Akami Sushi Bar Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Akami Sushi Bar, a hidden gem located in Apex, NC, where the art of sushi is elevated to a delightful culinary experience. Our menu boasts a vibrant selection of traditional and innovative sushi creations, each crafted with precision and flair. The atmosphere here is casual yet inviting, perfect for a dinner with friends or a relaxed evening out.
What sets Akami apart is its commitment to fresh ingredients and the art of sushi-making. From the moment you take a seat, the aromas of grilled fish and seasoned rice awaken your senses. While vegetarian options are limited, the offerings include mouthwatering nigiri, signature rolls, and delectable sashimi.
Pair your meal with our curated selection of beer and wine, available for your enjoyment on our charming outdoor patio. Akami Sushi Bar is not just a restaurant; it's a celebration of flavors that promises to leave you coming back for more.
Lunch Menu
Sushi Moriwase
5 pc nigiri and California roll
Sashimi Moriwase L
9 pc sashimi and tuna roll
Sushi And Sashimi
3 pc nigiri, 6 pc sashimi and tuna roll
Spicy Don
Diced tuna and cucumber or salmon and avocado over sushi rice with spicy house sauce, masago and scallion
Unagi Don L
BBQ eel over sushi rice, sesame seed and eel sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Tempura Roll Combo
Shrimp tempura roll and 4 pc nigiri
Rainbow Roll Combo
Rainbow roll and 4 pc nigiri
Shrimp Tempura Don
Shrimp tempura mixed with spicy sauce, seaweed salad over sushi rice. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Edamame
Steamed soy bean
Gyoza
Steamed chicken dumpling
Hamachi Jalapeno Carpaccio
Thin sliced Japanese yellowtail, jalapeno, cilantro, tobiko, yuzu soy. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Kawahagi
Japanese fish jerky
Nigiri Appetizer
Chefs selection 5 pc nigiri. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Prawn Shumai
Steamed Japanese style shrimp dumpling
Salmon Larb
Salmon, masago with fresh chilli lime sauce served with avocado. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Sashimi Appetizer
Chefs selection 9 pc sashimi. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Scallop Carpacio
Japanese scallops, ikura with fresh chilli lime sauce, ponzu, scallion and fried shallot. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Shrimp Tempura App
Japanese style shrimp tempura with spicy mayo and eel sauce
Tuna Su
Bluefin tuna, avocado, masago, oba, scallion wrapped in paper thin cucumber served with fried shallot, ponzu and spicy sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Tuna Tartar
Diced spicy tuna, avocado, masago, spicy mayo, black caviar served with cracker. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Tuna Tataki
Sliced seared tuna with ponzu, daikon, scallions and sesame seeds. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Appetizers
Soup and Salad
Miso
Japanese soy bean paste, scallion, tofu and seaweed
Tom Yum Miso
Shumai, shrimp, cilantro, scallion, tomato, Japanese citrus and spices
Souper Bowl
Lobster, shumai, shrimp, white fish, scallion, cilantro with spices
Spicy Conch And Octopus Salad
Japaneseperuvian influence style with spicy yuzu dressing
Sunomono Salad
Thin sliced octopus, ebi, kanikama, cucumber, sesame seed with rice vinegar
Seaweed Salad
Marinated seaweed
House Salad
With wasabi soy or yuzu pineapple dressing fresh spring mixed, carrot, tomato and cucumber
Tuna And Scallion
Salmon And Scallion
Hamachi And Scallion
Japanese White Fish And Scallion
Toro Scallion
HR add oba and kizami wasabi
Spicy Japanese Scallop
Eel Cucumber HR
Traditional Rolls and Hand Rolls
Akami Signature Rolls
Eel Jalapeno
Salmon, cream cheese, cucumber, tempura crunch spicy mayo topped with BBQ eel, jalapeno, black tobiko, microgreens and eel sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Voodoo
Tuna, salmon, hamachi, cilantro, avocado, jalapeno, rolled seaweed outside topped with spicy tuna, tobiko, spicy mayo and eel sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Hamachi Torch
Tuna, cucumber, avocado, cilantro, topped with hamachi seared with spicy house sauce and jalapeno, shredded Japanese pepper. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Phat Boy
Spicy tuna, scallion, cucumber, avocado, tempura crunch topped with Toro, chopped wasabi root and tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
South Beach
Salmon, oshinko, oba, crunch, avocado, spicy sauce topped with seared Toro and jalapeno with house sauce, kizami wasabi, tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Land And Sea
Shrimp tempura, Maine lobster, cucumber, avocado topped with seared Japanese A5 wagyu beef, fried shallot, tobiko and kizami wasabi. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Cajun Tuna And Salmon
Shrimp tempura, cucumber, avocado topped with seared tuna and salmon with cajun pepper and cilantro yuzu sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Ocean Delight
