I love Japanese food, but this was the worst I have ever had. The restauant and menu looked intriguing from the outside. Upon entering my wife and I smelt paint thinner. The restaurant had floor tile that looked like it was from the 1970's era. The rest of the restaurant looked well used and from the same era, kind of a greasy spoon feel to it.
I ordered the bento box with beef teriyaki. My wife ordered the tempura with teriyaki. We were both vey hungry and looking forward to a nice lunch.
The miso soup was flavorless. The sushi was poorly rolled and was like a grocery store quality. The vegi-rolls were burnt. The teriyaki was greasy like it had been fried on a griddle.
The waitress asked how everything was and I told her not so good. I pointed out the obviously burnt vegi-rolls. She ignored my comments. I found the wait staff to be unfriendly and curt. They didn't smile and were not welcoming. They appreared to be bored and seemed to hate working there.

This is probably the most dis-organized restaurant I've been to. We were served by 3 short waitresses and it took about an hour to get our food in a restaurant that was only half full. The portions were tiny, the serving of rice tiny, some of the salmon sushi was so cold I thought it just came out of a freezer. The portion of salmon saheme, though tasty and soft, was so small that I was still pretty hungry afterwards. I'm in no way a big eater but for $16 I had better be full. We dont eat like asia we eat more. I'm never going back to that restaurant again and I'd recommend against anyone else visiting it unless you "really" want to see the typical disorganzied asian service.

I ate here the other night because it was close to the movie theatre and I had a craving for sushi. The ambiance is decent inside; its pretty much all booths which are comfortable.

We ordered various dishes and nothing was really standout. I probably should have just saved some money and got a bento box. At 12 bucks, this is probably the best way to go at this restaurant since they seem to rely mostly on movie traffic and the quality isn't the greatest. The nori was a little chewy which kind of ruined my spicy tuna cone for me.

The floor was a little slippery and one of the servers took a nasty spill carrying two bento boxes. I hope she was OK, she didn't seem to be in the best condition as we were leaving. I was glad we were done though because I am pretty sure the service grinded to a halt with only one server and the place being packed.

With the plethora of sushi options in Vancouver, I probably won't return.

Only ended up here for a late lunch because it was one of the closest food place that wasn't closed in between lunch/dinner hrs with a soup noodle that might satisfy the craving of one of the people I was with. Thought I might as well give it a shot since it might turn out well though from appearances alone, it seems like a purely bento type place catered to a certain crowd which seeks convenience more than culinary surprises.

The saba was not fresh & quite darker in appearance than it ought to be. The sushi rice was too warm still & the pieces were not skillfully packed together. They come apart easily. The ikura is obviously not fresh. The half the skin of each roe is like dead dry skin tissue. Not at all appetizing. The toro though not awful, was just not worth risking... The tako seemed alright. The packaged ramen they use has not been rinsed of or drained/boiled clear of the soapy preservative chemicals. It's still very present & affects the prepackaged miso soup flavouring. The carrots in the seafood udon hardly seemed washed & also not shaved properly as there were still black dirt running down an entire side of the poorly grated carrot. One of our plastic cups of tea also had very visible lipstick marks around the rim.

The (vietnamese?) kimono girl heavily made-up w/ some of that deep dark lipstick stuck on her teeth looked very unhappy working there & just takes our orders, comes to drop them off reciting what it was & walking away w/o much of a glance or smile at anyone. She must really hate going around the room like that all day but I suppose it's still a paycheque.

Not a good restaurant. My friend found a bone in her sushi roll. Two out of four of my sushi have gone bad. Not fresh at all. Not a good place for fresh sushi. Don't think I will return to this restaurant given that there are plenty of choices in the downtown core.

