Tenshi Sushi

Best sushi I’ve had in a long time. Friendly servers that are more than happy to help a first time customer.

Tenshi Sushi has been our go to sushi restaurant for the past few years and every time the sushi has been fresh, well prepared and tasty! The restaurant is small but cozy and the service is fast!

Sashimi quality is great! Sizes are very large
Small area for seating.
To go orders can take a long time.
Rolls are not delicious.
We order there for sashimi to go and pick up rolls from globe fish

Pros: good portion, very decent price for what you get, good variety on the menu
Cons: quality of sashimi and rolls are average and not that fresh

Tenshi is my new favourite sushi place in Calgary. The quality of the fish is excellent. The sashimi cuts are actually too big. The rice is good and well balanced to the fish.
The restaurant is in a great walkable neighbourhood, it’s small and casual. Great before a night out or a weekday lunch.

A sushi place in Calgary that is decent, not overpriced and doesn’t break the bank. Finally!
Been looking for a casual sushi joint here in Calgary for the past 8 months since moving here from Vancouver, so I’m glad that I finally came across Tenshi Sushi.
This place is a bit small so if you have a large group, good luck. Reservations are recommended. We ordered a variety of different rolls and they were all delicious. Best yet, the bill came out to $ 22 for the two of us. What a steal.
Didn’t get a chance to try the sashimi, but it looked delicious based on what other tables were ordering.
Will be back again and again.

We were eating here regularly because they sushi fish is very good quality until they gave me a dish that had wasabi that they recycled from somebody else’s plate, complete with chopstick holes and fish roe. The waitress actually admitted «that they sometimes do that.» Gross.
It’s a shame because they were our favorite sushi restaurant in the city. They source out excellent fish.
Their health inspection reports on the city of calgary website show that they get in trouble for not having their hand washing sink available for use, instead filled with food, at every single visit. This means their kitchen staff don’t wash their hands. Double gross!

I went with a couple friends to Tenshi for lunch. Heed the recommendations to go early, because it is small and therefore packs up quickly. I can also see why it’s popular as they have some amazing lunch specials including sushi rolls, soup, and salad for under $ 12.
I stuck with rolls. They have all your standard stuff, with a couple slightly different variations. The portions are generous and the three of us left stuffed for only $ 26 including tax/​tip.
Will be putting Tenshi on my sushi roster from now on.

I’m not picky, I’ll even eat some 2.99 express California roll in a pinch. Having grew up in Vancouver though and being spoiled by good sushi, its hard to find something similar elsewhere. (not specific to Calgary, I’ve been in Toronto for a long time!)
This place was recommended to me by a friend for a great casual sushi joint not like miku in Vancouver level. «This is the closest you’ll get to Vancouver-​tier sushi in Calgary!» and he was right! Maybe not about the ONLY place by all means I’m sure there are other places in town but this place does remind me of sushi back home — Big, fresh, generous pieces of fish, good fish to rice ratio in their rolls, and great value. Got the deluxe platter for two and for ~20 each we had so much sushi! So stuffed with yummy goodness.
Will definitely be back many many times before I leave this great city.

Every Saturday afternoon deserves some well-​prepared Sushi and on that note, I was happy with our experience at Tenshi.
The restaurant is cute and the server was very sweet.
We ordered a few rolls and some nigri during our visit and when it arrived to our table I was pleased to see how fresh and well prepared it was.
There are so many options on the menu that I didn’t get the chance to try — so I will be going back for more in the future.
Accolades to Tenshi!

Tenshi is a great sushi restaurant! Their lunch specials include a soup and salad. For soup, there is your choice of miso or egg dropped. I went with the egg dropped and it had a delicious chicken broth with crab, green onion, chicken, and egg. The salad was pickled noodles with cucumber garnished with a lemon. My lunch special, which was under $ 12, included a california roll, salmon roll, and dragon roll. Enough to fill you for sure. It’s quite small and the atmosphere is very casual.

I am a big fan of casual sushi joints and Tenshi fits in that category perfectly. It is a small joint in Kensington with a very casual ambiance. I believe they can only fit around 20 guests.
The menu has all of the standard rolls and sushi. In addition to miso soup and sea weed salad, we ordered a variety of roles and sashimi with a focus on scallop rolls. All of the items are very cheap compared to other sushi joints in town and what I really liked on the menu was the fact that you can order sashimi by piece.
It took them a while to take our order and generally during the dinner it was not easy to get hold of the staff. Also the wait time for the food to arrive was very long. So be prepared to spend a lot of time time sitting hungry. However, the food is excellent. I really enjoyed every item. My favorite roll was the red kamikaze (Scallop and Tuna). The sashimi is fresh and tasty. I highly recommend the tuna belly. The least favorite item for me was negitoro (Tuna belly and green onion roll).
Total bill for two including a lot of rolls and sashimi in addition to appetizers was 45 which is very reasonable .
I will defiantly go back there in future, it is a mall restaurant so reservations are highly recommended. Next time, you are looking for a casual sushi joint, Tenshi can be a very good option.

