Bluefin Sushi

Forever love bluefin. The food is always fresh for all-​you-​can-​eat and the service is always incredible. Haven’t had a bad experience here yet and have been coming for the past year regularly. Suggest trying to dragon rolls! Extra delicious at this sushi restaurant.

Let me start by saying I’d tempered my expectations for Bluefin somewhat due to the fact that it is an All-​You-​Can-​Eat joint. With the quantity over quality state of mind I ventured in for the first time for a Family Day lunch with my wife and 4 year old twins. The initial impression was mixed. The entrance stairs leading up to the restaurant were quite honestly disgusting and in serious disrepair. I was thankful that food service was not anywhere near them. Not particularly relevant, but not a great first impression.
Once inside, we waited about 5 minutes to be greeted and seated, which was understandable as it was quite busy. Once we were seated I was handed an iPad and left to figure things out. Thankfully, it’s pretty straightforward once you figure out how to navigate around. Although I would have expected some kind of greeting and a primer. We spent the next 10 minutes or so waiting for our order of water. Thankfully, my pre-​schoolers figured out the iPad situation and we were ordering food in no time.
The overall selection is good. There is an assortment of sushi/​cones/​rolls, tempura, asian appies, thai dishes, western Chinese and «desserts», which is actually just 4 flavours of ice cream. My wife had been before and we visited on her recommendation, which comes with the disclaimer that she doesn’t eat sushi and ate the other dishes.
Unfortunately, I do like quality Sushi, but as mentioned I wasn’t expecting the cream of the crop. The next 45 minutes or so were a whirlwind of dishes with some decent stand outs. The Gyoza were fine. The various Tempura dishes were good, although no dipping sauce was provided (aside from the table Soy Sauce). My kids enjoyed some kind of Chinese Noodle Dish and my Wife enjoyed the Spring Rolls. Basically the selection of dishes is what I would equate to western pub food. I would guess that at least 90% is deep fried, but if you’ve just left the bar or just woke up the day after, it’s exactly what you need. Sadly, I haven’t been to a bar for a long time.
Now for the rough stuff. I ordered the new «Ninja Roll». I’ve included a picture of the iPad listing. As mentioned in a few other reviews the pictures really don’t resemble the actual dishes in the slightest, but it is nice that the portions are quite small as you can just order more. As for the Ninja Roll, it was listed in the «Special Roll» section with the Dragon and a few other familiar rolls. When it arrived, I was excited… until I bit it. This is a Special roll indeed. As far as I can tell, it is a standard Sushi roll with tempura shrimp, deep fried banana, banana mayo sauce and chocolate sauce. Yes, you read that right. After I choked down one piece I scanned the restaurant looking for a camera crew to tell me I was on some kind of hidden camera show. It was that weird. Even now I’m questioning exactly what happened.
I thought I’d try another roll to see if I could have some sort of redemption. I ordered the spicy crispy roll. Basically it was a standard Maki roll in construction, but was filled literally with nothing but crunched up Tempura batter. Just rice, hot sauce, tempura batter. Confused, I grabbed for my grilled Chicken Skewer. I ate the first of 2 and it was actually pretty decent. I was about to devour the next when my wife pointed out the long black hair dangling from it.
Somewhere in between Choco-​banana Shrimp Maki and hair chicken we order my kids and wife Ice Cream for dessert. We spent the next 25 minutes asking 4 different servers when we could expect our Ice Cream. Each one acknowledged the question, but never really promised to do anything about it so I can’t really fault them for not actually scooping the Ice Cream from the freezer 20 feet behind our table. Finally server number 4 actually did the unthinkable and apologized and walked to the freezer and returned 30 seconds later with 3 bowls of Ice cream. I feel like we probably would have spent the next while waiting for a bill, but decided to skip that step and just walked up to the entrance ourselves. In the end the meal was around $ 50 for 2 adults and 2 four year old kids. Not terrible value, but I’m pretty confident I wouldn’t do it again, unless of course I get back into the bar scene.

Pretty good value for the amount of food we had. They have this huge party room for our party of ~25ppl. F
Had a little trouble finding parking after 6PM the day we went. The place was busy on friday evening. Food was still fast and IPad order menu was pretty cool and easy to use. Our servers were all friendly and accommodating.
Recommend it if you like sushi and lots it. I think I got my $ 30 worth of food.

They screwed up on our take-​out order then refused to correct it. The food was average but pricey. Told them we are never going back there.

