I went to Shabusen for lunch. It's like $13 per person for all you can eat (sushi + Korean BBQ). After you add HST, it's about $14.55 per person + tips. I have to say this lunch is definitely worth it.

Food: It's fresh enough. Nothing tastes bad or bothers you. I like chicken and spicy pork for BBQ. The beef slices for BBQ might not be the best quality of meat. But they are Ok. There's a limit on sashimi (8 pieces per person) but it's fine by me. I was busy working on BBQ anyway. There's other stuff you might want to order and work on. Some side dishes are great like tempura and croquette. Sushi and sashimi are decent and fresh enough.

Service: It's fast enough. They are very polite. I am grateful for their politeness because I have seen many mean servers at other restaurants that make me not want to return. It's such a breeze of fresh air that there are good servers at Shabusen.

Value: Well, it's all you can eat. You will never leave there hungry or half full. You get to have Korean BBQ and sushi at the same time. The quality of food is good enough. Some tastes pretty good and some are average.

Ambiance: I like the seating arrangement a lot. You get to sit next to the big window and look outside. The tables are not too close to each other. So it's not cramped and you have full privacy. People at the next table won't even be able to hear your conversation unless you are loud. I like the big space a lot because there's so many cramped restaurants in Vancouver that make me miserable. It's nice to be in a restaurant that they are not stingy about space.

Over all, I had a great dining experience. $14.55 can't get you a lot of varieties and food in most restaurants in Vancouver. But you can get both here plus good service and decent seating. It's really worth your money.

PS: This review is based on whether the quality reflects the price or not. I don't use fine dining standard to pick apart any inexpensive restaurant.

As far as 'All you can eat', whatever.
The food is just Ok.
The service isn't bad.
The Korean BBQ is fun with friends.
Question - why is it that everywhere I walk in this place and especially the staircase that goes down to the parkade is it slippery like someone carefully applied a layer of Fish Sludge? I don't know that I've ever felt before such a need to throw away my shoes than after I've been to Shabusen. Now I am guilty folks, I have been here many times but...Gross!
I haven't been back in over a year cuz I'm a bit worried.

My son wanted to go out for Japanese food for his 9th birthday. After reading so many positive reviews, we thought we would give it a try.

It wasn't worth the drive from Delta.

The food was just ok. Nothing special. We had the AYCE. We had some of the Korean BBQ which was ok. We tried some teriyaki as well. My husband and I had a hard time swallowing what was brought out. We should have just stuck with the BBQ.

The service was blah and we had food come to our table that we didn't order and food that we ordered that we never received.

All in all, it wasn't worth the drive. We won't be returning anytime soon.

Had all you can eat with the whole family last night. Haven't had ayce in a long time.

Food: We had the usual suspects, ie. miso soup, various nigiri sushi, tons of sashimi, tempura, gyoza, oysters, korean bbq. Nothing really spectacular as it was ayce.

Value: Roughly $25/head to eat like crazy.

Service: Nothing to write home about when people are lining up and food is being ordered. Typical ayce place mistakes are orders are always incorrect which doesn't bother me much.

Verdict: Eh, nothing special, pass, 7 out of 10.

My bf and I went here with about 7 others for a get together dinner, and found that we really enjoyed ourselves.

Ambiance:
The place itself was huge, and very inviting- the decor, and natural lighting (from various skylights throughout the room) added a bit of character and depth to the restaurant (a nice change from the more mundane sushi joint decor).

Food:
We ordered the majority of items off the AYCE dinner menu. We found everything pretty good- definitely better than most AYCE places in Vancouver. Although they do have a rather small Sashimi and Maki Roll Selection, the menu has plenty to offer for even the most picky eaters. I particularly liked that you could choose exactly how many pieces you wanted of each item. My one complaint is that although the Korean BBQ was delicious, all the meats had the same (or similar) flavour to it- making it a bit boring to eat.

