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After hearing about this place from a friend I figured I would give it a shot. The place was dimly lit and had random neon signs and the walls were decorated with stuff you would find at a garage sale. The table we sat at was covered in a sticky film and I had to flag down the waitress to clean it, even after she did so it was still sticky.
The service was absolutely terrible, it took over an hour to get most of the food, we ordered 2 apps and 6 rolls for a table of 3, which was inexcusable. They completely forgot about the ika karage I ordered so I told them to forget about it. At no point did the server stopped by to refill tea or water or asked how everything was. Mind you there was 2 waitresses and the place was barely busy with 6 other tables. People that sat down 20 minutes after us got their apps before we did which was comical.
The food was proportioned very small, quality was mediocre and price was average. $8 for ebimayo, there was 7 pieces of shrimp the size of a quarter and heavily battered, very much a disappointment compared to another joint that serves this. The raw fish was definitely not fresh and cut in tiny pieces. The drink special was watered down and over half the glass was filled with ice cubes, you could barely taste any liquor. The only thing on the menu that was worth the price paid were the $1 Cali rolls, all their other rolls should have been at this price to reflect the poor quality.
As we were leaving I complained how slow the service was and the waitress actually had the audacity to say "well I don't think anyone else got their food on time" as like this was normal or expected there. This infuriated me to the point that I vowed never to return here and logged in here to warn others about this place.
Mrs. C and I were on Main Street looking for some chow when we spotted SD. The entrance is by way of some rather grubby stairs which did not look very inviting. Once we got past that obstacle we found the place was not too bad. It looked a little dark inside, but everything looked clean enough, including the ancient w/c. Service was pretty good throughout the meal, and although I would not say the servers warmed my heart with their jolly goodwill, they were efficient and came back for quality checks and tea top-ups.
We had a variety of foods including soba noodles, beef teriyaki, Cali roll, tuna roll, tuna sashimi, gyoza, BBQ eel, a decent bean and coconut drink for my beloved dining companion and a beer for me. All the food was tasty enough, but by no means deluxe. It was definitely worth it for the price, but that’s about all I can say. As for price, that is the real attraction of this place. We ate well and the bill came to 25 bucks for two, including a generous tip.
I don’t really understand the negative reviews for this place. SD offers cheap gut fill, and you get exactly what you pay for. I will be back for more.
As other reviewers mentioned, the food here is cheap. $2 California roll, $2 spicy tuna, $2.5 yam tempura roll. Yet the food is not that big so you do need to order more to fill up, kind of negating the savings. The rolls I tried were all very tasty, esp. the avocado roll. The service was not very good. The place was not busy, but it still took quite a long time for the food and our tea never got refilled. Also, we could hear the workers talking about the customers from the kitchen! Not professional. So many restaurants on Main, probably won't be coming here again.
Food is pretty consistent. It's decent food for incredible prices. The best deal there are the "bento" boxes there. You get a side of rice, salad, a choice of chicken/beef/pork/sashimi/tofu plus 3 more other side of a large variety of choices. Choices include cali roll, salmon/tuna sashimi, mussels, beef ribs, tempera, BBQ eel, eggs, cheese cake, bacon wrap, and many many more. (All very decent food) Plus a miso soup for $8.5, including tax. (Miso soup is kinda blan but I'm not really into that anyway.)
Service is super slow though. Usually there's only 1 waitress, 2 max. So don't go there when you're super hungry because you won't be getting you food anytime soon.
Ambiance. They used to have these Christmas lights on all the time. So it's like Christmas all year round! But they recently took it off and did some renovation so it's all good. Washroom is like a typical Asian restaurant; cold, metal everywhere, slight odor but passable.
I feel bad for Simply Delicious/SD Galleria. I came here a ton when they were known as Simply Delcious, in its pre-Galleria days, mostly because it was one of the few sit-down cheap places in the neighbourhood and didn't require lining up. They didn't get much business then, and with this new look, I can't imagine they will last very long.
I found the quality of the food to be the same as before, solid, but nothing remotely amazing. Decent value, not dirt cheap, but definitely affordable. The service has definitely improved, but I don't approve of the new dress code for waitresses - shirt skirts, low cut tops...it seems a little sleazy of the management to me. The decor is perhaps the biggest difference, an assortment of comic book covers, records, and a faux Mona Lisa...there's quite a bit to look at now! It's kinda tacky, not gonna lie...but I don't mind tacky that much, so it's not necessarily a bad thing to me.
