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Name: Sushi Sho
Address: 10749 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA, United States, 94530
Telephone: (510) 525-1800
Price range: $50 and over
Rating: 4.3

Sushi Sho

4.3 (26)

$50 and over

Sushi

10749 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530

About this restaurant

Sushi Sho, located in El Cerrito, California, is a full-service sushi bar. The chef and owner, Aki Kawata, serves both Tokyo and Osaka style sushi at this small restaurant. Six customers are served at a time in this intimate dining experience. Every dish is made from the freshest and highest quality ingredients at Sushi Sho. Sushi Sho serves simple, flavorful dishes such as the saba bateira or the natto-maki sushi roll. With side offerings ranging from edamame to tsukemori, you’re sure to enjoy an authentic Japanese sushi bar experience complete with fresh meals prepared in front of you at the sushi bar.

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Additional information

Dining style
Fine Dining
Price
$50 and over
Cuisines
Sushi, Japanese
Hours of operation
Dinner: T-Sa 5:30pm-9:00pm
Phone number
(510) 525-1800
Website
http://www.sushi-sho.com/
Payment options
Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Dress code
Casual Dress
Executive chef
Aki Kawata

Location
10749 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530
Neighborhood
Richmond
Cross street
Portola Dr
Parking details
Ample street parking available on San Pablo Avenue.
Additional
Bar Dining, Beer, Corkage Fee, Counter Seating, Non-Smoking, Wheelchair Access, Wine

Edamame$4.00
Boiled green soy beans in pods
Hiya-Yakko$5.00
Cold soft tofu with scallions & dried bonito shavings
Ohitashi$5.00
Boiled spinach with dried bonito shavings and light rice vinegar dressing
Morokyu$7.00
Fresh cucumber with special aged miso dip
Tsukemori$7.00
Assorted Japanese pickles
Chawan-Mushi$8.00
Steamed seafood custard soup
Hamachi Kama
Broiled yellowtail collar
- Market Price
Ankimo
Monk fish liver steamed with sake and served with ponzu sauce (house special blended SOUR soy sauce)
- Market Price

Sunomono Salad

Served with our house special sesame seed dressing (rice vinegar dressing also available)

Kyurimomi$4.00
Cucumber
Wakame$4.50
Seaweed and cucumber
Saba$10.50
Makerel salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar and cucumber
Tako$10.00
Cooked or steamed octopus and cucumber
Ebi$10.00
Cooked prawn and cucumber
Kani$18.00
Canadian red snow crab with seaweed and cucumber
Moriawase$20.00
5 item combination with seaweed and cucumber

Miso Soups

Tofu$2.00
Soft tofu
Wakame$2.50
Seaweed and soft tofu
Enoki$3.00
Long skinny mushroom and soft tofu
Nameko$4.00
Short fat mushroom and soft tofu
Akadashi$6.00
Special aged miso with yellowtail and mitsuba (tri-foil)

Nigiri Sushi

Sliced fish served on bite-size venegared rice. Most of the following items are prepared with green wasabi horseradish. (One order is 2 pieces)

Inari$4.00
Seasoned fried tofu
Tamago$5.00
Egg omelet
Saba$6.00
Makerel salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar
Tako$5.00
Boiled or steamed octopus
Iidako$7.00
Seasoned baby octopus
Ika$5.00
Squid
Ebi$5.00
Cooked prawn
Shiromaguro Tataki$6.50
Seared albacore tuna lightly marinated in rice vinegar topped with scallion and grated ginger
Maguro$7.00
Red tuna
Buri (Hamachi)$7.00
Yellowtail
Hotategai$7.00
Raw scallop from Hokkaido island Japan
Sake$7.00
Salmon salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar
Sake Reikun$8.00
Cold-smoked salmon (salt-cured and smoked with hickory in an iced chamber)
Hirame$7.00
Fluke or halibut
Tai$8.00
Japanese sea bream
Unagi$8.00
Grilled fresh water eel
Anago$8.00
Grilled cooked marine eel
Karashi-Mentaiko$8.00
Spicy salted pollock roe
Karashi-Mentaiko Special
Spicy salted pollock roe roasted medium rare
- Market Price
Tobiko$6.00
Salted flying-fish roe
Ikura$8.00
Salted salmon roe
Bin-Toro$8.00
Albacore tuna belly
Oh-Toro
Bluefin tuna belly
- Market Price
Botan-Ebi
Raw sweet spot-prawn
- Market Price
Uni
Sea urchin roe
- Market Price

