Yoshio Sushi
Yoshio Sushi
Miso soup with tofu, seaweed and mushroom.
Miso soup cooked with fresh clam.
Fresh mushrooms and seaweed soup.
Mushroom and seaweed based Japanese yam and chicken soup.
Seafood and shiitake mushroom soup in tea pot.Available Dine-in only
Steamed clam in house sake, served in a clay pot.
Seafood and mushroom in steamed egg custard.Available Dine-in only
Tempura shrimp (2 pcs) and veggie tempura, udon soup on side.
Tempura battered fried vegetables, udon soup on side.
Vegetables and seaweed cooked with udon soup in an iron pot.
Assorted seafoods and vegetables cooked with udon soup.
Udon soup topped with flamed grilled teriyaki beef.
Udon soup topped with flame grilled teriyaki chicken.
Organic greens drizzled with sesame miso dressing.
Organic greens topped with marinated seaweed salad.
Organic greens topped with grilled salmon skin.
Organic greens topped with spicy tuna mix.
Organic greens topped with spicy salmon mix.
Organic greens topped with assorted sashimi and house sesame dressing.
Organic cucumber.
Onion slices in sesame oil ponzu dressing with bonito flakes.
Tempura battered shrimp, cucumber topped with spicy tuna.
King salmon, avocado, cream cheese, tempura fried.
Unagi (freshwater eel), kani, black tiger shrimp, tempura fried.
Giant futomaki, tempura fried.
Tempura shrimp, kani, unagi, (freshwater eel), avocado, topped w/tobiko.
Tempura fired asparagus, cream cheese, wrapped with shiro maguro (escolar).
Kani, avocado, wrapped with cooked black tiger shrimp.
Tempura shrimp, cucumber, wrapped with grilled shiro maguro (escolar).
Spicy tuna roll, cucumber, avocado, crunchy, fried tempura crumble.
Catfish belly, scallion, wrapped with avocado.
Kani, avocado, wrapped with salmon & lemon.
California roll, wrapped with salmon, topped with black tobiko.
Tempura shrimp, cucumber, topped with spicy salmon
Soft shell & kani crab, avocado, romaine, yamagobo, topped with tobiko.
Soft shell & kani crab, avocado, romaine, yamogobo, wrapped wtih unagi & avocado, topped with seaweed salad, tobiko, & crunchy tempura crumble.
Unagi, cucumber, sriracha, cream cheese, topped with spicy kani.
Tempura shrimp, kani, cucumber, topped with crunchy tempura crumble.
Tempura shrimp, unagi, salmon, tuna, hamachi, wrapped in cucumber, topped with seaweed salad & tobiko.
Mango, avocado, cucumber, ume, oshiko, Japanese yam.
Salmon, kani, hamachi, unagi, wrapped in cucumber, topped with tobiko.
Kani, avocado, flame baked, topped with spicy scallop.
Kani, avocado, cream cheese, topped with tuna.
Kani, escolar, tuna, king salmon, tempura fried.
Unagi, kani, salmon, wrapped in avocado, topped with white tuna.
Tempura shrimp, cream cheese, wrapped in mango.
Soft shell and kani crab, romaine, avocado, mango, topped with tobiko.
King salmon, cream cheese, asparagus, soy paper deep fried.
Grilled salmon skin, cucumber, lettuce & green onion, topped with tobiko.
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, cucumber.
Tamago, kani, inari (soybean cake), oshinko (pickled radish), cucumber, avocado.
Shrimp tempura, avocado, cucumber, topped with tobiko.
Kani, avocado, wrapped with salmon, flame baked.
Spicy tuna, avocado, wrapped with salmon, flame baked.
California roll wrapped with chef's selection of fresh fish.
Spicy tuna roll with king crab on top.
Assorted vegetable with deep fried asparagus.
Grilled salmon skin, cucumber, wrapped with unagi & avocado.
kani,unagi(freshwater eel),topped with avocado and tobiko
kani, avocado, cucumber, savory, shredded pork sung, tamago, oshiko, lettuce
2 pieces. Sweet soybean cake.
