Jimmy “Sushi Jimmi” Sinh is opening a new restaurant in Downtown Memphis.
May’s Sushi & Catering is slated to open in May or mid-June at 496 Tennessee Street, Suite 101, in the South Main District. “My wife’s and my wedding anniversary is coming up,” Sinh says. “And my gift to my wife is naming the restaurant after her.”
Poke Paradise, his restaurant at 6343 Summer Avenue, Number 110, in Bartlett, Tennessee, will remain open. “This is a new restaurant,” Sinh says, adding, “I’ve been looking for locations for a good minute.”
The new restaurant will serve lunch and dinner, but reservations are required for dinner. It also houses a bigger kitchen for his thriving catering business, which takes him around the United States.
Lunch will be similar to his Poke Paradise lunches, which include poke, sushi, and “some hot dishes like hibachi or Korean short ribs; fried ribs.”
Dinner will include sushi, but also Asian fusion. The menu will feature more of “a fine dining-type food.”
The restaurant will offer “different menus for different seasons,” Sinh says. He will have a spring-and-summer menu and a fall-and-winter menu. “You don’t end up eating the same thing 365 days a year.”
And, he says, “I’ll be putting in all the best fish, the best cuts I can get from all over the world.”
Sinh will feature dishes “you can’t get anywhere: All created by me. You can’t just say, ‘Hey, I can go get it somewhere else.’”
May’s Sushi & Catering will be a family affair in every sense of the word. “It’s just me and my wife running both the restaurants. So, we’re going to make time for the business and the family as well.”
His Poke Paradise customers include people from Germantown and Cordova. The new location will attract customers from Mississippi and Arkansas, too. “This location will cover the Tri-State,” he says.
May’s Sushi & Catering will be his first Downtown restaurant, Sinh says. Downtown is “such a beautiful place. You look out here and see the river, and boats going up and down the river. You see people there working out, playing basketball. It’s very calm and relaxing.
“Downtown is beautiful now because they fixed it up. And I just fell in love with it.”