Maki Sushi (Rolls)

Fish or vegetable and vinegard rice rolled in roasted seaweed sliced in to 6 pieces, or can be served as a hand roll. Most of the following items are prepared with green wasabi horseradish

Kappa-maki$4.00
Cucumber
Oshinko-maki$4.00
Pickeled Japanese daikon radish
Ume-maki$4.00
Pickeled Japanese plum paste with shiso leaf (beefstake leaf)
Avocado-maki$4.50
Avocado
Gobo-maki$4.50
Pickeled mountain burdock roots
Natto-maki (hikiwari)$5.00
Finely chopped fermented soybeans rolled with scallion
Saba-maki$7.00
Makerel salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar rolled with pickeled ginger and scallion
Tekka-maki$8.00
Red tuna
Sake-maki$8.00
Salmon salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar
Hamachi-maki$8.00
Chopped yellowtail with scallion
Unakyu-maki$9.00
Grilled fresh water eel with cucumber
Unakyu-maki Special A$13.75
Reversed with additional tobiko and avocado
Unakyu-maki Special B$12.50
Reversed with additional tamago and oboro shrimp powder
Anakyu-maki$9.00
Grilled cooked marine eel with cucumber
Karashi-Mentaiko-maki$9.00
Spicy salted pollock roe rolled with cucumber and shiso leafs (beefstake leaf)
Sakekawa-maki$8.00
Grilled salmon skin and cucumber
Sakekawa-maki Special G$13.75
Reversed with additional tobiko, avocado and house special spicy sauce
California-maki$8.00
Canadian red snow crab and avocado
California-maki Special C$12.00
Reversed with additional tobiko
California-maki Special D$10.00
Reversed with additional house special spicy sauce
California-maki Special CD$13.00
Special C and D combined

Pre-assorted Sushi

Regular$25.00
7 piece assortment of nigiri sushi and 1 cucumber roll
Deluxe$34.00
8 Piece assortment of nigiri sushi and 1 fish roll

Omakase

Chef's choice of nigiri sushi

A Course$50.00
12 piece variety
B Course$60.00
14 piece variety
C Course$70.00
16 piece variety

Hako-zushi

Specially prepared fish and vinegared rice pressed together in a box with a special sweet and sour seaweed on top, sliced into 6 pieces

Saba Bateira$13.00
Makerel salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar
Sake Bateira$15.00
Salmon salt-cured and marinated in rice vinegar with oboro shrimp powder

Sashimi

Sliced fish dish

Saba$16.00
Makerel salt-cured and marnited in rice vinegar
Tako$15.00
Cooked or steamed octopus
Maguro$21.00
Red tuna
Buri (Hamachi)$21.00
Yellowtail
Moriawase$24.00
5 item combination
Shiromaguro Tataki$24.00
Seared albacore tuna lightly marinated in rice vinegar topped with scallions, grated daikon radish and ginger served with ponzu sauce (house special blended SOUR soy sauce)
Usuzukuri$26.00
Thinly sliced white meat fish of the day (fluke or halibut) served with ponzu sauce (house special blended SOUR soy sauce)

