Top 10 Best Sushi Outside Japan

Three-Michelin-starred Yoshitake's Hong Kong outpost flies in fish daily from Tsukiji and serves Edomae-style sushi that rivals the Tokyo original in every dimension.

Founded by Shiro Kashiba, a protégé of Jiro Ono himself, this Belltown institution serves Pacific Northwest fish with Tokyo-trained precision at a 10-seat hinoki counter.

A Bangkok outpost of the legendary Yotsuya original, serving impeccable Edomae sushi with fish flown from Japan and locally sourced Thai seafood of exceptional quality.

While known for oysters and absinthe, this Williamsburg jewel box serves some of the most refined raw seafood in Brooklyn, blending French and Japanese sensibilities.

Hidden above a Sunset Strip strip mall, this no-menu omakase counter in West Hollywood serves revelatory nigiri that has Hollywood power players eating in reverential silence.

Brazil's Japanese community — the largest outside Japan — supports São Paulo sushi bars of extraordinary quality, with Umi's omakase rivaling mid-tier Tokyo counters.

A seven-seat Clerkenwell counter where Toru Takahashi serves omakase so authentic and so impossible to book that London foodies treat a reservation like a lottery win.

Chef Tetsutaro Tarui's intimate omakase experience in the Annex neighborhood brings Tokyo-level Edomae technique to Canadian ingredients, particularly BC salmon and Atlantic uni.

Daisuke Nakazawa, the apprentice who wept in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, now serves his own pristine 20-course omakase in the West Village to nightly standing ovations.