About Umai Nori
Our Mission
Umai nori, offering guests a unique sushi dining experience with a casual temaki bar specializing in open-style sushi hand rolls in DC.
Our mission is more than just a few words strung together. It’s the basis from selecting fish to preparing and serving which is engraved in our heart to fulfill the customer’s experience dining with us.
Passion, Creativity, Satisfaction is our key element of our mission.
Our Ingredients
We believe that the key to great sushi is great ingredients. That's why we use only the freshest and highest-quality fish, rice, and vegetables in all of our dishes. We are a chef driven restaurant sourcing the highest quality of ingredients and creative dishes to our clients in a friendly environment.
Our Chefs
Chef Sonny Lee, well known third generation sushi chef in DMV, spent years working numerous restaurants in NY and ran his own restaurant for over 20 years, and now he has teamed up with Shinji Watanabe with backgrounds of French and Kaiseki, Michael Mejia and Max Cho who has been in the restaurant industry for 20 plus years.