Sushi Train

I am in love with sushi train. I’ve never been inside the actual restaurant, I always order delivery through
. The food is always amazing.
Every time I order I get korean style chicken, because the way they make it is delicious, and they always draw a really cute chicken on the front of the box. Get the half-​and-​half box if you’re ordering it, and make sure to cook some rice at home before it comes, because for some reason they don’t deliver rice. Then I get the aburi toro/​seared tuna belly, and some other form of sushi. I haven’t tried a lot of their sushi, but so far only the aburi toro has stuck out as memorable to me.
Once I try some more of the sushi, I’ll update this with what tastes good.

The sushi was ok. It was quite expensive and I wouldn’t go back. On a Monday around 6:30, the restaurant was quite empty, so the same items kept going around. Very little variety. Not worth the $ 80 we paid for 2. Had the pricing been half, I’d go back.

I order a lot of sushi on delivery; it’s my Friday night treat. I’ve tried many places around Edmonton but never have I experienced better service than at Sushi Train. The sushi was extremely fast. I ordered through SkipTheDishes and the sushi was on my table 60 minutes after I paid for the order. You know the sushi is made super fresh. I really like maki rolls that often have a crispy component or a warm sauce (spicy mayo) on top. As you can imagine, you’re asking a lot if you want a roll like this delivered and still tasting fresh – not soggy – upon arrival, but Sushi Train did this!
Unpacking my sushi order was like opening a Christmas present. The first thing I pulled out was a container of Edamame that read: ‘Thank you for choose Sushi Train. Edamame is on the House.’ So adorable. I was immediately smiling. What a good way to treat your customers. But the surprises didn’t end there. My rolls were arranged beautifully in one large container with a sticky note that read: «3 pcs Red Dragon is on the House.» So, before I even tasted the sushi, I was having a fantastic customer experience (that’s saying a lot for delivery)!
The rolls I tried were:
–Grilled Spicy Tuna Roll (This had more of a grilled taste than I was expecting [read: Charcoal] but nonetheless was pretty delicious.
–Dynamite Roll (This was your classic tempura shrimp, crab meat, avocado, cucumber. It was good and met my expectations).
–Cream Cheese Avocado Roll (This may have been my favourite. It was light and the avocado was so, so fresh)
–and of course my complimentary pieces of Red Dragon (Crab meat, tempura shrimp, on top of grilled salmon, tobiko, spicy mayo, tempura, teriyaki sauce. This was very good, but to me tasted quite similar to the Dynamite roll; I had trouble telling them apart).
Overall I am extremely impressed. I have had many ‘misses’ when it comes to sushi in Edmonton, but tonight Sushi Train hit my craving in the bullseye.

Best place to eat in Edmonton! I haven’t tasted better fish anywhere in Canada! I prefer the sashimi, sometimes I get salmon belly sashimi, it’s amazing!
Everyone is so caring there, I feel at home when I am eating here! They now serve bubble tea, the powder stuff! Yum!

This is a review for the quick snack part of the restaurant (I haven’t yet visited the main restaurant location and plan on updating my review once I do so). I was unimpressed by the quick snack part of the restaurant: the sushi was decent and filling but they messed up my bubble tea order (gave me cold avocado rather than hot red bean) on first try. Eventually they got it right but the bubble tea wasn’t amazing.
I do like the fact that they sell some pretty standard Japanese snack foods — I may have to stop by for the squid snacks alone on occasion, if the craving strikes me, but I wouldn’t return for any of the rest of their quick snack fare.

I can’t remember the last time I liked a restaurant so well that I’ve gone once a week since the first time I visited it. Enter Sushi Train. Here is the status of my relationship with them two months in.
I was poised to like it (I’d even had dreams about kaiten sushi places, being totally enchanted with the conveyor belt concept), but I had no idea I’d love it as much as I do. There’s always fresh sushi, reasonably priced, whirling around on the belt. As a small person who doesn’t always get bang-​for-​buck at any kind of buffet, this place really suits me. You just eat as much as you want and only pay for what you take. I’ve stuffed myself for $ 25, and it was a damn sight better than any sushi buffet I’ve tried here before.
I prefer nigiri and sashimi, which are always fantastic here, but the rolls I’ve had are delicious too (I don’t find them messy myself – most are bite-​sized). The fish is always firm, so you won’t have to struggle to take a bite of the larger nigiri and sashimi pieces, and the prepared rice is perfect. I like that I don’t always recognize what I’m picking up, as it has caused me to be more adventurous in my sushi consumption. I’ve tried many things now that I never would have ordered off a menu, and I really appreciate that. I love that I can order all-​yam tempura and not bother with those other inferior vegetables (and there’s plenty of flavour in the tempura sauce – I don’t know why the batter would need to be saltier). And get the black sesame ice cream. It’s heavenly.
The service is lovely and the fish is of a high quality (at least for Edmonton), and it seems to me they’re just figuring out a few kinks – like how many customers to expect on certain nights of the week. I’ve seen all kinds of things on the belt, and hardly anyone there to eat them. Give Sushi Train a try!

