Review Isshin Sushi Bar And Asian Dining - Penticton

Great experience. Second time coming here. Good prices, great presentation, prompt service, nice decor, and tastes great. They also gave us complimentary chocolates, and some extras like teriyaki salmon placed on top of the sushi

7:30pm and we were craving sushi. I decided to call them first to see if we can still do dine in. The guy picked up the phone and address me by my name. He said yes come in we can make room for you. I said great see you in about five mins. We arrive 5 mins later and as we walked in a guy said Danny? Yes I said. Come in we have table ready for you. It was a full house for a Wednesday night. We order green tea...delicious... Shirley Temple...delicious... 2 Deep fried Cali rolls.... delicious Seaweed salad...delicious Cali roll with cream cheese...delicious Sushi bento box...all items...delicious Spicy tuna cone...delicious Miso soup...delicious ————— Total came to $55 I assumed it would be more as the portion was large. The service was great from the phone call to in-house dinning. All staff very friendly and it showed. As guess were leave everyone said food was best/delicious and thanked the staff and chef! I highly recommend this place for taste, service and great experience. Would I come back? Absolutely. Hope you found this review helpful.

I was recommended this restaurant during my trip to Penticton by a local friend. I had a pleasant surprise with the quality of food (Rolls, Ramen, Udon and Sunomono). I will visit here every time when I am visiting Penticton.

Great sushi in Penticton! I was really happy with the quality, serving size and price. What a great find. I'll definitely be back when I'm in town again.

If you like sushi, and you like Flavor, then you like Isshin Sushi! Great selection which trumps other places in town, I searched around to find this place and was not disappointed 👍

I remember moving to Penticton with my girlfriend and trying out all the sushi places, Isshin stood out above the rest, spectacular Food and beyond friendly staff! They make their food with love. Everything we have eaten from there has been amazing, seriously good quality sushi, and the best spicy mayo I've had. Shaun does an amazing job running that place and it's always a joy to see him.

UPDATE April 24, 2021 After eating for many years and many many times, watching the original owners grow their sushi business from a Deli front on Main to their location of Front St, our family was a little apprehensive about the new owners that took over. Today was test day. First off, we noticed they are now open straight through from 11am to 8pm as opposed to before where they closed for an afternoon break between the lunch rush and dinnertime. Perfect, we often crave a quick fix for sushi at 3pm after picking up kidlet from school. We ordered our usuals which is their well priced karaages (deep fried), their tempura, California roll, nigiri and tuna and salmon sashimi. We were pleasantly surprised the new owners were obviously trained by the old owners to carry on the traditions, As for the karaage, my daughter and I agree, it's the same but a little better than before. I think they refined the seasoning combo a little. Conclusion, we were happy the new owners are careful to not alienate their customer base and we will definitely be back to support them! (2020) This is a great little gem of a sushi restaurant in Penticton. The restaurant is owned and operated by a Japanese family. Their prices are reasonable and they have great bento lunch boxes. Fresh and we'll portioned. Definitely recommend.

Take out was so delicious, that I felt the need to review. Their sauces are spectacular. We ordered a ton of items, everything was fresh, perfectly prepared and the tempura was even crunchy despite the car ride home. They did make a mistake with my nigiri order and sent Fish Roe instead of Unagi, so there's still room for improvement, but all in all, I will be ordering here all summer. Thanks for the delicious meal!

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I just had an excellent lunch there. It wasn't busy (being lunch), so maybe the service was better than average.<br/><br/>I had lunch box 5 with a side of ikura nigiri and it was delicious. The tako (octopus) specifically was the freshest I've ever had. Where it may have been a little weak was the salmon sashimi seemed cut a little funny, but at least that proved that they're cutting their own rather than buying it prepared  like some other places I've been to in the interior.

Sub par food, decent customer service. Took forever for my wife's food to arrive. Perhaps they were backed up with sushi orders that day

I recommended. The food was very good but the service need to improve i thing the Isshin has i recommended other than the Japanese restaurant because my experience was so good.

