Jin Sho

454 California Ave, Palo Alto
(650) 321-3454

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Assorted Fresh Sushi Platter
Rock Shrimp Tempura
Yellow Tail Jalape
Sashimi Deluxe
Chirashi Sushi
Corn Tempura
Sushi Rolls
Dragon Roll
Black Cod
Miso Soup

Menu

Appetizer
Agedashi Tofu
Delicately fried tofu with an airy crunch covered in our handcrafted tempura broth. Garnished with scallion, spicy radish, seaweed, and nameko mushrooms.
Sweet Corn Tempura with Matcha Salt
One of our most popular appetizers. Sweet fresh corn tempura sprinkled with matcha salt.
Edamame
Cooked soybean served sprinkled with salt.
Yellow Tail Jalapeño
One of our most popular appetizers. Yellow tail sashimi covered in garlic and jalapeño served with yuzu soy.
Karaage Chicken Appetizer
Japanese fried chicken - a classic dish consisting of tender and tender chicken thighs.
Shrimp Tempura à la Carte
Shrimp fried to perfection with our light and airy tempura batter.
Popcorn Shrimp (8 pcs) with Spicy Mayo
Shrimp tempura with spicy mayo on the side.
Black Cod Appetizer
Our signature dish in an appetizer format - no rice or salad compared to the bento version.
New Style Sashimi (White Fish)
Garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds on white fish soaked in yuzu soy sauce and lightly Cooked with hot sesame oil.
Salmon Jalapeño
A variation of our signature yellowtail jalapeño using salmon. Thinly sliced sashimi garnished with garlic, cilantro, and jalapeño served with our unique yuzu-soy sauce.
New Style Sashimi (Salmon)
Garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds on white fish soaked in yuzu soy sauce and lightly cooked with hot sesame oil.
Shrimp (2 pcs) & Veg Tempura
Shrimp and 4 kinds of vegetables battered in our light and airy tempura batter fried to perfection. Served with our handcrafted tempura broth.

Salad
House Salad
Organic mixed greens with your choice of onion soy dressing, miso dressing, or ginger dressing. A simple yet popular dish due to our hand-made dressing.
Mix Seaweed Salad
Red, white, and green tosaka seaweed, wakame, and mozuku.
Soft Shell Crab Salad
Deep-fried soft shell crab with organic mix greens, comes with spicy lemon dressing.
Tuna Sashimi Salad
Seared tuna with black pepper, organic mixed greens, and choice of dressing.
Grilled Chicken Breast Salad
Slow-cooked chicken breast that has been grilled to finish with organic mixed greens with choice of dressing.

Kitchen Entrée
Black Cod Entrée
Our signature dish. Black cod marinated for 3 days in our special miso and grilled. Comes with a side of seasoned rice and salad with onion soy dressing.
Wild Salmon Entrée
Grilled wild salmon serviced with a bed of rice and nori.
Chicken Teriyaki Entrée
Grilled chicken with our original Jin Sho style teriyaki sauce. Comes with a side of seasoned rice and salad with onion soy dressing.
Vegetable Tempura Entrée
6-7 kinds of vegetables battered in our light and airy tempura batter fried to perfection. Served with our handcrafted tempura fish broth, seasoned rice, and salad with onion soy dressing.
Wagyu Yakiniku Entrée
Grade A5 marbled thin sliced Wagyu served over rice made with handcrafted yakiniku sauce. Grade A5 is the absolute highest quality of beef globally.
Two River Sirloin Steak (12 oz)
Processing accentuates natural marbling for notably tender and juicy beef. Choice of Jin Sho teriyaki sauce or onion soy vinaigrette. Comes with a white rice and mixed greens.
Karaage Chicken Entrée
Japanese fried chicken - a classic dish consisting of tender and juicy chicken thighs. Comes with a side of seasoned rice and salad with onion soy dressing.
Shrimp (2 pcs) & Vegetable Tempura Entrée
Shrimp and 4 kinds of vegetables battered in our light and airy tempura batter fried to perfection. Served with our handcrafted tempura broth, seasoned rice, and salad with onion soy dressing.

Sushi-Bar Entrée
Chirashi
Assorted sliced fish over sushi rice. Assortment of fish may vary on the day.
Sushi Omakase Special (10 pcs) and Roll (1 pc)
Sushi omakase with toro scallion roll includes oh toro, uni from Japan, and botan prawns.
Salmon Set (5 pcs)
Sushi (5 pcs) & Roll Set
Nigiri accompanied with our Jin Sho style spicy tuna roll. Nigiri will consist of tuna, salmon, yellowtail, and 2 of the freshest fish chosen by our chefs.
Bluefin Tuna Set (5 pcs)
Limited quantity.
Sashimi Regular
Tuna, salmon, yellowtail, hirame, saba, and tako. (Contents subject to change.).
Sashimi Deluxe
Chu toro, bluefin tuna, kanpachi, sockeye salmon, salmon, and hotate. (Contents subject to change.).
Sashimi Omakase
Best of the best. Chef's selection of the best sashimi from a variety of different fish. The orders may differ and the Jin Sho chefs will select the fish based on how they complement each other. Here are a list of some of the sashimi that may be included - oh toro, sockeye salmon, tai, kinmedai, shima aji, kanpachi, uni, botan ebi, bluefin tuna, salmon, nodoguro, iwashi, katsuo, yari ika, and hotate.
Yellowtail Set (5 pcs)
Sushi Omakase (8 pcs)
Nigiri omakase selected by our chef. The best fishes of the day. We can modify our selection based on allergies but we cannot take requests to include certain fish.

