Umi Sushi

Playing with a palette of primary colours, the updated Umi Sushi & Bar certainly commands your attention. The glass box's golden yellow bar, bright red neon, and deep blue, 8-meter long fish tank, are only one aspect of the restaurant's update. After eleven years in this spot, the owners have re-made their original Umi Sushi into a flagship live seafood specialist, offering up omakase chef's daily selection sushi banquets. They've also put in a charcoal grill for cook-to-order kushiyaki, added multiple private dining rooms (with karaoke facilities), and backed it all up with a very impressive range of sake and Japanese whisky.

We're seated at a varnished aggregate counter right in front of the live fish tank; eyeballing both our eventual dinner and the man behind the new menu ...read more

Better than average sushi train experience - I've been three or four times, and enjoyed it every time. Try for a booth at the end of the train if you're dining with friends, so you get a little more intimacy.

My friends had been talking about this place for months until I decided to try it myself. They weren't wrong - the food is amazing. Every dish was beautifully presented and made with fresh ingredients. The downside to Umi Sushi is that it is a bit more expensive than other sushi restaurants, but the flavour and freshness makes up for it.

Waiter got our order wrong, delivered our plate to us anyway. When we didn't like the taste of the wrong dish and asked for it to be excluded from our bill they agreed to it but charged us anyway at the cashier desk. What disgraceful service, will never be coming back again!

The name Umi Sushi first sounded to me like just another usual Japanese restaurant selling sushi dishes on a conveyor belt, until I finally paid them a visit.

Despite many things in common like benches around the "train" and tiered price points depending on the colour of the plate, Umi Sushi also serve a lot of Japanese food alternatives, including udon, curry, and hot pots in single serving sizes.

One major thing that seems to distinguish the restaurant is its decor. Despite having a slight lack of walking spaces, they did not hold back on installing ...read more