Another great sushi restaurant in this pleasantly sushi-saturated city. This one is a small, hole-in-the-wall, in the middle of the Drive, with maybe 6 tables. Lots of vegetarian/vegan stuff, specifically marked on the menu (note their miso is tuna-based). I ordered one of the veggie sushi combos, which was quite satisfying. Well-priced ($9 for the three rolls) and it came out very quickly. Can't say it blew me away, but it was everything I look for in a sushi meal. Good spot. read more

Yum. So this is my stand-by for cheap, quick sushi at the other end of the Drive. I know, I like having someplace close by that ALWAYS is ready to serve me gyoza and tuna tataki. I like this little place because they are again: cheap, plentiful, and consistently good. Again, not super fancy or foo-foo but when you want a nice little meal to eat in or take out, they have you covered. They remember my name AND my favourite orders, which is very sweet and appreciated. They also have their regulars chopsticks on the wall which is green and fosters a sense of community which I very much like. A nice, little neighbourhood dining place. Win. read more

This is my favourite sushi place!!!!! Small but cozy!!!!! Variety menu and great quality food!!!! 100% recommended. read more

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Whoa, i think this might be my new favorite sushi place on the drive! For what i is- a tiny sushi restaurant on the drive with cheap prices and a few similar looking sushi options on the very same block- the quality of food was really good! I came here for dinner with a few friends, and honestly, i had lowered expectations based on what i saw in their storefront... I wasn't sure what to make of the children's tshirts that hung from the awning, hand-painted to advertise items on their menu, and the dead wasp that had somehow gotten itself stuck between the huge menu covering their window and the window itself just made me uncomfortable... Especially because he chose to die with a photo behind him, so i actually thought he was IN the photo at first... Ginger Sushi, i've decided that i like your little tshirts, but please, please, can you get rid of that nasty dead wasp?! Aside from that though, no big complaints!! I ordered the sashimi bento box, and my friends got tuna tataki, an oshinko roll, unagi don and nigiri. We were all happy and impressed, and everyone's food looked good! The portions were perfect. Maybe a bit smaller than what you would get elsewhere, but i didn't leave feeling hungry so who cares! The sashimi that came with my bento was excellent! The salmon was a great quality and didn't have huge veins of fat in it, and although the tuna did taste a bit chilly (ie: recently thawed) it wasn't THAT frosty and tasted really great! I find that the sashimi at most of the small, cheaper sushi restaurants tends to be greasy and taste a bit off, but everything i had was delish! I also got the chicken teriyaki with my bento and was pleasantly surprised to find that it still had a lot of veggies in it and wasn't covered in crispy, fatty skin. It also had just the right amount of sauce! I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but the people working there were actually Japanese! (They were speaking Japanese anyway!) I notice that the places with Japanese cooks tend to be the ones that don't have too much sauce or grease in their dishes, so it's nice to find a place that isn't a pricier Japanese-run izakaya but still has tasty, simple Japanese food! read more

I've been going to Ginger Sushi for years. It was never a fancy place but the service was always efficient and the food good. Now it is my favourite place to go on the Drive. Its makeover, sit down service and new ownership make it even more comfortable and friendly. And the food is always good. The proprietors Vanessa and Kenji make everyone very welcome. The rolls and cones are excellent and the portions generous. They have wild salmon which can't always be found on the Drive. There's a wide assortment of rolls, sashimi and a little bit of cooked food, mostly teriyaki. If you frequent the place often you can have your very own pair of chopsticks kept on the wall in a paper sleeve with your name on. The bill comes with chocolate poco sticks instead of mints and if you're a regular there's often an extra tasting of something that comes your way. read more

Best sushi restaurant on Commercial drive. Being a tiny place gives more charm and coziness to the restaurant. Also staff is very friendly and sushis are awesome! read more

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A pleasant surprise. We ordered take out and the sashimi platter was super fresh and the rolls were really good. I'd definitely come back here again. read more

The worst experience I've had while ordering food. They completely forgot a roll we ordered. Which is fine however they also got the combo we ordered completely wrong ( we couldn't eat it as well). By the time we got our food they were closed. I would not recommend this place. Adding to the mix ups some of the rice we hard. read more

