Rice & Roll — Restaurant in Ottawa

I arrived to Ottawa on Monday at 11:00 am, shortly after I checked in at the hotel I was out and about looking for lunch.

Out of an impulse I was attracted to Rice & Roll due to its uncanny similarity to Narita's Japanese small restaurants that line the sidewalkless streets, another Japanese oddity, the only thing that this tiny tasty Japanese eatery lacked was the sampuru found on the afore mentioned restaurants.

The rest was, presentation and taste wise really good, I found rolls that are not traditionally found on westernized sushi bars and then some, the miso soup, sashimi, kushiage, nigiri and maki are extremely good, fish is fresh and truly sushi grade, an awesome little gem ran by a husband and wife team.

A well worth visit when you find yourself strolling downtown Ottawa at lunch...

Update 2022.07.25

To this day I cannot understand why the soy sauce is always diluted and flavourless unless it’s to save $. It tastes like the low sodium version + 50% water. You have to add a lot of wasabi to it for it to have any flavour.

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For bibimbap would be great if hot stone bowls could be used to achieve the heat and crunch. Egg yolk was also completely cooked. Would be good to have runny egg yolk.

For sashimi bibimbap, the portion of sashimi is fair given the $3 difference and represent perhaps only 30% markup from the market price for équivalent sashimi grade tuna and salmon. However, might be worth cutting them into cubes to achieve a better texture, although this may not achieve the best ratios in terms of sashimi to everything else when eating. The masago gives it all a...

(+) I had the best poke bowl from Rice & Roll. I personally think Poke bowl is a good option when trying new place since it has a bit of everything and you can see if the place has good food or not. I had their "Classic Hawaiian Poke Bowl with Salmon" and it was the best $19 I had spent haha! Would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to try this place out. The owners were so lovely though! They gave me some solid recommendations :)

(-) I don't think miso soup was worth it! In my opinion it wasn't that fresh and a bit overpriced! Also it was kinda salty. I also order some sushi combo from Rice & Roll but wasn't blown away. I think it was decent, but not great. The rice was cold and everything falls apart the second I picked it up. I would not...