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

$16.00

Sashimi Moriwase L

9 pc sashimi and tuna roll

$20.00

Sushi And Sashimi

3 pc nigiri, 6 pc sashimi and tuna roll

$22.00

Spicy Don

Diced tuna and cucumber or salmon and avocado over sushi rice with spicy house sauce, masago and scallion

$18.00

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

$16.00

Tempura Roll Combo

Shrimp tempura roll and 4 pc nigiri

$15.00

Rainbow Roll Combo

Rainbow roll and 4 pc nigiri

$16.00

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

$15.00

Edamame

Steamed soy bean

$6.00

Gyoza

Steamed chicken dumpling

$6.00

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

$15.00

Kawahagi

Japanese fish jerky

$6.00

Nigiri Appetizer

Chefs selection 5 pc nigiri. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$15.00

Prawn Shumai

Steamed Japanese style shrimp dumpling

$6.00

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

$14.00

Sashimi Appetizer

Chefs selection 9 pc sashimi. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$18.00

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

$15.00

Shrimp Tempura App

Japanese style shrimp tempura with spicy mayo and eel sauce

$8.00

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

$14.00

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

$14.00

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

$16.00

Appetizers

Soup and Salad

Miso

Japanese soy bean paste, scallion, tofu and seaweed

$4.00

Tom Yum Miso

Shumai, shrimp, cilantro, scallion, tomato, Japanese citrus and spices

$6.00

Souper Bowl

Lobster, shumai, shrimp, white fish, scallion, cilantro with spices

$12.00

Spicy Conch And Octopus Salad

Japaneseperuvian influence style with spicy yuzu dressing

$14.00

Sunomono Salad

Thin sliced octopus, ebi, kanikama, cucumber, sesame seed with rice vinegar

$10.00

Seaweed Salad

Marinated seaweed

$6.00

House Salad

With wasabi soy or yuzu pineapple dressing fresh spring mixed, carrot, tomato and cucumber

$4.00

Tuna And Scallion

$7.00

Salmon And Scallion

$6.00

Hamachi And Scallion

$7.00

Japanese White Fish And Scallion

$9.00

Toro Scallion

HR add oba and kizami wasabi

$13.00

Spicy Japanese Scallop

$17.00

Eel Cucumber HR

$7.00

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

$18.00

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

$19.00

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

$18.00

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

$20.00

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

$22.00

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

$36.00

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

$17.00

Ocean Delight

Coconut shrimp, cucumber, cream cheese, avocado topped with baked maine lobster, masago, fried shallot, eel sauce

$24.00

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

$19.00

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

$20.00

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

$16.00

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

$28.00

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

$24.00

Nigiri Set

8 pc nigiri and California roll. Premium with toro roll

$27.00

Sashimi Moriwase

15 pc sashimi and tuna roll. Premium with toro roll

$29.00

Nigiri And Sashimi

6 pc nigiri, 9 pc sashimi and tuna roll

$29.00

Chirashi

12 pc assorted sashimi over sushi rice

$29.00

Tuna Donburi

Tuna, avocado over sushi rice

$35.00

Salmon Donburi

Salmon, ikura over sushi rice

$35.00

Toro Donburi

Fatty bluefin tuna belly over sushi rice

$45.00

Unagi Don

BBQ eel over sushi rice, sesame seed and eel sauce

$26.00

Sets Menu

Substitution and Sides

Eel Sauce

$0.50

Spicy Mayo

$0.50

Voodoo Sauce

$0.50

Cracker

$1.00

Cilantro

$1.00

Cucumber

$1.00

Avocado Inside Roll

$1.00

Masago On Top

$1.00

Tobiko On Top

$1.00

Side Avocado

$2.00

Side Sushi Rice

$2.00

Soy Paper

$2.00

Kizami Wasabi

$3.00

Ama Ebi

Sweet shrimp. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$12.00

Akami

Red meat back loin of bluefin tuna. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$12.00

ChuToro

Medium fatty bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$14.00

Toro

Fatty bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$16.00

Otoro

Fattiest bluefin tuna belly. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$18.00

Ocean Trout

Atlantic ocean trout. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$10.00

Hamachi

Japanese yellowtail seared belly 10. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$7.00

Hamachi Belly Seared

$12.00

Hotategai

Japanese scallop. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$11.00

King Salmon

New Zealand king salmon belly 12. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$10.00

Wagyu A5

Seared certified Japanese beef, tobiko. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$24.00

Uni

Sea urchin Japanese. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$22.00

Conch

$5.00

Ebi

Cooked shrimp

$6.00

Escolar

Butterfish. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$6.00

Inari

Seasoning fried tofu pouch

$4.00

Ika

Squid. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$6.00

Ikura

Marinated salmon roe. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$6.00

Kanikama

Imitation crab stick

$3.00

Maguro

Tuna. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$8.00

Masago

Capelin egg. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$4.00

Sake

Salmon, Scottish. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$7.00

Sake Belly

Seared salmon belly nigiri only. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$12.00

Saba

Marinated Norwegian mackerel. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$6.00

Smoked Salmon

Smoked atlantic salmon. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$7.00

Tamago

Sweet japanese style egg

$4.00

Tobiko

$7.00

Unagi

BBQ fresh water eel

$7.00

Quail Egg

Quail egg. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$5.00

Kanpachi

Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$13.00

Hirame

Flounder. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$12.00

Madai

Seabream. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$12.00

Shima Aji

Striped jack. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$14.00

A La Carte

House Rolls

California

Kanikama, avocado, cucumber

$7.00

Eel And Cucumber

BBQ eel and cucumber

$9.00

Dancing Eel

BBQ eel on top of California roll with eel sauce

$13.00

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

$13.00

Japanese Bagel

Salmon, cream cheese, scallion. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$9.00

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

$9.00

Spicy Salmon

Spicy salmon and avocado. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$9.00

Shrimp Tempura

Shrimp tempura, kanikama, mayo, cucumber, avocado and topped with eel sauce

$11.00

Dragon

Shrimp tempura, cream cheese, cucumber, spicy mayo top with avocado and eel sauce

$13.00

Spider

Soft shell crab tempura, avocado, cucumber, cream cheese, rolled with seaweed outside served with eel and spicy mayo sauce

$12.00

Veggie

Avocado, cucumber and Japanese pickles

$8.00

Volcano

Baked mixed fish, masago, scallion on top of California roll and eel sauce

$14.00

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

$13.00

Salmon Lover

Salmon, cream cheese, avocado topped with salmon. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness

$15.00

Salmon California

$10.00

Tuna California

$12.00

Futomaki

$13.00

Kid California Roll Topped W Cooked Shrimp

$11.00

Kid Shrimp Tempura, Cucumber Topped W Kanikama Eel Sauce

$11.00

Kids Menu Under 12 Years

Dessert

Moji Ice Cream

$5.00

Green Tea Cheese Cake

$5.00

Yuzu Cheese Cake

$5.00

Fresh Coconut Cake

$10.00

Hot Green Tea

$2.75

Thai Iced Tea

$4.00

Japanese Sweet Tea

$2.50

Apple Juice

$2.00

Still Water

$2.00

Sparkling Water

$2.50

Coke

$1.50

Diet Coke

$1.50

Coke Zero

$1.50

Sprite

$1.50

Dr. Pepper

$1.50

Lemonade

$2.50

Ramune

$2.50

NA Beverages