Best Sushi & Japanese in Mallorca

Aburi is a tiny Japanese omakase counter on Carrer de Caro in Santa Catalina, only a handful of seats, built around a robata charcoal grill. Chef Joaquín Duarte cooked at Disfrutar in Barcelona and spent six years at Koy Shunka before opening here, and he runs the room as a set tasting menu rather than an a la carte: shorter and longer omakase versions, an optional wagyu supplement, and a sequence that shifts with what is good that day. The counter puts you right by the fire, so you watch each course finished in front of you. It is a slow, guided evening at close quarters, and the pedigree behind the counter is why it opens this list.

Arume is chef Tomeu Martí's spot on Carrer de Sant Miquel in central Palma, built around a big open kitchen in full view of the room and a long bar where you can watch the team work. Repsol files the cooking under Asian, Mediterranean and gastronomic, pairing nigiri with more creative hot dishes, and calls out the entrecôte tataki Thai salad, assorted nigiri, and prawn-and-sea-urchin parcels in tempura. The carta also lists tuna tartare, the Arume sashimi selection, a house chili crab and a duck, foie and shiitake dim sum. It holds a Repsol Recomendado listing. It's open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Monday and Sunday, and there's a chef's omakase option at €105 a head if you want Martí's full sequence rather than picking off the carta yourself.

Harajuku runs a gastro-sushi concept on Carrer de Joan Crespí in Palma's Ponent district, plating contemporary takes on Japanese dishes with premium ingredients rather than a straightforward sushi-bar menu. The carta is organised into house specialities, starters, salads, pokes, rolls, nigiri, sushi mixes, sashimi and desserts, giving it more range than a rolls-only spot. Beyond dine-in, it also runs takeaway and delivery across Palma, so it works as an at-home order as easily as a sit-down meal. It's closed Sundays, open the rest of the week across lunch and dinner service, with slightly later Friday and Saturday closing times. Diners rate it well, 4.7 on Google from 771 reviews and 4.8 on TripAdvisor.

Izakaya sits in the heart of Palma and frames itself as high Japanese cuisine, traditional technique carried through with a more avant-garde, contemporary edge, and local, seasonal produce worked into the Japanese repertoire. The kitchen team runs deep: chef Carlos Piedra Buena, itamae Masahide Ozawa, sous chef Karol Koper and sushi chef Andy Murakami. You can order à la carte or go the omakase route, offered in 6, 8 or 9-step tasting formats with wine pairings available, and it's open daily for both lunch and dinner. The diner numbers back up the ambition: 4.6 on Google from 2,241 reviews and 4.9 on TripAdvisor from 4,308, where it's ranked #1 of 2,669 restaurants in Palma de Mallorca and carries a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Best of the Best 2025 nod.

Kansō takes its name from the Japanese idea of simplicity, letting flavours stand without ornament, and the restaurant frames itself as a modern Japanese tavern where that simplicity meets high-quality ingredients and a personal touch. It's about five minutes from Plaça d'Espanya in central Palma. The kitchen centres on robata, Japanese charcoal-grill cooking, alongside a sushi bar and a list of signature cocktails, in a small, intimate room built for couples and date nights rather than big groups. It's open Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, then lunch and dinner Thursday to Saturday, closed Monday and Sunday. Reservations run through Restoo, and the full menu is shared via a link on the restaurant's own site rather than printed on the page.

Kasui opened in September 2019 on Plaça Raimundo Clar in Palma's old town, the project of Mallorcan chef Miki Cerdá after a stint at Roka in London. The format is robatayaki grilling crossed with Southeast Asian street-food influences, served as Asian-style sharing tapas rather than fixed courses, with signature cocktails, gyozas, avocado dishes and Iberian pork among the dishes referenced on the menu. It's got both a terrace and a bar, useful if you're going in a group rather than just for two. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday, 13:00 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 23:00, closed Sunday and Monday, and reservations are available both online and by phone.

Kno-ma is a small omakase counter on Espartero where chef Miguel Rodríguez, five years at UMU in London before this, runs a chef-directed sequence blending Edomae tradition with kaiseki, everything prepared right in front of you at the counter. There's no fixed menu: you choose a shorter tasting at 90 euros a head or a longer one at 135, with sake-and-wine pairings on top at 65 euros, or 110 for the premium version. The kitchen notes the menu includes raw and cooked fish, shellfish, soy and gluten, and doesn't offer a vegetarian adaptation, so it's not the flexible pick for a mixed-diet table. Two seatings a night, at 19:15 and 21:30, Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday, and the meal itself runs around two and a half hours.

Kaizen takes its name from the Japanese idea of constant improvement, and the restaurant frames its values around product, respect, technique and dedication rather than flash. It sits near Santa Eulalia in Palma's old town and describes itself as a well-kept secret in the centre. Chef Ismael Rojo runs contemporary Japanese cooking: sushi, sashimi, and shabu-shabu, the simmer-it-yourself hot pot, which sets it apart from a straight sushi counter. The room is small, so reservations, taken through Restoo, are worth making ahead. It's open Monday to Wednesday evenings and Thursday to Saturday for both lunch and dinner, closed Sunday, a schedule that rewards checking before a spontaneous visit.

