This downtown newcomer wants to become Portland’s next great sushi destination

The sushi counter at Nimblefish has room for only 12 people, plus an additional six seats set aside for dining a la carte.

The Southeast Portland restaurant isn’t exactly a barn. Yet for his next project, Nimblefish co-owner Cody Auger was searching for something even more intimate.

He found it in the downtown Portland storefront once home to Lil’ Shalom, an approximately 700-square-foot space near the entrance of Multnomah Whiskey Library. That’s where he is working on the latest iteration — and, perhaps, culmination — of Auger’s long-running Fukami pop-up series…

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