I have ordered from here twice now(Delivery) Pro: Good food, not GREAT but good for sure. Good prices Loved the single portion sizes. Con: I asked for extra sauce (the spicy sauce they served me my first delivery) and got 20 packets of soya sauce instead. read more

I felt like sushi and was in the area, so I stopped in at Kinjo after finding it on Yelp. I was seated quickly and my waitress was very attentive to my needs the entire time. I was quite impressed with the menu and ordering system. Someone who didn't know the Japanese names of each piece (Toro, etc.) would LOVE this place! There are pictures for everything and the ordering sheet is easy to understand. At the time I ordered I thought I had enough food, so I opted not to get the mango roll (even though it looked good and was highly recommended on Yelp). Afterwards I wish I had, as 15 pieces of sushi and some miso soup wasn't enough. Next time (and there will be one). read more

The McDonalds of sushi, but at least consistent. Don't go it your hoping for creative food.

This restaurant has become one of my favorite sushi please in the NW. The service was good the couple of times that we've been here. The food was very good overall. Their Toro is also very good and real unlike some restaurants in town. Prices are not too bad. How much you want to spend really depends on how much of an appetite you have. For quality food, I really don't mind spending the extra money. read more

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Kinjo's sushi is not going to win any awards but if you come with female companions they would love the fact that they receive gifts, every time. The menu is diverse, which is the nice thing about Kinjo. read more

Good food, great service and very family friendly. There's something for everyone on their tapas menu. Kids got complimentary cookies and fruit plate. Great weekend family outing. read more

Kinjo Sushi - Japanese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Two words..... Ah! Mazing! Went for dinner last night after some shopping with my sister. When we walked in we almost left because there were so many people waiting but decided to put our name on the list. I don't know how they did it but only 15 minutes later we were shown to our seat, then the real fun began. This place has a HUGE menu! We chose the dynamite roll, Philadelphia roll, mango roll, nacho sushi, crispy California roll and shrimp and calamari tempura. I always find it challenging to order the right amount off a checklist type menu as I proved again this time. There was so much food! The only thing that was not fantastic was the shrimp tempura as they were slightly soggy. Everything else was fresh and delicious and we ate as much as we could and both of us ended up taking left-overs home. I can't wait to try the other locations but if they aren't as good I will drive from my house in the far South to eat here again because it was just THAT GOOD! read more

What a great place! We were visiting and this place was spot on, great service, food and atmosphere. We even give you Pocky to go!

I have only been to this Kinjo location the 1 time and I have to say it's one of my favorites. Everything from the service to the price to the quality of food makes it top notch in my books. If I have a complaint it's that I like it considerably more than the Kinjo nearest to me and that means a trip across the city when I have the craving. I know it's gonna sound silly, but a huge selling point for me is that they have sweet soya sauce. I have only found this at one other place and that alone is reason to come back. 29/30 read more

We've been here few times and we're from Vancouver! Lol every time were out in Calgary visiting family and friends we always stop at kinjos. They have a great selection of fusion rolls and traditional ones too. Great quality of food, very fresh and very creative with the fusion rolls. One of my favourites is the dragon roll, both female and male. My husband loves the Benihana roll, but it's too spicy for me. I discovered a new roll today, the black stone roll, it has cooked squid, raw salmon, avocado and mini roe eggs. Delicious! And for females, they give you a box of pocky after dinner! Just to females though. Today the waiter knew we came all the way from Vancouver and gave us the 'mega' box of pocky. Great friendly service! We always come back for more! read more

Reasonably priced and fast service. Good place to go with kids. Not the highest end sushi place but you always know what you're getting and it's consistent. I have noticed that when you order via Skip the Dishes, the portions seem smaller than when you're eating at the restaurant. read more