Coconut shrimp, cucumber, cream cheese, avocado topped with baked maine lobster, masago, fried shallot, eel sauce
Geisha Dragon
Shrimp tempura, cream cheese, cucumber, spicy tuna, topped with baked spicy mixed fish tobiko, scallion and eel sauce. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
King Salmon Roll
Shrimp tempura, cucumber, spicy tuna, scallion topped with seared king salmon and thin sliced lemon with spicy sauce and tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Mango Maguro
Spicy tuna, crab salad, tempura crunch, mango, masago, topped with tuna, mango sauce and cracker bit. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Hokkaido Pearl
Cooked main lobster, cucumber, avocado, oshinko, spicy mayo topped seared Hokkaido scallop, kizami wasabi and tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Shishito
Tuna, oshinko, shishito pepper, oba topped with seared Japanese white fish, tobiko, furikake and lemon zest. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Nigiri Set
8 pc nigiri and California roll. Premium with toro roll
Sashimi Moriwase
15 pc sashimi and tuna roll. Premium with toro roll
Nigiri And Sashimi
6 pc nigiri, 9 pc sashimi and tuna roll
Chirashi
12 pc assorted sashimi over sushi rice
Tuna Donburi
Tuna, avocado over sushi rice
Salmon Donburi
Salmon, ikura over sushi rice
Toro Donburi
Fatty bluefin tuna belly over sushi rice
Unagi Don
BBQ eel over sushi rice, sesame seed and eel sauce
Sets Menu
Substitution and Sides
Eel Sauce
Spicy Mayo
Voodoo Sauce
Cracker
Cilantro
Cucumber
Avocado Inside Roll
Masago On Top
Tobiko On Top
Side Avocado
Side Sushi Rice
Soy Paper
Kizami Wasabi
Ama Ebi
Sweet shrimp. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Akami
Red meat back loin of bluefin tuna. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
ChuToro
Medium fatty bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Toro
Fatty bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Otoro
Fattiest bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Ocean Trout
Atlantic ocean trout. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Hamachi
Japanese yellowtail seared belly 10. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Hamachi Belly Seared
Hotategai
Japanese scallop. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
King Salmon
New Zealand king salmon belly 12. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Wagyu A5
Seared certified Japanese beef, tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Uni
Sea urchin Japanese. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Conch
Ebi
Cooked shrimp
Escolar
Butterfish. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Inari
Seasoning fried tofu pouch
Ika
Squid. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Ikura
Marinated salmon roe. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Kanikama
Imitation crab stick
Maguro
Tuna. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Masago
Capelin egg. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Sake
Salmon, Scottish. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Sake Belly
Seared salmon belly nigiri only. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Saba
Marinated Norwegian mackerel. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Smoked Salmon
Smoked atlantic salmon. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Tamago
Sweet japanese style egg
Tobiko
Unagi
BBQ fresh water eel
Quail Egg
Quail egg. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Kanpachi
Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Hirame
Flounder. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Madai
Seabream. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Shima Aji
Striped jack. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
A La Carte
House Rolls
California
Kanikama, avocado, cucumber
Eel And Cucumber
BBQ eel and cucumber
Dancing Eel
BBQ eel on top of California roll with eel sauce
Rainbow
Tuna, salmon, hamachi, escolar on top of California roll. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Japanese Bagel
Salmon, cream cheese, scallion. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Spicy Tuna
Tuna mixed with voodoo sauce, masago, cucumber and scallion. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Spicy Salmon
Spicy salmon and avocado. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Shrimp Tempura
Shrimp tempura, kanikama, mayo, cucumber, avocado and topped with eel sauce
Dragon
Shrimp tempura, cream cheese, cucumber, spicy mayo top with avocado and eel sauce
Spider
Soft shell crab tempura, avocado, cucumber, cream cheese, rolled with seaweed outside served with eel and spicy mayo sauce
Veggie
Avocado, cucumber and Japanese pickles
Volcano
Baked mixed fish, masago, scallion on top of California roll and eel sauce
Philly
Baked salmon, cream cheese, avocado topped with smoked salmon. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness
Salmon Lover
Salmon, cream cheese, avocado topped with salmon. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness