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Sushi Para 88
This small neighborhood favorite in Chelsea offers all-you-can-eat specials Monday to Saturday, both at lunch, for $21, and at dinner, for $28.
Diners are limited to two hours, which is enough time to stuff yourself with more than a dozen varieties of six-piece rolls along with sushi and sashimi including shrimp, salmon, yellowtail and eel.
Sauces, including wasabi mayo and ponzu, are each 50 cents extra.
There’s a more extensive menu at dinner, including mocha and green tea ice cream desserts, also extra, and you can BYOB or order their beer or wine.
- Sushi Para 88,
- 212 West 14th St., Chelsea
- Open until 11:30pm.
Kiku Sushi
The all-you-can-eat sushi option is $29 at lunch or dinner, and includes a variety of appetizers and specialty rolls, including sushi salad and Yummy Yummy roll, shrimp tempura topped with grilled blue crab and spicy eel sauce.
Add an all-you-can-drink sake or beer option for another $7. These sushi and drink deals are not listed on the restaurant website, but those in the know, know.
- Kiku Sushi
- 235 Ninth Ave. at 24th St., Hell’s Kitchen
Aki Sushi & Grill
This unpretentious spot offers a reasonable all-you-can-eat option for just $25 per person, that includes classic favorite rolls and fresh sushi.
Plus, they offer a $3.50 saki all-you-can-drink sake option. Neither the sushi deal nor the saki deal is on the website. Ask for it when you arrive.
- Aki Sushi
- 720 Second Ave., Kips Bay
Ichi Umi
All the Japanese and Korean fare you can eat in one sitting, in a massive, two-floor sushi and seafood cafeteria-style buffet in Midtown’s so-called Little Korea.
There are dozens of sushi and roll options, including bacon avocado, spicy tuna and Tokyo crunch rolls, bite-sized soft shell crab in season, hot dishes and meaty crab legs, plus dozens more ramen and noodle options, a raw bar with oysters and clams, and a dizzying array of desserts and fresh fruit.
Prices vary by time of day and day of week as follows:
Lunch: Monday through Friday is $ 18.95 and $$24.95 weekends and holidays.
Dinner: Monday through Thursday is $31.95; Friday, Saturday, Sundays and holidays is $34.95.
- Ichi Umi
- 6 East 32nd St., Midtown
Kumo Sushi
Two locations, one in the Village, one on the Upper West Side, offer all-you-can-eat deals for $27.95, and an add-on $10 all-you-can-drink beer and sake deal.
You are encouraged to order as you go, to avoid a surplus of rolls and nigiri on the table. There’s a two-hour time limit for the unlimited sushi and drink deals.
- Kumo Sushi
- 165 West 72nd St., on the UWS, and at 282 Bleeker in the West Village.
If we’ve missed one of your favorite all-you-can-eat sushi deals, email us at info@nyconthecheap.com and we’ll check it out to include in an update.
This was first posted in 2018 and updated in 2019 and 2020.
Evelyn Kanter is a native New Yorker who has written for the NY Times, NY Daily News, NY Post, New York Magazine, and is a former on-air reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WABC-TV Eyewitness News.
Evelyn Kanter also is the author of several NYC and Hudson Valley guidebooks, including my latest, 100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die.
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