City guide · Portland, Oregon
Portland keeps sushi at the middle of the menu
In Portland 109 of 138 verified sushi restaurants sit at the $$ tier and the east side holds most of them; here is how to read the city before you book.
- 139
- verified rooms
- 64K
- public reviews
- Southeast Portland
- busiest area
- 4.5
- average rating
Most cities have a sushi pyramid: a wide base of cheap counters, a middle, and a small tip of expensive rooms. Portland has a plateau. Of the 138 verified sushi and Japanese restaurants in our listings, 109 are priced at $$. Sixteen are listed at $, ten at $$$, and exactly three at $$$$. The city decided a long time ago that good fish should cost a normal dinner, and the ratings suggest the decision holds: the average across all 138 is 4.5, with 115 restaurants above a hundred reviews and 15 above a thousand.
A quick word on what verified means here. A restaurant is in these listings because it is categorized as a sushi or Japanese restaurant in our data. The rating next to each name is that restaurant's own public rating; we do not adjust it, we only use it, together with review volume, to decide what goes near the top of a list.
- $Budget · 16
- $$Mid-range · 109
- $$$Upscale · 10
- $$$$Splurge · 3
- 1 without a listed price
East of the river is where dinner happens
The Willamette splits Portland, and the sushi lives on the east bank. Southeast Portland alone holds 41 verified restaurants, Northeast holds 23, and downtown across the water has 18. Three of the east side's $$ rooms carry both high ratings and real traffic: Miyamoto on SE 81st at 4.7 with 833 reviews, Takahashi on SE Holgate at 4.7 with 797, and Obon Shokudo on SE Grand at 4.7 with 718.
The higher-rated, lower-volume rooms are also east. Kashiwagi on SE 26th is a $$$ room at 4.8 across 285 reviews. Kanji Fusion Restaurant on SE Division rates 4.8 with 205, and KAEDE on SE 13th is at 4.8 with 129. On the Northeast side, Umami Sushi Pdx Food Cart on NE Alberta holds 4.9 across 72 reviews, a reminder that in this city a cart can outrate a dining room.
- Southeast Portland4129% of listings
- Northeast Portland2317% of listings
- Portland Downtown1813% of listings
- Southwest Portland64% of listings
- Boise54% of listings
- Nob Hill54% of listings
Downtown, the Pearl, and Old Town
Downtown carries the volume. Bamboo Sushi has 1,825 reviews at 4.5, the most-reviewed sushi listing in the city after the Beaverton ramen house. Murata Restaurant on SW Market is a $$$ room at 4.7 with 716 reviews. In the Pearl District, Hana Sushi and Izakaya Pearl rates 4.7 over 787 reviews, and Yama Sushi & Sake Bar sits at 4.5 with 1,121.
Two of Portland's three $$$$ listings are on this side of the river or just past it: Momoyama restaurant in the Pearl at 4.7 with 457 reviews, and Bluefin Tuna & Sushi in Irvington at 4.7 with 437. If you want the splurge, those are the options, and there are not many more.
Cheap here does not mean careless
Sixteen restaurants list at the $ tier, and the strongest of them are downtown. Kalé on SW Pine in Old Town rates 4.7 across 678 reviews, which puts it in the same weighted range as rooms charging twice as much. SUSHI ICHIBAN, also in Old Town, has 1,048 reviews at 4.5. Over on the Northeast side, Sushi Ohana is the highest-volume budget room with 1,481 reviews at 4.3.
The single top weighted score in the city belongs to a suburb: Yoshi's Sushi on SW Multnomah in Southwest Portland is a $$$ room at 4.9 across 141 reviews. And Bethany Sushi out on NW Bethany Boulevard pairs a 4.8 with 1,078 reviews, an unusual combination of volume and rating anywhere.
- 1Yoshi's SushiSouthwest Portland · $$$4.9141 reviews
- 2Bethany SushiBethany · $$4.81,078 reviews
- 3Gigantic Brewing Robot RoomNortheast Portland · $$4.9100 reviews
- 4Kizuki Ramen & Izakaya (Uptown)Hillside · $$4.8357 reviews
- 5KashiwagiSoutheast Portland · $$$4.8285 reviews
- 6Umami Sushi Pdx Food CartNortheast Portland · $$4.972 reviews
- 7Kanji Fusion RestaurantSoutheast Portland · $$4.8205 reviews
- 8KAEDESoutheast Portland · $$4.8129 reviews
Public ratings as listed, as of Oct 2025; ordered by rating weighted by review volume, minimum 30 reviews. Tap a card to find it below.
What Portland does not do
Not one of the 138 verified listings is categorized as all-you-can-eat. If a buffet-style sushi night is the plan, this is not the city for it, and no amount of scrolling will change that. What the city has instead is depth in the middle: 22 of the listings also carry a ramen category and 19 are sushi takeaway, so a $$ dinner in Southeast Portland is as likely to be a bowl and a few pieces at the counter as a full omakase-style sitting, of which the data lists none.
Four listings are poke-only and are labeled that way wherever they appear. Everything else on this page serves sushi in the ordinary sense.
So the practical advice for tonight: cross the river, aim for Southeast or Northeast, and expect to pay a middle-tier price for a room rated in the high fours. That is not a compromise in Portland. It is the whole idea.
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Every verified room in Portland, with the guide's picks marked.