pairing the razor-thin sweet beef and curry.

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