Irashai Sushi

I took a few people here yesterday, and the joint was cozy and complimented Japanese culture quite well compared to some sushi places in the city. It’s just that the waitress clearly hated her job big time and that was a mood killer. I don’t like to just assume someone is miserable because of their facial expressions, but in this case the misery was blatantly obvious.

Small little sushi restaurant in the heart if kerrisdale! Tried the summer roll along with the salmon sashimi. The salmon sashimi practically melts in your mouth! It was super fresh. I only got 4 small pieces so in my opinion even though it was delicious it was a bit on the expensive side.
The summer roll was delicious and you can tell they use high quality ingredients.
The food was great but the service was bad. The server was not attentive and seemed annoyed when I asked her for a glass of water. It’s a small restaurant and I can understand that when it’s busy things take time. But there were only 4 other tables that were occupied still my food took a good 40 mins. The price of food is a bit on the higher side, but worth it because the sushi is super fresh and is made from good quality ingredients.

The younger waitress was so rude. Acted like I was wasting her time when she took order. The older lady was very nice. I think she’s the wife of the owner. Won’t be going back.
Food wasn’t fresh at all

Tamari sauce tasted strangely sour. Asked for them to remove an item from chirashi, they didn’t. Waitstaff are abrupt, borderline rude. Fish was not very fresh. Won’t be going back.

In the heart of Kerrisdale. Place fills up fast. The bento boxes have strange combinations and not many boxes to pick from. Service was actually pretty good. The waitress kept refilling out tea. They do take credit card but purchase has to be over $ 15.

Ordered take out and got the chicken karaage, mango veggie roll, spicy chopped scallop and spicy chopped tuna roll, all for $ 24 which I thought was on the pricey side but wouldn’t mind if the taste and quality were on par.
Of all 4 items, I’d only get the karaage again but for almost $ 8 I think there should be enough for 2 people. I guess their proprietary blend for spicy rolls is to add tempura flake which I find takes away from tasting or feeling the texture of the fish. It became more of a tempura roll that wasn’t very spicy.
I’d give this place another try but mainly only if I want hot food otherwise, I’d rather go down the street to Ajisai where I can get more than 3 rolls for $ 16

Good quality sushi but the roll sizes are very small. Same goes for their sashimi slices.

I am surprised when I see somebody else would actually give this place 3 stars or more. You might think that It was just my bad day; however I thought that’s not the only reason.
I used to went to this place about more than several years ago as I love their spicy tuna don. However, I stopped visiting because it was just far from my apartment.
I moved into another apartment recently which is very close to this restaurant. So I just decided to give it a try on my way home.
I ordered Sushi Combo D $ 22.50. What would you normally expect from a combo that worth $ 22.5 when it states 9 pcs of sushi? Since I have tried Ajisai, Asa and other sushi restaurants, so I had my hope up. Guess what did I have?
tekka maki, 1 salmon, 1 tuna, 1 frozen hokigai, 1 tamago, 1 sweeten tofu wrap, 1 FAKE crab meat, 1 saba, and 2 more i totally forget what that is because it is not something special or anything i remember to be tasty. I was stunned when i see the sweeten tofu wrap and the fake crab meat. are you kidding me? How can that worth $ 22.50? HA, NO WONDER IT DOESN’T TELL YOU WHAT TYPE OF SUSHI IT HAS ON THE MENU.
Not only the price is so rip off, the sushi isn’t that fresh at all. Why would I pay a $ 22.50 for a frozen hokigai? I love saba to be honest, but their saba just taste. BAD.
By the way, that’s just my first time experience. I tried not to be bias. I thought that the chef might be just not in a good mood to give me some good sushi. So, I was stupid enough to give it another try.
This time I ordered chirashi don, other sashimi, and the clam soup.
Again, the chirashi don just doesn’t taste right Not only the sashimi wasn’t fresh, they lack of variety of sashimi. The clam soup was soso. The clam was overcooked. At this point, I start to think that I am expecting too much. I ordered 2 Ikura sushi, but it only came 1. At the end, 2 showed up on my bill. YEY!
Total came up to 2 BAD EXPERIENCE. I would rather walk a little bit further to Asa sushi or Ajiisai next time.
Come to think of it. How can this sushi place still operating?

Great sushi and hot food selection, even though the place is run by Chinese not Japanese as some food snobs would point out. Their teriyaki chicken is the best in town. Crispy skin, full of flavor and the veggies are of good variety, not the typical bean spouts with cheap cabbage. So why do I only rate it 4 stars and not 5? Their service sucks! They have the rudest servers in town. Funnily enough, their delivery guy (a big guy) is the most courteous. Yes inspiite of this I will go back, just for their food, not for the service.

Simply delicious. Quick service. Good prices. Been here three times. Plenty more in the future.

This is, hands down, my favourite sushi place in Vancouver. The service is standard and the price carries a slight premium, but the food is first rate. As others have pointed out, it’s not run by Japanese staff, but don’t let that put you off. The sashimi is fresh, the tempura is perfectly battered and fried, and the rolls are sublime. Some standouts are the summer roll, gold medal roll, agedashi tofu, dynamite roll, the (always wild) salmon sashimi and maki, and the tempura.