Dessert

Green Tea, Ginger, Red Bean Ice Crème or Mango Sorbet$5.00
2 scoops an order

What 26 people are saying

Sushi Sho reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

Overall ratings and reviews

4.3

4.3 based on all time ratings

4.4Food
4.1Service
4.2Ambience

Noise • Moderate

26 Reviews

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Andrea
San Francisco Bay Area3 reviews
5.0
Dined on March 28, 2015
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
This is as authentic as you will find for a Sushi Bar. As well, there are 6-7 different miso soups. The Seaweed Salad won't disappoint you. Try the marinated garlic , I can't eat enough. As well, The Osaka Style Pressed Sushi with House Smoked Salmon is delicious. All the seafood is hand picked by the owner and as fresh as you will find. Make a reservation as it fills up quickly.
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TheChauffeur
San Francisco Bay Area2 reviews
5.0
Dined on March 26, 2015
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
I've taken business guests from Tokyo here and they are completely blown away. Need I say more?
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Damascus9
San Francisco Bay Area2 reviews
5.0
Dined on February 15, 2015
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
Here is the place to go for the freshest sushi you can get. You will need close to two hours for your meal because if the way the seatings are set up. Only six diners are served at each seating nominally, but during my visit two diners from the next seating were allowed to sit at the sushi bar. Aki-san, the owner and sushi chef, is very friendly and instructive. While he is rolling he may tell you the proper way to pick up nigiri with chopsticks or discuss the differences between different kinds of fish. He seems very committed to providing the best possible dining experience for his customers. Sushi Sho is best experienced by parties of two. Chances are very good that the daily menu will feature something you've never had before. That's a good thing. I tried something i've had a disliking for for over 30 years: the Saba. I've never liked it because it's too fishy in general but Sushi Sho makes it very palatable. So if you're going to go out on a limb this is the place to do it.
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glovesm VIP
San Francisco Bay Area134 reviews
4.0
Dined on February 14, 2015
1. Overall 4
2. Food 4
3. Service 3
4. Ambience 4
We loved this place - the sushi chef was great and the sushi was delicious. We didn't realize that a 7pm reservation would be when the 8 person counter would be ready so as long as you're prepared for that. As our first time here, we shared the omakase menu and had 2 types of sashimi. We definitely did not do the omakase menu justice by sharing so each person should definitely get their own. My favorite was the cold-smoked salmon. I will definitely come back to this place.
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HappyFoodie
San Francisco Bay Area2 reviews
5.0
Dined on January 24, 2015
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
Aki-San is an artist when it comes to sushi and sashimi. If you're in for a treat, Sushi Sho is the place to go.
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DavidN
San Francisco Bay Area2 reviews
1.0
Dined on December 25, 2014
1. Overall 1
2. Food 1
3. Service 1
4. Ambience 1
The restaurant says that you have to be there on time or they give away your table. So we did. Then proceeded to wait outside in the rain and cold as they couldn't be bothered to open on time. Staff saw us standing there but couldn't be bothered. Finally called them but still didn't let us in. Left. Look at their reviews later and realized this is their way of doing business. Haughty chef. Haughty staff. Never again.
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OpenTable Diner
San Francisco Bay Area9 reviews
5.0
Dined on December 21, 2014
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
Hv been eating here for almost 30 years. Never a bad meal.
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JustWantAGoodMeal
San Francisco Bay Area59 reviews
1.0
Dined on December 14, 2014
1. Overall 1
2. Food 1
3. Service 1
4. Ambience 1
I felt scammed by the sushi chef and owner. I have dined in several highly rated sushi restaurants in most every major US city over the last 20 years. I have also dined in a lot of small, basic local sushi restaurants. Sushi Sho was by far the worst - even compared to my experience in lower end restaurants where I expected nothing special. All I can say to the over-the-top reviewers on Open Table is that you have not yet really experienced good sushi. With the exception of the Hamachi sashimi, I found most of the fish to be second rate. The chef/owner clearly does not source top (higher cost) fish. And his prices exceeded what we received. Most importantly, the overbearing chef would not leave the 8 people at the sushi bar alone -- a self designated "mentor" to his guests. Well some of us just want to enjoy our food. I am an American who enjoys authentic Japanese food. That said, I don't appreciate being told to use my fingers instead of chop sticks. And I don't appreciate having the chef debate with me while I enjoy my food the way I want to enjoy it. He was downright oppressive. We felt trapped for over 2 hours while the chef made his rounds around the sushi bar holding court with lectures on the "right" way to eat and the right way to "enjoy" his mediocre fish. This resulted in significant delays receiving fish -- mere morsels at a time. Never again.
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Jkbb
San Francisco Bay Area1 review
5.0
Dined on November 29, 2014
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 4
4. Ambience 5
I'm a long time customer. I can't think of a sushi experience as interesting as that provided by Sushi Sho. Expect 2-3 hours and possible delays. You'll find yourself feeling very happy at the end of the meal.
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OpenTable Diner
San Francisco Bay Area9 reviews
5.0
Dined on November 26, 2014
1. Overall 5
2. Food 5
3. Service 5
4. Ambience 5
Been coming for over 27 years. Never a bad meal! If you love great cold smoked salmon and bright, fresh uni, this is the place. Reservations only, 3 seating times during evening.
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10749 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530

