The opening of Sushi Adachi on March 7, 2026 at The Village at San Antonio Center quietly confirmed what the data has been saying for a year.
Per Mountain View Voice and Palo Alto Online, Peninsula omakase counters have doubled since 2024. The Mountain View → Cupertino → Santa Clara → San Jose corridor has its own version of the boom, and most of it lands well under the $290–$330 tickets at upper-tier counters like Katsu or Sushi Shin.
The under-$60 nigiri tier is the most visible shift. Sushi Pro at 1078 E Brokaw Rd in San Jose runs a $50 chef’s selection — Hirami, Suzuki, Shima Aji, Hamachi, O Toro, Chu Toro, Maguro and more — with chawanmushi included, and sits in Yelp’s 2026 “Top 10 Best Cheap Omakase in San Jose.”
Amami Shima Sushi at 19068 Stevens Creek Blvd in Cupertino serves a 10-piece nigiri omakase in the $42–$52 range, backed by 1,240 Yelp reviews as of April 2026. Sushi Confidential’s Campbell flagship at 247 E Campbell Ave runs a $50 Omakase Sashimi — 15 pieces, fusion-leaning — plus a monthly Sip & Sushi wine-paired dinner in Morgan Hill on the third Wednesday.
The mid-tier counter is where the value math gets striking. Blue Pagoda at 1613 N Capitol Ave in San Jose serves a 16-course omakase at $108 table or $118 sushi bar, with the menu refreshed on the 8th of every month and fish flown weekly from Japan; Executive Chef Lang trained in Tokyo and studied fermentation in Kyoto.
Rantei Japanese Cuisine at 1271 Franklin Mall in Santa Clara offers a sashimi omakase around $63 inside private tatami rooms — a different format than the sushi-bar-only template, supported by 1,682 Yelp reviews.
The pedigreed tier anchors Mountain View. Sushi Jin at 580 N Rengstorff Ave runs a 14-course Edomae omakase at $145–$155 with an optional $55 uni tasting flight; the menu refreshes seasonally, and a Palo Alto Online diner called it “a perfect introduction to omakase.”
Sushi Adachi prices its 17-course at $160 and 20-course at $225, sourcing from Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market. Chef Masaki Sasaki — who opened Maruya in 2013 as San Francisco’s first omakase counter and co-founded the Michelin-starred Omakase — has been pointed in his critique that much of the current boom prioritizes profit over craft. His planned $30 Gozen lunch will be one of the lowest-priced sit-down omakase sets in the city when it launches…