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AYCE News

List of all of the AYCE all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants in Dallas

Marc Lee
Oct 24, 2025 | 11:49 am
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Dallas-Fort Worth has seen two big trends in the world of Asian restaurants in recent years. On one side, there is omakase — a chef-driven high-end trend featuring a pre-set menu, with individual bites handed from chef to diner.

On the opposite side of the table: AYCE, short for all-you-can-eat, in which diners can do exactly that: order as many items as they want, usually at a bargain price.

AYCE places fill a role that buffets previously filled in Dallas-Fort Worth: They allow diners unfamiliar with a cuisine to try a variety of dishes at a low-risk low price. In recent years, AYCE places have started to pop up all around the DFW area — featuring sushi, sushi rolls, and sometimes appetizers and entree-type dishes included as well.

To their credit, many of these restaurants enact rules to mitigate waste and over-ordering, by charging diners if there are leftovers, and restricting the hours that the AYCE is offered. There is also, with few exceptions, no to-go.

Here's our list of the many AYCE restaurants that have opened around DFW, in alphabetical order, with prices at the end:

Bros Korean BBQ, Sushi & Shabu
This Carrollton spot is like three concepts in one, featuring all-you-can-eat versions of sushi, Korean BBQ, or Shabu Shabu. The offerings consist of mostly basics like yellowtail, veggie, and California — exactly what most AYCE fans want. Rules: There's a 2-hour time limit, and everyone at the table must order the same thing. They charge $15 per pound for leftovers. $25 lunch, $39 dinner

Japan House
Small local chain with three locations (Irving, North Richland Hills, and Fort Worth) has a generous and low-priced AYCE menu which ranges from "beginner" options like spicy tuna roll and Philadelphia roll to more exotic items like tofu-skinned inari sushi and deep-fried crispy rice sushi. Rules: Customers can only order 5 dishes at a time. If there are leftovers, they charge $5 per plate. $21.99 lunch, $33.99 dinner

JingHe
Mockingbird Station restaurant offers two AYCE options during the day only, stopping at 6 pm Monday-Thursday and 1:30 pm on weekends. For $39.99, you get California rolls, hand rolls, specialty rolls, sashimi, nigiri, crudo, and ramen; for $19.99, a smaller selection of hand rolls, ramen, and small plates like pork dumplings and teriyaki chicken. Rules: Everyone at the table has to order the same thing. Leftover items will be charged a la carte prices. $39.99 full menu; $19.99 limited menu (no sashimi, nigiri, or special rolls)

Harutaka Sushi
AYCE spot which opened in Dallas in September 2024 with 20+ sushi and 70+sushi rolls, is notable for being one of the cheaper spots and also for its distinctive plating, with narrow swooping arc dishes that display rolls in a nifty manner, and wooden trays shaped like a boat. Rules: Pricier options like uni, sweet shrimp, chuturo, and scallops are limited to one order per person. $20.99

Ichibang Izakaya
Classy Carrollton restaurant offers both regular menu or AYCE, available any time, but everyone at the table has to order the same way. The AYCE menu is wide-ranging, with sushi, sashimi, regular rolls, riceless rolls, fried rolls, and specialty items like a tuna tower. Plus noodles, fried rice, and entrees like Mongolian beef or sweet & sour pork. Rules: There's a two-hour limit, and you must finish what's on your plate before you can order more. They'll stop service if you don't finish your rice, and they charge $2 for any roll not consumed. $34.99

Kauboi Japanese BBQ & Izakaya
Plano restaurant opened in July with a Western theme — thus the name's spin on "cowboy" — and dishes out not only AYCE sushi but also AYCE Japanese barbecue. There are three tiers, starting with a "High Noon" menu of sushi plus appetizers and noodles for $24. You can then add Japanese BBQ — beef bulgogi, pork belly, shrimp, garlic chicken — for $39. The highest tier is $49 and includes Wagyu, oysters, and prime meats. For non-AYCE diners, they also offer a la carte. $24, $39, $49

Ohayo Sushi
Ohayo seems to be an informal chain with locations in the southeast including this one in Lewisville, which opened in 2024 in front of the Vista Ridge Mall. They offer AYCE at lunch and dinner with soups, salads, teriyaki, noodles, fried rice, and rolls ranging from basics like shrimp tempura to steak and sweet potato. Their selection of items from the kitchen, which includes items like shrimp skewers, is relatively unique among AYCE places. $25.14 lunch, $38.34 dinner

Osaka Sushi & Grill All You Can Eat Buffet
Addison restaurant previously known as Tokyo One follows the buffet model, with a broad selection of dishes including hot pot, a ramen noodle bar, hibachi grilled meats, sushi & sashimi, tempura, vegetarian options, and dessert. Sashimi and rolls are simple and to-the-point, like salmon, yellowtail, tuna roll, and rainbow roll. $27.99 lunch, $42.99 dinner

Sushi Shack
Plano restaurant is a small but diligent player in the AYCE space, open for more than a decade, with a concise menu limited entirely to sushi and sushi rolls, with a variety that rotates from day to day. Where some AYCE places are about excess and unlimited gluttony, this is more a low-key place to get reliable sushi at a low price. $16 lunch, $25 dinner

