Best Sushi Restaurants in Aspen
Aspen, Colorado — updated August 21, 2026
Six Aspen sushi rooms, ranked by how settled their reputations are, with notes on hours, happy hours and which ones open before dinnertime.
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Aspen's sushi is concentrated in a handful of blocks around Main, Hopkins, Hyman and Durant, which means the whole category is walkable in a single evening if you are comparing. It is also, almost entirely, a dinner category: most of these kitchens open at 5 or 5:30 p.m. and nothing earlier. Two exceptions serve at midday, and they are noted below.
1. Matsuhisa
The most heavily reviewed sushi restaurant on this list, and the rating holds up under that volume: 4.5 across 668 reviews, which is proven rather than promising. The Main Street location describes itself as an intimate sushi bar, and the menu runs through signature sushi, sashimi and nigiri alongside the rest of the Japanese kitchen, plus wine, sake and cocktails. Yelp lists dinner service beginning at 5:30 p.m. and running to 10 p.m. early in the week. If you want to sit at the bar rather than a table, say so when you book, because the counter is small.
2. Kenichi Aspen, est 1991
Open since 1991, which makes it the longest-running sushi address in town, and it carries a 4.4 rating from 428 reviews. The kitchen bills itself as contemporary Asian with sushi and sashimi at the center, and it serves every day from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., so it is a reliable fallback on nights when other rooms are dark. Takeout is possible but unusual for this tier: orders are taken from 5 p.m. on the day itself, first call first served, with most of the dinner menu available. Reservations go through 970-920-2212. The salad list includes a hijiki salad at $14.
3. Madame Ushi Aspen
A Japanese dining room on Hyman with a bar program that runs later than most of the town, rated 4.4 from 128 reviews, a smaller sample than the two above but pointing the same direction. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m., and the useful details are at the bar: a daily happy hour in the first hour of service, and a late-night menu Thursday through Saturday that starts around 10 p.m. Published hours differ between the restaurant's own site, its Instagram and OpenTable, particularly the closing time and the exact happy hour window, so call 970-516-7908 before planning a late arrival.
4. Yuki Aspen
A Chef Nobu Matsuhisa project on East Durant, framed as a tribute to world cuisine rather than a straight sushi bar, so expect the fish to share the menu with dishes like fish tacos, listed at $24, and hot edamame at $9. The evidence here is thin by design: 4.4 from 36 reviews is early, and one bad night could move it. Dinner is served seven nights a week from 5:30 p.m., with OpenTable listing a 9:30 p.m. close and the restaurant's own site saying simply until close. Worth a look if you have already worked through the older rooms.
5. Jing Aspen
Asian fusion on Main Street with sushi on the menu rather than sushi as the whole premise, and the rating reflects a wider net: 4.2 from 522 reviews, a settled figure built on a lot of visits. What makes it useful is the schedule. Jing serves lunch from around noon to 3:30 p.m. and dinner from 4:30 p.m. into the late evening, seven days a week, which puts it among the few places in town where you can order sushi in daylight. There is a separate happy hour menu. Reservations: 970-920-9988.
6. Phatt Pho n' Sushi
The casual option, and the only one here that opens at 11 a.m. most days. It is primarily Vietnamese, with pho bo at $25, banh mi from $17 and a summer roll at $17, and sushi as the second half of the name rather than the main event. The rating is 4.5 but from just 42 reviews, so treat it as promising rather than established. Note the odd Tuesday schedule: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., against 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. the rest of the week. It sits on Puppy Smith Street, slightly off the main restaurant grid, and does pickup.