Additional information

Cross street
Portola Dr
Neighborhood
Richmond
Hours of operation
Dinner: T-Sa 5:30pm-9:00pm
Price
$50 and over
Cuisines
Sushi, Japanese
Dining style
Fine Dining
Dress code
Casual Dress
Parking details
Ample street parking available on San Pablo Avenue.
Payment options
Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Executive chef
Aki Kawata
Additional
Bar Dining, Beer, Corkage Fee, Counter Seating, Non-Smoking, Wheelchair Access, Wine

Website
http://www.sushi-sho.com/
Phone number
(510) 525-1800

Sushi Sho

About this restaurant

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Side Dishes

Edamame$4.00

Hiya-Yakko$5.00

Ohitashi$5.00

Morokyu$7.00

Tsukemori$7.00

Chawan-Mushi$8.00

Hamachi Kama

Ankimo

Sunomono Salad

Kyurimomi$4.00

Wakame$4.50

Saba$10.50

Tako$10.00

Ebi$10.00

Kani$18.00

Moriawase$20.00

Miso Soups

Tofu$2.00

Wakame$2.50

Enoki$3.00

Nameko$4.00

Akadashi$6.00

Nigiri Sushi

Inari$4.00

Tamago$5.00

Saba$6.00

Tako$5.00

Iidako$7.00

Ika$5.00

Ebi$5.00

Shiromaguro Tataki$6.50

Maguro$7.00

Buri (Hamachi)$7.00

Hotategai$7.00

Sake$7.00

Sake Reikun$8.00

Hirame$7.00

Tai$8.00

Unagi$8.00

Anago$8.00

Karashi-Mentaiko$8.00

Karashi-Mentaiko Special

Tobiko$6.00

Ikura$8.00

Bin-Toro$8.00

Oh-Toro

Botan-Ebi

Uni

Maki Sushi (Rolls)

Kappa-maki$4.00

Oshinko-maki$4.00

Ume-maki$4.00

Avocado-maki$4.50

Gobo-maki$4.50

Natto-maki (hikiwari)$5.00

Saba-maki$7.00

Tekka-maki$8.00

Sake-maki$8.00

Hamachi-maki$8.00

Unakyu-maki$9.00

Unakyu-maki Special A$13.75

Unakyu-maki Special B$12.50

Anakyu-maki$9.00

Karashi-Mentaiko-maki$9.00

Sakekawa-maki$8.00

Sakekawa-maki Special G$13.75

California-maki$8.00

California-maki Special C$12.00

California-maki Special D$10.00

California-maki Special CD$13.00

Pre-assorted Sushi

Regular$25.00

Deluxe$34.00

Omakase