Sushi in Detroit: Staff Pick

Authentic Japanese food including sushi. 170 seatings in four different atmospheres including tatami room and sushi bar.

Sophisticated but casual chic Asian-Deco decor. New Asian cuisine, combining the taste of Asia with preparations artfully presented. An established wine destination and lively bar. The owners aren't lying when they say this is the "hippest Asian restaurant you're gonna see in this town." Eclectic, charming, with an excellent bar and a Nu Asian menu that delivers uncommon Chinese fare and specialty sushi rolls. An unturned stone for most, in the middle of suburbia. Reservations are recommended. Detroit Monthly "Restaurant of the Year," Metro Times "Best Chinese Restaurant," Michigan Culinary Food & Wine Extravaganza "Best Restaurant Award," Zagat Survey "America's Top Restaurants," Where Locals Eat "The Best Restaurants in America," New York Times "Where to Eat in Detroit," Detroit Free Press "One of the ... World Class Restaurants In the Metro area", The Chef's Guide to America Restaurant "Where America's Best Chefs Choose to Dine." Lunch Monday through Friday; dinner seven nights including late night dining.

Sharaku is the most authentic Japanese restaurant in metro Detroit, offering 25 daily-changing appetizers, including catches of the day, and a relatively short list of entrées. As in Japan, the decor is spare, blond wood, and meals are served with a minimum of pretension — just artful arrangements of the food and garnishes themselves. For sushi, you may want to branch out and try rolls of dried squash, burdock, ume shiso (green tea), natto (fermented soybeans) or orange clams.The chef’s choice “sushi deluxe” will come with 10 lovely nigiri pieces plus a roll, also with crunchy pickles of radish turned bright yellow and cucumber now purple, and a delicious opaque broth with the most delicate of scallions, still crisp. At the back of your menu, look for a long list of liquors (shochu) distilled from different grains: sweet potatoes, barley, rice, buckwheat or potatoes (the most popular). Takeout available for sushi only; party platters also available (minimum $25 order).