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  • Ariake Japanese Steakhouse

    Ariake Japanese Steakhouse

    McMenamy Road & Mid Rivers Mall Drive St. Peters

    636-397-1144

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    With its origins strongly rooted in St. Louis' former top-flight Japanese restaurant, Robata, Ariake Japanese Steakhouse combines a teppanyaki steak house, where your meal is cooked at your table, with a full sushi bar and a Thai restaurant. While the Japanese menu focuses mostly on the various meats and seafood that will be sizzled right where you sit, such as their filet mignon or lobster, the Thai side turns its culinary attention more toward the sauces and curries that flavor your dish. In addition to the usual pad Thai and stir-fried items, Ariake's Thai menu includes a crispy catfish and garlic frog legs with a spicy sauce. Their sushi menu offers sashimi, rolled sushi and a variety of specialty rolls.
  • Asia

    Asia

    999 N. 2nd St. St. Louis - Downtown

    314-881-7777

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    Asia reflects only a sliver of the titular continent's size and cultural variety. Instead it focuses on those countries many might think of when they hear the phrase "Asian cuisine": China, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand. Sushi is prepared well, though the fish itself is merely good, not outstanding. Entrées lean toward Chinese and Chinese-American dishes like General Tso's chicken; house specialties include Peking duck and an excellent Cornish hen dish. The Cornish hen is one of the few values on a relatively high-priced menu.
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  • Bento Sushi Bar & Restaurant

    Bento Sushi Bar & Restaurant

    14195 Clayton Road Chesterfield

    636-230-7800

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  • Blue Sea Sushi Bar

    7895 Mexico Road St. Peters

    636-278-7878

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  • Cafe Mochi

    Cafe Mochi

    3221 S. Grand Blvd. St. Louis - South Grand

    314-773-5000

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    The walls are a vivid magenta, the music an eclectic mix of mellow, head-nodding tunes - this is a sushi lounge, not a sushi restaurant. The emphasis is on rolls of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink variety. The "Godzilla Roll" features tempura-fried tuna and spicy tuna (as well as crisscrossing spicy sauces), while the "Lemon Drop Roll" adds lemon zest and honey wasabi to a standard combination of salmon, crab, cream cheese and avocado. The nigiri sushi selection is conventional. Basic Japanese fare like tempura meat and vegetables, as well as soba and udon noodles, is also available.
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  • Chop Shop

    Chop Shop

    @chopshopstl St. Louis - South Grand

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    Eliott Harris won a following for his work behind the sushi bar at Miso on Meramec in Clayton. Now he has gone solo — and mobile — with Chop Shop, serving inventive, overstuffed sushi rolls that you can hold in your hand to eat, like a wrap or burrito. Rolls include the “El Camino” (spicy yellowfin tuna with cucumber, avocado and a ginger-garlic ponzu) and the “Woodie” (snow crab utzed with a chile aioli).

  • Do Ce Rok Terrace

    3473 Nameoki Road Granite City

    618-451-4825

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  • Drunken Fish

    Drunken Fish

    639 Westport Plaza, St. Louis Maryland Heights

    314-275-8300

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    All of Drunken Fish's St. Louis locations have online ordering and pick up. Free delivery on oders over $50. Order at drunkenfish.com or call the location closest to you.

    Audacious sushi creations in a mod lounge setting: The Drunken Fish is like one giant experiment to see just how sexy raw fish (and other Japanese food styles) can go. The house rolls throw together everything but the sushi mat: crab meat, radish sprouts, scallions, carrots, eel sauce, avocado, baked scallops, asparagus, tempura, mayonnaise -- and, oh yeah, sometimes rice too. Simpler preparations excel here, like the clean tuna tataki and steak teriyaki, the tempura vegetables and the ice cream-based desserts. As St. Louis' latest stab at a bona fide sushi lounge, the Drunken Fish may prove the start of a whole new dining trend. See listing for second location under "Midtown/West End."
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  • Drunken Fish-Central West End

    Drunken Fish-Central West End

    1 Maryland Plaza St. Louis - Central West End

    314-367-4222

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    All of Drunken Fish's St. Louis locations have online ordering and pick up. Free delivery on oders over $50. Order at drunkenfish.com or call the location closest to you.

