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7 Japanese restaurants to try
Sushi is a set of typical Japanese dishes made from raw fish and rice. This food offers several benefits, including very low calories, rich protein content, and is a source of vitamin B12 and iodine. Once you try it, you will never stop eating it. The filling can be raw fish, cooked or marinated with vegetables, eggs and seaweed.
For the presence of raw fish, however, you have to choose quality fish. So find out where to eat good sushi in the capital, respecting Japanese tradition. You can always enjoy the best sushi in town. Which one do you choose from these seven restaurants?
Domò Sushi – Trieste District
Near Piazza Bologna, we find Domò Sushi. A Japanese restaurant with an all you can eat at the tables formula. On the menu you can choose appetizers, entrees, sushi boxes, sashimi, temaki and desserts.
Where: Via Novara, 21, 00198 Rome.
Neko Sushi – Monte Sacro Alto.
Neko sushi offers Japanese recipes in the all you can eat at the tables formula. There is also the possibility to eat outdoors; there are several in town. Here you can also try Ramen, a typical Japanese dish. But also appetizers, salads, soups, rice, main courses and quality sushi.
Where: Via Nomentana, 861/A, 00137 Rome.
Neko can also be found at:
- San Giovanni, Via Aosta, 60/a, 00182 Rome;
- Monteverde, piazzale Eugenio Morelli, 14, 00151 Rome;
- Ostia, Viale Capitan Consalvo, 6, 00122 Lido di Ostia;
- Nettuno, via Santa Maria, 97, 00048 Nettuno;
- Frascati, Piazza San Pietro.
Sushisen – Pyramid
This modern restaurant near the historic Testaccio district offers both conveyor-belt sushi and a la carte Japanese dishes. In the kitchen, trained Japanese chefs offer the most typical dishes of the cuisine of the Rising Sun as well as the more refined ones.
Sushi assortments range from a minimum of €18 to a maximum of €62. The sushi-sashimi moriawase includes a selection of 8 nigiri and 16 sashimi according to the day’s arrivals + 8 rolls. Also worth a try is the dorayaki, Doraemon ‘s dessert (those who watched the resourceful robot cat as children will remember this treat).
Where: via Giuseppe Giulietti, 21A, 00154 Rome.
Sozo EUR
At Sozo you can try special dishes to pair with cocktails prepared in its bar. The menu is a la carte, and the setting is elegant and intimate (ideal for a romantic dinner). To reveal a few dishes, there is sashimi tasting with sturgeon caviar and gold leaf (12 pieces) at €18, the Soft shell Roll (soft shell crab in tempura, mayonnaise, tobiko and teriyaki sauce) at €15 and the Dragon roll (shrimp tempura, eel wrapped with sesame and teriyaki) at €15.
Where: Via Duccio di Buoninsegna, 49.
Moku Tiburtina
Moku offers all-you-can-eat at the tables with quality sushi. The menu includes different types of sushi: nigiri, gunkamaki, temaki, hosomaki, uramaki. In a very nice location (when you can eat in restaurants) you can also enjoy soups, main courses and desserts. Good value for money. It also offers music nights, such as karaoke night.
Moku restaurant is currently open for lunch and dinner. You can choose two options:
- lunch at € 20.90
- dinner at € 28.90
Where: via Tiburtina, 432, 00159 Rome. The restaurant is also located in Ponte Milvio.
Sushi & Noodles Aventino
This restaurant offers a la carte quality sushi menus. Dishes on offer include Mediterranean maki (salmon, tempura pumpkin flower, burrata cheese and Sicilian red shrimp), tai millefoglie (millefoglie with homemade eggplant hummus, sea bream, ikura, salt and EVO oil) and wagyu teppanyaki.
At the three locations in Prati, Tuscolana and Aventino you can also have an aperitif from 5 to 8 p.m. The cost starts at €8 (snack mix or Asian starter + cocktail formula) up to €18 per person: 10 pieces of sushi + glass of sparkling wine.
Where: 117 Aventine Ave.
Roppongi Republic.
Another all-you-can-eat sushi place to try in Rome is Roppongi, a short distance from the Repubblica metro station. It is open for both dinner and lunch, and the place is carattestico.
Where: via delle Quattro Fontane 27, Rome.