2 pieces. Black tiger prawn.
2 pieces. Yellowtail.
2 pieces. Surf clam.
2 pieces. Scallop.
2 pieces. Squid.
2 pieces. Salmon roe.w/quail egg +1.00
2 pieces. Sweet prawn.
2 pieces. Grilled scallop.
2 pieces. Tuna.
2 pieces. Norway mackerel.
2 pieces. Salmon.
2 pieces. Albacore.
2 pieces. Octopus.
2 pieces. Sweet egg.
2 pieces. Fly fish roew/quail egg +1.00
2 pieces. Freshwater eel.
2 pieces. Sea urchin.
2 pieces. Halibut.
2 pieces. Sea bass.
2 pieces. Smoked salmon.
2 pieces. Japanese crab salad.
2 pieces. Super white tuna.
Pacific herring.
2 pieces. Assorted nigiri selected by sushi chef.
2pcs
2pcs
Any 2 items with miso soup, salad and rice.
Steamed green soybeans.
Japanese yam dipped in house ponzu sauce.
Plain chilled tofu with garnish and bonito flakes.
Monkfish liver sashimi with onion and special dressing.
Lightly grilled daily fresh sashimi with garnish and special dressing.
Lightly grilled beef sashimi with garnish & special dressing
Chef's choice of daily whitefish, shiso, & drizzled with house ponzu.
Wasabi picked raw octopus with cucumber.
Squid sashimi, cucumber, drizzled with ponzu sauce.
Octopus and cucumber with ponzu sauce.
Natto soybeans, sliced squid, wasabi & soy sauce dressing.
Grated Japanese yam topped with salmon caviar.
Ike, uni, seaweed and shiso
lightly grilled daily fresh sashimi with garnish & special dressing
Crispy tofu , served in a sweet ginger sauce, topped with bonito flakes.
Japanese style popcorn chicken.
Panko fried chicken cutlet (1 pc).
Panko fried pork cutlet (1 pc).
5 pieces of pan fried handmade dumplings.
Deep fried baby squid.
Deep fried large squid.
5 pieces of tempura battered fried shrimp.
Tempura battered fried assorted vegetables.
2 pieces of tempura battered fried shrimp and assorted vegetables.
1 deep fried soft shell crab with special sauce.
Batter fried.
6 pieces of ball-shaped octopus dumplings.
house special recipe crispy chicken wings or leg (8-10 pcs)
Oyster, vegetable and egg pancake, topped with bonito flakes and seaweed flakes.
Black tiger shrimp, vegetable and egg pancake, topped with bonito flakes and seaweed flakes.
Vegetable and egg pancake, topped with bonito and seaweed flakes.
Pan fry udon, egg and vegetables served on a sizzling iron pan.
Hand cut rib eye beef with vegetables, tofu, yam noodle, in sweet soy sauce stock. w/rice
Chicken and vegetables cooked in an iron hot pot.
Seafood and vegetables cooked in an iron hot pot.
Hand cut rib eye beef and vegetables cooked in an iron hot pot.
Assorted fresh vegetables, tofu, yam noodle, cooked in an iron hot pot.
Seafood and vegetables cooked in an iron hot pot.
Japanese herbed flame grilled baby lamb chops (2-3 pcs).
Short rib beef teriyaki or shioyaki (salt & pepper).
Flame grilled shishamo (smelt fish) (5 pcs).
Miso marinated flame grilled salmon.
Flame grilled salmon steak.
Flame grilled jumbo squid, served with radish ponzu sauce.
Flame grilled salmon collar.
Flamed grilled hamachi collar.
grilled skewers (2 skewers) glazed in house teriyaki.
Big-eye tuna sashimi over sushi rice.
Salmon sashimi over sushi rice.
Assorted sashimi over sushi rice.
Unagi (freshwater eel) over rice or sushi rice.
Chicken teriyaki served on steamed rice.
Beef teriyaki served on steamed rice.
Mushroom teriyaki served on steamed rice.
