By far the best and our most favourite Japanese restaurant in the city.
We discovered it in 2011 and today we were back. 5 years later. And what can I say. It is still the best. The food is amazing. Royal boat dinner all the time.
The next time we are in Vancouver we definitely will be your guests again. As always!
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The menu item variations and the price are great here! A bit hard to find but the parking is not a nightmare and beer values are fantastic.
Food, authentic Japanese food for North American market. Honestly, there are choices aside “sushi” & “California Roll” More so if one wants to rate a place. Especially place like this place owned and managed by competent people with deep Japanese roots.
So, is the food good? Well, I haven’t tried Cali Roll, but otherwise Sushi Bar is top class, robata and kitchen items can easily compete with downtown ‘new wave, fusion thingy’ so yeah, well presented dishes, good service, surprisingly well priced drinks, and great Japanese food!
Ebisu (and their sister Kamei restaurants) has been around Vancouver for quite some time and this particular location, despite being tucked away from the bustling Broadway corridor, is still quite busy. The interior is fairly large but the tables are arranged in a cozy layout and the windows along West 8th gives you a nice view of the north shore mountain range.
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The BBQ Unagi & Roll Boat came with two half rolls, a small unagi don, chicken karaage, assorted tempura, and two orange slices. For $13.95, the value was certainly there. A combination of crunchy prawn tempura, crunchy cucumber, and sweet creamy mayonnaise made the Dynamite Roll a delight. The pieces were
We normally go to Sushi California, but they were closed for renovations. So I checked Zomato to see the ratings of other sushi restaurants close by. When we saw the Ebisu signage, my husband remembered that we've been to this place years ago. So we went there. It was a relatively quiet place, compared to other Japanese restaurants. That night, the patrons were young and seem to order the right stuff. They also stayed longer there and consumed more alcohol.
We ordered gindara $18 for one piece(!), salmon nigiri, tempura, agadashi tofu and gyoza. The food was beautifully prepare and well presented. The salmon was very 'fresh' and cold. The black cod had been marinated the right number of days and so the texture was firm and perfect. We enjoyed our meal and the dining experience and will come back again when we are prepared to spend twice as much as we normally spend at Sushi California.
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Ebisu has one of the best happy hour menus in the city! It starts at 8.30 PM, Sunday to Thursday, which works perfectly for an after-work drink, sushi, or just dinner.
I went there last Thursday, as part of a big group (12-14), and they seated us at one of the low tables, where you can sit cross-legged if you like, or sit as you would at a regular table (there's hidden space under the table). They also have regular tables - it's a pretty big place inside, though from the outside it looks unassuming.
Of course, the biggest perk of going there in a group is that you can order a whole bunch of things and share! So we got a lot of sushi, oysters, a few pitchers of beer, chicken karaage, some gyoza, and wings. I'm not a huge fan of sushi (so that limits my options from their happy hour menu, to about 10 items) and oysters, but I did love their karaage! It was so juicy and tender! It's nothing on any other kind of deep fried chicken. Their wings and gyoza are also pretty good. I would definitely order the 10-piece karaage next time, and perhaps try a rice bowl.
This location is on the second floor of a plaza, just off Broadway on one of the quieter inside streets. Luckily, we arrived just after 10pm so meter parking was free already!
The outside doesn’t look that nice, but the inside is a lot better. The seating is comfortable and spacious, while the service was really warm and fast.
We didn’t know that they had happy hour from 8:30pm-close, so that was a nice surprise! Unfortunately, none of the happy hour items really stood out to us so we ended up only ordering one item from their happy hour menu.
They were pretty friendly and constantly filled our tea cups with tea. The sushi quality itself was just alright for me, nothing special. I shared the royale boat with my friend which ended up being two boats full of food and ice cream each costing us $24 for a 10 course meal. It was a lot of food I admit, and I was super full. Might be a better fit for more than 2 people I guess. The view was spectacular, you can see downtown Vancouver if you get a window seat and the decor itself was really comforting. I do enjoy coming here often, but I think their happy hour meal is more worth it to try.
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I wasn't expecting the chicken kaarage to be this good!! Definitely a must order here. If I come back, I'm SO getting 10 pieces!! The chicken was super juicy and fragrant, and the skin was perfectly crispy and flavourful! I didn't even need dipping sauce on the side because it was already super flavourful on its own!
The chicken teriyaki was surprisingly good as well! They also have this in a don version, minus the vegetables. So I got this one - just to be healthier ;)
The chicken was evenly pan fried and juicy! The teriyaki sauce was rather thick, but it added a lot of flavour! The steamed veggies on the bottom were a nice touch.
And of coursee I had to get the rice (out of the other two options on the menu.)
Ebisu really impressed me with their rice! The rice was really high quality!! It had that "expensive" smell to it harhar. And yes, rice can smell expensive ;)
It was cooked perfectly too!! Pretty impressive considering that this was just a "free side" that came with the combo! Actually, I would've gladly paid for another bowl!
When I was younger I thought raw oysters were disgusting, and wouldn’t even entertain the idea of putting one anywhere near my mouth. In my early twenties, as I started to become a slightly more adventurous eater, I tried oysters a couple of times, but didn’t really get the big deal. I thought they more or less tasted like whatever condiments you loaded them up with (in my case cocktail sauce and horseradish). It wasn’t until just a few years ago when I was out for dinner at Ebisu with Red eating some royal miyagis that a switch went off in my head and I discovered not only that I loved raw oysters, but that I couldn’t get enough of them. The light sweetness and brininess of an oyster with a touch a mignonette? To die for. Ever since, I’ve always returned to Ebisu whenever I’m needing my oyster fix. After 8 pm every day of the week they have happy hour buck a shuck with their royal miyagis. I’m there more often than I’d like to admit.
That wasn't tuna.. We recently visited Ebisu on Broadway and had what we thought was a really great meal. I highly recommend the Oysters Motoyaki, the chicken Karaage, and the tempura. Everything seemed freshly prepared in generous portions, for a reasonable price. The service was good and the atmosphere fun and lively. Unfortunately it seems this restaurant has fallen into the all too common trap of serving escolar / butterfish in place of tuna among their sushi offerings. How do I know this? Trust us on this one - the intestinal turmoil that followed the meal is not something either of us had experienced before and we had the exact same meal. Please, for your own health (and the sake of your relationship) - avoid the tuna!
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