    Trendy Central West End spot Drunken Fish, brainchild of Munsok So, brings sushi with a club twist. New-style sashimi offerings include red snapper carpaccio and yellowtail Mexicano, which adds jalapeño pico de gallo and ponzu sauce to the mix. Sake cocktails provide a buzz to go with the fish. This posh sushi lounge also features national and local DJs spinning techno, house and jungle every night. The West Port spot has more of a restaurant feel than the clubbier Central West End location, but no matter which Drunken Fish you choose, make sure your wallet is loaded
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  • Dynasty Hibachi Steak, Seafood and Sushi Buffet

    Dynasty Hibachi Steak, Seafood and Sushi Buffet

    6710 Clayton Road, St. Louis Richmond Heights

    314-781-8888

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  • Eastern Buffet

    702 N. New Ballas Creve Coeur

    314-822-3011

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  • The Emperor's Palace

    The Emperor's Palace

    17360 Chesterfield Airport Road Chesterfield

    636-537-8188

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    What can you get at this enormous all-you-can-eat buffet? Everything, it seems, but the ornamental fish. There are stations for dim sum, sushi, Mongolian barbecue and pho, as well as standard Chinese- and American-restaurant fare. The food may not compare to your favorite Chinese (or Japanese or Mongolian or Vietnamese) restaurant, but families, especially, will find something to satisfy everyone - and their budgets - here. But even the snobbiest foodies will be won over (or worn down) by the spirit of fun and culinary adventure: Where else can you try, say, jellyfish, and walk away from your unfinished plate without shame?
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  • Fin Japanese Cuisine

    Fin Japanese Cuisine

    1682 Clarkson Road Chesterfield

    636-536-4228

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    A sushi restaurant with more to offer than sushi - though those with a craving will be more than satisfied by the nigiri sushi, sashimi and rolls. Don't overlook the rest of the menu, though. The Japanese fare (some of it given a Southeast Asian twist, compliments of chef and owner Paul Kulkanjanatorn) is more than worthy of consideration. An order of miso ramen brings a big bowl of broth with pork, hard-boiled egg, vegetables and a tangle of noodles, while gindara miso is an elegant black cod preparation, fork-tender and delectable.
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  • Ginger Bistro

    Ginger Bistro

    6665 Delmar Blvd. University City

    314-222-2588

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    This cavernous restaurant in the Delmar Loop describes its cuisine as "pioneering Asian fusion." Fans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine will likely describe the dishes as defanged. Few dishes provide much flavor, let alone the vast array of vibrant flavors that any one of the aforementioned cuisines have to offer. Fortunately, Ginger Bistro is located only a short walk or drive from restaurants that serve the genuine article.
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  • Hibachi-san Japanese Grill

    150 Chesterfield Mall, FC6, Chesterfield Town & Country

    636-536-6271

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  • Hiro

    Hiro

    609 Eastgate Ave., University City Delmar/ The Loop

    314-721-9168

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    This Delmar Loop restaurant looks like the prototypical sushi joint, and the sushi portion of the menu is a big ’un, from the requisite roster of nigiri sushi and rolls (Philadelphia, California, etc.) to “special” rolls of the elaborate modern ilk (“Golden Child,” with escolar and mango, for instance, and “Crunchy Pig,” with bacon and pork belly). But here’s where it gets truly interesting: Hiro also offers izakaya — Japanese bar snacks that are somewhat analogous to Spanish tapas — and the selection of these is both more intriguing and less likely to be found at other local sushi spots. Braised pork belly inside soft, sweet buns, for example, and a variation of crab rangoon made with smoked salmon.
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  • I Love Mr. Sushi

    I Love Mr. Sushi

    9443 Olive Blvd. University City

    314-432-8898

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    "You came all the way from the Delmar Loop to visit us?" the server asks. In fact, I Love Mr. Sushi isn't too far from the Loop, but its narrow storefront in a nondescript Olivette strip mall lends this sushi joint the air of a well-kept secret. Inside you'll find beautiful presentations of familiar nigiri sushi and sashimi selections, as well as rolls both traditional (sweet futomaki) and Americanized (the "Texan," for example: beef, jalapeño and spicy mayo). Begin your repast with a cup of very good miso soup, and don't be shy when your server asks whether you'd like a second round. She's not teasing.
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  • Ichiban Japanese Restaurant

    Ichiban Japanese Restaurant

    12388 Olive Blvd., St. Louis Creve Coeur

    314-579-6002

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    11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 5 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Mon.-Thurs, 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Fri. & Sat.
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  • Ichigo Modern Japanese Restaurant

    7443 Forsyth Blvd. Clayton

    314-726-0033

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  • Izakaya Ren

    Izakaya Ren

    2948 Dougherty Ferry Road Kirkwood

    636-825-3737

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    An izakaya is a specific type of Japanese restaurant that serves, for lack of a better term, bar snacks. (A tapas bar is a common comparison.) Izakaya Ren splits the difference between izakaya cuisine and the American concept of a sushi bar. You can order nigiri sushi, sashimi and maki as well as tempura and other familiar dishes, but branch out with the selection of skewered meats and fare like tako wasabi (cold, spiced octopus) or fried mackerel with a sake-based dipping sauce.
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  • Japanese Garden