Just can't give it 5... Fish is pretty good, save the *frozen* tuna sashimi- wtf? Chef's special soy wrapped hand rolls definitely the best deal- lobster roll chock full of goodness, although pre-embedded sesame seeds, for those allergic or who don't like them. Prices for sushi/sashimi/nigiri pretty steep... Only 4 pieces for small rolls, vs more common 6. Special rolls aren't bad, fairly creative. Didn't have the hot entrees, but they were the most reasonable priced but I don't know the sizing. Busy, but they're pretty efficient when it comes down to clearing and seating. Did get the "not long, 10-20 minutes" James hong from Seinfeld, when it was more of a 30-40 minute wait. And the hell is with only girls getting pocky? Dudes need pocky too. read more

Very quick service and delicious food! New style of giving foods and it was great! For Koreans who can't speak English very well there is korean waitresses. A bit pricey but overall awesome place! read more

Kinjo Sushi - Japanese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Never order take-out (Skip the Dishes) here. I've eaten many times in-restaurant before and never had a problem then. But now I feel like they don't care as much for take-out. Even though I knew it says that order will take up to 110 min to be delivered, I just thought it was because they are busy, which I was willing to deal with. The food arrived cold, the tempura are soggy. So the food was actually done cooking on time, and it was obvious that it's been sitting out for quite a while. So I don't understand why the delivery time can be shortened so food is ready to go as soon as it is cooked. The tuna sashimi also had plasticy strings/film, which makes me think that it wasn't cut properly, and made it very difficult to eat as we had to pull the plasticy things out as we are chewing. read more

It's probably not the best quality fish you can get but it's definitely bang for your buck. I thought it was a decent meal and I thought everyone who worked there was extremely helpful. I went in and got my usual spicy tuna roll and yellowtail, and left feeling satisfied. I'd return for the convenience and also for those Pocky treats at the end! read more

This is my go to sushi place. The quality is top notch and the blue fin tuna is a must try!

Great atmosphere, free pocky and sweet soy sauce. Pretty Westernized sushi, good selection and sushi samples before you order! This place is awesome possum and I want to come here every weekend! read more

Great! I went there myself today because i wanna eat eel which i saw the attractive picture in yelp.I ordered three meals, and they all looked amazing. I 'v upload the picture. read more

Kinjo Sushi - Japanese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

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Really liked it - first time at this location and what a difference from the south. I have not been to the south in a few years as it got boring. The northwest location is great! Large, different variety of seating areas and an amazing visual menu. Ordered several different items - all were great, though I found the sashimi much thicker slices than I prefer....regardless, definitely recommend and will be back. read more

When this place first opened I was there weekly. I brought several friends there for birthdays etc. The staff, including Peter, knew me by name. In the last two years it's gone downhill fast. I probably have been back once in the last year. On two occasions my friend got sick from the raw oysters, almost hospital sick! On another occasion, Teriyaki meat was severed cold. Again, I ordered grilled shrimp it tasted rotten. I told the sever and the sever said that's the flavour of the sauce. I said "No! It tastes horrible" I ordered the scallops, which comes in the same sauce, they were fine. Please get this place back to what it used to be!!!!!!! I haven't seen Peter in about two years, maybe he should come by for a visit! read more

Well it was on trip number ?? that I found out they have a new loyalty program - it's this new cell phone based thing called "Stamp Me" it's OK and after 3 trips I got a $20 buck gift card. Great ! Pretty decent but on Saturday after dropping another $100 I got ANOTHER new reward, this time it was a box of "extra special" pocky sticks! Really!? I don't think a store cost 29 cent gift is gonna cut it guys and considering that it IS pretty expensive to go anywhere in town for Sushi it's kind of lame. Maybe talk to mgmt and explain that money talks! (grin) But the food is great ! read more

The food here is great, the atmosphere lively and friendly and the staff is outstanding. We had the bluefin combo, volcano roll and Jay-Mak roll. All were delicious! Special shout out to our server John (who was in training) and Petrol with his singing crew. We live in the San Francisco Bay Area and were visiting my sister in Calgary. The servers and singers at Kinjo were nothing short of gracious on the complimentary dishes, Pocky sticks, singing and attentive service. We have eaten at many restaurants and have never experienced the warmth, graciousness and fun that we did at Kinjo. We watched Petrol and his singing crew at the other tables, they were so entertaining and are naturals with the adults as well as the kids. Thanks Kinjo for a truly special dining experience! Please keep spreading joy through your delicious food and human kindness. read more

