Dayu Japanese Sushi & Grill
2305 W Esplanade Ave V1, Kenner
(504) 470-2277
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Cherry Blossom Roll Soy Paper
Naruto Snow Crab Roll
Spider Roll
Fried Rice
Ninja Roll
LSU Roll
Sushi
Tuna
Appetizers
Edamame
Lightly salted, boiled beans.
Spicy Edamame
Soybeans, Sriracha, sesame oil, oyster sauce.
Jalapeno Popper
Deep-fried jalapeno, crab and tuna, cream cheese.
Japanese Style Chicken Karaage
Deep-fried, lightly battered chicken with a lemon wedge.
Sesame Chicken
Deep-fried, marinated boneless chicken topped with teriyaki sauce and sesame seeds.
Yakitori
Grilled, marinated, boneless chicken skewer with yakitori sauce.
Takoyaki
Fried octopus dumplings topped with mayonnaise, teriyaki sauce, and fish flakes.
Gyoza
Served with ponzu sauce. Deep fried dumpling pork & chicken or pork.
Coconut Shrimp
Shrimp batter, rolled in coconut, deep fried with sweet chili sauce.
Spring Roll
Pieces of spring roll filled with pork and vegetables. Served with sweet chili sauce.
Snow Crab Calamari
Lightly breaded, deep fried squid topped with snow crab salad (with eel sauce).
Beef Tataki
Medium rare grilled, sliced beef topped with green onion. Served with ponzu sauce.
Tuna Tataki
Medium rare grilled, sliced tuna topped with green onion. Served with ponzu sauce.
Hamachi
Broiled yellowtail ponzu.
Agedashi
Deep-fried, lightly breaded tofu garnished with Japanese fish flakes and green onions. Served with tempura sauce.
Beef Negimaki
Grilled, thinly sliced, medium well beef roll with scallions or mushrooms in teriyaki sauce.
Baked Salmon
Salmon, snow crab, avocado topped with green onions. Served with eel sauce.
Tuna Tower
Spicy tuna, snow crab, avocado, and sushi rice with tobiko (with eel sauce, spicy mayo, and wasabi mayo.
Soup and Salad
Miso Soup
Soy bean paste based broth with tofu, seaweed, & scallions.
Clear Soup
Clear broth with mushrooms, noodles, and scallions.
Gyoza Soup
Steamed pork dumplings in clear broth.
Vegetable Soup
Cabbage, onion, carrot zucchini, broccoli, mini tomatoes, sweet potato, and green onion in fish soup.
Spicy Seafood Miso Soup
Variety of fish, tofu, and spicy miso.
Salmon Skin Salad
Served with special sauce. Dry salmon skin, iceberg, romaine lettuce, carrot jalapeno, cilantro, and green onion.
Spicy Tuna Salad
Served with ponzu sauce. Spicy tuna, iceberg, romaine, cucumber, carrot & green onion.
House Salad
Iceberg with ginger dressing.
Cucumber Snow Crab Salad
Cucumber snow crab, green onion, and sesame seeds.
Cucumber Seafood Salad
Served with ponzu sauce. Variety of fish with cucumber, masago, green onion, sesame seeds.
Creamy Cucumber Salad
Cucumber seaweed salad. Served with special creamy sauce.
Sashimi Salad
Served with special sauce. Variety of fish with jalapeno, cilantro, olive oil.
Seaweed Salad
Japanese marinated seasoned seaweed.
Squid Salad
Japanese marinated seasoned squid.
Beef Tataki Salad
Served with ponzu sauce. Beef tataki, romaine lettuce, carrot, jalapeno, and cilantro.
Pepper Tuna Salad
Served with ponzu sauce. Pepper tuna, iceberg, romaine lettuce, masago, & green onion.
Snow Crab Avocado Salad
Iceberg lettuce topped with snow crab salad & avocado.
Broccoli Salad
Blanched broccoli. Served with blue cheese sauce.
Sushi
King Salmon Sushi
Fatty Salmon Sushi
Spicy Salmon Sushi
Smoked Salmon Sushi
Salmon Roe Sushi
Ikura.