I've been here twice since it became SD Galleria, once with a group of 4, and then with a group of 6. The first time, they place was not super busy, but they definitely had customers, and I didn't feel bothered or distracted from my meal. The second time however, half of the place was filled with high school kids and young college kids who had just turned legal - there was about 40 of them....not eating, but talking loudly, dancing to the bad DJ, and smoking on the patio outside. This was irritating; the last thing I want during my meal is to be distracted by skanky teenagers and second hand smoke. My group almost left, but because the waitress was friendly when we came in, we decided to eat as quickly as possible, and finish off the evening at the Mcdonald's down the street.
I understand that 40 teenagers would seem like good business to management, but the fact that the bulk of them were standing around and not ordering food doesn't seem to balance out this equation, and it only serves to bother other customers more. I would have been back to SD Galleria for the cheap solid food since that last visit in February, but I haven't for fear that there may be another noisy group of 40 there disturbing my meal.
Have gone to this place a few times in the past couple of months. Food is very cheap, delicious and quick. Service is OK. Always have to ask for more tea and the bill. The few times we've been there, has not been busy. Free parking in the back.
I honestly have no idea what the posts below me were talking about when they say the waitresses are scandily dressed. They look perfectly fine to me - better than earls and cactus club if you ask me. Cactus club girls are not classy, I don't care what anyone says, they're just not. I've also gotten GREAT service from the new waitresses, however, when i get the old ones serving me then not so much.
I've been a couple of times since they renovanted the place and i really love what they've done with it. There are framed comic book pages, cd covers and artwork adorned on the walls, and some awesome quirky neon signs around. The place was never really 'authentic' japanese as the owners were vietnamnese, so I find that this ambience matches the place more.
The menu has changed a bit and the prices have gone up just a bit, but I find the food to be the same, however with clean dishes, cups, plates though, which is so much better.
They also have a cheap dessert menu which personally makes me very happy. I love cheesecake.
I suggest going back to check it out to see the changes and decide for yourself whether you like it or not.
If you read below, you'll find my old review of Simply Delicious, now also known as SD Galleria. I'd been to the restaurant on many occasions over the past few years and even though the service was extremely slow, the food was fairly decent and the price was dirt cheap.
I hadn't gone for awhile and I heard a few months ago from friends that the restaurant had undergone a makeover with the addition of neon signs and artwork plastered over the walls and was now going by the name 'SD Galleria'. Assuming that the management or owners had changed, I finally went a few nights ago to check out what was different, but I'm definitely not going back again unless they change their management.
First off, the service is a lot better than it was before. The waitress was quick to bring us drinks and menus, and to take our order. The food came relatively faster than usual, too.
The ambiance was slightly improved with the art and the presence of a live DJ. I quite enjoyed that they added in couches in place of chairs at some tables. I also noticed that some of the booths had been reupholstered with animal prints. While these may have been great strides in terms of making the restaurant look better, some remnants of the old decor are still prevalent (e.g., the colour of the walls, the tables, etc) which do not mesh well with the new additions at all and instead make the place seem very tacky.
This brings me to the food. The food is horribly overpriced. The $5 yam tempura only had 4 skinny pieces of prawn in a thick coating of fried batter. The BC roll was large, but at least 80% the roll was filled with cucumber slices. The gyoza came in portions of 4 as well, but were small enough to eat one in a single bite. On the other hand, the beer was rather cheap.
Also keep in mind that, if you're paying debit, you need to spend over $10. If not, you have to pay a $0.25 charge. We also had to go up to the counter to pay, and repeat our order to the employee there.
Like I said, it was a pretty bad experience and I definitely won't be going again. Time to look for a new place to go to for 'cheap eats'.
This restaurant is definitely NOT a family restaurant. With sushi rolls ranging from $2 to $7, $3 drink specials, some flat screen TVs and top 40 music, I'd say this place has transformed into a restaurant/lounge. It's a great place to chill with your friends. The food is solid, not outstanding. There is no sushi bar. You get what you pay for for the $2 robata items. I totally agree with the last reviewer about short skirts though. The dress code should be tasteful; Cactus club is a good example. The waitresses where black dresses/skirts there and it's tasteful. Show off your legs and cover your top. That's pretty much the rule of dress anyways. Great place to go if you're on a bit of a budget. Recommended.
A friend suggested to have late lunch at simply delicious few days ago.
