Tokyo Street Market Macleod trail — Restaurant in Calgary

Lovely, convenient location! We went on opening day and despite the busyness, service was fast with a wait of 5-10 minutes for the chicken curry bowl. We look forward to visiting again soon!

Pros: DELICIOUS, fresh fish! You can't miss the salmon! Beautiful venue Kind and fast staff Large selection of imported Japanese drinks Affordable pricing (especially the sushi) Wasabi is higher quality than most in Calgary and it packs a punch!

Cons: Atmosphere - noise. The music was a bit louder than comfortable. The crowd was relatively quiet and didn't require music to cover.

Limited condiments, no shoyu dishes. Ginger and wasabi are available for $0.50 per 1oz container, but you are only provided one shoyu packet in a sushi set/plate. The one packet was not enough for the "Salmon Lover's" combo plate. Additionally, there are no dishes to pour your shoyu into so you may have to use your plate lid and tilt it whenever you'd like to dip your sushi/add wasabi. Not a major issue, but definitely an opportunity for improvement! Having a self-serve shoyu area with dishes by the water fountains would be a great addition.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The restaurant is still working on getting their liquor license! They stated they may be able to serve beer (draft Asahi) as soon as next week. Only the first floor of the restaurant is open for public access, second floor unopened yet. Additionally, the seafood and meat market "Nikuya" is not open yet. When asking about the opening date, I was informed it's unknown / unconfirmed as of right now. Looking forward...

I wouldn’t describe this bowl of noodles as ramen. What I ordered was the Black Ramen Deluxe. Let’s set aside whether it tasted good or not — I’ve been to Japan over 10 times, and every time, I make sure to try ramen. But I’ve never had a bowl of ramen like this.

This bowl resembled Chinese zhajiangmian (fried sauce noodles) more than Japanese ramen. First of all, black garlic oil ramen should not have ground meat. Perhaps some regional styles of Japanese ramen might include ground meat, but tonkotsu ramen definitely doesn’t.

As for the broth — it tasted just like instant noodle soup. Overall, this was basically a slightly better version of instant noodles.

Yes, the price was cheap. It’s okay if something doesn’t taste great — that’s subjective. But it shouldn’t be thrown together carelessly. Once you start randomly tossing things in, it becomes something else entirely. If you want to make proper ramen, you need to respect what ramen is. You can’t just put anything in and still call it ramen.

You could call this bowl “Chinese ramen” or “fusion-style noodles,” but don’t call it Japanese ramen. If I hadn’t been so hungry that day, I would’ve stopped after two bites and...

I love this place.

We usually do pickup but we finally sat down in the restaurant on our last visit. The atmosphere is fun and the décor is thematic. I love all the fun import snacks, desserts, and drinks they have on their shelves! I try a new drink every time I go and often pick up a new treat to try (I tried a melon bun for the first time, it was delicious).

The food itself is amazing, especially their ramen (the black and shoyu ramens are my personal favourites). We always get their "deluxe" versions because I love the extra bits that come with them (like the egg in the ramen and the gyzo in the donburi). I will say that this past time we went in the eggs in all our ramen's were a little overcooked and didn't have the runny yoke. That's the first time that's happened though, so that was a bit of a one-off issue.

Prices are amazing. You get such a high quality meal for the same price as typical fast food (actually, it might be less these days). If you want the full experience, plan to spend around an extra ~$5.00 to snag either an import drink or a fun import snack.

Basically, I highly...