Parking is difficult here. The Unagi and a surf clam are good but avoid the beef tataki. On the plus side, the salmon portions are generous.

While the service was fine with a smile, the food was an other story.
Our grilled salmon skin salad from the menu was alright, but our sushi and sashimi felt it didn’t receive the love compared to other Sushi restaurants.
The sashimi pieces were too big, and the fish quality wasn’t there. Even the wasabi and ginger were slapped in cups on the side in overwhelming quantities! So no real effort to the presentation, but also no delicacy to the fish cuts.
As well, tap water was used for the green tea, which ruined the taste of if as you could really smell the chlorine in it. This might sound silly to many viewers, but once you have drank green tea with filtered water, you can tell the difference, which goes for any tea really!
Too bad.

My favourite calgary sushi.
That being said, I never order the actual sushi– I stick the the veggie offerings (of which there are tons). The taro maki, inari nigiri and the confusingly elusive oshinko are must haves. Any tempura is also a safe bet. Not greasy, perfectly crisp and cooled apporiately as to not sog up your rolls.
Reservations are a must but they’ll usually take them on the same day. Looses 1 star for never picking up the phone to make said reservation (seems caddy, but it is seriously annoying. Get voicemail people).

Even though the restaurant was about to close the hostess was very kind and accommodating. The service is excellent.
I had the sushi lunch special. There were a variety of rolls, all tasty, pretty standard for sushi.
We also ordered a special mango roll and it was AWESOME… I’m obsessed with mango so I’m a bit biased. But it was mango on top with avocado and tuna and something crunchy in the middle. I love the mix of textures and mango on top. mmm mm.
Great value too, everyone was pretty stuffed with their $ 12 lunch specials.

I am strictly reviewing this place based on their food and I believe Tenshi deserves a 5 from this sushi lover.
My date and I ordered the deluxe platter for two and man oh man they do not cheap out. We got miso soup, ebi noodles, gyozas, tempura, 42 pieces of sushi and like 16 assorted sashimi pieces all for $ 40. Isn’t that a great price? Anyway, I think the quality of sushi there is very high, perfect rice texture and fresh tasting ingredients. Plus the sashimi was the size of my palm, no joke.
This place may be small, but it definitely puts some love into its food. I always appreciate more quaint, intimate places.

Take out or dine in, this place hits the spot.
Have been coming here for a while now, mostly for take out but dining in is good too. The place is small, like others have mentioned but it’s cozy and nice. It’s a good place to meet a friend for a bite. Just that kind of relaxed atmosphere.
The service is always quick, take out is usually ready for pick up in 20 minutes but it probably depends on what/​how much you order. Dining in, this place is smooth sailing. Dishes come out quick but it doesn’t feel rushed.
We always get edamame, and their unagi is off the hook. I also love the rolls, not too much rice and everything is always the perfect temperature — so delicious.
Consistency — quality of eats and service — is probably what keeps us coming back.
Review #2 of Unilocal’s 30 Day Challenge 2012

At Tenshi Sishi size doesn’t matter, it’s what you do with it. Tenshi is small with maybe a handful of tables. The «bar» can seat 2 people tops. However, what it lacks in size it makes up for in both food and proportions.
I though the sushi was very good. The fishy half of the sushi combo I found delectable. What was surprising is that the pieces are quite large. Though this is usually a sign of bad quality sushi, Tenshi’s fish impressed me. That being said, I don’t think the rice that accompanied the sushi was great. After all Su-​Shi means vinegar rice and what puts a good piece of sushi over the top is a wonderful vinegar rice punch … at least in my opinion.
I found Tenshi’s atmosphere, service and food fun and enjoyable. It isn’t the best sushi I have ever had, but it does well and is reasonably priced. This would be a 3.5 star place for me, but round up for a good Chu Toro!

I’m beginning to think that the smaller a restaurant is, the better quality food and service you will receive. Tenshi is a great example! As a side note, when my husband and I go for sushi, we eat the real stuff (not just California rolls and Avocado rolls), so please keep this in mind when reading my reviews.
— Reasonable prices
— Cozy atmosphere
— Quality fish
— Good service
In particular, I’d like to talk about Inari Nigiri or tofu cakes. I don’t usually eat this, but Tenshi Sushi’s version definitely made this particular dish one of my favourites! Tenshi’s Inari was not overly sweet and contained sushi rice, black sesame seeds and fresh slivers of cucumber. Yum! It was quite a hefty and delectable dish compared to the Inari I ordered from Sushi Ichiban on McLeod trail… ack, too sugary with barely any rice inside… and no sesame seeds or cucumber!
We also ordered Tuna & Salmon don and although the fish was fresh, the rice was a bit too dry for my liking. I won’t knock off a star for this because their sushi pieces were just too good.
I was not a fan of the sketchy tenant-​shared restroom which is located just behind the kitchen area in the unglamorous guts of the building.