This is an incredible restaurant! We had my sister's 30th birthday celebration there and the staff was so wonderful. The owner was so accommodating, and welcoming to any requests. The food was absolutely fabulous and the selection is huge. The atmosphere is so nice and they make you feel at home. I would recommend it to anyone, and the location is so beautiful. Just a wonderful experience overall.

This place could be an awesome bakery. The store has European country feel to it and features a wood burning oven. Only one product is sold: Romanian whole wheat bread, but at $10 a loaf I can't help but feel ripped off even if the taste is good. I'm surprised that the owner is still in business. He seems greedy and is quite arrogant with the customers.

This now my all time favorite sushi restaurant that serves really creative rolls . Prices are the lowest in Lower Mainland for this yummy creative rolls. It would surprise me if I found a place that makes sushi better than this place. I've attached pics ....because a picture is worth a thousand words. The rolls I ate ranged from $4.25 to $5.50. Soooo good. Doesn't put a hole in my wallet. Also this place has daily specials on some rolls. Ex. 20 piece rolls for 6.75, etc. Worth checking out. Party trays also available ...and when you buy 2nd tray,.... it's 1/2 price. Yes!

I've been to Charcoal well over 15-20x now and I think it's time for an update. The food itself is still fairly consistent and fresh, and I appreciate the photo album of pictures for those visual eaters out there. However, it's disappointing that the service has never been that solid - for all the times that I patron their business never once have I been recognized as a regular even though I'm being served by the same people, sometimes even within the same week. Service is very matter-of-fact and to-the-point, they want you to get in and get out cause the place has picked up over the years and once they drop your food off don't expect to see them again.

Value has slided because the price of their speciality rolls have gone up significantly - I ordered a few of the ones from the photo album (not on the menu) priced around $12-$14 and all were disappointing, no unique taste just more expensive fish being mashed up "fushion style". The worst offender though would be their "Lobster Yakiudon" - I believe it was $16 complete with ZERO lobster whatsoever. It was 100% regular shrimp overcoated in a nasty 5-spice sauce topped with some roe. That's it. No lobster and no taste of lobster unless you consider 5-spice lobster. I felt robbed because for 3 people and 5 dishes that night our bill came to $87 with tax and tip. Charcoal used to be a solid go-to place for me, but now I wouldn't go there unless I had to - there are so many Japanese restaurants in Richmond that can offer you fresh sushi and more bang for your buck with friendlier service too.

Went to Cora's on the weekend after hearing so much hype about the place opening up. As a breakfast/lunch restaurant there isn't much real competition in the category (IHOPS, Denny's) but I can still appreciate how Cora's is really unique on its own with the fresh fruit concept and it's branding and decorations (feels like I'm in elementary school all over again). A great place for the family and the restaurant itself is quite spacious.

The boyfriend and I arrived around 3pm and the place was at about 40% capacity but were still asked to wait for around 5 minutes. The owner then escorted us to the tiniest 2-top in placed awkwardly in the middle of the room, which I can understand if the restaurant is busy with a wait, but since there were so many open tables by the window and booths, did he really anticipate a rush of 4-tops around 3pm? Anyway, I had the Cora's special (big breakfast with 2eggs, bacon, ham, crepe, potatoes, toast and I added mushrooms too :D). The meat was of much better quality than most diners and I actually enjoyed the crepe even though some other reviewers on other sites found it quite tough. My bf had strawberry waffles which he enjoyed, but I thought it was a bit too sweet with the English cream. We also had their strawberry banana smoothie too which was NOT a smoothie at all, in fact it tasted EXACTLY like that Yop yogurt drink you get at the stores, right down to the colour, taste, and consistency. I don't know how they could call it fresh, it was watery as could be and obviously not blended with ice. Our server explained that "they must have ran out of the smoothie mix and are cheating" which is an interesting thing to say...I was not impressed needless to say but they did end up replacing it with their "100% fruit cocktail" which was much more like a smoothie though not that great either.

Service overall was definitely on the poor side. The lady actually dropped my toast on the floor cause it was clear having two plates in one hand was a struggle for her (if you are going to work in a restaurant you should really know how to carry more than one plate at a time!). The staff really like to take their time with things. I can tell you now that they need to hire some more experienced or harder working servers as I noticed food sitting up on the line for minutes at a time, and it took around 2-3 servers and 3-4 trips to clean up one freaking table! It was rather painful to watch them go back and forth carrying only one plate with a free hand.

I think the quality of the food and the ambiance (I like the open kitchen and decor) justifies the higher price points at Cora's (breakfast for 2 was $36 with tax and tip). I would probably go back as I love breakfast, just hoping that by then they will have their service together!

