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Sushi chefs Koichi Ito, center, and Yasuo Hara, left, look up from preparing sushi to greet arriving customers at Sushi Edomata in San Mateo. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.

For 36 years, Sushi Sam’s Edomata served as the cultural epicenter for sushi on the Peninsula. When eponymous chef-owner Sam Sugiyama retired and closed the restaurant in December, there was a fear that perhaps another Bay Area culinary institution had been lost.

Those fears have been allayed with the relocation and rebirth of Sushi Sam’s as Sushi Edomata. 

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