Sushi Taku — Restaurant in Vancouver

Sushi Taku is a Japanese restaurant located on Joyce St, Vancouver. The location of the restaurant is 5 mins walking distances from the Joyce Skytrain station. It’s very convenient for people to find it and park cars. My boyfriend and I had dinners twice at this place since we moved back to Vancouver. We had the different feeling in each time.

The 1st time visit: The first time visited Sushi Taku, was at the beginning of July. My boyfriend found this place online. We arrived at the restaurant around 8 pm and had a late dinner there. It’s a super small Japanese restaurant. There are only four small tables and two big tables inside the restaurant. It was very busy at that time. We were luckily found a table and began ordered the food. We had seaweed salad, Appetizer Sashimi, Bacon & Cream Cheese Roll and Sushi Pizza to share. After we ordered the food, the seaweed salad came first. It seems like a pre-made salad, but the taste was OK. Appetizer Sashimi was 3 pieces Salmon Sashimi and 3 pieces tuna Sashimi. Both Salmon and Tuna were fresh and large size. Next, Sushi Pizza was made of deep fried rice, salmon, tuna, avocado, and beets on top. The deep-fried rice was very soft and tasty. The top made sushi pizza more delicious. I love this dish. Our last dish was the Bacon Cream Cheese Roll. OMG. The roll was very tasty and delicious. The roll was made of cream cheese, green bean with bacon wrapped on top, which was a very unique combination. The prices of food were not expensive. All together were under $40 for two people, which was a great deal. We enjoyed our first experience at Sushi Taku.

The 2nd time visit: The second time visited Sushi Taku, was on my boyfriend’s birthday. We gotta there early around 5:00 pm. The restaurant was not busy. Only one customer was eating at the restaurant. We sat at the big table. We had Seaweed Salad, Sunny Roll, Volcano Roll, and Salmon Combo this time. Seaweed salad was the same as last time. Volcano roll was made of cali roll, seared scallop o top, which was great. Sunny Roll was yam roll, seared spicy tuna with yam crunchy on top. I dont really like Sunny Roll. The crunchy was overcooked. Salmon Combo was included 3 salmon sashimi, 3 salmon nigiri and salmon roll. The sashimi were not very fresh. My boyfriend thought sashimi and other special rolls tasted very different. The prices were the same as last time. The taste of all rolls were not as good as last time. But, we still enjoyed the birthday dinner...

Been eating here for years, mainly takeout and Skip the dishes. I almost ate everything on the menu. My favorite items are scallop rolls, crazyboy rolls, spicy tuna rolls, salmon, tuna nigiri, chicken teriyaki. Some of the other items like beef or chicken rolls are not fresh, chicken karage was burnt a few times, gyoza has no taste. Overall the customer service needs a little improvement except for one waitress which always repeat my order and gets everything right. Once I ordered chicken teriyaki and got chicken karage. Once seafood salad and got some seaweed, only one waitress repeat the order consistently and make sure everything is accurate. This place gets really really busy at times. If it gets that busy, they need to turned off Skip the dishes. More than a few times, it said an hour wait on Skip the dishes and after an hour, it has a longer wait time. So I waited close to 2 hours and still wasn't ready. I had to contact Skip the dishes to cancel the order. When you're ordering delivery, you want the food asap, not sure how the restaurant think it is okay to let the customer wait 2 to 3 hours to get their food delivered. Happened more than once, not ordering Skip the dish from this...

Sushi Taku is a small, Japanese run neighbourhood sushi spot.

The inside is small with 5 tables (15 seats). Lots of takeout orders. Service is friendly.

Bento boxes are only available weekdays (11:30am to 2:30pm). Note: they close for a break between 2:30pm to 3:00pm.

Trip #1 Ebi sunomono ($5.25) Chicken karage ($7.95) - takes ~10 minutes to prepare but worth the wait. Beef yaki soba ($12.25) Mango mango roll ($10.50) Salmon sashimi ($14.50 for 8) - good portion size, especially for the price. Negitoro roll ($4.75) Spicy chopped scallop roll ($5.75) California roll ($4.50)

Trip #2 Scallop tataki roll ($11.25) Negitoro roll ($4.75) - tuna and green onions are oddly not mixed together. Oshinko roll ($3.25) - lacked a crunchy texture, no pickled taste. Deluxe assorted sashimi ($28.95 for 22) - best pieces were the saba and toro. I liked the regular salmon (fattier, better bite) over the sockeye salmon. Found the tako watery. Spicy agedashi tofu ($6.25) Sunny roll ($9.95) Spicy chopped scallop roll ($5.75)

Nothing will blow you away at ST but decent...