By Rosalind Kerrigan
The Dining Report is a reported column. It draws on menus, interviews, public inspection records and published diner reviews; our writer did not dine at the restaurant for this piece.
For eight years, Man-Aung Sushi has sold grab-and-go rolls to the office crowd on Lafayette Square. This year its owner, Za Nyo, took the formula up Main Street, to a small corner storefront at 2073 Main St., at Glendale Place, across from Canisius University.
The new shop is tiny. Buffalo Rising founder Newell Nussbaumer, who wrote about it in October, called it a “quaint, six-or-so seat eatery” and reported that Nyo is considering a side patio in the spring to add room.
The Main Street location appears to have opened late last spring. Erie County’s first routine inspection of it is dated May 29, 2026, and a Reddit user posted on May 31 that it was already serving. The original shop opened in 2018 in the Rand Building, the 1929 Art Deco tower at 14 Lafayette Square, Buffalo Rising reported that July.
From the kitchen
The Buffalo Chronicle has not interviewed Nyo for this column. The account below comes from what he told Buffalo Rising, and we will add his own words if he chooses to share them.
Nyo told Buffalo Rising that the restaurant takes its name from Manaung, the island in Myanmar where he was born and raised. Sushi is not really part of Myanmar’s food culture, Buffalo Rising reported, but rice and fish are, so he adapted those skills to a cuisine he thought local customers would like.
The business also works as a wholesaler. Nyo supplies sushi to other outlets in Western New York, including Budwey’s Market in the Square, according to Buffalo Rising. The restaurant’s website makes the same point and adds a promise about freshness: “We always make the sushi freshly daily.”
The model is built around a display cooler. Nussbaumer reported that the Main Street shop keeps a cooler stocked with packaged sushi to go, and that Nyo agreed to roll sushi to order when asked. In 2018, Nussbaumer described the Lafayette Square original as a place where “Man-Aung will appeal to a crowd that wants to get in, and get out without spending a ton of money.”
Menu and prices
Prices below come from the restaurant’s online menu, accessed Nov. 12, 2026. The page is headed “Lafayette Square,” and the website does not say whether the Main Street shop charges the same prices, so check before ordering.
Rolls run from $4.99 for avocado or shrimp summer rolls to $11.99 for the Man_Aung Rainbow Roll, the item the menu marks as featured. Most standard rolls are $5.99 to $7.49. A California roll is $5.99, and spicy tuna, spicy salmon, Philadelphia, tempura shrimp and Crunchy Dragon rolls are $7.49 each. A teriyaki chicken roll is $6.99.
Poke bowls run $8.49 for a veggie and sweet potato bowl, $9.49 for chicken or Buffalo chicken, and $11.49 for salmon, tuna or shrimp tempura. Miso soup is $3.49 and dumplings are $4.49. Vietnamese pho is listed twice, once at $11.99 and once at $12.99 with a choice of chicken or beef. There are no desserts on the online menu.
For groups, party trays run $60 for 50 pieces, $80 for 70 pieces and $100 for 90 pieces, and the menu says tray orders must be placed at least 12 hours ahead. Buffalo Rising reported that the Main Street shop also sells boba (bubble tea). The online menu does not list boba prices.
The website lists hours of 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and gives both addresses together. At least one online listing shows later evening hours for Main Street, so call ahead. The website links to Grubhub for delivery and has an online ordering page. With about six seats, the shop is set up mostly for takeout.
What diners say
Published feedback on the Main Street shop is still thin.
Nussbaumer liked the setting but flagged one drawback. “I love the corner location at 2073 Main Street, at Glendale Place, right across from Castiglia Hall. The only real drawback is that there’s not much parking,” he wrote in his October piece. He noted that delivery is available.
On Reddit’s r/Buffalo forum, user Human_Letter_2204 wrote in May 2026, soon after the shop opened, that it was “great, just like the downtown location,” and described its limits: “It is small and they don’t have a kitchen so the menu is limited, but they have sushi and can make poke bowls.”
The original shop has a longer record. Its Yelp listing showed an average of 4.5 stars from 24 reviews in search results viewed Nov. 12, 2026. Early coverage was not all kind. Nussbaumer’s 2018 write-up compared the packaged rolls to the Wegmans sushi bar, criticized the amount of plastic packaging, and was blunt about the bubble tea: “The boba was not a good experience.”
Inspection record
The Erie County Department of Health has one inspection on file for the Main Street location, according to its online inspection records, accessed Nov. 12, 2026.
The May 29, 2026, routine inspection found no critical violations and two non-critical ones. The operator had not posted the required workers’ compensation and disability benefits insurance placard. The inspector also noted, “Observed a 20lb of rice store on ground in storage area. No contamination observed.” The report says the operator moved the rice onto shelving, and that item is marked corrected during the inspection.
Under the State Sanitary Code, critical violations are the ones most directly linked to foodborne illness, such as food held at unsafe temperatures or contaminated food. Non-critical violations cover things like storage, maintenance and required postings. The county has posted no later inspections for this location as of Nov. 12.
The Lafayette Square shop is licensed as a separate facility and has its own inspection history. This column covers the Main Street location.
The bottom line
By the numbers on its own menu, Man-Aung keeps prices low: most rolls are under $7.50 and the most expensive poke bowl is $11.49. The Main Street shop is a small, mostly takeout counter run by an owner who has kept a downtown sushi business going since 2018. Its one inspection on file found no critical violations. Published comments on the new shop are favorable and point to two limits: not much parking and a short menu without a full kitchen.
Man-Aung Sushi is at 2073 Main St., at Glendale Place, Buffalo, with the original at 14 Lafayette Square. The phone listed on the county record for the Main Street shop is (716) 446-3953. The website, man-aungsushi.com, lists 716-342-2489 and hours of 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Parking is limited, and the shop offers delivery.
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