De Tokio a Lima runs Japanese, Peruvian and Mediterranean cooking under chef Germán de Bernardi, who the restaurant describes as devoted to the sea and its produce, based inside Hotel Can Alomar near Passeig del Born, with a second outpost in Valldemossa. The kitchen states a focus on seasonal, locally-sourced produce from Mallorcan farmers and artisans, prepared with an avant-garde touch rather than straight nikkei tradition. It's open daily, 13:00 to 15:30 and 19:30 to 22:30, and online bookings run up to seven people with tables held for 15 minutes past reservation time. It's the nikkei entry with a genuine hotel-restaurant polish to it, worth booking ahead given the popularity with visitors.

Mar de Nudos sits on the Moll Vell, Palma's old marina, founded by Marco di Loreto as what the restaurant calls a sophisticated waterfront spot built around seafood. The kitchen combines Japanese and Mediterranean flavours, plating dishes with a deliberate eye on texture, colour and presentation rather than treating the Japanese side as an afterthought. A cocktail programme runs alongside the food, and the kitchen keeps a long day, roughly 1pm to 1am, covering lunch straight through to late dinner. It's a waterfront pick if you want the sushi-and-seafood register without leaving the harbour view, closer to a polished night out than a quick sushi lunch.

Maria 5 Urban is the central-Palma half of the Maria 5 brand, set at Hotel Cort on Plaça de Cort with an interior dining room and a large shaded terrace under a centuries-old olive tree. The site describes it as the most formal and urban of the Maria 5 venues. Chef Gunnar Blischke, who leads the kitchen across both Maria 5 sites, runs an Asian-and-international fusion built on Japanese technique, with attention to presentation and a curated cocktail and drinks list alongside the food. It's open long daily hours, 08:00 to 21:30, which makes it as workable for a late breakfast under the olive tree as a sit-down dinner.

Marui sits on Plaça del Progrés in Santa Catalina, blending Japanese heritage with local Mallorcan ingredients, running sushi rolls, sashimi, nigiri and speciality dishes made with traditional technique and paired with sake. There's also a distinct Marui Steak concept sharing the same address, so it's not purely a sushi room. Local best-of lists keep citing it for the rolls and ramen. It's open evenings only, Tuesday to Sunday from 17:00, with last orders running later Thursday through Saturday, and closed Mondays. Diners rate it well, 4.8 on Google from 366 reviews, and the Santa Catalina address puts it in the thick of one of Palma's densest dining neighbourhoods.

Miss Sushi Sant Miquel is the Palma branch of the Miss Sushi chain, on Carrer de Sant Miquel in the centre, specialising in sushi and Asian cuisine with a cocktail bar built into the dining room. It also runs delivery and takeaway during set windows, so it works for a night in as easily as a sit-down meal. It's closed Thursdays, with lunch-and-dinner service running the rest of the week, weekend hours stretching straight through from 13:00 to 23:00 without the usual afternoon break. Straightforward and central, it's the chain option on this list rather than a chef-driven destination, and diners rate it 4.4 on Google from 1,592 reviews.

Nagami Nikkei sits on Carrer de Caro in Santa Catalina, building its menu around the Nikkei tradition that unites Peruvian and Japanese cooking with local Mallorcan products and global flavours. The structure runs cold starters, hot starters, sushi rolls, mains and desserts, and there's a private group lounge for bigger bookings, plus gift experiences on offer. It's dinner only, Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Saturday from 18:30 to 23:00, closed Thursday and Sunday, a small, intimate room rather than a walk-in-friendly spot. Reservations run online or by phone, worth doing ahead given the limited seating and the closed midweek gap.

Nus is chef-owner Irene Martínez's project in Santa Catalina, opened around 2022, blending Japanese technique with southern-Spanish and Mallorcan flavours as small sharing plates. Repsol describes the room as minimalist and Japanese-influenced, wooden tables and bare walls, with the communal table at its centre built from her father's old carpentry workbench, a nod to the restaurant's name, Catalan for a wood joint. The carta runs to crispy oyster with tartare sauce, kombu-marinated snapper, tuna cooked on the kamado, a Japanese-style potato salad, miso-glazed aubergine and an oxtail à la royale, plus a set sharing menu called A Mesa Puesta at 49 euros a head. Martínez, born and raised in Palma to a family with Andalusian roots, trained under Tomeu Martí at Arume, Santi Taura at Dins, and David Muñoz at DiverXo before travelling through Japan and Vietnam, and the room holds a Repsol Recomendado.