Flame grilled salmon with teriyaki sauce.
Flame grilled teriyaki short rib beef.
Flame grilled shioyaki short rib beef.
House curry tonkatsu served on steamed rice.
House curry rice bowl with chicken katsu.
Halibut.
Fillet tuna belly (janpaese tuna)
Janpaese Uni. 2 pieces.
Sashimi specially selected by sushi chef.
Sashimi special selections of fish and shell fish by sushi chef.
4 pc
4 pcs
4 pcs
Black tiger prawn. asparagus w/rice
Sushi ginger and mackerel.
Yellowtail.
Freshwater eel.
Fermented soybeans.
Salmon, kani, hamachi, unagi, wrapped in cucumber, topped with tobiko.
Salmon.
Fermented soybean.
Plum paste and cucumber.
Salmon and cucumber.
Kani and avocado.
Spicy salmon and cucumber.
Sushi ginger and mackerel.
Tuna roll.
Cucumber.
Pickled radish.
Salmon and avocado.
Spicy tuna and cucumber.
Spicy scallop and cucumber.
Yellowtail, with scallion and tobiko.
Plum paste, siso
avocado
tuna, avocado
spicy yellowtail
unagi (freshwater eel), avocado, topped with tobiko)
Tempura battered asparagus, carrots, cucumber, vegetable
Unagi (freshwater eel) and cucumber.
Tamago, kani (imitation crab and fresh king crab salad), inari (sweet soybean cake), oshinko (picked radish), cucumber, and avocado.
Spicy hamachi, cucumber.
Freshwater eel.
Norway mackerel.
8 pieces. w/soup, salad
Any 2 items served with miso soup, salad and rice.
Savory, shredded pork sung.
Savory pork sung, tamago (sweet egg), and avocado
Grilled salmon skin, cucumber.
Tonkatsu (pork cutlet), oshiko, teriyaki sauce.
Ebi (shrimp), tamago (sweet egg), topped with kani.
Sweet egg.
El El Cerrito Roll
Hamachi Nigiri and Bone.
Unagi hand roll
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Lion Queen Roll
a basket of food on a table
Everything looks amazing. Even more with Sake.
Decor
a bowl of sushi
Two 2 Item Lunch Bento Box (Tempura Combo & Beef Teriyaki)
the interior of a restaurant
Parking options are terrible here.
interior
Left: I had the Shrimp Tempura Roll and tempura roll. Upper right: My boyfriend had the Lion King Roll.
Scallops
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Lucky Roll
Dobin mushi ("Tea" pot soup)
Amaebi
Rolls
Spicy Scallop Hand Rolls
Lovely Islands Roll.
Rainbow Roll
Danielle M.
Dec 1, 2024
I've been to Yoshio's multiple times across the years and it's a cute, quaint little sushi spot along San Pablo Avenue that's open late (AKA the biggest convenience when I'm craving sushi but not trying to travel too far when it's late at night). In my last visit, my sister and I ordered the following:- Lion King = classic as usual, tasty, a bit smaller than other sushi places I go to.- El Cerrito Roll = pretty good since it has avocado and cream cheese! It's a bit more on the heavier side of sushi rolls. - Lucky Roll = my favorite of the ones we ordered - this one was flavorful and the tuna and salmon combo was *chef's kiss*- Sashimi Salmon = simple and satisfyingService varies here but I'm usually content with my interactions with staff. The venue is cute and traditionally Japanese with nice warm lighting. The parking lot is pretty small but I usually find spots on the street without any problem. Overall, Yoshio is a cool place with great hours - come here when you crave sushi late at night!
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Tissue C.