Since my fave place is still on vacation, I decided to give this restaurant a try. It’s been here for years.
For the sushi snobs, this is run by Chinese servers and chef and it’s a little pricy. Looking around, the food and presentation is quite large and they do have a loyal following.
I ordered Lunch Box A, which has a nice mix of their hot food. $ 15
Miso Soup — served hot and very flavorful, not the typical Miso that gets dole out from a giant luke warm pot.
Gyoza — skin nice and thin, pan fried nicely
Ebi Sunomono — nice and refreshing, not too vinegary at all
Chicken Teriyaki — nicely done on a bed of veggie, asking for Teriyaki sauce on the side really show the difference in how they present this.
Rolls — Salmon, Tuna and California. All on the small side. Bonus point is that ALL SALMON in this restaurant is Wild.
The quality of food is good but the price is quite high to make this a regular spot.

Probably one of the best sushi places I’ve been to. Great taste with great presentation. I come to Kerrisdale once a year to visit family and I always go to Irashai Sushi on every trip. I wanted to try something different this time so I asked the server for suggestions and she said the Hawaiian roll and the Summer roll. Wish I had tried the summer roll because when I tried the Hawaiian roll, it was absolutely delicious. When I saw that mango was in the roll, I was a little doubtful. But when it came out, the mango was thinly sliced and it wrapped around something that I can’t remember what it was. Everything was very flavourful, loved it!

This is one of our favourite sushi restaurants in the city! It’s a pretty small restaurant but I know we have made reservations before so do that or get it to go and it’s perfect!
A few of our faves:
Summer Roll
Mini Sukiyaki — comes in a cute pot with fire underneath to keep it warm. Shredded beef, glass noodles, tofu, veggies
Chicken Teriyaki — Classic but they make it really well
Baby Hamachi sashimi — this was our first time trying it and it was really good. Practically melts in your mouth!
Salmon sashimi — another classic, super fresh
The prices can be on the higher side, but worth it for super fresh and good quality sushi, sashimi and cooked Japanese food.
Tip #1: They get their shipments of fish on Tuesdays so if you want the freshest selections, go for dinner on a Tuesday night!
Tip #2: They offer a 10% discount when you pay in cash

Recommend the red Dragon Roll; good size portion of unagi eel, avocado, & their special house sauce. comes with the white ginger, so that’s always a good indication that this resto doesn’t cheap out.
Tomago they make in-​house, so it was good, not great, not sweet enough for my liking, still go w/​Samurai on Cambie st. for that. think others would like it still.
Came here on Provence owner’s recommendation so you can’t doubt a highly successful chef like JF ;)
good service too. too bad they close for a few hours between lunch and dinner.
plenty of parking on this end of 41^st. and it’s quieter than near Arbutus.
definitely a fast repeat here.

If you hate waiting for a table, come at around 5PM since this place fills up pretty quickly.
So let’s start with the food.
The rolls are excellent — their real crab California roll and negitoro roll make me happy. The sashimi is fresh but the portion is disappointing (I wouldn’t come here if I was only craving fish). Prawn tempura is excellent; I highly recommend the ebi mayo as the sauce and portion size are pretty darn good. The soup base for their udon is decent — nothing spectacular but above average. If you order the tempura udon, the tempura comes on the side with the dipping sauce, instead of all broken up and soggy in the soup. Overall, their dishes are tasty. Portion size is reasonable too unless you’re ordering sashimi.
Now the service. My friend and I were starving when we came here for dinner today. After ordering 2 sashimi dishes and 2 rolls, my friend wanted to add udon as well. The waitress looked at us shocked, gasping, «what, udon too??» with a bit of snickering afterwards. I found it a bit offensive that she felt the need to guilt-​trip us on how much we were ordering. I guess this is a good place to come if you’re concerned about portion control. But besides that little comment, everything else went pretty smoothly.

I have to say that my visit today to Irashai Sushi, I was not as impressed as my first.
The food was great however the service was a little lacking today. Staff didn’t seem too an the ball. I understand that when there is a rush you can’t always be as attentive. But acknowledging your patron whether it be a nod or a smile goes a long way.
What would have been a 4 star I feel I have to rate as a 3.

Peppercorn tuna roll… yummm!
Soft shelled crab… drool…
This place has plenty of specialty rolls they make that we enjoy, and the standard Japanese fare that we all know is good, too. Nice, well kept Japanese diner (2 – 3 store fronts next to the CIBC) Service is good and friendly. Prices are higher than most of the other joints in the Kerrisdale neighbourhood we’ve tried (Bento boxes are pricey) — still, we keep coming back to this diner for the specialty items for lunch.

Came here with a friend after work for a quick and easy dinner last week. It’s in his neighborhood and the food was good he says.
First off, I always judge a Japanese restaurant by the nationality of the person making my sushi. It was quite the disappointment when I found out they were Chinese. Immediately I was not expecting good sushi. Yeah judge me all you want, I’m a food rascist!
Anyways, gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised!
Good solid rolls, the fish was fresh, I ended up being happily fed. Their fare was pretty standard and even though the dinner was just last week, I can’t even remember exactly what we ordered but I can tell you the rolls were tasty and the oysters were actually unexpectedly fanfastically fresh.
I probably won’t be back because it’s not in my neighborhood but if I’m in the area and want decent sushi, I’ll know where to go.

Back for dinner tonight.
They have more special rolls on their menu, which are the same ones that are available at their Irashai Grill location in downtown.
We tried the Summer Roll… with prawn tempura, cucumber, mayo, masago with marinated tuna and avocado on top, and the Wild Fish Roll, with salmon, tuna and green onion, topped with hamachi and avocado.
These were unique rolls and each of them had its distinct flavour. I liked the Summer Roll more; the marinated tuna and the avocado goes really well together.
We get the other usuals– ebi mayo, dynamite roll, chopped scallop roll. Again, this place has never failed on us. Consistently good food.