Japanese · Sushi · Omakase

YŪGEN — Omakase Sushi & Cinematic Fine Dining in San Francisco

Omakase in the key of stillness. An intimate omakase counter where the season, the light and the hand of the chef become one quiet ritual.

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Recognition

2024Two Michelin StarsMichelin Guide

2024World's 50 Best · No. 3150 Best Restaurants

2023Site of the DayAwwwards

2023Best Fine DiningEater SF

2022Chef of the YearJames Beard Foundation

The philosophy物語

A meal measured in stillness, not courses.

Yūgen (幽玄) — the profound, mysterious grace of the universe, felt but never fully seen. We built YŪGEN around that single idea — that the most beautiful things are felt at the edge of perception: the warmth of rice at body temperature, the hush before the first piece, the light softening over the counter as evening falls.

Every element — the hinoki wood, the concrete, the single seasonal branch — is chosen and then quietened, until only the essential remains.

Est.: 2019
Seats: 18
Courses: 17

The empty hinoki sushi counter at dusk, lit by warm paper lanterns with a seasonal branch in a ceramic vase

旬The counter, at dusk

Macro of a marbled slice of aged salmon belly on dark slate

鮭Aged salmon belly

Hand-thrown matte ceramic cups and plates stacked on a concrete surface

器Hand-thrown ceramics

板前

Arata Mizuno

Executive Chef · Itamae

The hand behind the counter板前

Twenty years learning to do less.

Trained in Kanazawa and Tokyo before the counters of Sukiyabashi, Chef Arata treats each service as a single conversation — reading the room, the season and the fish, then composing in real time. His cuts are quiet; his timing is not.