All-you-can-eat sushi in Manhattan or Brooklyn?

November 26, 2010 12:19 PM

Please tell me about any all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants (in Manhattan or Brooklyn) that you are aware of!

I'm going to NYC to meet with a bunch of old friends before I move to LA, and I'd like to leave with several pounds of fish in my belly. Does anyone know of any "flat rate" sushi places? I recall that there used to be one on 8th Avenue, but haven't been able to turn anything up online.

posted by ®@ to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Best answer: Chinatown East on the UES does AYCE sushi for $25 and AYCE/D sushi and house wine/beer/sake for $32. You get 2 hours to eat/drink all you want, and there's no limits on how many times you can order. Specialty rolls are included, as is some appetizer-y stuff like miso soup, salad, and tempura. The sushi is surprisingly good and the vibe is sort of lounge-y and fun.

It gets rowdier as it gets later (sake bomb central), and the weekend crowd can get a little fratty, if that's a scene you're concerned about avoiding. I'd make a reservation, especially on a weekend. However, it's a fun, celebratory place for a group to go. I've always had tons of fun going there with friends - usually, in fact, I wind up having a bit too much fun and pay for it the next morning, in the interest of full disclosure.
posted by superfluousm at 12:43 PM on November 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Chowhound has a thread with some discussion here.

I have very little experience with sushi, but recently at at Ichi Umi and wasn't that impressed just from a general food perspective. Back in June, they were temporarilly shuttered by the Department of Health, but reopened.
posted by Jahaza at 1:09 PM on November 26, 2010

Ichi Umi, back when it was Minado, was a family favorite. The sushi is sort of borderline between regular, non-gourmet sushi and the sticky crap you get at buffets. They have a lot of other things, however -- crab legs, shrimp, great little deserts -- that makes up for it. However, if they're still charging upwards of $30 a head (and assuming that's less than you would usually pay for yourself) I wouldn't bother.

There's a place somewhere in the East Village/LES that had a all-you-can-eat option on the menu, but it was all rice and a smidgen of fish.
posted by griphus at 1:47 PM on November 26, 2010

Response by poster: Reservations made for Chinatown East. Thanks!
posted by ®@ at 2:38 PM on November 26, 2010

We like Yuka, on 2nd ave at like 82nd in Manhattan.
posted by novalis_dt at 4:40 PM on November 27, 2010