Headline: Overpriced, messy rolls and limited choice.
Stopped by after work on a Tuesday and was seated immediately, right in front of the prep station. Hostess explained the pricing scheme and that there were a few hot items that could be ordered off the menu.
Little plates move along a conveyor belt (not a train at all) and one helps themselves. Started with pretty good eel nigiri and a very small tuna roll heavily sauced. Had another eel and another very small, sloppily-​made roll. Off the menu, we tried the yam tempura which was brought directly to us. It was very bland, the batter needed salt. The two plates of chicken yakitori skewers we ordered were placed on the conveyor belt to ride around to us. Not surprisingly given limit choice that night, some other diner took one of the plates before it got to us. Sat for quite a while hoping for something new to appear or even another plate of eel and eventually gave up.
The dinner ended with complementary green tea ice cream which had nice texture, but very subtle flavour.
Dinner for two that did not leave us satiated was over $ 75. For that amount, we would have been much happier at other full service sushi places.

Edmonton’s newest rotation sushi bar restaurant, Sushi Train, opened its doors on July 12^th in a modest location by MacEwan University on 104 Street. The premise is simple: the chef makes a variety of different kinds of sushi and places them on a conveyor belt using different coloured plates. The plates reflect the price (blue = $ 3.50; red = $ 4.50; green = $ 5.50; black = $ 6.50) and each one is placed within a time slot on the conveyor belt so that you can tell how fresh everything is-​for example, if you arrived at 12:30pm, a dish situated behind the 10 – 20 marker will have been made between 12:10pm and 12:20pm.
It’s a unique concept for Edmonton, but kaiten-​zushi (conveyor belt sushi) is a pretty standard style of restaurant in Japan. Edmonton has seen train-​style sushi restaurants before (Sakura in WEM), but they don’t seem to last. Due to the nature of how they serve food, kaiten-​zushi requires a steady stream of customers during opening hours to avoid waste-​too few customers, and food will have to be tossed. Too many, and the chef/​kitchen will be overwhelmed.
It’s a delicate balance, much like the one between fish and rice on a perfectly made piece of sushi.
There aren’t many seats, since most are placed around the rotating bar, but luckily it wasn’t that busy when we arrived for lunch. It’s a really fun experience waiting to see what the chef will place on the belt next and there’s the nail-​biting few minutes when you see something you want that’s just out of reach. Will it come around again? Will someone snap it up before it makes it to you?
As for taste, I was satisfied. The sushi was fresh (as we could see) and there were a number of options to choose from. Octopus balls, red snapper, crispy California rolls, gyoza, and much more. The quality isn’t quite the same as Kyoto or Mikado, but it’s still very good. A solid choice for sushi, in my opinion.
Price-​wise, I could see a meal at Sushi Train getting very expensive, very quickly. For lunch, I tried five different dishes (2 – 4 pieces per plate, depending on what I ordered) and my total came to about $ 23, with no drinks other than water and green tea. A whole dinner at Sushi Train could easily get up to $ 50 per person, so be wary of those plates.
All in all, I’d definitely recommend this place, especially if you’ve never tried a kaiten-​zushi before. The crispy California rolls are worth a visit alone!

I was super excited when I saw Sushi Train going in. Right across from Grant MacEwan and next door to Happy Harbour comics, it’s a great location for a restaurant, especially one that has potential for quick service lunch.
I’ve been to one other sushi-​conveyor-​belt style restaurant and I liked the idea behind it. You only pay for what you eat and there is typically lots to choose from, so you get the beauty of a buffet on a smaller budget.
Sushi Train had just gotten started. The sushi itself was very good — well made, lots of varieties and flavored. The raw «sashimi» is cut into generous portions and is very fresh and delicious. I liked their balance of classic sushi and more creative rolls.
One thing that makes me cautious about Sushi Train’s future success is their pricing. I felt that all the plates were overpriced or else portions were not large enough to justify the prices. The plates start at $ 3.50 and go up to $ 6.50, but most plates only have two pieces on them and very few are in the $ 3.50 range. Sashimi is priced by plates of three or plates of six, and is at minimum, two dollars a slice.
Unlike Sushi Boat in Calgary, this is not a cheap and cheerful experience. It’s fair to say that you are paying for a gimmick and the overall «fun» of watching the sushi parade around the restaurant, but to get enough to eat, you are paying more than what you would at one of Edmonton’s top sushi restaurants, which is a little disparaging.
Now that I have visited, I’m glad I did, I enjoyed myself, truly. The food was good and the service was attentive and friendly. But after seeing the prices, I’m sad that I won’t be able to frequent Sushi Train weekly for a sushi quick fix like I had been planning.