Rolls
Spicy Tuna Roll
With crunch tempura bits inside.
Toro Scallion Roll
California Roll
Dragon Roll
Eel, avocado, and shrimp tempura.
Shrimp Tempura Roll
Shrimp tempura and asparagus.
Spider Roll
Soft shell crab tempura, avocado, masago, cucumber, and kaiware.
Spicy Salmon Roll
Salmon Avocado Roll
Avocado Roll
Fantasy Roll
Spicy tuna with tempura bits and spicy yellowtail on top.
Yellowtail Scallion Roll
Yellowtail and green onion.
Tuna Avocado Roll
Rainbow Roll
Tuna, salmon, albacore, crab, avocado, and crunch tempura bits.
Salmon Cucumber Roll
Eel Cucumber Roll
Cucumber Roll
Cucumber with shiso leaf, a delicious, fresh combo.
Giants Roll
Salmon, eel, kanpyo, and avocado with crunchy tempura bits.
Spicy Yellowtail Roll
Volcano Roll
Salmon, spicy tuna, and crunch tempura bits baked with spicy mayo.
Stanford Roll
Spicy tuna, eel, and avocado with crunchy tempura inside.
Eel Avocado Roll
El Camino Roll
Eel outside, real crab and cucumber inside.
Tekka Roll
Tuna - maguro.
Salmon Skin Roll

Sushi à la Carte
Ikura (1 pc)
Salmon caviar marinated in our handcrafted soy sauce.
Bluefin Tuna (1 pc)
Bluefin tuna from Kyushu, Japan.
Yellowtail Toro (Hamachi) (1 pc)
Scallop (Hotate) (1 pc)
Fluke (Hirame) (1 pc)
Kanpachi (1 pc)
Amber jack.
Botan Ebi (1 pc)
Sweet shrimp consumed raw and has a sweet taste unlike the regular ebi.
Aburi Toro (1 pc)
Garlic soy marinaded bluefin toro then lightly seared.
Kani (1 pc)
Snow crab.
Inari (1 pc)
Sushi rice covered by sweet soy taste. Fried bean curd.
Salmon Toro (1 pc)
Salmon (Sake) (1 pc)
Uni Japan (1 pc)
Uni from Hokkaido, Japan. This uni called "bafun uni" is gold colored and sweet.
Mackerel (Saba) (1 pc)
Nodoguro (1 pc)
Extremely rare. Normally called akamutsu but because their throat is black colored they are called "nodoguro" (black throat). In English they are called black throat seaperch. They have white meat that is more tender and fatty.
Hoho (1 pc)
Bluefin hoho is the "cheek" portion of the fish. A 300 pounds tuna holds only 12 ounces or 0.25 percent of this portion of the fish. The texture is similar to beef tataki. At Jin Sho, we proudly serve this extremely rare dish with grated garlic and scallion.
Tako (1 pc)
Octopus - cooked.
Shima Aji (1 pc)
White trevally.
Chu Toro (1 pc)
This toro is bluefin tuna from Kyushu, Japan. Toro is the fatty part of the tuna and these pieces will melt in your mouth. The 'chu' designates the medium fatty part of the tuna.
Eel (Unagi) (1 pc)
Kinmedai (1 pc)
Alfonsino.
Sable (Gindara) (1 pc)
Oh Toro (1 pc)
This toro is bluefin tuna from Kyushu, Japan. Toro is the fatty part of the tuna and these pieces will melt in your mouth. The 'oh' designates the fattiest part of the tuna.
Tamago (1 pc)
Yellowtail (Hamachi) (1 pc)
Tai (1 pc)
Japanese red snapper.
White Tuna (Albacore) (1 pc)
Masago (1 pc)
Shrimp (Ebi) (1 pc)

Udon & Soba
Yaki Udon
Pan-fried udon with julienned vegetables, chicken, garlic butter, and soy flavor.
Nabeyaki Udon
Udon with fish broth soup, shrimp tempura, chicken, poached egg, spinach, and scallions.
Plain Udon
Tempura Zaru Soba
Cold buckwheat noodle with shrimp.
Roasted Duck Soba (Kamo)
Buckwheat noodles in hot fish broth with oven-roasted Canadian duck.
Plain Soba

Sides
Miso Soup
Traditional style miso soup crafted from our dashi and softened miso paste.
White Rice
Extra Sauce
Brown Rice

Drinks
Hot Green Tea
Our house green tea - hot.

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Recent Reviews

No full menu with descriptions, just a list to check off what you want to order. This made it difficult for a party of 4 to order. The food was excellent and well worth a repeat. Service was prompt and prices are fair.
September 2025
An excellent sushi place offering a variety of rolls, sashimi, nigiri, etc. They also have an extensive drinks list and offer some intriguing matcha lattes. The chef accommodated my gluten-free request and made a couple of substitutions in the chirashi. There was beef sashimi in the chirashi, which I'd never had before - it was surprisingly tender and delightful. Overall, an excellent experience.
September 2025
Very high quality restaurant. Great sushi . The takeout area that occupies the former sushi bar has detracted from the ambience a bit but this oldie is a “can't miss.” If you're looking for great sushi this is your spot. And it's an awesome value as well
September 2025

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Jin Sho

454 California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306
(650) 321-3454