The best sushi in Las Vegas is not on the Strip. It sits in two Chinatown storefronts on Spring Mountain Road, where Kabuto runs a $125 Edomae counter and Gen Mizoguchi flies rare fish in for Yui. The hotel names answer with Tetsuya Wakuda and Masaharu Morimoto. Six counters, ranked, with the honest cost and the one diner each is wrong for.
How Las Vegas eats omakase now
Omakase — the chef's-choice counter served piece by piece — is where Las Vegas sushi turns serious, and the best of it hides off the casino floor. The city's benchmark counters cluster in Chinatown on Spring Mountain Road, while the Strip answers with marquee hotel rooms from chefs who earned Michelin recognition elsewhere. Nevada has no Michelin guide, so pedigree, sourcing and rice discipline do the ranking that stars would do in Tokyo or Los Angeles. The technique standard these rooms answer to is set out in the sushi cuisine guide, and the full city roster lives in the Las Vegas dining guide. This is the counter chapter, ranked for who should book which seat.
The six, ranked
1. Kabuto Edomae Sushi — Chinatown
Kabuto is the purest counter in the city, a small Edomae room on Spring Mountain Road that runs two fixed seatings a night at 5:30 and 7:30. The $125 omakase brings twelve nigiri and two appetisers; the $175 buys better fish and a third. The shari is hand-formed, the pace quiet and chef-led, and this is the seat every other counter in Las Vegas is measured against. The Las Vegas omakase counter guide ranks it first for the same reason. Not for a large group or a spontaneous night — two seatings and a handful of stools make it the least flexible table on this list, and you book one to three weeks out.
2. Yui Edomae Sushi — Chinatown
Yui takes second on sourcing. Chef Gen Mizoguchi, widely credited with raising the bar for Las Vegas sushi, flies rare fish in from Japan and builds simple, exact bites around it, with the deluxe omakase running about $170. The room is calmer and more formal than most Chinatown counters, the right seat for a diner who wants the rarest fish in the city and the quietest place to eat it. Book one to two weeks ahead. Not for a budget first omakase — the sourcing premium lands on the bill, and a beginner will not read the difference that pays for.
3. Wakuda — The Venetian
Wakuda is the Strip's marquee seat. Michelin-starred chef Tetsuya Wakuda, of Singapore's Waku Ghin, runs an eight-seat omakase room whose Thursday-to-Saturday counter runs about $225 across roughly ten courses of fine sushi and grilled dishes, paired with rare Japanese whisky and small-batch sake. It is the most polished setting on this list. Wakuda's Venetian omakase room is covered in full on its profile. Not for a diner chasing strict Edomae — this is a hosted-dinner room where the setting and the pour matter as much as the rice.
4. Sushi by Scratch Restaurants — Resorts World
Sushi by Scratch brings chef Phillip Frankland Lee's format — first starred at his Montecito original — to a seventeen-seat counter inside Resorts World. The roughly seventeen-course menu runs about $225 and leans inventive and theatrical, with house-cured and torched pieces alongside straight nigiri, narrated at close quarters. The right seat for a diner who wants a modern, performed omakase rather than a silent traditional one. Book a week or two ahead. Not for a purist — the torching and the storytelling are the point, and an Edomae traditionalist will find both a distraction.
5. Sushi Hiroyoshi — West Charleston
Hiroyoshi is the value pick. Chef Hiro Yoshi, formerly of Blue Ribbon, runs a counter in a west Charleston strip mall well outside Chinatown's main spoke, and the seasonally changing omakase — about $100 — moves through cooked chef-chosen courses into a progression of immaculate nigiri. Regulars make a credible case for it as the best in the city outright. The right counter for a first serious omakase without the top-tier price. Not for a diner who needs a marquee room or a Strip address — the cooking is the whole draw, and the setting is a strip mall.
6. Morimoto — MGM Grand
Morimoto rounds out the six as Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's MGM Grand flagship, reopened on the Strip in 2026. Alongside a broad Japanese menu, the sushi bar offers a chef's omakase, and the draw is the combination of a celebrated name, a polished hotel room and an easier reservation than the Chinatown counters above it. Morimoto's MGM Grand flagship carries the full menu. Not for a diner who wants a strict fixed-seating Edomae progression — this is a big-name room with sushi as one strong option inside a much larger menu.
Where the value sits
The top two counters are for the sushi obsessive with the budget to match; the value in Las Vegas omakase lives one tier down. Sushi Hiroyoshi delivers a full seasonal progression for about $100, and Kabuto's $125 seat buys the most disciplined Edomae in the city for less than a Strip tasting menu. For à-la-carte nigiri rooms beyond the counter format, see the best sushi in Las Vegas guide, and for the wider category read the Japanese cuisine guide. Solo diners hold the structural advantage at every room here, a pattern the best restaurants for solo dining tracks in detail; for a hosted table, the best rooms for impressing clients lean toward Wakuda and Morimoto.
Keep reading
The etiquette to arrive knowing is in the world's best omakase counter seats, and for a different city's version of this list, London's counters are ranked in the best sushi in London. For the technique that separates a great counter from a good one, start again with the sushi cuisine guide.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best omakase in Las Vegas in 2026?
Kabuto Edomae Sushi in Chinatown is the best omakase in Las Vegas for pure Edomae craft, running a tight nigiri-led counter at $125 or $175 across two fixed seatings a night on Spring Mountain Road. It is the seat serious sushi diners chase first. Chef Gen Mizoguchi's Yui Edomae, at about $170, and Michelin-starred Tetsuya Wakuda's eight-seat room at the Venetian are the next-best arguments for the title.
How much does omakase cost in Las Vegas?
The serious counters run from about $100 to $225 per person before drinks. Sushi Hiroyoshi's seasonal omakase sits at the bottom around $100; Kabuto charges $125 or $175; Yui Edomae runs about $170; and Wakuda and Sushi by Scratch reach roughly $225 at the top of the Strip's hotel rooms. Add a 20 to 22 percent tip on any of them. Below about $100, piece-by-piece Edomae rice work generally disappears.
Where is the best-value omakase in Las Vegas?
Sushi Hiroyoshi, chef Hiro Yoshi's counter in a west Charleston strip mall outside Chinatown, is the value pick at about $100 for a seasonal omakase of cooked courses and immaculate nigiri. Regulars make a credible case for it as the best in the city outright. Kabuto's $125 seat is the next step up. Both are covered in the Las Vegas omakase counter guide, and both book one to two weeks ahead.
Do I need a reservation for omakase in Las Vegas?
Yes at every counter on this list. Kabuto and Yui Edomae run two fixed seatings a night and book one to three weeks out, more on weekends; Wakuda's eight-seat room and Sushi by Scratch open their calendars further ahead. Sushi Hiroyoshi and Morimoto are the easier same-week seats. Walk-ins are not the way in at any serious Las Vegas omakase room, so plan the date before you plan the trip.
Is the best Las Vegas omakase on the Strip or in Chinatown?
Chinatown holds the purest counters and the Strip holds the marquee names. Kabuto and Yui Edomae, both on Spring Mountain Road, run the most disciplined Edomae in the city, while Wakuda at the Venetian, Sushi by Scratch at Resorts World and Morimoto at MGM Grand bring the celebrated chefs and the polished hotel rooms. For the best fish, drive to Chinatown; for the setting and the easier booking, stay on the Strip.
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