Shige — Restaurant in Cotati

This neighborhood sushi restaurant is so wonderful! Shige and Toki (and Kuu) have been serving for many years in Cotati and always bring love and creativity to dinner. Every time I visit, they make me feel right at home and their quality of service always makes me relaxed and happy to be there.

The fish is outstanding with a wide specials selection that changes all the time, you never know when something new is available. For such high quality food, this is so reasonably priced and accessible to many people for a nice night out or a quick lunch.

The restaurant is small, cozy, and intimate, you really get to know chef Shige and your neighbors. The patio is lively and comes with heat lamps for the cooler nights. I absolutely love the vintage Japanese movie and beer posters!

I always love to order the Ikamaru, Agedashi Tofu, miso soup, tons of nigiri sushi, Shige Panic Roll, 49er Roll, negihama, and Chirashi Don. And dinner is usually accompanied with hot sake, or in the summer, a large cool bottle of beer.

I really relied on them through the pandemic, I would order Togo regularly for dinner, and it was always a pleasure to see them and it was so nice to bring home my comfort food. And I'm so happy they made it successfully out of the pandemic without having to switch to majority online orders. Shige and Toki are very impressive and they really really care so deeply.

I can't speak enough about how awesome and amazing Shige and Toki and the whole team are at the restaurant. They always go above and beyond for their guests. I highly recommend this fantastic sushi restaurant. Please...

Best sushi anywhere in Sonoma County, super delicious menu, very friendly staff, the place has indoor and outdoor seating. Good for dine in and take-out. Family owned and Toki is so nice and welcoming. If you like great sushi and a great atmosphere, come here.

Like any place with excellent food, it can get busy at dinner time, usually no wait at lunch. I've been at least a dozen times and have never had any problems with service or wait times, so to the scrubs and losers giving 1 star reviews, might I suggest McDonald's 😂.

My favorite appitizers: multiple Tempuras, Ika-maru(squid), Carpaccio.

My favorite rolls: Hamachi frito roll, Cotati roll, Osaka roll, Fire tornado roll, Shige roll, HotHot roll, Oahu roll, Dragon roll, Shiso roll, Godzilla roll, Dynamite roll. Any of these will...

I've been to hundreds of Japanese restaurants. In LA. In NYC. In Tokyo. In Kyoto. The local efforts in Sonoma County are often not great. But SHIGE IS GREAT. It's run by actual Japanese people who know what the correct flavors and qualities are in Japanese food. It's not particularly fancy, and the servers are young people who may not know the nuances of sake or etc. But that's kind of irrelevant. The food is the best sushi I've had North of San Francisco, and at a better price and less pretentious. I put in on-par with Ebisu (SF) or Hamano (Noe Valley) but I actually like Shige better than either. They even make things like TakoYaki you don't seen...