This restaurant ended up being our plan b for supper as we were quite hungry and still wanted japanese ayce.
The tea is just regular green tea, but all I could smell was the chemicals on my tea cup. At least they’re sanitizing them right?
The portion sizes here were perfect. Their nigiri is tiny, the rice for them is okay, overly smushed together; service was fast, well staffed. I liked how you could order the sashimi by piece. Selection wasn’t great for sashimi, but it had the basics that we wanted.
DO NOT trust the pictures, most of the food doesn’t look like the pictures on the ipad.
Near the end of my meal, I finally got the mussels I ordered. The first one confused my taste buds, as it was covered in some type of plum sauce… I went ahead with the second one and found a not as pleasant surprise. There were two tiny crabs hiding out in it… After some epic googleing it turns out it’s a regular occurrence. Still icked me out to the extreme so I totally lost my appetite for the rest of the night. We did manage to ask the waitress to take it away, funny thing was when we told her about it, her reaction was… Why did you ask me over, so you’re just showing me?
Therefore I did not partake in their dessert selection. The hubs got dessert though, the mango pudding was vey runny; it was the consistency of egg whites. He also got some ice cream as well. hubs had great difficulty eating the desserts as all they gave us were plastic spoons.
Side notes:
What is with restaurants mopping their floors when you’re still eating as well… All I could smell was bleach for the longest time while we finished up. No wet floor signs during closing, the hubs almost fell down the stairs because of this.
Washroom doors locked… the door was hanging by two nails and of course… the customary toilet paper stuck in the hole in the door to offer «privacy».

The service was terrible, we were seated and given an iPad and not told how anything worked, we were new in Calgary and were unfamiliar with the restaurant. It was not busy at all (maybe 4 other tables with several servers working) and we were not interested in the all you can eat menu, so we ordered a la carte. The food took forever to come out, the portion sizes were very awkward, and the food itself was mediocre at best. On top of all of this, the ladies washroom smelled so disgusting, I couldn’t eat anything after returning to the table as I was so nauseous.

Decent food and sushi but the outstanding part was the service which was quick and the waitress was super nice

Decent sushi for all you can eat. For lunch the price is $ 16.99 per person and for dinner it’s $ 27.99 I believe. What excited me the most was how I was able to order on the iPad and make changes if I wanted to. It also shows the time i placed the order and all of the sushi I ordered as well as other menu items. The sushi however was a little disappointment because they were extremely big compared to sushi you get at other places. Each sushi order comes with 6 pieces and special sushi comes with 8. Due to the pieces being so large i got sick of it quickly. Sashimi is only served during dinner which was quite the let down. I’m not sure if there is much difference between what’d served on the dinner menu and what’s served on the lunch menu. However there was a huge selection on the lunch me I itself already. It’s definitely worth the price during lunch. Service on the other hand was good. The food came fast and our server was extremely nice.

Pretty decent place to go for all-​you-​can-​eat sushi if all you’ve ever had sushi-​wise from Calgary came from a mall kiosk. BlueFin’s iPad ordering concept was really neat, as you can see what you’re ordering and often can read the ingredients of the dishes as opposed to asking (and probably irritating) the waiting staff what was in each of them. Service-​wise, I didn’t see much of the staff, but our orders came pretty quickly. They had a tremendous amount of selection which was nice to see — I recommend the mango rolls, hands down. Presentation was also key here. If you ordered enough sushi, it would come to you in a giant boat!
While BlueFin was a little expensive in my opinion, I did go during dinner hours when it gets a little more pricey and I did get what I paid for, which came with a stomachache from inhaling too many rolls (hopefully wasn’t MSG or food poisoning). Would maybe go back, but would definitely go check out other sushi places before returning.

Renovated restaurant, iPad ordering and good food. Dinner is pricy. Try this place at lunch time.

Solely giving this 4 star based on the food. Huge variety of great sushi rolls, appies, different tempuras to try. Everything was very fresh. Orders are put through on an iPad and brought out in a decent time. For water or tea or other beverages, soy sauce or other requests service can be very slow. Will go back for the good priced all you can eat.