Mestís sits on Carrer d'Anníbal in Santa Catalina, building what it calls BajaMed, a Mediterranean base opened up to Baja California and Japanese influences, made with local Mallorcan products. The crispy tuna taco with chipotle is the dish most cited alongside arroz a la llauna and croquetas, and the kitchen frames its own cooking around balance, intensity and contrast rather than a single cuisine. It runs seasonal menus built for sharing, both à la carte and for groups, with weekend hours starting earlier at 10:00 and weekday service split across lunch and dinner. It's closed Tuesdays. The three-way mix, Mediterranean, Mexican, Japanese, in one plate is the whole pitch here rather than a straight sushi counter.

Maria 5 Beach is the seafront half of the Maria 5 pair, sitting right on Camp de Mar beach in Andratx with the same Japanese-technique Asian fusion as its Palma sibling, sushi, teppanyaki, grilled fish. Chef Gunnar Blischke, born in Hamburg, leads the kitchen across both sites; his own bio cites a European Championship win with Germany's national team and a second-place finish at the World Championship in Shanghai. It's open daily from 11:00 to 23:00, and the setting, one foot on the sand per the restaurant's own description, makes it the beach-day pick over its more formal city sibling, Maria 5 Urban. Prices run on the higher side, in keeping with the seafront location.

YARA sits at Puerto Portals, the upscale marina in Calvià, splitting its evening-only menu across three stations: a main kitchen, a sushi counter, and a robata charcoal grill. It calls its own cooking 'authentic but not traditional,' folding Japanese and Mediterranean together rather than running a straight sushi menu. It's a member of Gault & Millau and JRE (Jeunes Restaurateurs), and there's a private dining space for up to 12 guests. Tasting menus run from a Vegetarian or Yara's menu at 100 euros a head up to a Prestige menu at 225, alongside a Chef's menu at 130. Book through SevenRooms or WhatsApp; it's open every evening, seasonal hours applying to exact closing times.

Sumailla takes its name from the Quechua word for 'beautiful light,' a nod to the sunsets over Port d'Andratx, where the restaurant sits right on the waterfront. The room is minimalist by design, built to keep the sea view the focus rather than compete with it. The kitchen runs Japanese-Peruvian nikkei: sushi, tataki, nikkei tartares, teppanyaki bluefin tuna and Peruvian-style turbot, alongside a wine list spanning Mallorcan, Spanish and international bottles plus champagne and cocktails. Hours shift seasonally, running long through summer with a shorter winter schedule and a closure in deep winter, so it's worth checking the restaurant's own site or social channels before planning a visit outside peak season.

Katagi Blau sits on the top floor of the Iberostar Selection Llaut Palma near Playa de Palma, with vertical gardens and views out over the bay. The kitchen runs Asian fusion, sushi, sashimi, teppanyaki, blended with local Mallorcan products, and there's a dedicated teppanyaki experience running Wednesday to Sunday plus a Sunday rooftop brunch at 48 euros a head. A weekly-rotating lunch menu runs 35 euros a person, and the teppan tasting menus sit at 65 or 75 euros. The dress code is elegant casual, sportswear and swimwear discouraged, fitting the rooftop-hotel setting. It's open Wednesday to Sunday from midday, evenings only Monday and Tuesday, so it's the hotel-rooftop pick on this list if you want the view alongside the raw fish.

Bonito Kitchen & Cocktails, part of the Enjoy Group of Mallorca venues, runs its menu from Mexico to Japan by way of Southeast Asia: edamame, quesadillas, gyozas, dim sum, ramen and sushi combos, alongside a full cocktail list. The restaurant bills itself as the most colourful spot on the Playa de Palma strip, with design cues borrowed from Miami Beach. The room leans into the party side of things, with live DJ sessions and an automated light show that kicks in at night, so it's a livelier pick than a quiet sushi dinner. It's open daily from 11:30 to midnight, and diners rate it 4.3 on Google from 2,203 reviews, a high-volume, high-energy spot rather than an intimate counter.

Abbaco sits on the seafront in Port de Pollença, on Passeig Saralegui, building its cooking around natural ingredients, including KM0 produce and some of its own cultivation. The restaurant describes itself as a space where eating is meant to be an experience rather than just a meal, combining that natural-ingredients approach with Japanese, Peruvian and Mediterranean cooking, sushi included in the spread. There's also an artisanal ice cream corner, Ca na Mina, making homemade ice creams from natural, local ingredients, worth saving room for after the savoury courses. It runs long hours daily, from midday to midnight, and diners rate it well: 4.7 on Google (1,096 reviews) and 4.7 on TripAdvisor (662 reviews).

Mar y Mar is a beachfront restaurant and beach bar at Peguera, on the Calvià coast, splitting into a main dining area and an adjacent beach bar with its own sushi and sashimi counter. Unlike most beachfront spots on this list, it stays open year-round rather than closing for winter. The food is Mediterranean with a seafood lean and a fusion streak, sushi and sashimi from the beach-bar counter alongside a drinks programme of cocktails, rosé, sangria and wine to go with the sea view. It's open daily from midday to 22:00, and diners rate it 4.5 on Google from 2,847 reviews, a high-volume, year-round crowd-pleaser rather than a summer-only pop-up.