Cute place. Excellent prices and menu selection. Walls are filled with cuteness. Pictures of guests. Keychains. Art. Regulars get chopsticks save in holders along the walls personalized with their names. One regular's pouch contains a fork! YUM! read more

Ginger Sushi - Sushi Bars Near Me - Vancouver, British Columbia

This place only deserves one star due to the very poor service, overpriced food and forgetting our orders. We waited for over 25 min for our order to be taken, and the restaurant was not full. Another 25 min for half of our table to get their order, the other half was forgotten all together. People came in after us ate and left. They took their sweet time serving us and when the food came , the deluxe nigiri combo for $19.99 which was decorated with more fake flowers then the sushi on the plate, it was such a small size for $20 it was not worth it.. small tiny portions The sushi tasted ok, I just wouldn't recommend this place.. next door there is an another sushi place that is much better. read more

Firstly the staff at this place where polite and very accommodating. It's a small place 5 or 6 tables. I ordered the Combo D for $12.95 which included miso, a tuna hosomaki roll and 6 assorted nigiri. This is an ok deal, the portion size is smaller than similar dishes that I've received at different places in Burnaby. The plating was ok, not as fancy as a lot of the photo's on their Yelp page. All in all it tasted good, and service was friendly. read more

I joined yelp just so I could leave a review for ginger sushi. Sushi restaurants are an abundance in Vancouver and never have I been drawn back to one as much as ginger sushi. What can I say? The staff there are amazing hard working people and always welcoming. Going for sushi there is like being at a friends house. The food is really good too. Try the specialties rolls if you do go. I recommend the hikinjeu roll. My favorite! Recently the boyfriend and I took our out-of-town family there. They loved it just as much and the staff made our experience even better by preparing some off menu items and treating us to sake! Love them! I'm happy to say I've become a regular thanks to their wonderful service and the tasty food. See ya soon Ginger Sushi! read more

I moved from Vancouver to Sacramento, so when I came back to visit last week there was no way around it. I needed sushi. Cheap sushi. Cheap but delicious sushi. Ginger filled that void and then some. The toro and salmon nigiri were delicious. Delicate flavour and great texture. My only complaint is that they are cut a little bit large. I prefer nigiri to be one-bite, not two (in this case I just stuffed the whole thing in my face because I have no shame). We also got one of the spicy roll combos, because they're cheap, filling, and tasty. Of all the sushi spots on Commercial Drive, Ginger is great if you don't feel like spending more than $25 for two people. While it doesn't offer the ambiance or presentation that places like Kishimoto do, the quality of the sushi is still really good and you can expect to leave feeling satisfied. read more

I joined yelp JUST because I wanted to write a review for Ginger sushi. We were just going to have a donair next door but it was closed that day so we just decided to go sushi and we read some reviews here and went and we are so glad we did! there is only the chef and the waitress but they are super nice and friendly and would ask you how is the food. presentation was beautiful and taste was delicious. we always get the hotate (whole scallop) nigiri. it has such a sweet scallop flavor. usually, we order 2 of the special rolls and nigiris and we are done at that. i highly recommend that mexican roll and the deep fried roll :)! read more

Ginger Sushi - hotate nigiri and oyster nigiri - Sushi Bars Near Me - Vancouver, British Columbia

So good and great service, we came just 10min before they closed and they greeted us kindly and served us like champions. The dragon and volcano roles were amazing as well as the real crab salad. read more

The sauce they put on the spicy tuna, scallop, and California roll is too spicy & makes the roll not enjoyable. Also, there were at least 3 small flies I killed while eating read more

This is a very good sushi option for the price point. I recommend the Unagi Donburi. They prepare them from scratch and cook them on charcoal. The flavour of the meat was delicate, the texture perfect and the teriyaki sauce light and complemented the eel perfectly without overwhelming it. I will go back for more! read more

I love this place. They have weirdly fabulous rolls that are always done very well and are huge! I have gone here a few times just wanting a fairly light dinner and gotten one roll and it was plenty. The first time I went, I ordered a sunomono salad and I thought it tasted strange (like the rice wine vinegar might be a bit off because it was sour). I explained to the waitress that it tasted a little bit weird and I didn't want to eat it but would pay for it. Then the chef actually came out and told me that it probably tasted slightly different from others that I've had because they use different types of vinegar depending on the part of Japan that they are from. I thought that it was very nice of him to come out and explain, and also that that was interesting. But he was also nice enough to re-make the salad to a taste that I was more familiar with! It actually wasn't that different in the end, but I ate it anyways because I trusted that it was totally fresh and because he had put an effort into fixing it up for me. It was so nice of him! Overall I've had great food and great service here; the only drawback is that it's not licensed! read more

