Kanno — Restaurant in Metairie

Stop your search for the best sushi in the NOLA area. I know my search has ended. Kanno is the B-E-S-T I ever had (around NOLA). Other places here will be a hibachi/sushi spot, but Kanno focuses on sushi though they have other items on the menu. I had a craving for sashimi and happened to find this place. Our server gave a good spiel at the beginning that lasted about 5 minutes-- he really, really knows his stuff! Everything sounded delicious so it was hard to pick something. We got the sashimi appetizer to start, then added shumai, one of their specials for the day. The shumai were extremely soft. Then, I was looking around for inspiration and saw Elvis's painting on the wall, so we ordered the Elvis roll. The Elvis roll was so tasty and they had a lump of crab meat on the top of it-- so delicious and wholesome. The kush roll came next, which was one of the specials our guy mentioned. The interesting and delicious part about both rolls were that they did not include rice and were packed with about 5 different things.

Ended with a pair of toro (fatty tuna) sushi. The toro was my favorite and a great way to end the meal. It was creamy and melted in my mouth. Everything we ordered was just enough and did not make us overly full. Everything had fresh and delicious tasted and worth every penny. At the end, they surprised us in the form of house-made chocolate. Another thing that is house-made is their wasabi-- it is completely fresh and looks like guacamole so be careful. This place has left an impact on me and I swear loyalty to this place when it comes to a sushi fix. This place definitely reminds me of the California sushi spots as they are so named.

tips: They have parking lot in the back....

This is the BEST sushi restaurant currently in the area. There were some others that came close but they seem to have dropped in quality while Kanno has consistently been excellent. When I first heard about this place I was extremely skeptical as it is in a bit of a shady strip mall in Fat City and it doesn't look that good outside or inside but once you taste the food none of that matters. They have an awesome blue crab roll and amazing soft shell crab spicy miso soup!

Elvis and his wife are the owners and work the sushi bar (and maybe you would guess there is a lot of Elvis artwork). They have reserved seating for their VIP customers that eat there like twice a day as it is that GOOD!!! You have to earn your spot in the reserved section so don't even try to sit in that area. Everything I've had here has been outstanding and if you're really good they give you a tasty little frozen chocolate treat for dessert. They are closed on Sunday & Monday and they take a long holiday back to Japan once a year so you might want to call to make sure they are open but they usually are and it is definitely worth a visit multiple times a week!!!

My video review of Kanno is...

So technically wasn't aiming to come here, but my navigator got confused(again). This is the second time I've ended up at a sushi restaurant that was not where we originally agreed upon. As long as it's good I'm always down for sushi though. They are more of a modern style sushi, with mostly specialty rolls to fit every appetite. I like how you can get half orders of some of their specialty rolls which we took advantage of. I know there was a kush and a bobby roll, a Ryan roll(?) and can't remember the last one, plus seaweed salad and salmon skin roll. Everything was excellent, especially the kush and bobby rolls. I can't believe I somehow ended up with mostly soy wrap rolls but I did. Even being a traditionalist to the point of snobbish, I was really wowed by these. My salmon skin was excellent too. The Sapporo was ice cold, almost slushy. So good on a secretly hot day in October. BUT being the sushi snob that I am, I have to admonish them for no mackerel. If you can't feed my saba addiction, you won't get my undying love...