5Kinokawa

The 13 Best Sushi Restaurants in Houston - Houston - The Infatuation

"Mash up a sushi restaurant with some infomercial salesman charm, and you’ve got 5Kinokawa in The Heights, a $150 omakase-only spot that’s open from Thursday to Sunday. While the dining room is conspicuously filled with just as many carpentry tools as species of fish, you’re here to enjoy sushi. Nigiri pieces like flounder fin muscle, Santa Barbara spot prawn topped in caviar, and binchotan charcoal torch-seared A5 wagyu float out between the chef’s would-be standup special. The addition of high-end boozy cocktails and intermittent injections of cooked dishes like cod sperm dumplings (you ready that correctly), makes the experience zip by." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene, andrew ryce