Mar 2, 2025
Food was good last time, but this time? It didn't taste as good. Bad service. We loved this place last time we came, and we wanted to go again. Unfortunately, today was an upsetting day.The place is small, so I don't know why it took 25 minutes for someone to take our order. Not only that, but the waiter *actively* looked at us, then would seat other customers... They even took orders from them first! By that point, I almost just told my family let's just leave, but they wanted to wait. When we finally got our orders in, and food coming out, the atmosphere has changed to something less than pleasant.The food was okay. It didn't taste as good as before, but it might be because the service was not welcoming at all that the food tasted mid.We weren't checked on. We had to go right to the back where the wait staff are using their cells instead of checking once in awhile on customers. The chefs, I could understand they needed a break after cooking. So that was fine. Wait staff? Seriously? C'mon dude. At least check if we needed more water...We might try again. But otherwise? Check on customers once in awhile.
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Anna F.
Dec 6, 2024
Loved loved loved this place, but it seemed to have gone downhill since the pandemic. Food is still good but service really took a hit. But despite the food still being good, there was a dead fly in my food the last time I ate from here. And I didn't even noticed until after I had already eaten part of the ginger. So I don't think I'll be coming back for a long time.
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Makaela S.
Feb 25, 2025
I just can't get enough of Yoshio! It's the best priced sushi in the Bay Area I'm pretty sure. Love the rolls so much and cutest lil hole in the wall ambiance. Service is great too. Can't say enough great things about yoshio
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Joseph T.
Jul 24, 2024
The specialty rolls here are fresh and delicious and can be a bit pricey. There are other rolls that cost less and there are lunch specials too.Very small and quaint place right on San Pablo Avenue. Nice and quiet on the weekends during lunch which is when we prefer to go.Excellent Sushi Chefs!
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Millie B.
Aug 31, 2024
This place is a solid 3.5 stars. The rolls were good but the miso soup is ok. The hamachi kama was good but the tempura is ok.The service is great but the bathroom needs to be cleaner. Parking can be an issue.
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Gina G.
Apr 9, 2024
Hands down my favorite sushi place in El Cerrito ~ within walking distance, excellent portions & value, and their dinner service is open until 12:30a, which when living in a small community is huge! What we typically do upon arrival if the restaurant is super crowded is add our names to the Yelp waitlist (they have a kiosk by the front door) which will alert us where we are in line & when our table is ready. Because of this service, we usually walk down the street to Little Hill Lounge for a cocktail and by the time we're finished, our table is usually almost ready! If coming with a large group, there is a super cool area (to note in this room: shoes off and you will sit on the floor with seats that have a back rest) that is separate from the other side of the restaurant. I've sat here before and it's an incredibly unique but fun experience!There's such an amazing array of maki, nigiri, sashimi, and signature/special rolls per night. I usually have my go-to rolls, but I recently tried a chicken teriyaki roll which was outstanding and so different! My husband usually orders the teriyaki beef udon noodle soup, with shared appetizers of edamame, veggie tempura, and seaweed salad. We love to switch things up because the menu is extensive, but sometimes there is comfort with ordering our classics. I also recently tried their curry chicken katsu dinner which was a nice treat on an evening I was looking for something warm & hearty outside of sushi specific. From date night, to late night, sitting at the sushi bar solo, or even meeting some friends, highly recommend pleasing the palate at Yoshio Sushi & big cheers over an ice cold mug!
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Whitney L.
Dec 18, 2024
Ordered Yoshio Sushi for take out and was very impressed with the quality of their food! My parents who are usually pretty picky also enjoyed the sushi rolls that we ordered. We got the Lion King, the Lucky Roll, the SF Giants Roll, the Happy Roll, and the Sashimi mini. The rolls had a great balance of flavors, with the fish being fresh, the rice seasoned well, and the sauces tied everything together perfectly. My parents loved the sashimi mini and wished we ordered more because the sashimi was cut substantial enough for their liking and they thought the fish was really fresh. Overall, we had a really pleasant experience and will be ordering from them again!
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Havana R.
Feb 25, 2025
came here a couple of times with friends of mine & the sushi has always been super good. we always have a good time, i loveee to get the spicy tuna its my favorite i would definitely recommend it. i like the calming vibes here too its pretty chill. the service is great :)
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Tiffany K.
Feb 27, 2025
Food mid, took really long, forgot a part of the order and took extra long for that, poor customer service, slow
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