I wasn't so excited for the food quality at all because I never trust extremely cheap food. The restaurant overall looked empty and dirty. It's a shame how they own a nice place but cannnot even take good care of it, this will really scare away the customers. If it's dirty on the outside, think about the kitchen. That I do not even want to think about.
The menu looked messy with a mix of Vietnamese and Japanese scattered everywhere.
I ordered a bowl of beef ball pho, this tasted bland. Please save your money! It is about the same price as an authentic Pho restaurant.
My friend ordered one of their bento boxes, the rice was hard and the favouring was not satisfying. $6.50 for a small bento box with one side you can choose from.
No tea or water was offered until we asked for it and the miso soup came out right before we finished up our food. The miso did not have the same taste that Japanese restaurants have. There was something about it.
We left with our stoamch flipped upside down. I rather pay $6-9 for a mini-set meal from one of the popular Chinese HK Cafe restaurants that come with a drink instead.
We went right when it opened at 12pm, outside around the entrance was very with pigeon pop everywhere, they should spend some time cleaning outside and perhaps put up a net to aviod pigeons from pooping in front of the entrance.
As we opened the moldy door, there was a strong scent which smelt like a typical Chinese restaurant washroom. We really hoped the restaurant would smell better but our hopes were down. The restaurant wasn't clean at all, oil stains on every tables and walls. They should definitely do some vacuuming, dusting, and better dish washing. We tried to ignore the horrible smell, it didn't smell delicious. It was pretty empty.. we were the only ones but couldn't turn back and leave.
Our order:
- fresh oysters ( small) $4
- salmon sashimi $6
- california roll $2
- salmon roll $2
- scallop roll $2
- prawn tempura $5
The fresh oysters came first and it looked nothing like the picture, the picture listed 3 but the young man gave me 2. They were small and honestly, I can go to an authentic Japanese restaurant and buy oysters per 0.99 cent a peice for a better/satisfieid experience. This I let go and did not mention to the waiter.
They squirted lemon juice on our salmon sashimi which was odd, we didn't like that. The sashimi were small but you get for the price you pay.
California rolls were hard and dry, the salmon rolls came in very small portion, and the scallop tasted odd.. slimmy with a fishy after taste.
The prawn tempura came in decent sizes we thought until we took a bite, it was mostly batter. Two inches of batter, as we were working on the last tempura, we realized one prawn wasn't even a prawn.. it was a yam that looked like a prawn. We quickly asked the waiter "Why is there a yam in our prawn tempura?" his only best cover up was "....every tempura plate comes with one piece of yam, is that okay?". In my head I was just thinking "we ordered prawns FOR A REASON". Nice cover-up, this restaurant is definitely a rip off especially if you have tried many AUTHENTIC Japanese restaurants. This restaurant will have no match agaisnt those because 1) it's not authentic 2) restaurants that sell more than 1-2 ethnicity of food isn't usually good.
Bill came out to be $18, we probably ate half of the food only.
The service overall was horrible, only one waiter. It is a Vietnamese family owned restaurant and if I were to compare it to another Vietnamese japanese restaurant such as Samurai Sushi on Cambie, this restaurant should go out of business.
As I wandered into this restaurant that occupies a cavernous space on the second floor at 4316 Main Street (between 28th and King Edward) I couldn't help but think 'and this is the lunch rush?' The place is huge with lots of places for bums in seats. There was exactly one other person when I was seated (by a grumpy and distracted waitress).
The colour and decor fit with what I'd expect in a greasy-spoon-cheap asian restaurant: tacky, but not necessarily in a bad way.
Food list seemed pretty standard. I ordered bubble tea, a yam tempura (maki) roll, and a chicken teriyaki box (with salmon sashimi, rice, and salad)... so far so good. Another two people came in, were seated, and then the waitress took a personal call on the cell phone during which time she turned away from all her customers and chatted away for about ten minutes. The she brought me some tea.
The tea was in a plastic cup and tasted like hot water and plastic with a hint of tea. Not a good start. Relatively quickly, the maki came out. Nervously, I took a first bite, and it was good! This was settling my nerves somewhat, so I headed off to check out the restrooms.
They did little to encourage. The cheap painting that looked a little like a paint-by-numbers done by a tempera-painting twelve-year-old could have been excused, if the bathrooms had been less of an afterthought, or clean. The men's was tiny, the mirror was cracked, the floor was dirty, the toilet was dirty... and the place had opened at 11 (I was there at noon) so... scary thoughts. The bathroom was taking away my appetite, so I washed my hands and headed back to my seat (I might have towelled off my hands, but there was no paper).