Poor service on a slow Saturday night. Eight of us came here for after-dinner drinks, each of which came five minutes apart. That's pretty slow service even if the restaurant were busy. A waiter took our order and the waitress who brought the drinks barely knew what she was serving us, which caused confusion over who ordered what. My friend found the passion fruit with mango stars too sweet. The waiter offered to remake it but she settled for a glas of water to dilute it. Another friend ordered pearls in his drink but got coconut jelly. He was nice about it, so the waitress didn't offer to correct it. Finally, my drink still hadn't come after over 30 minutes. Because the waiters seemed to be socializing, I called for them across the room and told them it had been a long time. My drink was quickly served without an apology. I'm sure they forgot because there were just 4 other small tables being served. We left a $2.00 tip on a $37.00 bill, but I'm sure the message is lost on the staff. Might be back to try to food, which seems like good value. This experience at this location is definitely not as good ad the Granville store. There, they are at least efficient.

This place has delicious aand authentic Korean sushi fish. it is $15.50 for rice + 10 fishes with the choices you can have something different every day of the week. the fish is amazing, one of the best i've had especially if they still have half fatty. the bbq fish specials is perfectly glazed and flavoured (my fav). the fish has a great ratio of meat + fat + crunchy skin. you have go to try every combination! will differently come back for lunch take out. They are \korean so they treat you right.

My partner and I decided to try Ebi-su restaurant in Richmond for lunch after reading some positive reviews on it. When we first went in, the waitresses were talking, but didn't take too long for them to seat us after greeting us with "yes?", accompanied with a facial expression for "how many"? She decided to seat us next to an empty table with a wet mess on the floor, so we asked to be seated in a two seat booth. The ambiance was nice, the decor was modern, however it lacked a bit of luster giving me a somewhat dirty feeling.

The menu was very straight forward and had a good selection. The price for the set lunch was very reasonably priced. My partner and I decided to order the 3 item special for $9.99, which we chose two organic sashimi salad and a tempura. We also ordered Bento box A for $11.99. Both of these lunch sets included miso soup. The soup came first and it wasn't anything special, typical miso soup.

It didn't take long for the salads to come and we were really excited that they had organic greens, however my excitement soon dissipated after taking the first chew at my sashimi. I'm not sure if they didn't remove the silver skin to the fish or not, but it was chewy. So, I swallowed it, decided that this could happen to any of the most experience chefs, however 4 out of the 5 sashimi in my salad and also in my partners salad were chewy. It was really really unappetizing.

While we were chewing our salads, the other items arrived. The presentation was average. But again, for the price, we weren't expecting anything fancy. The tempura was mediocre, the batter was really heavy leaving the suppose to be crispy tempura very soggy and doughy.

The Bento box A had 7 pieces of sashimi (3 salmon and 5 tuna), a small salad, tempura, 4 nigiri sushi ( 2 salmon and 2 Tuna). First we tried the salad with a thick goo of salad dressing on top. It tasted really really fishy so we did not eat any of it. The tempura was again heavy, soggy and doughy. The sashimi and nigiri remained to have chewy bits in them.

The servers were attentive and the place had 8 tables of customers. We asked for two small plates and they gave us two small plates that were greasy. Overall this experience will make me think twice about eating another piece of raw fish from a sushi place I know nothing about. We didn't end up finishing our meal, not because we weren't hungry, but because we really couldn't stomach the grossness of the fish anymore. 3 hours after this meal, both of us ended up going to the washroom a few times. I will definitely not go back to Ebi-su again.

We enjoy dinners here, so we figure we will try out dim sum on a day off. We waited for 10 mins for a table on a Friday arriving at 11:55am, and the service was good as we expected.

We pretty much enjoyed everything, but I have to say the Mushroom Dumplings are absolutely exceptional! Have not had anything like that - no wonder they win an award. You have to try this fantastic dim sum if you are there.

We were here for a mother's day lunch. We asked for a table to 5 for outside, but they said that the tables outside are only for a table for 4, and pretty cramped for 5. Another group came for a table for 5 and they put 2 tables together for them. Hmmm........

We ordered the platter, steamed mussels and crab cakes. The ice tea I ordered was so sweet, I watered it down, several times. But the rest of the food was good. All the fish on the fish and chips platter was good. The fries were well seasoned. The calamari was not the traditional, but also good. Crab cakes and mussels were pretty outstanding.

The next table had the seafood hotpot and the dungeness crab benny, which looked really good. Will go back and try, next time.