If you are hungry for sushi and want to eat it quickly, this is the place for you. The service has always been great, the staff are very friendly. The birthday singing must be toned down though, it is just awful and the frequency is far to high. The quality of the food is equal to what you would get at a mall. This is not a restaurant for those who love sushi, or appreciate the taste and delicate flavour. This is a restaurant for those who like the idea of sushi and douse their servings in soy sauce and wasabi. This is a restaurant for those who want to eat sushi as an alternative to another restaurant. read more

This is probably the only place we have sushi in Calgary. We like to go in or order over skip the dishes. The sushi is always very fresh and tasty. Iv has a lot on the menu and have had no issues. It all is so delicious. Service is very good in the restaurant and even on busy nights you get fast service. read more

Kinjo is the *BEST* sushi place we have ever been to ! (and we eat alot of sushi) They also have a ton of amazing grilled items for people in your group who prefer cooked items. We have all been going to Kinjo for years and continue to go there every time we are in town. You will never be dissappointed at Kinjo ! read more

Always a good experience. Crowded but ok. Best kinjo location so far. Fast service. Good food. Alain's recommended! ;) read more

Possibly the best place in Calgary to take kids! The food is great, atmosphere is lively and the staff are so friendly. Came here for lunch with my 4 year old on a Wednesday. The place was hopping. As busy as it was the staff was courteous and our order arrived quickly. read more

Let's get the bad out of the way first. This restaurant has an extremely patronizing attitude towards women, and outright contempt for the men they're with. So I was there with my mom and my sister. Waiter comes out and offers them a Pocky dessert. (some kind of bread stick dipped in sugar cream) But only to women. "You have to either be a beautiful woman or be cute." He looks at my sister and says, "Is that your sister? How come she's so beautiful and you're ugly? Is that another sister? (looking at my mom) They both get a snack, you get the bill. Everybody happy" Umm.... ya. There's tasteful joking and then there's just awkward crassness, and this was the latter. The sushi menu is very focused on heavily sweetened, fruity sushi, with lots of deep fried tempura as fillings. The restaurant is a bit of a zoo at dinnertime, the serving staff plop down your food, check it off the ticket at your table and scamper away. The food is a nice treat if you occasionally have sushi, but if you're a sushi buff, the relatively small variety of nigiri and sashimi will have you looking elsewhere. Rolls look great in the pictures but in reality they're thrown together so quickly during the dinnertime rush that there's only a slight resemblance to the overexposed glossy photos you see in the menu. Don't order the seaweed salad thinking it's like the seaweed salad elsewhere. It's served in a big bowl making you think you just got an awesome deal, but then you discover it's just a thin bed of wakame on top of half a head of romaine lettuce with half a cup of thousand island dressing on the side. A rip-off for $6. In any event, the whole experience was ruined for me by the very tacky waiter (and the annoying tendency for the whole staff to run out of the kitchen banging on metal pots in awkward celebration of yet another patron's birthday). Too bad, because I wanted to like this place - one of closer sushi places to the parents house. read more

I used to really like Kinjo. I go here often but the last few visits I am starting to not like it so much. I love the Kiss Kiss Dragon roll. But the last three times I have been, they do not have the unagi. They say its "out of season" and other various excuses and substitute it with other types of fish. This is disappointing to me. And the final top off was finding a disgusting hair in our roll. We told the server, she took it away and brought us a new roll. They still charged us for it. Seems to be going downhill in my opinion. Quality certainly isn't the same as it used to be. read more

