Ajisai Japanese Cuisine

The food is consistently good most of the time. However, the service can be hit or miss and a bit robotic with no emotion or personality… and the hours really suck. Closing and Opening at different times during the day and weekends makes it annoying and hard to visit when half the time it seems to be closed.

Delicious tempura. But probably the best California rolls I’ve ever had. Decent prices & portions. Loved that it was only a 5 minute walk from my place! I recommend it

I love that I’m just a 5 min walk away from this place, I hate that I only think to come here on Mondays when they’re not open (I always seem to forget!)
When I can catch a break and it’s not Monday, I get to satisfy my sushi cravings. I’ve been here for lunch and dinner, and the service and food are equally good during both. Parking can sometimes be a nightmare (it’s in a strip mall next to a busy pub) which is why I luck out and can just walk over, and the restaurant is quite large and kept really clean (including the washrooms).
I recommend the tempura udon (over the chicken — which is just grilled chicken, not teriyaki like most places) and the spicy salmon roll.
Although a bit pricey (what do you expect for a restaurant situated right in the ‘burbs?), you get fresh quality food.

I really wanted to like Ajisai, since I live so close. The food was clearly sub-​par though. The first hint was that the maki were not made uniformly. They were made carelessly, with comically inconsistent proportions of fish to rice. The fish was not very fresh, and the udon soup was relatively bland.
Overall, the food quality is that of a cheap all-​you-​can-​eat place. Not worth it at regular sushi restaurant prices.

Great sushi this far out in the suburbs is nearly impossible to find though Ajisai comes close. Service is excellent, good variety of cooked and raw Japanese food, clear menus. I wish the portions were a but more generous.
And lastly, the tea is great.

Ajisai tastes like fresh Vancouver sushi that I’m used to… The location in the South is new, clean, and friendly. The price is higher than most, but the presentation is good, and the food tastes great.
We usually order the Yam Tempura, a California roll, and a Dynamite roll… Along with Sunomono salad and Miso soup. The tempura always tastes like it’s cooked in clean oil (something I hate is dirty oil for tempura!) and the fish is always fresh.
I’m a regular at the Cranston location, and despite the price, it’s one of my favourite places to curb my sushi craving!

The service and food was very good but the price was too high.

The sushi is ok, but nothing special. There are other comparable restaurants in the area now, Taiyo is one example. Service is a bit slow but comparable to non-​asian restaurants. I think they really need one more server. People were left standing at the door for way too long before they are acknowledged. There was a large group of people that came in and they just couldn’t accommodate them in one table, so I do not recommend this place if you have more than 6 – 7 people. It is a small restaurant, and it is no guarantee that you will be seated together.
As for the food, we had the tuna roll (see picture). Although the presentation was great, the tuna in the roll just did not taste fresh. I was not impressed with it. I know sushi restaurants probably don’t put the freshest fish inside rolls but at least it should still taste decent. Their regular salmon sushi tasted good though.

Definitely one of my favourite sushi spot. Beautiful restaurant, genuine service, and you can taste the careful preparation of the food. Must try the sushi pizza!

First off, clean place and friendly service. The sushi bar is in full view of the main dining area and the host/​manager had a friendly smile
throughout the night I noticed. Ordered Tempura Udon along with two
types of Aburio Rolls seen above. The rolls themselves were presented very nicely so kudos to that. The taste itself wasn’t bad either, nothing to write home about but definitely nothing bad to
say about it. The fish was good, slightly above average, but I did notice that the rolls had more rice proportionally than other places (ie Globefish/​Towa) and the rice itself seemed to be Chinese
style rice (as opposed to Japanese style rice). The udon and tempura, like all other things that nite had good appearances but
fell short of being considered «excellent». For the Udon, the noodles were good and the broth was nice but the proportion of
noodles was definitely much less than I usually expected while the prices were your standard $ 9 – 11 depending what you choose to order as a side with your udon. Overall, nothing really exciting, there
just aren’t that many choices in the Panorama area so competition may be lacking a bit in that area. It is a nice choice to have in that area for those that live there though and the price is about
average I would say. Variety is standard and taste standard for Calgary. Would I go back? Yeah. But I wouldn’t go out of my way to go there unless I was in the area.

Great food!!! Maybe the price is a little to high for a neighborhood place …

I have only been here once, but my initial impression is very good. The panorama/​country hills area is seriously lacking restaurants of all types, especially mom & pop places. So its refreshing to see this strip mall have a sushi place, amongst some other restaurants I still have to try. (but it is yet to be seen whether these businesses are sustainable in the middle of nowhere).
I like all types of sushi including the ones that are common across all sushi bars, but what I really enjoy is trying out a restaurant’s specialty menu. Thats the cool thing about sushi, the chefs get to be creative and make up some unique stuff. Ajisai is no different, they have a good variety of non-​traditional sushi worth trying out.