Sushi and Asian restaurants in St. Petersburg

Last checked 2026-10-11. Refreshed every three months.

St. Petersburg’s sushi bars and Asian restaurants cluster downtown, along the first blocks of Central Avenue and 1st Avenue North, and in the EDGE District, where Hawkers, Buya and DrunkenWok sit. Away from downtown, Chinese takeout, hibachi and sushi spread along 34th Street, 4th Street North, 49th Street and 66th Street, with Korean barbecue at Tyrone Square.

How we made this list. We started from OpenStreetMap records inside St. Petersburg’s city limits, the same records that feed our local directory, and checked each place against its own website on Oct. 11, 2026. We added places the map missed from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s restaurant license records and checked each address against the U.S. Census Bureau’s city-limits map. A place with no website is listed only if it holds a current state food license. Bubble tea shops are left off. The list is alphabetical. It is not a ranking or a recommendation, and nobody paid to be on it. A place can write to us to correct its entry.

The places with their own sites

Alesia, 7204 Central Ave. A French and Vietnamese restaurant on the west end of Central Avenue, open for lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday.

Buya Izakaya + Ramen, 911 Central Ave. A Japanese izakaya and ramen restaurant with sister restaurants in Miami and Germany. It takes table bookings and is closed Monday.

DrunkenWok, inside Ferg’s Sports Bar & Grill, 1320 Central Ave. An Asian kitchen serving bao buns, pad thai, drunken noodles and Korean fried chicken inside the sports bar, open late every night.

Hawkers Asian Street Fare, 1235 Central Ave. An Asian street food and craft cocktail restaurant in the EDGE District that runs a waitlist through its site.

Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, 2773 66th St. N. A Florida hibachi chain whose St. Pete restaurant serves teppanyaki and sushi rolls; its site lists weekend teppanyaki lunch at St. Pete.

La V Vietnamese Fusion, 441 Central Ave. A Vietnamese restaurant open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, with set lunch menus on weekdays and weekends.

Lemon Grass, 310 Central Ave. A sushi, Thai and tapas restaurant downtown; it opens at 1 p.m. on weekends.

Pacific Counter, 660 Central Ave. and 210 37th Ave. N. A poke restaurant with two St. Pete counters and one in Lakewood Ranch, both St. Pete shops open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

Perry’s BBQ Asian Grill, Tyrone Square. A Chinese-style barbecue and grill counter in the mall’s food court, with sister counters in Clearwater and Tampa.

Pin Wok & Bowl, 445 Central Ave. A Japanese and Thai restaurant that closes between lunch and dinner on weekdays and is closed Monday.

Sab Cafe, 111 2nd Ave. NE. A Vietnamese restaurant downtown that also caters parties and events. It is closed Monday and Tuesday.

Siam Garden, 3125 Martin Luther King Jr. St. N. A Thai restaurant serving lunch and dinner Monday to Saturday.

Sushi Sho Rexley, 214 2nd St. N. A small sushi restaurant downtown open four evenings a week, Thursday to Sunday.

Thai Am, 6040 4th St. N. A family-owned Thai restaurant that says it has served Thai food in Florida since 2001, with a second restaurant in Clearwater.

Yummy Thai, 10466 Roosevelt Blvd. N. A Thai restaurant in the Gateway area for dine-in and takeout. It closes on Sundays.

The rest of the list. The 39 places marked “no website” or “site would not load” in the table, most of them Chinese takeout, hibachi and sushi restaurants, all hold current state food licenses at those addresses. Call before you go.

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I get sushi in downtown St. Petersburg?

Downtown has Sushi Sho Rexley on 2nd Street North, Sushi Inc. and Ahi Sushi on 1st Avenue North, Pacific Counter’s poke on Central Avenue and Lemon Grass, which serves sushi and Thai tapas, at 310 Central Ave.

Where can I get ramen in St. Pete?

Buya Izakaya + Ramen is at 911 Central Ave., open noon to 9 or 10 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday and closed Monday. Tokyo Ramen is on 34th Street South.

Which Asian restaurant in St. Petersburg is open late?

DrunkenWok, inside Ferg’s Sports Bar at 1320 Central Ave., posts hours to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 a.m. the other nights. Hawkers Asian Street Fare on Central Avenue is open to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Where is there Thai food in St. Petersburg?

Siam Garden on Martin Luther King Jr. Street North, Thai Am on 4th Street North, Pin Wok & Bowl and Lemon Grass on Central Avenue, Yummy Thai on Roosevelt Boulevard and Thai Hala on Central Avenue all serve Thai food.