Hummingbird Sushi in Queen Anne serves pristine fish in a quiet, wood-paneled room perfect for those seeking to escape the crowds heading to Climate Pledge Arena or the Space Needle. But what makes this restaurant stand out is that it’s easy-breezy to book a reservation, and you can order all of the sushi from the $150 omakase menu for a la carte service (and thus avoid some clunkers).

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The Hokkaido scallops at Hummingbird Sushi are exactly the kind of thing you hope for at an omakase meal: a surprise that changes how you think about an ingredient. Aged in kombu, which firms the flesh and enhances the natural umami of the shellfish, the scallops are underlined by a double-whammy of citrus from lemon confit and yuzu vinaigrette.

But the dish also embodies the disconnect of a restaurant that’s torn between high-minded sushi, boisterous flavors, and flamboyant presentation. Off-putting bubbles of yuzu foam gather at the edge of the pearlescent bivalve coins, which chef Ji Hun Hong hands over the sushi bar on bricks of Himalayan pink salt, a method of serving I thought had been abandoned in 2010.