Yoko's Japanese Restaurant

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The Scene
Light, mint green walls, minimalist, elegant decor, a long, angled sushi bar, solid wooden tables and chairs spaced out enough to have a private conversation. Patrons jam the sushi bar, and waitresses in traditional kimonos deliver beautiful plates heaping with sushi. Yoko may get crowded, but it never feels like it.

The Food
You can order from a menu of surf 'n' turf and Japanese specialties, but the star attraction here is the sushi. Fresh, delicious, and beautifully prepared, your plate looks so beautiful you almost don't want to eat it. Almost. Our advice? Don't miss the Buccaneer Roll, Love Roll, or Eel Roll.
Jen Robbins

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Best in Tampa
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Posted by Yoko's #1 fan on Jun. 09, 2001

I love sushi and like to visit as many sushi bars as I can, but I keep going back to Yoko's. Yoko is usally there and treats you more like a member of the family than a customer. The freshest ingredients and best presentation I've seen anywhere.

Yoko's is the best for creating your own Sushi
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Posted by Jane on May. 29, 2001

Yoko's food is very tasty and I haven't had anything that I didn't love. At the Sushi bar, Yoko's son is at home. He will make anything that you can come up with, so be creative when trying new taste advent

Yoko's Japanese Restaurant

A south-Tampa favorite, Yoko ranks with the best in town. Favorites are Yoko's Special, a combination of tuna, salmon, smelt roe and tempura chips; the Love Roll, including smoked salmon, shrimp and avocado; the ubiquitous California Roll, a mix of crab, avocado, cucumber and smelt roe; and the Arizona, which includes delicious yellow tail, smelt roe and scallion. Great lunch menu.

Raw riches from the sea - by Kurt Loft

Friday extra! Sep. 6. 1996

No self-respecting lover of food should go through life without indulging in raw fish, regardless of the propaganda by the anti-sushi contingent. On the tongue, fresh slivers of conch or tuna rolled in rice and wrapped in seaweed rank with the fussiest French delicacy, although they must earn their culinary reputations the hard way .So when a new sushi/sashimi bar open in town, it becomes something of an event. Unlike Italian restaurants in Tampa , these Japanese gems are rarere, consisting of Yoko's, J

YOKO'S JAPANESE RESTAURANT

The family will enjoy outstanding Japanese cuisine in a serene atmosphere at Yoko’s award-winning Japanese Restaurant. Fresh sushi and sashimi highlight the taste-tempting, diverse menu. There are more than a dozen appetizers, and two dozen dinner entrées and combinations, plus Japanese beers, a pleasing wine assortment and sake.

Yoko's is also a favorite of St. Petersburg Times columnist Sandra Thompson and featured in her articles about life in Tampa Bay.

We're no Big Apple, just better

By Sandra Thompson - January 27, 2001

Lunch. Don't worry, you can do it here. This is not a Sunbelt city where people sit around their pools all day. In Tampa everybody goes to lunch. Everybody. They do, because they can. A while ago, a New Yorker came to visit a friend of mine, and four of us met for sushi at Yoko's in South Tampa. The New Yorker, a woman of modest means (that combination is still possible; she's a writer) raved about the restaurant, glanced at what she thought was her check and without flinching reached into her purse to pay. The check was for all four of us.Holiday delirium has only just begun

By Sandra Thompson - November 25, 2000