Tuna Sushi
Big eye.
Spicy Tuna Sushi
Seared Tuna Sushi
Albacore Sushi
Escalor Sushi
Red snapper
Mackerel/ Saba
Yellowtail/ Hamachi
Octopus/ Tako
Crab Stick
Barbecue Eel/ Unagi
Shrimp/ Ebi
Sweet shrimp/ Ama Ebi
Flying Fish Roe / Tabiko
Smelt Roe / Masago
Japanese Omelette/ Tamago
Tempura
Oyster Tempura
Soft Shell Crab Tempura
Squid Tempura
Shrimp & Veggies Tempura
Shrimp Tempura
Chicken Tempura
Crab Tempura
Vegetables Tempura
Sashimi and Japanese Sashimi Carpaccio
Tuna Sashimi
Seared Tuna Sashimi
Albacore Sashimi
Escolar Sashimi
Salmon Sashimi
Red Snapper Sashimi
Mackerel Sashimi
Yellowtail Sashimi
Octopus Sashimi
Crab Stick Sashimi
Tuna, Salmon and Yellowtail Sashimi
Special Roll
Cherry Blossom Roll
Soy paper. Served with eel sauce, and spicy aoli. Salmon, tempura shrimp avocado, and cream cheese with tuna.
Siren Roll
Served with hot sauce. Snow crab salad, cream cheese, and cucumber topped with avocado, smoked salmon, torched.
Black Dragon Roll
Snow crab salad, avocado, and cucumber topped with BBQ eel.
LSU Roll
Tempura shrimp snow crab salad, cream cheese, tuna & avocado.
Mercy Roll
Served with spicy mayo, and eel sauce. Tempura shrimp and cucumber topped with spicy tuna, crab stick, masago, tempura crunchy, and green onion.
Tornado Roll
Served with spicy mayo, eel sauce. Tempura shrimp spicy tuna, avo, tuna, red tobiko.
Dayu Special Roll
Soy paper with spicy mayo and eel sauce. Tempura shrimp snow crab salad, avocado, fried jalapeno cream cheese, hot sauce, salmon, green onions, fried crab sticks.
Aloha Roll
Served with ponzu eel sauce. Crab salad, avocado, jalapeno, yellowtail, tuna, and tempura flakes.
Volcano Roll
Served With sweet chili and white sauce. Salmon, cucumber, avocado, masago, spicy tuna & snow crab salad.
Rock and Roll
Tempura shrimp, snow crab salad, avocado, cucumbers, masago.
Tiger Roll
Served With eel sauce. Crab salad, asparagus, and avo, BBQ eel, salmon, and tempura flakes.
Hawaiian Roll
Served with sweet chili and white sauce. Coconut shrimp cream cheese, and avocado topped with mango.
Green Day
Soy paper. Served with white sauce and eel sauce. Tempura shrimp spicy tuna, snow crab salad, avocado.
Tulane Roll
Served with eel sauce. Tuna, avocado, tempura shrimp masago, salmon, microgreen leaves.
Ninja Roll
Served with eel, spicy mayo sauce. Tuna, salmon, yellowtail, snow crab, avocado, & crunchy smelt roe.
Tuna Lover Roll
Served with special sauce. Tuna, avocado topped with spicy tuna & red tobiko.
Salmon Lover
Served with spicy sauce. Salmon, avocado topped with spicy salmon & masago.
New York Roll
Served with wasabi mayo, eel sauce. Tempura shrimp snow crab salad & spicy tuna.
Lone Star Roll
Served with eel sauce. Tempura shrimp snow crab salad, avocado, and asparagus topped with beef and torched.
Louisiana Roll
Served with spicy mayo. Cajun crawfish, avocado, spicy snow crab salad.
Bourbon Roll
Soy paper. Tempura crawfish, spicy tuna, snow crab salad, and avocado.
Esplanade Roll
Soy paper. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, avo, salmon & slices of lemon.
Classic Rolls
California Roll
Crab stick, avocado, cucumber, and smelt roe.
Philadelphia Roll
Salmon. cream cheese, and avocado.
Spicy Salmon Roll
Spicy salmon.