CUSTOMER SERVICE:RUDE. Beem there lots, food is pretty good. worst service ive ever had at a sushi restaurant. always get the same older lady. never seen her smile once. not welcoming , very rude. seriously miserable, wont be going there again. also they cheap out on servers and max ive ever seen there was 2, seems to be family run. if its busy get ready to wait 1+ hour for food

I have frequented this restaurant since they opened on Main St and am sad to see how bad things have gotten. Service and quality are way down, they cut half the fish out of their rolls and put in a huge chunk of cucumber now. It's sad to me really.

Disappointed.. Isshin used to be my go-to sushi place in the Okanagan.. the last few times I've been there the sushi hasn't been the same.. the quality has significantly gone down hill. thought I would give it one last try today and it was the worst it's ever been. wasted money on a take out lunch I could barely get through half of.. definitely won't be wasting my money here again.

Bummer!. Food is pretty good, but service is so terrible its almost humorous! if you are an "out of towner" do yourself a favor, if you would like to try this place, do take out!! anyways I hope you all have a better time then I have had :)

Bad service, 2 out of 4 meals cold, service spacing terrible. Service was slow and almost rude. Meal spacing terrible, 2 out of 4 meals cold. Will never return.

Service and food cold. Gre.... Service and food cold. <br/>Great deal of discomfort afterwards. <br/>Won't be back.

Disappointed.. Don't get me wrong. I loved his old location! This new one sucked as a whole. <br/>Food was not good, noodle was totally over cooked. Some food tasted like one of those frozen stuff. Quality isn't good for the price. A waitress gave us ZERO smile. She was actually, rude. <br/> We left no tip :( We'll definitely not going back. So disappointed!!

Top Shelf Sushi. I would like to think that I am veteran when it comes to sushi. I've eaten at countless sushi bars all over the west coast and especially the lower mainland. When i comes to the okanagan, Isshin is top shelf - to me, aboslutley the best from Vernon to Osoyoos. Their kani sumimono is unmmatched. Further, the fish is fresh and tasty. I agree the service is sometimes slow, but I have learned to pick my times to go. Nonetheless, this is the best sushi in the okanagan.

Quality gone done. I have frequented this restutrant for many years. The soups are not the same. The reason why we use to go there was for the ogo pogo. The ogo pogo lacked flavour and the presentation was different. It is too bad. This was the best sushi resturant I had been to and will no longer go there.

Best Japanese restaurant. This is the only authentic Japanese restaurant in Penticton. The owners are straight from Japan. No other Japanese eatery can come close to their sushi. The lunch boxes are the best deals. Everything is made fresh with skill and care. I took some visitors from Japan there and they said the food was as good as any you get in Japan. The service may be slow sometimes but good food can't be rushed. It is the busiest Japanese place in town. Sometimes you have to wait awhile to get in but it is well worth the wait. Sushi Genki, which is a take-out sushi is also authentic Japanese. The locals know the best.

Good food, however no one greated us when we entered the restaurant. When somebody did help us they seemed to have been less then happy to. Overall not friendly and would rather go to the place just down from them

Great food, authentic Japanese cuisine. However, very poor service and the pho is not recommended. Overall, good experience.

Customer Service. The older lady that served my table never even smiled. Says a lot about the level of customer service.

Not fresh food! Some of the worst sushi i've eaten. Went with 5 people and 4 of us ended up spitting out at least one item. Do not recommend.

Not bad. I've had better though. The seaweed on the sushi was VERY tough. The service was very fast though and the food was fresh. The teriyaki chicken rolls were interesting. Mushrooms and sprouts in them?? All in all, not too bad, better than the place across the street.

So fantastic. While living in Penticton I would eat there at least twice a month. Now 6 months after living in Vancouver I still haven't found japanese food or sushi as good as Isshin's. Definitely the best sushi for the price in Penticton. Oh, and the Curry potato croquettes are AMAZING, same goes for their salad and Yam rolls...