Mio Sushi

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Food typeJapanese
State
  • Oregon
  • Washington
CountryUnited States
Website miosushi.com

Mio Sushi is a chain of Japanese restaurants based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. [1] Elsewhere in Oregon, the business has operated in Bend and Eugene, and in Washington, Mio Sushi has operated in Salmon Creek, Seattle, and Tacoma. The business has garnered a positive reception.

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Description

The Portland, Oregon-based restaurant chain Mio Sushi serves Japanese cuisine. The restaurants are casual and family-friendly, according to 1859 Oregon's Magazine . [2] In addition to sushi, the menu includes beef yakiniku, chicken wings, a cucumber and asparagus salad with crab and octopus, curry vegetable rice, and miso ramen. [3] The Oregon sushi roll has crab and asparagus, as well as avocado and salmon. [4]

History and locations

There were between eight and twelve locations, as of 2011. [5] [6]

In Portland, Mio has operated in northeast Portland's Hollywood neighborhood. [7] It has also operated a shop on Hawthorne Boulevard in southeast Portland. [8] Elsewhere in Oregon, Mio has operated in Bend and Eugene. [9] [10] The Bend restaurant was at the Cascade Village Mall (or Cascade Village Shopping Center). [11] [12] [13] Like many restaurants, the Bend restaurant operated via delivery and take-out during the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] Mio Sushi was a vendor at the Beaverton Arts Commission's annual Beaverton Last Tuesday series in 2011. [15]

Mio has operated two restaurants in Seattle. The South Lake Union location opened in October 2011, and a Green Lake location opened in 2012. [1] Elsewhere in Washington, the business has operated in Salmon Creek and Tacoma. [16] [17] [18]

Reception

Mio won in the Best Sushi category of Willamette Week 's annual readers' poll in 2005 and 2006. [19] [20] The business won in the Best Sushi (Cheap) category in 2007. [21] It was a runner-up in the Best Sushi category again in 2015, [22] 2016, [23] and 2017, [24] and ranked second in the same category in 2022. [25] In 2010, the newspaper's Casey Jarman wrote, "A good ramen bowl is hard to find in Northwest Portland, for whatever reason, and Mio does them up right." [26]

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