Spicy Tuna Roll
Spicy tuna.
Crunchy Roll
Snow crab, tempura flakes, and asparagus.
Shrimp Tempura Roll
Served with eel sauce. Shrimp tempura, avocado, and cucumber.
Cajun Roll
Served with spicy sauce. Crawfish, snow crab, and avocado.
BBQ Eel Roll
Served with seel sauce. BBQ eel, cucumber, and avocado.
Yellowtail Roll
Yellowtail, and scallion. Seaweed outside.
Tuna Roll
Tuna. Seaweed outside.
Salmon Roll
Salmon. Seaweed outside.
Metairie Roll
Served with spicy mayo and eel sauce. Spicy tuna, crab salad, cream cheese, and avocado.
Baby Scallop Roll
Served with spicy mayo and eel sauce. Scallop masago, green onion and avocado.
Spider Roll
Served with eel sauce. Soft shell crab, masago, avocado, and cucumber.
Snow Crab Roll
Snow crab salad, and avocado.
Alaska Roll
Served with eel sauce. Salmon skin, avocado, cucumber, masago, and green onion.
Rainbow Roll
Deep Fried Rolls
Godzilla Roll
Spicy salmon and avocado with green onion. Spicy mayo & eel sauce.
Sumo Roll
Tuna, salmon, yellowtail, and crabstick. Spicy with sweet chili sauce.
Snow Crab Lover
Snow crab salad. Served with seaweed outside.
Vegetable Rolls
Fresh Vegetable Roll
Avocado, cucumber, asparagus, and carrots.
Avocado Roll
Cucumber Roll
Fry Tofu Roll
Asparagus Roll
Rolls without Rice
Maverick Delight
Tuna, salmon, hamachi, snow crab salad, mango, asparagus, cucumber, and green mix. Wrapped in rice paper.
Saints Roll
Salmon, tuna, asparagus, snow crab salad, avocado, and lettuce wrapped with tuna on top tobiko black & yellow. In rice paper.
Red Rose Roll
Spicy tuna, salmon, yellowtail, snow crab salad, asparagus, and avocado with tuna on top. Wrapped in rice paper.
Butterfly Kiss Roll
Snow crab salad wrapped in tuna, with torch salmon, fresh wasabi.
Captain Roll
Served with soy paper, and special sauce. Tuna, yellowtail, snow crab salad, avocado, with tuna, fresh wasabi.
Naruto Snow Crab Roll
Served with sweet chili sauce. Snow crab salad,and avocado wrapped in cucumber.
Kenner Roll
Served With spicy mayo. Tempura crab stick, snow crab salad, avocado, spicy tuna in soy paper.
Hurricane Roll
BBQ eel, Tempura shrimp snow crab salad, avocado. Soy paper, & eel sauce.
Hand Roll
Boston Hand Roll
No rice. Served with eel sauce. Snow crab, lettuce, avocado, wrapped in seaweed.
Eel Hand Roll
Served with eel sauce. BBQ eel, masago, avocado, cucumber, & rice wrapped in seaweed.
Tuna Roll
Tuna, avocado, and rice wrapped in seaweed.
Yellowtail Roll
Yellowtail, avocado and rice wrapped in seaweed.
Salmon Roll
Salmon, avocado, and rice wrapped in seaweed.
Udon Noodle Soup
Tempura Udon Soup
Japanese thick udon noodle soup with 3 pieces of shrimp tempura, 4pieces of vegetable tempura, and scallions.
Seafood Udon Soup
Japanese thick udon noodle soup with scallions, variety of fish.
Spicy Beef Udon Soup
Japanese thick udon noodle soup with beef, scallions, jalapeno, red onion, and green onion.
Spicy Chicken Udon Soup
Japanese thick udon noodle soup with beef, scallions, jalapeno, red onion, and green onion.
Spicy Seafood Miso Udon Soup
Japanese thick udon noodle soup with jalapeno, cilantro, red onion, green onion, and varieties of fish.
