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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Houston
Food
Feel
Price
7.7
8.5
$70
Japanese
Upmarket restaurant

Hours
Mon–Thu 11:30am–10:00pm
Fri 11:30am–midnight
Sat noon–midnight
Sun noon–10:00pm

Features Date-friendly
Bar Beer, wine, liquor
Credit cards Visa, MC, AmEx
Reservations Accepted

www.sushi-raku.com

Midtown
3201 Louisiana St.
Houston, TX
(713) 526-8885
Sushi Raku
A flashy place where the cooked classics yield the best results

From the two-syllable, four-letter name right down to the lower-case font and hanko stamp, Raku’s logo bears an uncanny likeness to that of a certain famed Austin restaurant. And like it, Raku sells modernized Japanese to well-dressed folks looking for dim lighting and artful platings. Resemblances beyond that grow blurrier;…

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