I've had really good melt in your mouth sushi and okay Calgary sushi. Kinjo is just okay sushi, but what makes me give this place one star is the bad customer service from the owner Peter Kinjo himself. One star is the minimum otherwise I would give it 1/2 star. Tonight we ordered the giant platter for takeout and after tasting the tuna, I knew it was bad. It had a really fishy taste and left a bad after taste in your mouth. I had to down lots of ginger to get rid of it. What shocked me was the customer service I got when I called to tell them about it. The supervisor lady I talked to at first was nice; she apologized for it and offered to refund my money in full. I hung up and got ready to give my son a bath. They called us back and talked to my husband about 7 minutes later. They want me to bring the left over sushi back to them so they can see it for themselves. He told them we live far away and if they want, they can send someone to pick it up themselves. They said they were busy so the general manager was supposed to call us back. At 7:15 (about 8 minutes later) the general manager called back and told me I had to bring back the sushi so they can see and taste it. He said "we make it fresh in the morning and are busy throughout the day so the sushi shouldn't be bad and you are the only one today complaining about it. Please bring it back and if we made a mistake we will do anything you want." I told him I had to put my son to bed and will be there in about 45 mins. When I got to Kinjo to return the sushi, the supervisor took it to the back and had the head chef try it. He confirmed it was unsuitable. The supervisor came back to me and was on her cell phone with someone and told me we are willing to take 50% off. I told her that I was told they would refund me the whole amount if they confirmed the sushi was bad. She went away talking on the cell phone with someone and came back and offered me her cell phone and said "do you want to talk to Peter, the owner?" When I got on the phone he said "What do you want young lady? I can only give you 50% off, when you order take out and when you eat at the restaurant it's different, I cannot refund you the entire amount." I told him there's no difference if I eat at the restaurant or take out; if the sushi is bad then it's bad. He told me that I'm the only one who complained today and no one else has. I told him I know what good sushi should taste like and what I got was bad, even your chef confirmed it. I told him I wanted a full refund because that's what I was promised, but by then you can tell he was starting to lose it, he raise his voice and kept interrupting me. I told him I've come here on other occasions and ordered the same for takeout but may not do so in the future. What surprised me was his response, "I don't need you either young lady. " I told him "don't think just because you're busy it's okay to treat one customer like me this way, I've seen you before and thought you were a nice person but now I really know how you are and how you deal with customers, I won't be coming back here for sure." His response was, "I don't need you either and I'm busy right now at a function so I can't talk about it but if you want to call me back tomorrow I can talk about it with you." I really can't believe the owner, Peter Kinjo, of such an establishment would be so rude and unprofessional, as well lose his cool. In the end they only refunded me half of what I paid and I had to drive all the way back there and home and waste my time. The sushi at this place is mediocre and poorly put together, the pieces fall apart when you pick them up. read more

What a riot! My first time to this place and I loved every minute of it. Lovely decor, soothing lighting, the staff make you feel comfortable right away. Watching the food being delivered to the tables was like being at a gallery opening to see the works of some fresh new artist. And the thing I liked the most was the gang of staff singing to/with us, banging drums and making my daughter and her boyfriend say loving things to each other. All in all, the experience it was a feast for the senses and had a kind of joyous feel to it. By the way, we were told by the staff that if they make sure the woman at the table is happy, then for sure the man will be happy. Makes sense to me. read more

Cheap, affordable and pretty dang good is called to my mind when thinking of Kinjos. The food is brought extremely quickly in my opinion. The friendliness and helpfulness of servers helps sushi elite and beginners find and explore new items! My only complaint is that the menu is sometimes difficult to interpret and then mark down on your sheet. Thankful every employee is helpful in pointing out where you can find an item on the list. This isn't going to be the best sushi you will ever have, but it'll be the best affordable sushi you've ever had. read more

I've eaten here for both dinner and lunch. Peter, the owner, ensures he greets everyone at the table with a great sense of humour and some free sushi. The atmosphere is fun, well lit and comfortable. The food is authentic as is the very helpful Japanese staff. The variety of food to be had will keep you coming back. read more

I personally think the sushi is not that great at all. Portions are small and the prices are quite high for the amount and quality they give you. They do a bluefin tuna thing and no one does it because people know they're endangered read more

Sushi, sashimi is very good. The ramen broth is very good but the egg is overcooked and cold. The service is excellent and the pocky at the end for my son was a hit! read more

I just had dinner here. Baaaad service! A server called Nari, sooo bad service. I asked for low sodium soy sauce, she forgot it. I asked for wasabi, forgot again. She even forgot one special roll I ordered! After we done everything, she served it even we asked for cancel it. Won't go to Kinjo any more! read more

