Osaka Sushi

Posted January 21, 2010

1951 Oak Bay Ave

With Blue Coast gone, Osaka Sushi fills its place. Having turned over a number of restaurants in the past few years, it's now or never for the viability of this location. I think Osaka Sushi has a fighting chance. Unlike some of its predecessors, it is definitively 'something' and incoming patrons will not have to question the restaurant concept. It is a full service Japanese restaurant. Much like many Japanese restaurants, Victoria and Oak Bay in particular, have an appetite for both sushi and other Japanese style food. We may have stay'er at 1951 Oak Bay Ave.

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1 Matt R. January 23, 2010

I went with my family last Sunday, which was their second night open and we had to wait almost an hour for a table. The place was packed and they were in the weeds. We ran a couple of errands and came back to wait, just observing the staff and kitchen at work. Still in the weeds. :) We had many items off the menu, and while the raw fish and rice (oh, why can't anyone make rice) were only 'fine' and on par with Azuma or a hundred other places in town, the hot items we sampled were good to great. The server (moonlighting from Azuma) told us that they plan to pare the huge menu down a little when they figure out what's selling. We'll be back for sure! Service was good but very slow, did I mention they were in the weeds?

3 Adam February 4, 2010

Well they must of improved a bunch. My family went last week and it was great. I think it was the best tuna I've had in Victoria. The salmon was fantastic too, but the tuna... wow. Better than Ebizo (yah, the gauntlet is down).

5 Louis_CK March 15, 2010

I took my girlfriend there and we came out rather disappointed.

Service: Greeted by three different people who tried to seat us at three different places. There seemed to be a lack of communication between them and we weren't sure who to ask for help. Food didn't come all at once, and my food went cold while we were waiting for her orders.

Sushi: Sushi was very fresh and creatively presented. However the portions were quite small for the asking price.

Hot food: Very disappointing. Donburis were well cooked but covered in so much sauce they were cloyingly salty. Gyozas are absolutely from a packet! We bit into them and they oozed water - we visited Fujiya and found all three varieties of Osaka's gyoza available for purchase, and surprise surprise, the taste is identical.

Overall: This place has the exact same problems which sunk Blue Coast: we ate at BC several times and questioned how fresh our food really was and continue to do so with Osaka. There are many different places to enjoy fresh Japanese food (Sen, Azuma, etc) and Osaka doesn't even come close.

6 Chris WiBoWo March 22, 2010

I love it!!Thanks to my friends' recommendation, went to this place for dinner last Friday. It was our first time there and they were very busy. I love the color of this place. The service was great and they got some very unique traditional items here. I had a chirashi sushi bowl, my girlfriend had a noddle and we had a vegetable goyza and chicken skewers to share. The food was so great! The chirashi was the best I have ever had, for the price you got plenty, the fish was very fresh. The raman noddle is very Japanese which you can only find something like this in Vancouver.Well done! Will definitely go back. Two thumbs up for my new favorate.

For the person who questions the gyoza. The gyoza I had was awesome and I don't think any Japanese restaurant in Victoria actually makes its own goyza. Unless dim-sum or a specialized goyza restaurant which you can find in Vancouver. As a early immigrant from Asia, I understand what a pain it is to make your own goyza. As long as it tastes good, who cares if it comes from a packet? I don't mind at all. Also the server in Osaka mentioned that they handmade their shrimp goyzas, will go try it next time.

7 Clare July 26, 2010

I went to this place with my husband and a friend back in March. The spicy salmon sashimi was decent but our Dynamite roll had an off flavor to it. Unfortunately, by the time we decided that something was definitely off with the roll, both my husband and I had 2 pieces already. We mentioned this to the waitress at the end of our meal and she brought the remaining piece back to the chef. When the waitress came back with our bill, she acknowledged that the chef thought that it was the smoked eel that had gone off. And yet they charged us for the roll. We didn't argue about the bill as we had eaten most of the roll and decided that we weren't going back anyway. Just thought it was poor form for them to charge us for something that had gone bad. We were also quite disappointed in the tea refills - tasted like they had topped up our cups with hot water, not tea. I'm hoping that this was just an unlucky experience for us. I live in the neighbourhood and want to see area restaurants thrive. Regardless, I won't be going back in the near future.

8 generic viagra June 29, 2011

May not be earth shattering success, but hopefully they can revive the location.
Good call about the rice. I don't know either. Same reason no one can boil an egg I suppose....

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