For price and fair quality - it is a go to place. If you aren't looking for the bank breaking high-end sushi places, this is it! Love the special rolls - like the rainbow roll. Staff is super nice and they have reusable chopsticks. read more

Husby loves the yakisoba here and will order it every chance he gets! The sushi is fresh and the ratio to filling vs. rice is on point. Run by a husband and wife team, they are super friendly and sweet. If you go in for take out, they will offer you tea while you wait. The place is tiny but cosy. We don't have issues parking as we tend to walk there, but parking may be available on the side streets. We ordered a party tray and it was extremely fresh. No worries about it being made ahead of time and sitting there waiting for you to pick up. We were a bit early on picking it up, and they were still in the process of putting it all together. read more

The servers were friendly.The portions were small and mediocre. I can't complain too much but I will likely not return.

The service here was amazing! Very welcoming. We got sushi takeout and they gave us tea while we waited. Prices were reasonable. They have gluten-free tamari and they keep the regular customers' chopsticks on the wall. So sustainable! Don't be fooled by the online menu - they have lots of fancy rolls if you are looking for something special. read more

This place is a great spot for affordable and good quality sushi, super friendly service, they definitely know how to put the customer first and serve up wicked good sushi !!! My favourite is the mango roll. read more

I would not go back to Ginger Sushi. The place is ok, very small, poorly decorated, mostly clean. Service was fine, nothing special. The sushi however was problematic. We had tuna roll, California roll, salmon roll, tuna nigiri, unagi nigiri, and a rainbow roll. The rolls were extra small and sliced super thin in order to get 6 slices. Its like they cut their nori rolls in half to be cheap but are still trying to squeeze 6 slices out of them. Speaking of the nori, it was about as rubbery as I've ever had - not sure what makes it that way but this was some chewy sushi. The rolls were delivered with an imperceptibly tiny speck of wasabi - seriously, I put nearly the entire speck on a single slice of a roll and barely tasted it (cheap, weak wasabi as well). The nigiri were fine, a normal amount of tuna and a generous amount of unagi. The rainbow roll however was a complete disaster - it was larger than the other rolls, thankfully (about the size of what you would have expected from a regular roll at any other place), also sliced about 3 molecules thin and stretched across the plate. However, IT HAD RANCH DRESSING ON IT. Yes, go read that again if you are seriously thinking of coming here. I've eaten a lot of sushi. Once you have fresh fish, it comes down to all the rest - properly prepared rice, the cut, the size, the presentation, the wasabi and ginger, the atmosphere, and the service. Ginger sushi has fresh fish and that's about it. read more

When I think of Ginger Sushi, I think of a kind of cozy, home away from home. Unlike my home though, Ginger Sushi has quality, house-made Japanese food. I got talking with the owner/chef at Ginger a while back, and to my delight, discovered their sauces and soup bases are house-made! House-made makes a big difference for me having food sensitivities to the standard factory-made, glucose-fructose, additive and preservative filled sauces and condiments used in the many so called "Japanese" places in Vancouver. You will really notice a huge different in taste and quality with Ginger's food. Ginger's udon, teriyaki and tempura sauces are much more flavorful, and digestible compared to others. Thankfully, they also offer brown rice as an option. On top of everything, the owners at Ginger are extremely friendly and accommodating. As it turns out, you do not just get quality food at Ginger Sushi, you get quality hugs! Thanks Ginger! read more