Not too bad. The most expensive all you can eat I’ve tried in the city. The service was pretty bad. We didn’t make a reservation but they had tables, but didn’t seem to want to seat us, but they reluctantly did. The staff didn’t care to serve you and when we asked for tea, we had to ask three times until it showed up. Same with the pop and water. It’s like they kept forgetting to bring it for us.
The sushi doesn’t look like the pictures posted. Nothing came out on a nice platter with the fancy lights or decorations. Just on plates, very simple. The Sashimi was good, until we got a frozen piece of tuna which turns you off from it.
The rolls were good, too much mango sauce on the mango rolls.
Beef ribs were very good but fatty.
My brothers ordered the mussels and they took almost half an hour to bring two of them out and blamed it on being a warm food item so the kitchen was backed up, but the wings he ordered came out in 10 minutes.
This place is just okay!

It has a good atmosphere. The food was great and using ipad to order is just really convenient. I love it. Just wish there is more different types of sashimi available though.

We popped in later in the evening around 10pm because we saw online it was close to us and open late. Best decision ever. we were really blown away by the taste in everything we had. Big bowl of miso for 1.99 with tons of seaweed. Amazing selection on the menu. Some great vegetarian rolls for me, and my boyfriend sampled some really creative rolls with great taste and lots of food for the price. Also a rediculiously cute presentation of one of the dishes complete with LED lighting on the plate!
Only 4 stars though because the service was pretty slow and disorganized. I had to flag down the server every time and she seemed overwhelmed. She had us repeat our small order several times before she got it all jotted down. But eh, we all have our off days and we will totally be back.

Good value sushi for all you can eat! Lots of options and the sashimi cuts are nice a big compared to other «all you can eat» if you want to gorge yourself on sushi this is the place to go

The food is average, but the service is terrible. My family and I went there for late lunch, there were only two small tables when we got there, so it wasn’t busy at all. However, I had to asked the waiter 3 times to be able to get a high chair for my kid, the same problem with our drinks too. We waited for a glass of coke for over 20 mins, and the green tea never came.
Since my father in law has digestion problems, so he has to drink a glass of vitamin fluid during every single meal. One of the waiter saw the vitamin fluid, and approached to my father in law and said «What is this!», acting like he’s a criminal and drinking something illegal.
I explained the situation and how important the fluid is to my father in law, the waiter didn’t believe every single word I said, and keep replying «Oh yeah?». The waiter has no empathy of a 70-​year-​old man, and he was unbelievably rude! I hope he would be treated like how he treated my father in law when he gets old.

I ate here last week with my family and everything was absolutely delicious. Incredible staff right when we stepped through into the restaurant we got greeted by Eddie. And the use of iPads to order was definitely a new and awesome experience. everything was awesome. Great food, awesome staff. Overall an amazing time.

My wife and I decided to try out Blue Fin Sushi for dinner on April 18^th.
Pros:
Food was fresh, lots of selection of rolls, sashimi, different dish options to choose from.
You can try Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Thai. Food portions was good and quality was surprisingly good. Korean BBQ beef was amazing and the mango rolls were great also.
Cons:
Server didnt ask us what we wanted for drinks and didnt offer water or tea which we later found out was included in the price. No settings on our table we asked several times and we had to wait until one of the servers passed by and was wondering why they kept bringing out the food and it was left untouched at our table. Duh…
Some lady decided to take away our ipad without asking if we were done ordering which is a no no in my books.
Summary:
Only 3 weeks since they opened, ambience was really good and the place felt like a trendy restaurant. I would like to give this place 3 Stars for poor service. but it would not do justice with the food. So we will give them another chance to improve their service. We will be back at a later date to see if we have a different experience and we will update this review accordingly. We realize they just opened 3 weeks ago so we will give them time to adjust and hopefully management is actively reading these reviews and make some improvements.
The food was excellent we loved the Korean BBQ ribs. For an AYCE we expected them to skimp but portions and quality was great. We have tried One Sushi a few times and although we like the concept, One sushi was no where near Blue Fin Sushi in terms of food taste and quality. At Blue Fin, selection was really good, tons of options, korean, chinese, japanese and thai. My wife and I wanted to try everything but we were just stuffed full. The only negative I can really say is the service. If you dont give your customers utensils (bowl, plate, chopsticks or fork) we can’t eat. and if you don’t give us water to drink or give us drink options well… when I choke on the sushi… well you best be ready for a lawsuit… so yeah something as simple as a glass of water or cup of tea really goes along way.
When you take away the IPAD without asking if your customers are done ordering. it tells them you are cheap…
With all the negative aside, will we come back? Yes we will come back and hope all the kinks will be worked out then.

The food is so delicious !!! Nice and warm, clean and bright, this is the best all in can eat sushi I never had before !!! !!! Better then the one !!!