Mikaku – Sushi with excellent taste

The latest trend in Californian sushi restaurants seems to unfortunately be fusion kitchen: adding all kinds of ingredients that are not part of Japanese sushi experience. Fortunately, there are still restaurants that provide normal basic sushi meals.

Mikaku is a midsized Japanese restaurant near the Chinatown gate on Grant Avenue — a few blocks from Union Square to northwest. They have a full selection of Japanese meals, including also sashimi.

If you are eating alone, try to get a seat at the desk — the chef is really fast preparing the sushi and it is a joy to see such controlled minimalistic movements. If you can speak Japanese, you can have also a chat with him.

The sushi is good, albeit nigiri sushi would benefit a bit more rice. The taste is excellent and the smoked eel and avocado roll is just absolute bliss to tastebuds.

323 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA, +1 415 781 6730