I don't even know where start! I went to Ginger Sushi last Saturday and was excited for some delicious sushi, the reviews here were decent so I gave it a go....I rarely try new sushi places because its basically just scary. I walked in, it wasn't the cleanest of places and I had an epic view of the washroom.....toilet paper everywhere and with the seat up from the last gentleman who used it. The waitress was observant enough to notice that it was disgusting and closed the door of the dirty washroom...I ordered the appetizer tempera which came out relatively quickly, it was just okay. I also ordered the Salmon Don, my personal favourite. I had finished the tempura within about 10 minutes and patiently waited for the salmon don which I was ensured would be coming quickly....I should mention the only other guests in the establishment was a table of young men who had already received their food by the time I was there. This is where things get scary....the salmon don. After about 30 minutes I was presented the Salmon Don and the chef came out and offered his apologies for the delay and made a comment about it being extra fresh for me...little did I know what was about to happen. The salmon looked okay except for the shiny, rainbow look that covered the raw salmon. That should have been my first hint about what was about to happen. ( I am literally witholding the vomit that is begging to come up my throat at this moment as I'm writing this.) I took my first bite of the 'fresh' salmon, it was slimy, soft and salty. It was RANK. I have had some pretty mediocre sushi before but this was the most vile and revolting thing I have EVER put into my mouth. I advised the waitress, although I could barely get the words out of the mouth to describe the experience I had just had. She didn't seem surprised or all that apologetic but I must admit I was out of there pretty fast, desperate for some way to cleanse my palate (little did I know this would be impossible). I went over to JJ Bean and ordered a hot chocolate in an effort to undo the taste of rot in my mouth, but couldn't bring myself to do anything until I had vomitted my guts out, not sure if it was an impulse to the texture or if the salmon itself made me sick. I feel like sushi has been forever ruined and I have no idea what the recovery time will be. Do yourself a favour and never EVER come here. read more

The sushi here is fantastic & the menu is quite creative. The owners are super-friendly folks & the staff are nice as well. I love popping by here every couple of weeks. I always feel satisfied upon leaving. read more

There's a ton of little sushi places around this part of Commercial but don't make the mistake of thinking they're all the same. Ginger Sushi is super-friendly, very nicely decorated and best of all the food is consistently wonderful and high quality. And that's why I keep coming back! read more

This is my favourite place for sushi in Vancouver... I used to go once or twice a week when I lived in Vancouver and now that I live in seattle, it's one of the things I miss most. Wonderful food, prices, atmosphere and staff! read more

Love this place. I drive all the way from Richmond just to eat here. The rolls are always fresh and delicious and the agedashi tofu is amazing. Ramen is really good too. read more

Fantastic service, custom rolls, excellent wild salmon sashimi (fresh), always ripe avacado, and super friendly staff.

Enjoyed it. Nice jazz music. Relaxed. Small please. Good size sashimi. Brown rice for orders over $5. I would come back.

Yehet! Cozy place on the Drive. Kind of like eating in someone's kitchen. Lots of regulars who have their own chopsticks along the wall. Wonder what it takes to become a regular? Very friendly staff/owners. Sometimes play k-pop (EXO!) so my daughter likes it and she loves their gyoza. I like that you get complimentary miso soup and their rolls are fresh. They also have ramen but only super-spicy kind. read more

Delicious, large rolls. Beautiful presentation. Incredibly friendly service. Definitely would recommend. We will be back!

Favourite sushi spot in the city. Fresh tasting and friendly staff. I mean the sushi is fresh tasting and the staff are friendly. I'd recommend the dragon roll. It's on fire!! I really really love this spot, so much so that I am writing my first yelp review!! read more

Very cute and cozy restaurant run by a really nice couple. The portions seem a bit smaller than usual but everything is excellent. They have chop sticks and pictures up on the wall of the regulars. I want to my own chopsticks too! :-P read more

Great sushi. All fresh ingredients and nicely made. Good service. In the heart of commercial drive.

Ginger sushi has become my favourite sushi spot on the drive. Fresh, quality sushi. Nice variety on the menu with reasonable prices and portions. Excellent customer service. Feels very cozy and welcoming. read more

Wow. Where did this place come from?! This place is handsdown the best sushi in Vancouver for the price... We ordered within 3 minutes of arriving and got it literally in 3.5. THAT is efficiency... It is a little small, but if you can snag a table then do it and go to town. My dad and I got so much food for $35-$40 and the service was impeccable. 5/5 stars from this happy customer read more

Anyone who doesn't give this place at least 4 stars, needs to grab a brain. I have been all over Vancouver trying out the "Small" Sushi restaurants and this place is my Fav! The Chef takes his time to make it taste just right and if your a regular, one of the girls gives you a big Hug. How's that for Customer Service! read more