Kisaku Sushi

"Kisaku is like two different sushi restaurants in one. By night, it’s a white-tablecloth spot for a semi-upscale celebration dinner with preset nigiri plates. By day, it’s more casual, and the best-kept lunchtime sushi secret in the city. For around $11.50, you get five pieces of nigiri, a California roll, and an order of miso soup. We like this place for either option, especially after working up an appetite walking around Green Lake." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley, gabe guarente

"The snarled streets of Tangletown conceal one of the best neighborhood restaurants in Seattle. Kisaku offers a short list of signature rolls (the Green Lake Roll with salmon, asparagus, and flying fish egg is a highlight) and excellent sashimi and nigiri. In addition, it has two separate tasting menus that incorporate ingredients from other cuisines, like a raw hamachi dish with oranges and Thai chiles." - Harry Cheadle

"Going out for a big sushi dinner can sometimes feel like playing a slot machine. It’s fun at first, but then you have to call your niece and explain why she’s not getting a birthday present this year. You won’t feel like that at Kisaku, an excellent sushi restaurant up near Green Lake. They have a bunch of combination dinners, the largest one being $28 for 10 nigiri, a California roll, and miso soup. It’s some of the best raw fish in town, and there’s no chance you’ll end up making a little girl cry in the process." - aimee rizzo

"Hidden in Tangletown is one of the best neighborhood restaurants in Seattle. There’s a short list of signature rolls (the Green Lake Roll with salmon, asparagus, and flying fish egg is a highlight), as well as excellent sashimi and nigiri. Kisaku also offers two separate tasting menus which incorporate ingredients from other cuisines, like a raw hamachi dish with oranges and Thai chiles." - Jade Yamazaki Stewart, Sophie Grossman, Harry Cheadle

"The last time you organized a group sushi dinner, it was so expensive that Jenny had to cancel her trip to the San Juan Islands. Somehow, the group (including Jenny) has demanded sushi again, and you can say with certainty that now is not the time for everyone to try omakase. It is, however, time for Kisaku. Not only is the white-tablecloth space worthy of something celebratory (like Jenny agreeing to speak to you again), but the nigiri combination dinners all cost less than $30 and are filled with high-quality fish." - aimee rizzo