The 10 best sushi restaurants in Berlin

This chic Japanese restaurant is one of the hippest addresses on Kantstraße, Berlin's number one food street. Whether on the menu or à la carte, the sushi and sashimi are of excellent quality.

Minimalist, traditional and yet creative: Japanese cuisine impresses with perfectly crafted sushi and sashimi made from first-class, fresh products and a very good selection of sake.

Is vegan sushi possible? Yes! At Secret Garden in Friedrichshain, for example, the seaweed sheets are filled with soy strips that look like salmon or tuna and taste like it, too. Instead of the typical white sticky rice, black rice is used. This gives it a nice bite. Itadakimasu!

Kuchi Kant has been serving the finest sushi for 25 years. The restaurant on Kantstraße is one of the best addresses in the city for authentic and innovative Japanese dishes.

Daring but exquisite combinations are the trademark of chef Mr. Hai Kabuki from Saigong: fillings of fish and cream cheese or caviar and mayonnaise. But he can do conventional, too. If you want to learn how to make sushi, book a workshop.

Available in London and Copenhagen, now also in Berlin. "Irasshaimase" ("Welcome" in Japanese) is how the team at the Danish restaurant chain greets you. An appetisingly illustrated menu guides you to sushi, sashimi and other Japanese delicacies prepared before your eyes.

Clean facade, clean interior, clean Japanese cuisine. Here, everything revolves around offering the fresh ingredients unmixed so that the inherent flavour of fish and vegetables is preserved. The exception is sushi with plum. No wonder so many Japanese like to dine here.

Six sake maki, six avo maki, six tekka maki - Hachiko Japanese Cuisine is one of the restaurants in Berlin that opened during the pandemic and has been very successful. The small family-run Japanese restaurant on Grunewaldstraße has quickly become a neighbourhood favourite, and beyond.

Germany's first kaiten sushi bar - one where the small plates and platters float past you. Since 1995, guests have been digging into the delicious tempura creations, makis and eel-on-salmon nigiris at "Glückskind" (the translation of "Sachiko"). And those who want to delve even deeper into the subject of raw fish can book a sushi cooking course.