Our Beloved Yoshi

If you love our sushi at here Harbor Docks than you love our sushi chef Yoshi Eddings. Most travel down to Florida’s Emerald Coast to indulge the sun, the fishing and the fresh seafood. Many choose to stop in at Harbor Docks not only for our Grouper sandwich but Yoshi’s famous sushi.

Yoshi was born and raised in Tokyo and worked in her parent’s restaurant where her father trained her on the dishes, how to use a knife, how to sauté and how to use the grill. The small restaurant also had an in house sushi chef who taught Yoshi the art of sushi making. After she married, Yoshi moved to Destin and began to work at Harbor Docks in 1988. Yoshi became the reason that Harbor Docks added sushi to its dominant seafood menu. She added a sushi bar to the restaurant and since trained sushi chefs in Destin and around the Southeast.

Yoshi’s sushi trail expands into Alabama and Georgia as well. Chuck’s Fish in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa offer Yoshi established sushi bars and fresh seafood caught by us at Harbor Docks. The recently opened Five in Athens, Georgia has a sushi bar that Yoshi also helped to open. Not only has she established her cooking expertise across the South, she has also catered to many A-list celebrities over the years such as Tom Hanks, Madonna, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, Danny Glover, Sharon Stone and Richard Gere. Yoshi has worked on around 60 to 70 films by being responsible for keepings the stars full and happy.

So next time your indulging in one of our delicious sushi rolls, make sure to say hello to Yoshi- the creator of all that goodness!