If I could give zero stars I would. This isn't even sushi anymore. How do you fuck up ootoro? The pieces were falling apart, were discolored, and looked days old. The spicy tuna sushi looked like someone squeezed paste out of a tube. I've been to some shitty parts of the world and I've rather have the food that gave me gastroenteritis than eat here again. read more

Just moved into the neighbourhood and I think I just found my go-to dinner place. Really great service and atmosphere made the sushi taste all the more delicious. Plus, $3.50 pints every day of the week is pretty nice too. We went on Sunday night with the snow flying outside, and still found the place to be packed. They were able to seat us right away since there were only 2 of us, but larger groups didn't have to wait long to be seated either. It's definitely a well-run establishment and I look forward to going back regularly whenever I get that sushi craving. read more

Since moving here last May I have only been to one other sushi place, and it honestly does not compare at all to this one! I am still eager to see what other sushi places are in town, so gave this 4 stars instead of 5 as I don't really have a good comparison. However I will say it was very tasty sushi/sashimi and the service was very good! Seeing as I had never been to this restaurant before, the friend I went with advised me on some of the good sashimi and rolls they had tried on previous visits. For our first round (yes multiple rounds happened here!) we ordered Lobster wrapped in seaweed (can't remember the proper name, sry!), salmon sashimi, unagi sashimi, spicy tuna rolls, mango rolls, cream cheese rolls, and grilled shrimp. The rolls and sashimi came out in good time, and right away we dug in. Them mango rolls were sweet and had tempura shrimp. Although tasty not my favorite of the night. The salmon and unagi sashimi was so delicious! Very buttery and tender salmon, and the eel was nicely glazed and cooked, very tender as well. The spicy salmon rolls were good, but nothing that made them stand out, the shrimp were tasty as well, they had what tasted like a cheese/creamy sauce on them. I am not a huge fan of cream sauces so these were only okay for me. However my friend mentioned that in previous visits the shrimp was much better, so wondering if they changed things up. I tried the lobster wraps and they were surpringly good! It had a lot of pepper in it, and it seemed there was a mix of chopped and finely grated lobster in the mix. A tasty new dish for me. Now as we came to the end of our 8 piece mango roll my friend noticed a piece of plastic in it! So we saved the piece and showed the waitress when she came back around. She apologized profusely and took the roll off our bill, which was very kind of her. It is one of those things were it happens and no need to make a big deal out of it, we were lucky to catch it and bring it to the waitress and cooks attention. Our second round of food included another dish of salmon sashimi, volcano rolls and unagi rolls. I ate the plate of volcano rolls (x4 )and my friend the unagi (x4) (he had never tried unagi before so after trying the sashimi he ordered the rolls too! So brave :P). The salmon sashimi was obviously a favorite of ours for the night and I think the volcano rolls were my favorite roll. I had a sweet sauce at our table and it paired really well with the volcano roll, which is a tad spicy. At the end of our meal the manager came out and provided us with a complimentary dessert as a peace offering after the plastic incident. This was a total surprise, and again very kind of them, so kudos to the staff and manager for their consideration and service last night! The cheesecakes were chocolate and a lighter milk cheesecake. Both delicious and a perfect way to end the evening. There are several Kinjo Sushi locations in the city, if I can recall one in Mission and another on Macleod. So for the future I will try to go to one closer downtown to avoid the traffic we hit driving up to Dalhousie. read more

Just when I was beginning to lose faith in Calgary sushi places, I found KINJO! Wow, wow, WOW! Service was exceptional... From the person who greeted us, the servers, and the cool guys who treat you to Pockey! One thing I noticed is that everyone paid attention and spoke to our daughter. They brought out a plate of fruit that included an orange sculpted into a face. Such simple things that add up to an awesome experience. Loved the separate vegetarian one page menu, as we usually have to sift through sushi menus to find what we can eat. Food was fast, fresh and delicious! You can bet we will be back. Don't know why it took us so long to try Kinjo. Other NW Calgary sushi places will really have to step up their game to compete! read more