Service/ Value:
For an AYCE place, I was surprised to see such attentive service. It was a busy Saturday night, but our server came over frequently to clear up plates, fill our drinks and ask if we wanted to order more. We definitely got our money's worth here- we ordered like 4 times- each time with the food slip almost completely filled out.

Overall, it is a really fun place to go for a nice social gathering. We will definitely return.

Came here for dinner with a party of 4 on tuesday night and was surpised to see that it was quite busy. Last visit to this location must have been over 10 yrs ago. Had the ayce sushi and korean bbq for 21.95 per person. Food was solid although some more selection of sashimi and nigri sush would have been nice but for the price, no complaints. The quality of the sushi however was decent but could be more fresh. The cooked food on the other hand was good especially the tempura (no shrimp tho, just yam and veggie). Service was ok since it was a busy night. We had to ask for our waters 3x and still didn't get it. Not a fan of ayce in general but this place is not bad.

I went to Shabusen with a huge group of friends (16 of us). The service was pretty good considering the amount of demanding people they were serving. They responded quickly to our requests. The food was pretty delicious, especially the sushi. All you can eat sashimi! Barbecuing the meat was interesting. I was constantly worried about getting food contamination because the tongs touched raw meat.

The pricing was decent for an all-you-can-eat place. It includes unlimited meat and fish, so it's reasonable. The ambiance was nice, a little too dark for my liking. Overall, it's a good place to go if you're starving for some delicous food.

I used to live this area for 5 years. I don't remember how many times I visited this restaurant but absolutely my favorite All You Can Eat restaurant by far.

The price is maybe a bit more than the other all you can eat restaurants, but you can get decent service, and food in general are great. Since this place is always busy, Sushi are so fresh and sizes are perfect (not too small, not too big). Although they don't have so many variety of Sashimi or Nigiri sushi for this all you can eat menu, but still the quality is very high.

My parents from Japan came and tried out a couple of Japanese restaurants, according to them, their sushi was the best. Also, Korean BBQ menu are great too. I have tried so many other all you can eat restaurants, but this restaurant is so far the best. (The same one in Burrard does not have the same menu, and I prefer to go to Granville one better).

Food tastes so good and so plentifull when i started going here i thought it must have been a front for something to be able to charge so little, but having gone there for years now its because so many people go here (economies of scale and all that). Best japanese in town for the price that i can think of. No one can match the value.

One of the best parts is they wont try to make you feel guilty for stuffing yourself at all you can eat, they will ask you if you would like some more a million times before they imply you have had to much which is why i give them a solid (3/5) on servise despite slow servise getting seated and sometimes getting the eye of the server (one in particular). Other then "grumpy" as i call him the staff are very chearfull especially the manager who is all over the place making sure things are running smoothly.

The korean BBQ is a ton of fun and delicious as well which gives it a top tier ambiance rating.

Its my favorite resturant in the city

First of all, what do you expect from an all you can eat restaurant?

You can expect the rolls to sometimes be pre-made; you can expect your server to forget items or bring you too few, as though they don't expect you to finish what you ordered; and you can expect to have a lengthy meal as, let's face it, as an AYCE customer you're very demanding on the server's time.

This is all true about Shabusen, because it's true of virtually every AYCE sushi restaurant. However, as long as you're not in a hurry (and why would you be eating AYCE then anyway?) and as long as you know how to order, it's an incredible restaurant.

I've been here a couple times, and the Korean BBQ is definitely what keeps me coming back. Both times I've filled up on sashimi, Korean BBQ, and a mixture of some of the more interesting items like motoyaki. Don't come here if you're the type of person who defines sushi as calafornia rolls- you won't get your money's worth, but I definitely ate close to $40 both times in sashimi alone.

Oh, and one more thing- make sure you try one of the coffee/green tea jellos. Yep. Coffee and green tea. But only order ONE! Haha, it's really... interesting. My table ordered 15 (one for everyone) and, well, let's just say that the one person who liked it definitely had enough.