Durango Casino is Getting Sushi Kame Despite Our Best Efforts

By Scott Roeben, on November 12 2026

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Just when we thought there was one less sushi restaurant in the world, they replace it with another one. Sigh.

Anyway, Durango Casino is getting a replacement for its Yu Or Mi Sushi. Yu Or Mi Sushi closed Nov. 10, 2026. The new restaurant is Sushi Kame. Yu Or Mi went; Sushi Kame. There will be a quiz.

Sushi Kame will arrive in early 2027, which is also the year A.I. is supposed to exterminate the human race, but don’t you worry your little head about that, just enjoy this fluff piece about a sushi restaurant.

We’ll say right up front, we are not a sushi person.

In another life, we did a humor site called Dribbleglass.com. Our claim to fame was making phony billboards. This particular billboard was included in our book of phony billboards, “Twisted Billboards.” We aren’t hawking it, it’s no longer in print. This billboard, featured in the book, pretty much sums up our feelings about sushi.

How we did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature, we will never know. We would also not kick a National Book Award out of bed.

Personal feelings aside, we can report on something we do not personally consume or condone.

So, back to the actual point of this story, probably.

Durango’s new Japanese restaurant comes from chef Eric Kim (pictured below), best known for his Michelin Guide-recognized Kame Omakase restaurant in Chinatown here in Vegas.

While chef Eric Kim specializes in Japanese cuisine, he is Korean. In Korean culture, there’s a concept called “han,” a resentment resulting from of injustice or humiliation, sometimes accompanied by a desire for revenge against snarky bloggers who are definitely not invited to the grand opening of Sushi Kame.

The new restaurant will offer three dining experiences: a casual Hand Roll Bar, a main dining area and a traditional sushi bar.

The Hand Roll Bar will serve freshly prepared rolls featuring salmon, tuna, yellowtail, toro, snow crab and lobster claw, along with omakase options.

The Main Dining area will offer sushi and sashimi combinations, specialty rolls and hot dishes including Maine Lobster Uni Pasta, A5 Wagyu Ishiyaki and A5 Wagyu Sukiyaki.

For sushi aficionados (translation: weirdos), the Traditional Sushi Bar will feature premium selections including bluefin tuna, otoro, Japanese snapper, Hokkaido uni, Japanese scallops and live Maine lobster sashimi.

If you believe we have no idea what most of these words mean, you are correct. We’re just grabbing random phrases from a news release.

We would not eat sushi if it were a choice between that and cannibalizing a human corpse.

Not that we are someone who would ever yuck someone’s yum.

These little sushi cubicles are adorable.

The new restaurant is part of Durango’s $385 million expansion that will add more slots, a bowling alley, movie theaters and other amenities. There will also be Moonshine Flats, a country-western live music venue imported from San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter.

Despite our best efforts.

Country music may be the only thing worse than getting intestinal worms.