Sushi On Burnaby (Edmonds st) — Restaurant in Burnaby

No sushi no life? Okay.. I am ON it..

I ordered take out when it was first opened, it was okay. I decided to do a quick late lunch dine in since I am in the area and its slogan, “no sushi no life”, got my attention.

It’s conveniently located on the little plaza on Edmonds by Canada Way in Burnaby. There is an okay amount of parking spaces in the parking lot, if not there are both free and pay street parking available.

Inside was pretty clean when I arrived and comfortably seated, always nice when not so crowded that’s why I preferred non peak hours when dining alone.

Here were the food I ordered;

Ebi sunomono. The sushi vinegar and sugar with lemon were balanced, the vermicelli noodles were a bit chewy, but the 2 piece ebi hack didn’t go too well with me (halved 1 ebi into 2 pieces is not really considered 2 ebi?!?) Yep, not a big fan of that and a lot of restaurants do it to the hokkigai too. I truly believe Japanese restaurants should really stop doing these silly food hacks (facepalm). Salmon & tuna sashimi. Pretty fresh and decent size. Dragon roll. Pretty fresh and tasty overall, but I am not too big a fan of so much sauces when it comes to sushi, mask too much of the original taste. Salmon, tuna, toro, saba, ikura, chopped scallop nigiris. The sushi rice was nicely done and formed, everything was fresh but the toros were missing that buttery taste.

Overall, the layout and vibe here was pretty casual. This was the same for service wise, nothing bad or dynamic that wow me a repeat anytime soon.

As for the food, everything was okay and fresh. I would say pretty basic and standard menu, no specialty dishes or sushi.

Restaurant slogan, “no sushi no life”… many may not know but we are going through a silent recession and many restaurants are beginning to feeling the impact, therefore, my words to restaurants, “no good food...

Very disappointed, not as good as the previous reviews said. We need to wait 50 minutes for the seats around 6pm. Only 11 tables there.. I saw at least 5 tables of customers already left for over 15 minutes, but nobody bother to clean up the tables, Until we asked them to clean it.

They told us, they are under staff today.. so that's why, everything goes so slow... But I saw they only have 11 tables of customers with 3 servers, 1 cashier, 1 manager and 4 sushi chefs at FOH. That's called under staff ?!

2 of us had tried ... Hamachi and toro nigiri sushi --- they are so fishy, not fresh --- rice is hard and falling apart

Tobiko nigiri sushi --- Tobiko was salty, seaweed is not crispy and rice is hard

Prawn tempura --- the batter way too thick, But hot and crispy

Salmon oishi --- not as good as review said..

4 small pieces of spicy pork Gyoza , not spicy at all . Too sweet for us..

Spicy salmon tempura roll --- not spicy, but something difference

Popcorn roll -- this is the only dish I like, With deep fried chopped scallops And yam on top of prawn tempura California rolls, it's tasty.

We tried to order kirin beer, but Our server told us that, they totally Out of Japanese beer, but the they Got new beer... Why not give it a try?! So, we ordered... 1 bottle of green tea favorite and 1 bottle of pale ale beer.. But we don't like both..

Services are friendly and with smile Face, but the food quality is not That fresh...

Hard to find parking space, we need to park on street ... This is our first time and last time. Price not cheap and not expensive. Above...

I'm sorry but there is no way this restaurant deserve 4.8 stars. I came in base solely on the positive review and had a negative overall experience.

We decided to grab some sushi after our shopping trip and had high expectations when picking up my order. Came in and left wondering where to go, so I decided to follow another customer to the cash register.

He was trying to flag someone for help so I waited and hang back a bit. After he got his food it was my turn to flag someone for assistance. A few staff pass by me a few times and non of them try to make eye contact and was just busy doing their assign role.

Anyways, I wasn't there for the weak service but as long as the food deliver on taste, then I wouldn't care. Drove 15 minutes home and the food was already cold. It's fine since I like to pop in the tempura to make it extra crunchy.

Here is where it got worse. They used a hard tofu for their agedashi tofu that was weird and rubbery, the chicken teriyaki was bland and swimming in oil, the sushi rolls left me wondering why am I eating this? The only decent one were the sashimi(raw) and maybe the shrimp tempura.

Like with all new restaurants I normally buy more than I can eat so that I can taste variety of dishes to give a fair review and this place fall short on all expectations and honestly I'm shock at the rating. I know eating in would be a lot better but how can take out...