Sushi Kushi
Popular Japanese restaurant in Carrollton is a relative old-timer on the AYCE scene that opened in 2021, back when AYCE concepts were still novel enough to draw a visit from famed YouTuber Mike Chen. Their AYCE features more than 50 rolls plus dishes such as dumplings and crab Rangoon. Don't forget the kushi skewers, which include calamari, steak, and chicken gizzard. They also have a regular menu where you can order a la carte, and an extensive selection of sakes. 29.95 lunch, 39.95 dinner

Sushi Masa Plano
Japanese restaurant chain founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has locations across the southeast, including a location in Plano that opened in mid-2024. Their AYCE is slightly generic but extra-generous, with dishes from every category: from seaweed salad to miso soup to veggie tempura. It's a set list but with multiple options that include 16 kinds of sashimi, 22 rolls, 26 specialty rolls including some with a Cajun flair; plus teriyaki, fried rice, noodles, and dessert. 21.95 lunch, 34.95 dinner

Sushi Soho
Sushi Soho opened in early 2025, bringing a dedicated AYCE offering to Bedford, with an almost laughably large selection of 134 menu items at dinner: an overwhelming 100 different rolls, plus hibachi, fried rice, stir-fried udon and other noodle dishes, appetizers, soups, and salads. It's a crowd-pleasing array that occasionally ventures outside of Japanese cuisine with items like egg drop soup, pad Thai, and even French fries. Rules: You must fiinish all your rice before ordering more sushi. They'll charge if there are leftovers. 22.99 lunch, 33.99 dinner

Takara
Takara opened in May 2025, bringing a dedicated AYCE offering to Irving, in the former Blue Fish sushi restaurant at MacArthur Boulevard off SH-114. Their menu has a few departures from the usual assortment of sushi rolls, teriyaki, fried rice, and Japanese starters. That includes multiple noodle options — udon, soba, and ramen — plus poke bowls and hand rolls. And Takara has to be the only AYCE place with jalapeño poppers, filled with cream cheese, spicy crabmeat, and eel sauce, fried tempura style. $22.99 lunch, $34.99 dinner

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Chai News

Dubai tea chain Filli Cafe steams into Carrollton for Dallas debut

Teresa Gubbins
Aug 14, 2026 | 3:37 pm
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An international tea house chain from Dubai has made its Dallas debut: Called Filli Cafe, it just opened softly in Carrollton at 1205 W. Trinity Mills Rd. #101, in the same center as Al Markaz Restaurant and Groceries.

Dubbed "Dubai's most loved tea cafe chain," Filli Cafe is known for its signature Zafran chai tea and creative South Asian street foods including chaats and wraps.

The chain was born in Dubai in 2004 when founder Rafih Filli took over his father's small cafeteria in Dubai and rebranded it, using his high school nickname "Filli." He created Filli Cafe's intriguing menu and also established its laid-back culture, emphasizing it as a place for friends to hang out, with a motto of "global street bites, chai moments, and a whole lot of Tea n' Talk."

It has since grown to more than 74 cafes across 14 countries, and made its debut in the U.S. in 2022 with the first location opening in Sugar Land near Houston. There are now nine locations in the U.S. including Chicago, New York, Virginia, and Columbus, Ohio.

The DFW location is from the same group of friends and family that brought it to Houston, led by food & beverage veteran Sajid Iqbal, who says they plan to open at least one or two more locations in the DFW area.

Beverages
The signature Zafran Chai is a rich milk tea with saffron, sugar, and "secret" spices, while the Karak Chai is a traditional, strong spiced milk tea.

These are a departure from typical chai which contains a mix of spices like ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Karak chai opts for fewer spices — often just cardamom or saffron — and relies on extra-strong black tea simmered with evaporated or condensed milk.

Filli also sells regularly spiced masala chai; traditional pink Kashmiri chai with cardamom and almonds; and milk with zafran — like their signature Zafran Chai, but minus the tea.

Beyond chai, there are espresso-based drinks such as cappuccino and latte; matcha lattes; hot chocolate; coffee drinks like dalgona, the trendy whipped coffee with steamed milk; iced coffees; frappuccino-style frozen drinks; iced tea and herbal teas of all kinds; lemonades in various flavors; and even mocktails like fruity mojitos.

Filli Cafe Food and drink at Filli Cafe. www.visitdelohio.com

Food
The food is a creative, well-executed fusion of familiar dishes like breakfast and burgers with South Asian spices. For example, the Shawarma Jalapeno Melt with marinated shawarma chicken, jalapenos, and cheese.

There are also

  • sliders — in five varieties including beef burger, fried chicken, and Aloo Tikki Sliders featuring a crispy fried Aloo cutlet — aka potato patties — all served on Hawaiian buns
  • paratha rolls — a South Asian street food featuring kebabs or vegetables enclosed in a flaky, pan-fried flatbread called a paratha
  • samosas — fried dumplings with a variety of fillings
  • chaat — a street style snack with chickpeas, potatoes, yogurt, and tamarind-mint sauce, topped with crispy wafers, onions, green chillies, tomatoes, cilantro, and chaat masala
  • rice bowls
  • loaded fries
  • pizza, in a long oblong format, in varieties such as one topped with Indian butter chicken

The menu is entirely halal, meaning that all ingredients are processed according to Islamic guidelines. Food prices range from $8 to $20, while the beverages range from $2.50 to $8.

Iqbal notes that Filla Cafe has wide appeal, whether it's people seeking halal foods, people who crave fusion flavors, or people who love coffee.

"We have a motto on the wall, 'Uniting cultures, one cup at a time,'" he says.

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