Sushi Song

Sushi Song sits on upper Duval Street, just a couple of doors down from Nine One Five’s historic Victorian house, in a stretch of the street that has become something of a quieter dining pocket compared to the packed bar blocks closer to the harbor. As a sushi restaurant, it gives visitors another option for raw fish in a town where seafood dining has traditionally meant fried conch and grilled grouper rather than nigiri and sashimi.

The presence of more than one sushi restaurant along this same short stretch of Duval Street says something about how the island’s dining scene has diversified over the past couple of decades, moving well beyond the Cuban, Caribbean, and straightforward American seafood restaurants that once defined nearly the entire local restaurant landscape.

Being positioned on upper Duval means Sushi Song draws a mix of guests from the nearby small hotels and guesthouses that cluster in this part of town, along with visitors making the longer walk from the harbor down toward the Southernmost Point marker a few blocks further south.

Sushi restaurants in resort towns like Key West often lean on a full bar program alongside the raw fish menu, sake selections and specialty cocktails rounding out an evening that can run as easily toward drinks and small plates as toward a full sit down dinner.

The quieter pace of this stretch of Duval, away from the loudest bars and the heaviest cruise ship foot traffic, tends to suit a sushi dinner well, since the format rewards a bit more focus and unhurried pacing than a quick bar bite typically allows.

Specific current details on hours, ownership, and menu specifics for Sushi Song were limited in the sources available for this listing, so visitors are encouraged to confirm directly before planning a visit, particularly given how closely spaced the restaurants along this stretch of upper Duval sit to one another.

For visitors looking for a sushi dinner within walking distance of the Southernmost Point, in a part of town that offers a calmer alternative to the crowded lower blocks of Duval Street, Sushi Song adds one more option to an increasingly varied stretch of upper Duval dining.

The broader trend of sushi restaurants opening in small tourist towns across Florida and the wider Gulf Coast has as much to do with visitor demand for familiar, reliable options as it does with any deep local seafood tradition, and Key West’s version of that trend has settled comfortably into this quieter end of Duval Street rather than competing directly with the seafood houses and raw bars clustered around the Historic Seaport.

Visitors staying in the guesthouses and small inns that populate the residential streets just off upper Duval often find a nearby sushi restaurant like this one a convenient dinner option precisely because it does not require the walk back down toward the busier, louder end of the strip near the cruise terminal.