If you want authentic Japanese dining go to Shintaro Sushi. They are always so welcoming and the food is excellent. We always go when we get the chance and highly recommend it. The food may a little slower coming out when it’s busy but that is to be expected since there is only one person doing all the cooking and sushi. The service is always great and the food is too.
Rena Y.
Place rating: 5 Calgary, Canada
Neighbour gem perfect for a casual Japanese meal. This place is run by an authentic, experienced Japanese sushi chef so service can get back logged but worth the wait :)
Philippe A.
Place rating: 5 Toronto, Canada
Excellent evening with a great and authentic Japanese meal. The food is terrific and the service is great. I felt like I was back in Japan!
Daniel H.
Place rating: 5 San Gabriel, CA
Authentic japanese food, feels like dining in common restaurant in Japan. The atmosphere
Myomi C.
Place rating: 4 Vancouver, Canada
Been almost a year since I last dined here — delighted to say it’s still umami-licious(yes, merits a made-up word). Fresh ingredients, nuanced flavours, dishes on the fresh sheet that quietly deviate from the typical Japanese menu(like the cold«fried» eggplant with a kick-ass ginger and bonito sauce that was probably not meant to be slurped up, agedashi mozzarella and real crab croquette that both offer creamy deep fried yet light-tasting goodness) with solid nigiri and whole fish sashimi to boot. Rice beer also worth a special mention… made for dangerously smooth drinking, I had to say«yes please» to another bottle. Here’s to not letting another year go by before another meal at Shintaro!
Lily N.
Place rating: 4 Richmond, Canada
I had dinner here on a Saturday night around 5:30. My son and I were the only customers. It felt so relaxing to be overlooking Bayview street and be away from the crowds. The restaurant is small but it feels much bigger due to the vaulted ceiling and skylight. The two of us were seated right at the window. They were playing romantic French music. It was kind of funny. I told my son that I felt like we were on a «date». We ordered 1. saikyo(black cod with miso sauce) from the big list of specials on the fresh sheet. This was excellent. 2. Agedashi tofu — well done, with a lot of bonito flakes 3. spicy scallop roll — not too spicy, you can still taste the scallops 4. dragon roll — avocado with unagi on top. Very nice. Everything we ordered was very fresh and tasty. We will definitely be back. This restaurant probably can’t accommodate large groups as there only one chef(the owner?) doing everything. We also found the waitress very attentive and came by a few times to top up tea and ask how we liked our food.
Michelle K.
Place rating: 4 London, United Kingdom
Hooray for quality sushi in Steveston Village, finally! Another quaint and small sushi restaurant run by a japanese couple, Shintaro only has 3 two-seater tables and 3 four-seater booths. My dining companion and I shared several rolls, including a salmon roll, avocado roll, negitoro roll, and chopped scallop roll. The chopped scallop roll was by far the most impressive, filled with very fresh tasting scallop, like you would find on a piece of scallop nigiri. Unlike most chopped scallop rolls I have had, this one was not overpowered by mayo, and thus allowed the scallop to shine. The salmon roll was pretty standard for sockeye. The only disappointing one was the negitoro roll — it just tasted quite bland. The waitress was very pleasant and had our tea topped up the whole time. My only complaint is that the food took about half an hour to arrive, which felt rather long for lunch, especially given what we had ordered and the fact that there was only one other party at that time. I would just take that as a blip though, because a group arriving after us who ordered a couple of lunch sets had their food within 10-minutes.