Sumo San Restaurant

Hailed as the best sushi restaurant and sake bar in the region, Sumo San won over the Shockoe Bottom crowd with exceptional, original sushi, all of which is created right in Sumo San's kitchen.

Home of Richmond's celebrated sake bombs, Sumo San boasts over 40 different kinds of saki, it's easily one of Richmond's most appreciated traditions in the Bottom.  For the uninitiated, Sumo San's sake bombs are quite the ritual: Victor, the Chef and Owner, sets up beer glasses, chopsticks, and sake cups on a bar table. The beer glasses are then filled half way with beer, two chopsticks are placed on top of each glass, then cups of hot sake were placed precariously on top of that. Next Victor yells, "Sake!" And the crowd replies, "Bomb!" Again Victor yells, "Sake!" And the crowd returns, "Bomb!" Then Victor slams his head onto the table, which drops  the sake glasses into the beer. Everyone then grabs a glass and chugs the now mixed sake bomb.

Victor Srikusalankul himself is perhaps the greatest asset of Sumo San and his Carytown restaurant, Moshi Moshi. His laugh is boisterous, infectious and can be heard ringing through either restaurant when he's around. More importantly, this happy proprietor puts an enormous amount of value on creating a fun experience for his customers. And he keeps then coming back again, and again...and again.

"Sake!!!"