DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA – Downtown Danville has a new sushi restaurant, and this one is small, focused, and more serious than your average neighborhood roll spot.
Sushi Tamahime has opened at 301 Hartz Ave., Suite 106, inside The Clocktower in downtown Danville. The restaurant’s website lists a March 31 grand opening and dinner-only hours from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. It is also apparently a very intimate setup: just 8 counter seats and 8 table seats, according to the restaurant.
That means this is probably not the kind of place where you casually roll in with a giant group after Little League and hope for the best. This feels more like a date night, sushi-counter, reservation-minded addition to downtown Danville’s restaurant scene.
A Small Sushi Spot With a Japanese Nigiri Focus
Sushi Tamahime’s own description is simple: it wants to provide Japanese sushi in a more casual but authentic way. The company behind it, M&K America, frames the concept around nigiri sushi culture and serving sushi directly in front of the customer, describing that as part of Japan’s traditional sushi experience.
Rather than just leading with long lists of American-style rolls, the menu starts with structured sushi sets and individual nigiri options. The set menu includes choices like the Etchu set at $57.50, Noto set at $97.50, and Kaga set at $109.50, along with a kids’ set, salmon set, tuna set, aburi set, and vegan set.
The headline item here may be nodoguro, or blackthroat seaperch, which appears on the menu as a nigiri option and in several of the set menus.
Other nigiri options include marinated tuna, medium fatty tuna, fatty tuna, chopped fatty tuna, salmon, ikura, yellowtail, scallop, sweet shrimp, snow crab, eel, sea urchin, tamago, and vegetable options such as avocado, pickled cucumber, shiitake mushroom, and inari.
There are still familiar roll options for diners who want them. The menu lists a California roll, California salmon roll, caterpillar roll, salmon cheese roll, spicy tuna roll, and vegan roll. Appetizers include edamame with garlic and olive oil, daily sashimi assortments, chilled tofu, soy-marinated seafood, grilled squid tentacles, and homemade Japanese omelette.
Again, though, the simple items seem to be the focus. Here’s the full menu.
The Location May Look Familiar
The address may ring a bell for longtime Danville sushi fans. Older local business listings show Sushi Bar Hana at the same 301 Hartz Ave., Suite 106 address. Sushi Tamahime is now listed by the Town of Danville at that location, and the town’s restaurant directory also shows another recent sushi addition, Hashiya Sushi, at 37 Railroad Ave.
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