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Sushi Chef Puts Expensive Omakase To Shame

Better than anything recommended by BF Goodrich

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Matt Meltzer
Feb 17, 2026
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If your only source of restaurant guidance comes from a tire company, you probably think the best sushi comes in 16-course dinners that cost $275. But real ones know the best sushi comes from little corner sushi counters, where an old man who speaks three words of English makes maki like a machine. And that’s why when you ask locals where to find the best sushi in Miami, the name Sushi Chef comes up over and over.

Sushi Chef is a family-run spot that makes you feel like family as soon as you walk in. The owner – Chef Fusao Enomoto – opened the first Japanese restaurant in Caracas back in the ‘70s, and has been running this shop on Coral Way since the early ‘90s. He’s there every day, looking out at his guests while making top-tier sushi without even having to look down, while his son-in-law runs the dining room. The food tastes like what you’d find in back country rural Japan, a massive menu ranging from sushi to udon and katsu that brings back memories of far ea…

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