Doanburi — Restaurant in Las Vegas

I am sharing my experience after having ordered from Doanburi three times, but wishing I have ordered more often!

The Owner: Doanburi is run by Chef Jae Doan. Each time I’ve picked up my order, the chef herself brought it to the counter and thanked me personally. Chef Jae is a former chef from Las Vegas’ finest Japanese restaurants including Mizumi and Morimoto. In a mostly male dominated business, Chef Jae’s culinary accomplishments stood out enough to become one of the first female sushi chefs on the strip.

The Business: Doanburi is a cloud kitchen format, which is an efficient way for restaurants to offer their food in our busy world. You place your order for pick up or delivery from a third party. I am lucky enough to live 1 mile from Doanburi, so I always pick up the order myself.

The Food: If I had to use one word it would be INCREDIBLE! Eating here will ruin your expectations of any other sushi restaurant. The quality of each individual ingredient is exceptional! The ginger appears hand-sliced. The wasabi root is REAL wasabi ground with a fine grater. Even the soy sauce is decidedly better than what you might pick up at the grocery store. To match the excellent quality of food, the presentation is remarkable. Black napkins, durable paper bags with handles, and banana leaves underneath the sushi roll. The portions are perfect. There is no extra rice wrapped up in the sushi like you find at lower quality restaurants. Just the perfect amount to compliment the fish and other ingredients.

You can’t go wrong ordering anything here. But in particular you must try the Crispy Rice Spicy Salmon. The Sea Salt Caramel Flan is a wonderful desert to add on to your order as well. If you’ve made it this far, just go ahead and give Doanburi a try because it’s absolutely worth it. I’ve had many sushi experiences in Las Vegas, but this is the only one worth leaving a review for!

Pictured: Ginger & Real Wasabi, Salmon Avocado Roll, Spicy Tuna Roll,...

WOW WOW WOW!!! Obviously if a place is Keith Lee certified, it’s gotta be good. I was in the Vegas area and decided to give this place a shot. Photos looked awesome and I was really craving sushi. Ordered the Classic Box. It came with tuna, salmon, hamachi, and whitefish nigiri, katsutera, chef’s choice roll, and a green plum. I’m not a big fan of raw salmon but I tried it and loved it. Katsutera and plum were really nice sweets to have during the meal. My favorite fish to enjoy raw is hamachi and I must’ve gotten lucky because the chef’s choice roll was a spicy hamachi roll. The whitefish wasn’t my favorite, but everyone has their preferences. Presentation, especially for being to-go, was fantastic. There’s plenty of sit-down restaurants I’ve been to that don’t have as nice of presentation as this. Another small detail that sets this place apart from others is the REAL wasabi! You only find real wasabi in really fancy restaurants and to find it here was definitely a surprise. Soy sauce, ginger, chop sticks, napkins were all provided. Order was ready when I got there and Chef Doan even handed it to me personally. It may sound crazy but I would put this place up there with Nobu. And you can’t beat the bang-for-your-buck of this place. Can’t wait for Chef Doan to have a brick and mortar location hopefully in the...

Doanburi has the best sushi in Summerlin hands down and arguably the best takeout sushi in all of Las Vegas! It is located in the all new Summerlin Takeout ghost kitchen, and Summerlin really lacks good quality sushi so I'm hella pumped to have found this spot!

Chef Jae is the creative artist!Doanburi, and she has a lot of experience under her belt including working at Mizumi inside the Wynn and under Morimoto at the MGM! Most of the fish, if not all, is imported from Japan, so they use the highest quality fish which you can tell in every single bite.

We tried the "Treasure Box" which is appropriately named, because it looks like you opened up a box of treasure. It's a beautifully presented chirashi with premium cuts of sashimi including Hokkaido uni, toro, king salmon, shima-aji, hotate, etc. and topped off with caviar and 24k gold flakes! Valentine's Day is coming up so surprise your significant other with this gift, and you'll get it in the bag ;)

We also tried the sushi box which included 8 pieces of nigiri (toro, honmaguro, king salmon, shima aji, hotate, sweet shrimp, tai, and I'm not sure what the last piece was), homemade kastella, and a salmon-avo maki!

Both were sooooooo gooood! I can’t wait to come back and try some...