Now I was nervous again. The main course came along with the bubble tea. The tea was cold, sweet and satisfying but would have benefitted from smaller sago chunks, or balls. Two of the 'bubbles' were big chunks that didn't even fit up the straw. The miso soup was not very good. I don't really know how miso soup can be wrong. Stale? Big chunks of tofu (never one of my favourites in the soup). Not offensive, just not good. The rice was good. But the teriyaki chicken was disgusting. Greasy, over-sauced, gristly and fatty. I couldn't finish it, and I take pride in finishing my portions. The salmon sashimi was passable. The salad was worth a pass.
I paid for it (admittedly cheap) and hazarded a glance towards the kitchen. What I saw was not encouraging. There were dirty dishes stacked within view of the front desk, with food remnants still drooping. But I was the first person to finish something... from last night? I beat a hasty retreat down the stairs.
Simply Delicious rated a pass. Just don't go.
At first, I really liked this place, but as I returned, I noticed that cleaning the place didn't seem like a priority. I only frequent the place at lunch, and it looks like they just opened after one wingding of a party the previous night.
Usually there's very few other customers in the restaurant, but there's dirty dishes stacked waiting to be cleaned. I often use the back entrance because of the free parking (good point!). Today, the stairs were literally littered with bits of food and junk.The corridor walls were simply filthy. The carpets in the main eating area had food and junk on it. I peeked into the kitchen and of course it was many times more disgusting than the seating area. That explains the smell of "not clean".
The food? The food is tasty, but the hot stuff is rarely very hot. The soups are good. Price is quite good, but disappointing otherwise.
The cheapest Sushi Restaurant in town, $2 for 3 pieces of Chicken Karage, $1.5 for BBQ Beef Rib, Jumbo Prawn $4.5, New York Steak $8 . The food is very good esp the Sushi. Its very affordable restaurant.
Simply Delicious is about 2 kms from my house, and I eat there everyday. The $2 california roll is the best in the city. Food is very cheap in general: $0.50 cent rice, $2 gyoza, 2 for $1.50 ebi. The service is very slow when you eat in, so if i am in a hurry i pick up. Never very busy.
Not a pleasant experience, especially when you don't have much time to spare. Its redeeming qualities are the UNBELIEVABLY CHEAP prices and the not-bad food. 3 of us went on a Saturday night.
Miso soup came right away, but 2 of us waited 30 minutes for food, while the 3rd one waited 45 min. We also noticed one takeout customer waited over 30 min, and another waited close to 45 min.
Although we asked, the waitresses didn't bring the right utensils. Poor attitude and not attentive. Eventually there were 6 tables, but only 2 waitresses. Very disorganized and didn't prioritize. Took orders but started helping other customers so didn't submit orders to kitchen right away.
$8 for teriyaki choice, rice, salad, miso, and choice of 3 specialty items. Great value! Except the lemongrass chicken was just boiled chicken. Blech!
Just to make it clear, I am not in agreeance with all the bad reviews below about service and such.
For the price they charge, I find that the restuarant does a really good job in keeping their food quality and taste far from adequate. Everytime I have went, I have recieved friendly and efficient service whether it was recieving food or ordering for it. They also have a comment box and the option of take-out so if picky people who want both cheap food and 5 star service can have other options.
Yes, the place used to be dirty under the old management. No longer.
Redecorated to appeal to a hipper crowd, with slightly higher prices, the food is still great. Speed and quality of service depends on the serving staff on duty (Natural selection works slow for waitresses if one keeps tipping them ;-)
This continues to be one of my favourite restaurants in Vancouver!
The Sushi and everything tastes great. But I have to say, it is very filthy in there and I just hope that it doesn't look like that in the kitchen. It was summer when we went there and the Christmas deco was still up. They could make it such a great place if they would put some effort into cleaning right.
The food is actually pretty decent and cheap cheap cheap. That's it!
The place is filthy. Junk all over the stairs, carpets upstairs strewn with food, no kidding.
The staff is totally oblivious to both the surroundings and the customers and still manage to be friendly. Orders take FOREVER! 45 minutes last time, thats after a good long wait to place an order. I thought my first time there was just a really off day, nope. I guess there is only one person in the kitchen.
Oh yes, the bathroom, brings your own supplies.
Everything "looks" right, sort of, but it like being on candid camera with Luis Bunuel behind the curtain. The "is this for real?" feeling.
$30 for three including large sake and tax! Surrealism no extra charge.
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