Mori Sushi Bar

The sign out front says it’s closed for renovations, but it has said that since July, so who knows at this point :(

Closed! Tried to go Saturday night and it wasn’t open, just called the number and it’s out of service. Too bad!

After the Westword gave this place «Best Sushi in the Last Place You’d Expect It» for 2008, I had to check it out. I felt much more comfortable eating at this place than an up-​scale sushi bar, not having to worry about getting sloppy with the soy sauce. We ate there on a Monday night and there was only 2 other people eating at the time, far from busy.
My experience with sushi is fairly new but I would have to rate it as the best sushi I’ve had so far. Maybe it was the duct tape on the table. Maybe it was the price. Maybe it was just damn good. Who knows. I will be back Mori, oh yes, I will be back.

I guess I’m a little spoiled after living in San Francisco for a few years, but not bad for a small, local establishment…
Plus five stars for goofy (but fun) karaōke on the weekends.
Minus two stars for a funky odor that I couldn’t quite place… Crotch, perhaps?

I’m pretty keen on Mori. The restaurant itself is not exactly first –date material, but they have really good sushi and really fantastic prices. A cheap 22 oz Kirin doesn’t hurt, either.
The owner prepares some beautiful sushi and he’s super friendly as well. Much better than somewhere like Hapa, with 26 variations on a California Roll rolled by a white guy.
The karaōke is pretty goddamn rad too.

Yeah… not all that impressed with Mori’s.
I also heard they had the best sushi in Denver, and I had high hopes given their unassuming front, but after waiting an absurd thirty minutes or so for our sushi, when it really wasn’t busy at all and the table next to us received their food before us even though we were seated much earlier, I was decidedly underwhelmed.
The best dish of the night was by far the tempura scallops, and it never hurts to have your own free parking lot in LoDo.
The sashimi was fresh, and the cocktails where even more fresh, but in the end, it just wasn’t worth the price or the wait.

Oh hell yes. Where else can you sit at a long communal bar and eat sushi while getting extremely drunk and singing «Love is a Battlefied»?
I have NEVER had a bad time here. It rules. Sometimes the sushi chefs and bartenders will get real into it and sing along.
The clientele is a great and disturbing mish mash of low rent, preppy, and hipster, but everybody always gets along. Raw fish and Guns n Roses can do that to you.

Mori restaurant is one of the remaining japanese restaurants in Denver from the pre-​invasion of people from everywhere but here. Their main competition used to be the Akebono restaurant on the second floor of Sakura Square. Akebobo’s has been gone a long time. Yoko’s is okay if you have the time, Domo’s is pretty good if you’re lucky and the star’s align, and there are sushi bars springing up in every neighborhood and all over downtown seemingly daily that can be pretty good but look around you at those places and count the Japanese eating there. I can’t remember having a bad meal here even though the menu has changed a few times and the prices have gone up over the years but what hasn’t. Good place.

My roomate and I used to go to this bar every Thursday night and do Karoke and it was a blast. Sometimes there were very few people in there but sometimes for some reason this was the place to be. I haven’t had the sushi yet but it seems like it would be pretty good stuff.