Oishi Sushi — Restaurant in Lafayette

Been coming here for years, still my most favorite place to get sushi in Lafayette! Truly authentic, and Mr Chen is awesome! Our favorite rolls are:

Elle Roll - snow crab paste, tempura shrimp, cream cheese topped with spicy salmon, jalapeño, eel sauce, seared

Hettie Roll - fried shrimp, jalapeno, cream cheese, snow crab, spicy mayo, all deep fried

Karen Roll - salmon, tuna, snow crab paste, avocado and smelt roe all wrapped with cucumber

Katherine Roll - snow crab paste, avocado and fresh salmon on top

Shrek Roll - spicy snow crab, avocado, tempura shrimp inside, blue crab meat & kiwi fruit with wasabi tobiko on top

Treasure Roll - spicy salmon, cucumber, and jalapeño with avocado, white fish and ponzu and Sriracha

True sushi gem tucked away in a shopping strip, but worth every wait and penny.

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I consider myself a sushi snob. The general rule with sushi is that it's just one of those things, like alcohol and electronics, that you pay for what you get. Except at Oishi, you get twice as much in terms of taste and service compared to what you pay.

This place BLOWS out of the water (and I mean it) anything else in Lafayette masquerading as a sushi restaurant. Fresh ingredients? Check. Speed and incredible presentation? Check. A real sushi chef who is there dealing with you the whole way? Check. You know a place is legitimate when the owner/chef, Mr. Chen, puts his name there for everyone to see and claims to be the best in town... And then delivers.

Take it from someone who lived in Japan twice. This place rivals the local mom and pop sushi places of the...

First time. Never heard of or would have ever found this place without Google. I searched sushi near my job and this came up. The door says take out only. Its a small old non fancy place that obviously focuses on the food only and the gentleman was very kind just making the sushi himself behind a regular wood counter like he was at home, so I had a feeling it was going to be good. It was. I went simple with the Calif roll and Shrimp tempura roll only because the website does not say what is in the others. He showed me how to find that online. I also had the eggplant/shrimp w/ miso. It really was what I would imagine eating at a friends home in Japan would be by a mom who's been making sushi all her life. I look forward to trying more rolls...