    Japanese Garden

    108 Regency Park, O'Fallon Belleville/ Fairview Heights

    618-632-8700

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    Japanese Garden features grill-top teppan cooking on one side and a sushi bar on the other. By offering everything from straightforward steaks, chicken and cooked seafood to brightly colored fish eggs wrapped in seaweed and topped with raw quail egg, the restaurant has something for everyone. Aside from an unfortunate reliance on fake crab, the sushi gets high marks, and the floor show from the teppan chef is an amusing diversion for the evening.
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  • Kitaro Bistro of Japan

    Kitaro Bistro of Japan

    4551 Highway K O'Fallon, MO

    636-300-4422

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    Located in O'Fallon, Missouri, along Highway K just north of Highway 40, Kitaro Bistro serves up hibachi-style Japanese food, sushi and entrées for lunch and dinner. The chefs inside this large, glass-fronted restaurant in a modern, elegant setting put on a show with food and fire right at the dinner table. Diners can grab a seat at a teppan table, with seats surrounding a large, flat griddle and order a meal chopped up and cooked right in front of them. Entrée options include teriyaki chicken or steak, shrimp, lobster and fresh garden vegetables, or various combinations. Dinners prepared before your eyes are served with a grilled shrimp appetizer, soup, fried rice, salad and Japanese vegetables. Kitaro also offers a full sushi bar, with an all-you-can-eat buffet available Sunday through Thursday early evenings. The long list of nigiri and maki include options such as a golden lobster with sautéed lobster tail, smelt roe, cucumber and crab and the St. Charles roll of fried red snapper, cream cheese and cucumber. Kitaro also serves drinks and desserts and is available for private parties.
  • Kobe At Westport Japanese Gril

    Kobe At Westport Japanese Gril

    111 Westport Plaza Maryland Heights

    314-469-3900

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    For those looking for more excitement at the dinner table, Kobe Steak House's teppanyaki-style cooking allows diners to see the meal prepared before their eyes. Options include chicken and salmon, steak and salmon, lobster, shrimp and scallops, and a veggie option is available for the non-meat-eaters. Lucky guests get the chance to catch a shrimp in their mouth delivered straight from their chef.

  • Kobe Japanese Steakhouses

    111 Westport Plaza, St. Louis Maryland Heights

    314-469-3900

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  • Kobe Steak House Of Japan

    12521 Olive Blvd. Creve Coeur

    314-878-3868

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  • Korea Garden

    11923 Olive Blvd. Creve Coeur

    314-567-5534

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  • Little Tokyo

    8 St. Louis Galleria Richmond Heights

    314-863-9188

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  • Little Tokyo

    235 Jungermann Road St. Peters

    636-926-7388

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  • Mizu

    Mizu

    1013 Washington Ave. St. Louis - Downtown

    314-621-2646

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    Mizu fits nicely into the Washington Avenue loft district's trendy aesthetic: spacious and sleek without seeming hipper than thou. The extensive menu includes nigiri sushi, sashimi and rolls both traditional and Americanized. The nigiri sushi ranges from good to very good. Best is toro, fatty tuna belly that's worth the expense. There are numerous appetizers (including a sushified version of the jalapeño popper), and non-sushi entrées like chicken or steak teriyaki. The menu also features a couple of Korean dishes; particularly tasty is a generous portion of savory-sweet barbecue beef ribs.

  • Modai Lounge

    6100 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis - Skinker/DeBaliviere

    314-725-8330

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  • Momoyama

    Momoyama

    1637 Clarkson Road Chesterfield

    636-536-7778

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    Yoshio Aoki, a favorite among St. Louis sushi aficionados, has sold his namesake restaurant, but its replacement retains much of Yoshi's staff and its considerable charm. The vibe is neither the formal reverence of High Sushi nor the bustling, fast-casual soullessness of Shopping-Mall Sushi, but rather the cheery, teasing fun of a family gathering. A wide variety of traditional and more ambitious Americanized rolls are available, but the true sushi lover will be more than pleased with the selection of nigiri sushi and sashimi. The lunch specials make this a must-visit for Chesterfield workers, but it's worth the trip for everyone else.
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  • Nippon Tei

    Nippon Tei

    14025 Manchester Road Manchester/ Ballwin

    636-386-8999

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    Asian-food impressario Ann Bognar shifts countries (her first two restaurants were Thai) to provide Japanese basics such as sushi, udon, tempura and shabu-shabu, complemented by specialty items (like scallops in wasabi cream) that add a pan-Asian touch. Don't let the generic strip-mall exterior fool you -- the interior is a masterpiece of sparse elegance.
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