Sushi Bar Ichi Roll For Inexpensive Hand Roll Sushi

Ichi Roll is a casual Japanese restaurant serving up hand roll sushi in Shanghai, brought to you by the Sake-X Group (Tomodachi, Sake-Ichi, Fuxing Bakery, Sake-Ichi Oden).

It’s a straight-forward concept and space. The room is a single large bar counter that acts as a prep area for the made-to-order sushi rolls.

Sushi Bar Ichi Roll

The menu is simple.

There are a couple of sets, from three (¥78) to six rolls (¥188) with dessert. Or you can go for single rolls, which range from cucumber (¥12) to scallop (¥28) to something called “The King of Roll” for ¥198, which presumably comes laden with a wide assortment of seafood.

There are a few simple appetizers and sashimi, too.

Complimentary wakame, seaweed salad

Tuna Toro Roll (¥68)

Black Tiger Prawn with Shrimp Sauce Roll (¥38)

Foie Gras Roll (¥48)

Crab Roll (¥38)

Aburi Wagyu Roll (¥68)

Sesame Salmon Roll (¥38)

Shunde-Style Sashimi Roll (¥38)

Yellowtail with Vinegar Miso (¥35)

Potato Salad (¥12)

Matcha Pudding (¥18)

For drinks, beer on tap starts from ¥35, cocktails from ¥68.

It's inexpensive (cheaper if you get the sets rather than single rolls) and enjoyable. The quality of the seafood is pretty good and everything I had tasted fresh. I preferred the seafood rolls versus the meat/foie ones. The rice portion is a little more than I'd like, but serves well to fill you up. Five rolls is just right, six is my limit.

What is desirable about a sushi bar like this is, well, that there are so few available downtown. Casual, no-frills, and affordable.

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Ichi Roll
Address: No. 2-2, 35 Shaanxi Nan Lu, near Jinxian Lu 陕西南路35号2-2, 近进贤路
Tel: 18519179873
Hours: Daily, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-10pm