Best Sushi Restaurants in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 21, 2026
Eight Austin sushi rooms, ranked by how convincing the evidence is: from a 2,600-review Airport Boulevard standby to a 10-seat omakase counter downtown with a reservation list and a fixed price.
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Austin's sushi runs on two tracks: neighborhood rooms with all-day menus and long review histories, and counters of ten to twelve seats that sell one seating at a time by reservation. The split matters when you are booking, because half the places on this list cannot take a walk-in at all. Ranked below by how settled the evidence is, with the thinner records flagged as such.
1. Komé: Sushi Kitchen
The most tested sushi record in the city: 4.5 stars across more than 2,600 reviews, which is a rating you can trust rather than a promising early read. The Airport Boulevard kitchen runs traditional rolls, sashimi and chef selections, plus a set of classic rolls listed under Sushi A-Go-Go. Its own site says the sushi menu is available all day and that it serves lunch and dinner seven days a week, while its Facebook page describes the Japanese lunch menus running Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 2pm, with a Mid Day menu from 2pm to 5pm. Worth a call before a Monday trip.
2. Fukumoto
Sushi and yakitori together on Medina Street in East Austin, with 4.6 stars from more than 1,000 reviews, enough volume to count as proven. The kitchen opens at 4:30pm Tuesday through Thursday and closes at 9pm, with Friday and Saturday running to 10pm, and it is closed Sunday. To-go orders run earlier in the week, roughly 4:30 to 8pm Monday through Thursday. Parking is validated in the Corazon garage, which is the practical detail that decides whether the trip is easy. Dinner only, so plan accordingly.
3. Musashino Sushi Dokoro
A dinner-only room on San Gabriel Street north of campus, 4.5 stars from nearly 700 reviews. Doors open at 5:30pm Tuesday through Saturday, closing at 9:30pm early in the week and 10pm on Friday and Saturday. It is dark Sunday and Monday. Early arrivals get the best deal: Tuesday through Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30pm there are $10 cocktails, $10 off bottles of wine, and reduced prices on appetizers and hand rolls. Sitting down at 5:30 on a Tuesday is the cheapest way into this one.
4. Neighborhood Sushi
South Congress address, 4.5 stars from 649 reviews, and the widest daily window on this list. Posted hours cover lunch Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 3:30pm, happy hour Monday through Friday 3 to 5pm, and dinner daily from 4:30 to 10pm; the restaurant's Instagram lists open daily 11:30am to 10pm, so the middle of the afternoon is the part to confirm. Beyond nigiri, sashimi and rolls, the Austin location runs a yakitori menu and pours sake and cocktails. There is a Dallas location as well, so check the Austin menu specifically.
5. OTOKO
A 12-seat omakase counter inside the South Congress Hotel, next door to Watertrade, its omakase-style cocktail bar. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 5 to 11pm, by reservation only, booked through Tock. The rating is 4.6 from 415 reviews, a smaller sample than the neighborhood restaurants above but substantial for a room that seats a dozen people a night. If the goal is a chef-directed sequence rather than a menu you choose from, this is the format, and there is no version of showing up and hoping for a seat.
6. Sushi | Bar Austin Downtown
A 17-course tasting menu on West 2nd Street, with seatings at 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9:15pm nightly. The menu rotates with seasonal and exotic ingredients, so repeat visits are not repeat meals. The rating is 4.6 from 280 reviews, a decent but still-building record for a counter format. The 9:15pm seating is the one that tends to be easiest to book late, and the fixed start times mean arriving ten minutes early is not optional. Open nightly.
7. Tancho Sushi
The southwest option, on Southwest Parkway well outside the downtown cluster, and one of the few places here that covers both a casual lunch and a full sit-down omakase. The menu runs sashimi, nigiri and rolls, with happy hour and takeout as well; the delivery listing shows two-piece yellowtail with yuzu ponzu and fumi furikake, and cucumber and avocado cut rolls by the eight-piece. At 4.6 stars from 207 reviews, the record is encouraging rather than settled. Useful if you are in southwest Austin and do not want to drive in.
8. Sushi by Scratch Restaurants
A 10-guest room on Brazos Street with a signature omakase-inspired tasting menu priced at $195 per person, plus a 20% service charge. Seatings are at 5:00, 7:15 and 9:30pm nightly, and guests are invited to arrive 30 minutes before the reservation for a pre-dinner portion of the evening. The rating is 4.9, but from only 33 reviews, so treat it as a promising early signal rather than a proven one. With ten seats and three seatings, capacity is the constraint: book well ahead.
What we left off
Champions Austin Restaurant & Bar on East 4th rates 4.7 from more than 2,500 reviews, but it is a bar with a salmon poke on the happy hour menu alongside crab hushpuppies and wings, not a sushi restaurant, so it does not belong in this guide. Sushi Roku on Colorado Street was also cut: it is one location of a multi-state restaurant brand, and this list sticks to Austin operations.