Sakanaya Boston

A lovely little hole in the wall market with excellent basic sushi with no frills.
Great prices! Takeout only!

What...?

How have I not visited this small but mightily-awesome establishment a lot sooner? This tiny Japanese fish market is just a couple minutes away and I've somehow failed to visit them until very recently. I guess it has a lot to do with not craving fish for the last year BUT when the first hint of desire for seafood returned, their name immediately popped up in my mind.

I've been back several times since the initial visit. Their variety of sashimi grade fish as well as specials in their frozen section (fish trimmings and fish heads) definitely suit my personal culinary preferences. On top of that, they actually provide a chirashi service (for a dollar) where they slice the fish you purchased and lay it atop sushi rice for you. This allows you to fully customize your chirashi bowls according to what you crave in the very moment.

Friendly people, fresh ingredients, decently priced. Definitely recommend and can't wait to be back again soon!

Good, fresh fish. Wonderful for sushi and sashimi. They sell a lot of nice side dishes, too! Different types of roe, seaweed salad, squid salad, they have it all. Their onigiri is also only $2! Small store, but they have all the essentials. We like to come here for poke bowl ingredients.

We ordered for pick up. Sushi was delicious. We selected one of the platters. They basically charge for everything like wasabi packets, soy sauce and utensils. Overall, it's already

A cool fish market filled with all the fish you can imagine! They've got all types of Japanese frozen seafood, fresh seafood, sashimi, and Japanese goods.

You can get raw fish rice bowls (sushi dons) to-go. There's not really a space for eating inside. They also don't sell hot food either.

The staff is very friendly. I got the salmon sashimi here. It comes in a large block that you buy by the pound. The staff was willing to cut it for us too. I can't wait to come back and try their other types of fish and items. I'll definitely be returning regularly!

Sakanaya is wonderful. We have been consistently getting our sushi fish from Sakanaya over the past 5 years, and they've never disappointed us.
We recently got a party platter that was amazing, and the owner gifted us a lot of extra leftover pieces from the store without extra charge. It was delicious!
My favorites are toro and salmon.

Great concept- select your own sashimi and they make a sashimi bowl for you out of the fish you selected.

Sashimi that I saw in their cases- fatty tuna, maguro, kampachi, hamachi, shrimp, hotate, uni, salmon, shime saba, octopus, various roe, just to name a few.

For our group of 3, we picked up yellow fin tuna, kanpachi, shime saba, salmon and it all came out to around $54- for the quality of the fish, speed of how they prepared it and the amount, I thought it was very fair.
As I write this, I'm thinking of how the salmon and tuna especially had that nice marbling and was the perfect level of fresh/fatty- it was a satisfying meal!

i like this place when i stop through downtown for lunch, I do not know if they offer dinner but there are many lunch combo specials and they are great!!

It's a small store located in Newton, near Waltham. They carry a variety of fresh and frozen seafood along with a small variety of items that would be needed for a sushi dinner.

I order the temaki platter, which is an assortment of sashimi. The size is dependent on how much you'd like to spend. For 3 adults I usually get $50. For 6 sushi lovers, $90. Etc. Order ahead by calling during shop hours and speaking to them directly.

Tried Sakanaya and was not disappointed. Simple, but good sushi at reasonable prices. Perhaps not the most exceptional sushi I've tried locally, but for the price it was a great value. Got the tuna and salmon bowl. I'd like to try a large mixed platter for a family gathering. Staff are friendly. Take out only.