The place to eat sushi in Metro Vancouver? A restaurant evaluate roundup

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In relation to bragging about meals, Vancouverites like to boast about sushi.

Positive, Vancouver has plentiful choices for meals however when guests ask what town’s most iconic delicacies is likely to be, sushi is at all times one of many high solutions. And what’s to not love? Vancouver has a number of the high sushi cooks exterior of Japan and a number of the freshest seafood round, whether or not sourced regionally or from well-known fish markets throughout the ocean.

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The Vancouver Solar’s restaurant author, Mia Stainsby, has been there, tried that and visited a number of the metropolis’s finest sushi eating places, with the opinions to show it.

So we’ve compiled a choice of her Japanese restaurant opinions that we’ve revealed over the previous few years that can assist you resolve the place to go subsequent time you’re craving sushi.

This roundup consists of a number of years of sushi-containing posts from our resident restaurant professional. Info equivalent to hours and menu gadgets is probably not updated, so please examine with particular person eateries for added particulars. We’ve additionally included the unique publication date of every evaluate, together with the unique hyperlink so you may learn the total article.

To get a way of how Mia makes her picks, learn her piece on how to find the best sushi and her journey weblog from 2010 when she visited Tokyo.

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Sushi Mahana

The place: 175 Third St. West, North Vancouver

Sushi Mahana lately took dwelling the Silver in Vancouver Journal’s Restaurant Awards and it’s apparent why. This isn’t your grab-to-go sushi tray meal; it’s an expertise from high to backside, with kitchen workers which have served a number of the greatest names in Hollywood.

Read the full Sushi Mahana review, originally published Feb. 22, 2023.

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Sushi Hil

The place: 3330 Major St., Vancouver

Sushi Hil is a shiny, welcoming house in Mount Nice that may please anybody. “The sashimi, nigiri and rolled sushi that I attempted didn’t disappoint — the seafood is recent, clear and oceany,” says Mia.

Read the full Sushi Hil review, originally published Dec. 14, 2022.

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Okeya Kyujiro

The place: 1038 Mainland St/, Vancouver

Eating at Okeya Kyujiro is extra like having fun with a stay efficiency than it’s visiting a restaurant. “You enter on the appointed time via a really discreet entrance and are seated in a darkened room at a U-shaped counter. The music builds anticipation, like a Cirque du Soleil efficiency about to start. Behind black screens, you see shadowy figures. Then Matsuda begins a throaty, musical incantation in Japanese,” writes Mia.

Read the full Okeya Kyujiro review, originally published March 14, 2023.

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Tetsu Sushi Bar

The place: 775 Denman St., Vancouver

On the time of Mia’s go to, the drinks menu was nothing to sing about however she known as Tetsu Sushi Bar “a gem within the sushi division.” The restaurant sources its seafood from the well-known Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, for dishes equivalent to Aburi (flame-torched) prawn sushi and a BBQ unagi maki roll that Mia stated was scrumptious.

Read the full Tetsu Sushi Bar review, originally published Oct. 11, 2017.

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Sushi Bar Shu

The place: 8099 Granville St., Vancouver

That is the place for “sushi purists,” in keeping with Mia. The omakase-only restaurant presents two seatings, with Mia recommending a seat on the bar “the place you may witness the cooks’ reverence for fish and their hand ballet as they assemble onigiri sushi.”

Read the full Sushi Bar Shu review, originally published Sept. 17, 2019.

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Itosugi Kappo Cuisine

The place: 3648 West Broadway, Vancouver

At Itosugi, “the sushi adjustments continuously, relying on what’s obtainable, and cooked dishes change month-to-month. The restaurant makes use of native seafood relatively than importing Japanese because it retains meals prices down and (proprietor Alfred) Chan haunts farmers markets for native substances to purchase in smaller portions.”

Read the full Itosugi Kappo Cuisine review, originally published Oct. 18, 2022.

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Sushi Bar Maumi

The place: 1668 Robson St., Vancouver

Chef and proprietor Maumi Ozaki is “a sushi whisperer with palms flying in balletic strikes, slicing, scoring with a long-blade knife, scooping rice, shaping rice, putting fish on rice, flippantly brushing on sauce, sprinkling salt and clapping palms earlier than transferring again to the rice. If he stops to assume, fingers drum on the counter.”

Read the full Itosugi Sushi Bar Maumi review, originally published May 25, 2016.

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Masayoshi

The place: 4376 Fraser St., Vancouver

On the time of Mia’s 2016 evaluate, she discovered that there was a rising buzz round Masayoshi, regardless of points that had dogged it throughout its first 12 months. “There’s no denying the meals high quality and its suave presentation,” she wrote. However it seems issues have modified, because the restaurant now boasts a Michelin-starred Omakase expertise.

Read the full Masayoshi review, originally published Aug. 31, 2016.

What’s your favorite Metro Vancouver sushi place? Let us know in the comments!

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