I've been coming to this place for lunch since they opened last year.
Initially it was good sushi for the value and the place is spacious, unlike my usual sushi place further up Hornby so when we go from work we have space to relax. The problem with this place like a lot of others is that as they grow in popularity either service or quality suffers.
I have no problem with the service; the Kimono get up is cute but really not necessary. The food IS going down hill a bit. I was there yesterday for lunch and I swear the spicy tuna in my lunch box was off!! uugh!
I know it's a risk to order "spicy' anything roll as that is what they do with the older fish but at some point they gotta chuck out or someone may get sick at worst, or like me look for somewhere else for lunch. Too bad, this place was great.

My gf and I have been here a few times, and we always seem to order just the Bento Box. While we enjoy their extensive menu, the fare just seems too ordinary; everything on there seems like pages and pages of the same thing. I can understand if they want to stick to traditional Japanese cooking, but perhaps the introduction of 'fusion sushi' may bring more customers in. I've been to a lot of sushi joints, and all of them have the more normal sushi rolls, but they have also created signature rolls that utilizes fresh and interesting sushi combinations.

The value of the food is okay- although my one complaint is a drink issue. The last time we went there for lunch, my gf ordered a sprite, and I ordered a coke. When the drinks came, hers came in a can and mine in a glass bottle. The bottle had almost half as much drink in it, and when we got the cheque we saw that it cost almost twice as much. Had I known that I'd be paying more money for less drink, I would have ordered something else.

Like many others waiting to get in the movie since Scotia Place Theatre is Across the street , my boyfriend and I went to eat there . Lets just say we skipped the movie after because we were not in the mood after the nasty food. The sushi rolls (veggie roll and beef roll) D - awfull Only had couple pieces and left rest . I had a soup noodle - ramen . Looked NOTHING like the photo it was worst then what i can make at home . Overall go across the street to Earls or something this place is not good period

My first impression is that everyone from the boss to the chef to the waitress are all vietnamese, take it for what that's worth. Wouldn't matter to me if the food was good, but read on.

Tea was lukewarm at best and tasted very bland, almost to the point of boiled water.
Moving on to the important stuff, the food.
BLEH! Ordered a few kinds of sushi and wasn't going to risk ordering any more. The salmon was off-coloured, not pink, not red. Looked very dry like it was left outside for a while. There was barely any fatty belly in the Toro, more tuna than toro. The chop scallop was very dry and the seaweed was disgustingly soggy, sticky and warm.

I was debating with myself whether to get the Nabeyaki udon or Ramen. Should of went with the Udon but not sure if it would have been with better results anyway. The ramen tasted like plastic, no flavour at all and just a smorgasbord of vegetables that didn't look fresh. Zucchini was rock hard, broccoli was yellow, eggplant was black! Ick! I've had better from the instant bowl ramen.

I also got the saba, which didn't look anything like the picture, it was overcooked to the point of burnt and very dry, chunks of it were overly bitter as well.

I didn't finish any of the dishes. (which I rarely do)

Atmosphere was typical. I found it odd how they have traditional musical going on in the background AND they have the football game volume up as well. Doesn't mix.

Sorry but there's simply too many other places to choose from in the vicinity to ever have me wanting to come back here again.

Me and my girlfriend tried this place one night recently to kill some time before going to a fundraiser. I had already had a cocktail or two before arriving at kimono,maybe this is why I thought the food was alright the first time. My friend order a bento box of sorts+shrimp gyoza. I order salmon sashimi, tempura appitizer, edamame and gomee. The food was good not great. The service was not bad, they refilled the tea when needed. I like the booths, they were cozy. Looked in the bathroom and it looked clean.All in all I was satisfied.
Now onto my second visit... Few days later my boyfriend and me were going to see a movie at scotiabank so I thought hey maybe he'll like to try it out. We went there and they sat us promply.I told him about my previous time there, was saying that it seemed clean compaired to some other sushi places I had been. We order our food, waitress brought out the miso soup. And as I was sipping my soup I saw something that I have never nor do I want to see ever again.... A mouse scurried under a closed door!!! Now I don't know if this type of thing is common in resturants but when my sushi came I didn't eat much of it even tho my boyfriend said not to worry, it all tasted gross ,I was disgusted and still am.