The free sushi buffets are the most abundant among the restaurants at all you can eat. The format of the most globalized Japanese dish lends itself to eating a large quantity without saturating you. Eating a wide variety of nigiris, makis and sashimis the idea works and convinces, so much so that the openings are repeated, but now with a facelift: decoration and presentation are important.
1. Sumo
The quality of Sumo is top notch and it is probably one of the best places in Madrid to eat sushi when enough or enough doesn’t mean all you want. One of the virtues of this free sushi buffet in Madrid is that you can choose from 85 options and you can repeat as many times as you want. Nigiris, makis, temakis, soups, rice dishes and a long list of starters that will make it very difficult to choose. There are eight Sumo restaurants scattered around the city, so it’s easy to find one nearby.
💸 Buffet for one person from 15,95€
📍 Various locations.
2. Tropikal Asia
Tropikal is a special restaurant concept: it is the first buffet of Asian haute cuisine (at the table) in Madrid. It is open from Tuesday to Sunday and specializes in lacquered duck, sushi and sukiyaki, a traditional Japanese dish cooked by steaming. You can order four dishes per round and as many rounds as you like. Before each new round, you must have finished everything from the previous round. Logical. And to drink, agüita.
💸 Adults (without consumption): 32,95 euros
dr. Fleming Street, 31 (Chamartín)
3. Running Sushi
This list could not miss some of the most celebrated kaitenzushirestaurants in the capital. The first running sushi restaurant first opened in Osaka in the late 1950s, and Running Sushi is inspired by its aesthetics and gastronomic offerings.
Among neon signs, details of Japan’s urban landscape and reproductions of video games and arcade machines from the 1990s, more than 300 individual dishes are divided into two ribbons: one for cold dishes and desserts and the other for hot dishes, with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options.
They now have three locations: Running Sushi in Market, a place set in the streets of Tokyo and in the Tsujiki market; Running Sushi in Akihabara, decorated imitating this Tokyo shopping area dedicated to technology; the original Running Sushi in Osaka and the last one, which is called Runni Space and is inspired by a spaceship.
💸 Midday and weekday menu: 14,95 €. Nights and weekends: 18,95 €. Drinks not included.
📍 Calle Hermosilla, 103 (Goya), avenida Monforte de Lemos, 36 (La Vaguada shopping center) and calle Princesa, 3-5, plaza Emilio Jiménez Millas (Centro) and Heron City Las Rozas.
4. Hemu Sushi Buffet Libre
Hemu Sushi is the free buffet that triumphs in social networks and is located in the vicinity of Gran Vía. Its neat decoration, of traditional Japanese inspiration and the good presentation of its dishes makes it a bit different from the aesthetics of the running sushi places -which also have their charm. The price of the buffet, which is one of the most economical, also includes dessert, but not drinks, as usual.
💸 Food: 13,95 €, dinner: 16,95€
📍 Calle de los Jardines, 3 (downtown)
5. Kaiten Sushi Madrid
Kaiten is a free revolving sushi buffet at Malasaña. He is known in part for being the recommended by gastronomic influencer Cocituber. In addition to what they run through the tape, they also prepare on the spot whatever you order from the menu. It’s not only sushi that they serve, there are also some Chinese dishes such as noodles or lotus leaf rice, among others.
the price varies according to day and time: from 14,95€ to 18,95€
📍 Calle de San Bernardo, 10 (Malasaña)
6. Sushiaoi
Sushiaoi is one of the few free sushi buffets in the Salamanca neighborhood, and although the concept -and the price- does not seem to fit among the luxury restaurants in the area, the truth is that both the quality and the decoration of the place are surprising. Unlike other buffets, here there is room for experimentation and the fusion of asian food from Japanese croquettes to Vietnamese rolls.
💸 Weekdays: 15,90 €
📍 Calle de Núñez de Balboa, 37 (neighborhood of Salamanca)