Best Sushi Restaurants in Houston

Citisearch rated the Best Sushi 2005, and I hadn't been to the winner, Blue Fish House. Aaron and Elissa and I went Saturday night. The restaurant is in an older building that was familiar to me from the days I lived over in that area. In a previous incarnation it had been the Thai Spice Vegetarian, and next door is the LZ Pub.

The decor is great, it transformed into a true little Japanese sushi restaurant. The dining room is small, there's about 20 tables, with a small sushi bar area. The menu is nice, they have other offerings besides sushi, like tempura and udon. The sushi menu was not extensive, but they had more types of rolls than most sushi bars. They do give you the little order form to mark which sushi you want, which I like, very few places in Houston do that, even though outside of Houston it seems to be de rigueur. I ordered the spicy shrimp soup to start, it was a version of the Thai soup Tom Yum Goon without the lemongrass. I tried the sweet shrimp (very good), fresh salmon, crab, and squid (slightly smaller portions than I like) and an excellent chef's special roll that was both delicious and aesthetically pleasing as well. The prices were typical of a nicer sushi restaurant, with most items $3.50 or $4.00 for two pieces.

Overall I enjoyed the evening, but I think that I will still tend to frequent Tokyohana and Azuma for most of my sushi needs, and Uptown Sushi for special occasions. There are a few more on the list that I haven't tried, and I'm going to make an effort to get out to those in the next couple of weeks.