Fry Rice
House Chicken Fried Rice
House Beef Fried Rice
House Shrimp Fried Rice
Combo Fried Rice
Fry Noodle
Yakisoba Noodle
Japanese thin egg noodle pan fried with cabbage & scallion plus your choice meat.
Yaki Udon Noodle
Japanese thick udon noodles, pan fried with vegetables plus your choice meat.
Kimchi Yaki Udon
apanese thick udon noodles, pan fried with scallions and cabbage in a Korean spicy kimchi sauce plus your choice meat.
Ramen Soup
Miso Chashu Men
Ramen noodles with premium miso paste and braided pork bone, garnished using chashu, green onion, fish cake, marinated bamboo shoot, marinated soft boiled eggs, roasted seaweed.
Tonkotsu Ramen
Ramen noodles with braised bone broth, garnished with braised pork belly, fish cake, green onion, marinated bamboo shoot, soft boiled marinated egg, and black garlic oil.
Shoyu Ramen
Ramen noodles with soy sauce flavored bone broth soup topped with pork chashu, green onion, fish cake, marinated bamboo shoot, soft boiled marinated egg, roasted seaweed, and black garlic oil.
Curry Don
Shrimp Curry Don
3 pieces of shrimp tempura, potato, carrot, onion, green onion, curry and pickle.
Curry Katsu Don
Pork cutlet, potato, carrot, onion, green onion, and curry.
Sushi Don
Eel Bowl
Served with eel sauce. Sushi rice, BBQ eel, masago, and green onions.
Yellowtail Bowl
Sushi rice, yellowtail, masago, and green onions.
Salmon Bowl
Sushi rice, salmon, masago, and green onions.
Tuna Bowl
Sushi rice, tuna, masago, and green onions.
Mix Sashimi Bowl
Served with ponzu sauce. Sushi rice, tuna, salmon, white fish, masago, and green onions.
Hawaiian Poke Bowl
Served with poke sauce. Sushi rice, tuna or salmon, cucumber, avocado, seaweed salad, mango, and snow crab.
Box Sushi
Tuna
Sushi rice, snow crab, masago, green onions, choice of fish.
Salmon
White fish
Yellowtail
BBQ Eel
Imitation crab
Shrimp
Sides
Steamed Rice
Sushi Rice
Brown Rice
Miso Soup
Clear Soup
Fried Rice
House Salad
Stir Fried Noodles
Stir Fried Vegetables
Spicy Mayo
Eel Sauce
Yum Yum Sauce
Ginger
Wasabi
Dessert
Tempura Ice Cream
Cheese Cake
Mochi Ice Cream
Choose 2 flavors: mango, coffee, green tea, strawberry, red bean, vanilla.
Green Tea Ice Cream
Red Bean Ice Cream
Hibachi Lunch Entree
Two Proteins
Hibachi Dinner Entree
Chicken Hibachi
Steak Hibachi
Chicken Cutlet Hibachi
Deep fried.
Shrimp Tempura Hibachi
Deep fried.
Pork Cutlet Hibachi
Deep fried.
Salmon Hibachi
Grilled.
Shrimp Hibachi
Bulgogi Hibachi
Scallops Hibachi
Lobster Hibachi
Lobster and Chicken Hibachi
Lobster and Steak Hibachi
Lobster and Scallops Hibachi
Lobster, Shrimp and Scallops
Recent Reviews
This was about a few months back, but the food was amazing! I got to try real salmon roe sushi for the first time, all the ingredients were authentic (even the wasabi, which I'm really sensitive to horse radish) and the ramen I had after was so creamy, yet light. As someone who loves to learn about Asian culture, I couldn't find a better place to go after my family had a stressful day. Prices were also fair, it didn't feel like we were spending too much for too...
July 2024
I don't usually give out perfect scores but when me and a friend went this past Saturday everything was on point. It wasn't packed but the service was nice every one was pleasant. The owner was helping the staff. The food was great the best Ramen I've had and between the sushi and steamed rice I had enough to bring home for later. Oh and they weren't closed at 8:45 pm like the other spot around the area. But I'm glad they were. I'll definitely be...
May 2024
The sushi is always fresh. Last night was the first night we tried the habachi chicken plate and it was great!!