A brand-new restaurant, Sushi Heights, has hit Washington Heights that offers sushi, poke bowls and more. The bistro recently opened on Amsterdam Avenue in the area of Yeshiva University’s Wilf campus and is jointly owned by husband and wife Edgar Canales and Stephanie Schneider — also owners of next door’s Golan Heights Israeli Grill — and Asher Amsalem, who also owns Grandma’s Pizza two doors down.
The restaurant offers sushi, of course, but the menu doesn’t end there. “We have custom-made poke bowls where you build your own orders,” Schneider said, in addition to a “variety of boba teas and lemonades and non-dairy milk options with bursting bubbles.” And, as of last week, the restaurant added appetizers like tempuras and noodle dishes, fried rice dishes and crispy rice dishes. Also look out for desserts to be added to the menu.
The restaurant was opened “because there was something the neighborhood needed; it needed a nice pareve restaurant, somewhere where you could sit down, bring a date, have sheva brachot, somewhere with a nice ambiance,” Schneider explained. And indeed, the restaurant is all pareve, something that makes it unique: “It stands out that we’re fully pareve,” Schneider noted. Plus, it’s a “concept you cannot find in the Heights … sushi and poke,” Amsalem pointed out.
Sushi Heights already has some popular options that new customers may want to try out: “[For sushi,] The Dragon Roll … is definitely the most popular. With poke, it’s the marinated salmon and kani poke bowls. And for the drinks, it would be the strawberry bubbles half tea-half lemonade.”
Sushi Heights should be especially popular among YU students, who dorm right in the area. The restaurant will soon be accepting the YU cafeteria card, so students can spend with money already loaded to their meal plan.
Schneider concluded, “We’re excited to serve the neighborhood wonderful pareve dishes, with a nice place to sit, relax and enjoy.”
Sushi Heights is located at 2557 Amsterdam Ave. in New York City and is under the kashrut supervision of the Va’ad HaRabbonim of Riverdale. Call the restaurant at (212) 740-7467.
Daniel Brauner is a contributor and former summer intern for The Jewish Link. He attends Yeshiva University and lives in Teaneck. Contact him at [email protected].
