Where To Find The Best Sushi In MD 2020: Daily Meal

BALTIMORE, MD — Sushi is so much more than a California spring roll. The food writers at The Daily Meal website say more restaurants offer the delicate, flavorful Japanese treat. To give the deserving eateries recognition, the site recently posted its list of the Best Sushi Restaurant in Every State.

"Unless you’re partaking in an all-you-can-eat buffet, raw fish is typically reserved for special occasions, especially if you’re gunning for the upper-crust experience — omakase, in which high-end sushi is presented in an elegant succession. In the decades since its debut on American shores in the 1960s, the sushi scene has come a long way," the website wrote.

The foodie site's selection for Best Sushi Restaurant in Maryland is Shoyou Sushi at 1450 Light St. in Baltimore.

To find the best sushi restaurant in every state, the Daily Meal editors looked at Japanese restaurants that specialize in sushi and are highly rated by local publications, on user-generated review sites and in pre-existing regional and local rankings. The website then graded them on qualities including freshness and sourcing of fish, variety of offerings, ambiance and level of local and national renown.

Here's what The Daily Meal says of Shoyou Sushi:

"Chef Bruce Lee, also known as “Sushi Bruce,” handpicks the freshest fish for his Baltimore restaurant, Shoyou. Patrons can watch Lee and his few employees work their magic behind the sushi bar, using premium seafood to create off-the-beaten-path offerings like a Japanese burrito with lightly battered shrimp tempura, crab mix, spicy tuna, masago and avocado wrapped in soy paper and served with special sauce (which sounds like one of the best burritos in America). Other crowd-pleasers include the Sweet Honey roll with shrimp, crab and avocado on a shrimp crunch roll topped with spicy mayo, eel sauce and masago; and the Hot Night Baby! roll with spicy tuna and avocado on a shrimp and crab roll topped with spicy mayo, eel sauce, tempura flakes and masago."

See the full list of Best Sushi Restaurant In Every State on The Daily Meal site.

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