Eight seats inside a market; chef Tsuyoshi Kawano.
Tsuyoshi and Chiemi Kawano started Go's Mart as a Japanese convenience market in 1997; a small (eight-seat) sushi bar was added around the beginning of the 2000s.
The founders are husband and wife Tsuyoshi Kawano (nicknamed 'Go') and Chiemi Kawano.
Go's Mart is owned and run by chef-owner Tsuyoshi Kawano ('chef Go'), who works the counter as a one-man operation.
The sushi is made by chef Tsuyoshi Kawano, known to regulars as 'Go' (or 'Go-san'); it is a one-man counter.
Go's Mart has no Michelin recognition (no star and no Bib Gourmand) and does not appear in the Michelin Guide.
A claim that Go's Mart was ranked #365 in North America by Opinionated About Dining (OAD) in 2024 (and 'Highly Recommended' in 2023) could NOT be verified and appears unsupported by the primary OAD list.
Signature/notable items include nigiri finished with 24k gold leaf and truffle oil, plus omakase highlights such as uni, sweet shrimp, crab, scallop, abalone, monkfish liver (akimo), kelp halibut, live scallop, and a seared Wagyu/Kobe 'Holy Cow' sushi.
Signature/representative items include abalone sashimi (with gold leaf), shirako nigiri, ankimo (monkfish liver) with sweet plum sauce, a daily white-fish plate, and a crab hand roll, served across a roughly 15-course omakase.
There is no printed menu with prices; the offering is omakase, with that day's catch listed on a small dry-erase board / whiteboard on the back wall.
There is no printed menu and no listed prices; daily specials are written on a dry-erase / whiteboard, and the recommended order is the omakase.
Go's Mart is at 22330 Sherman Way (Suite C12), Canoga Park, CA 91303, in a nondescript strip mall in the West San Fernando Valley; the sushi counter sits inside a small market with no exterior sign.
Go's Mart was still operating as of mid-2026 (active listings, recent reviews; no permanent-closure notice found).
Go's Mart is open as of early 2025 (Time Out lists hours Tue-Sun and a 4-out-of-5 review dated March 2025).
No U.S. federal trademark registration for 'Go's Mart' was found. (Unrelated similarly-named marks exist: 'GO MART' owned by Go-mart, Inc., a West Virginia convenience-store/gasoline chain; and 'SUSHI TO GO' by Galaxy Enterprises, Inc.)
The sushi counter has about eight seats (the LA Times says eight; a 2007 first-hand account said it 'seats about ten'), plus a couple of tiny standalone tables.