Sumo Grill Japanese Restaurant

Sushi is always expensive in Calgary but love this location as it provides a great atmosphere to bring kids and family with large tables and private room that fits up to 14 people.
Staff are super friendly and service is great.
Selection is very good and lots of options of sushi and hot food. Lunch menu does have bento boxes.
Great place if you like to try sushi for the first time or try a different place.

Sumo quality is consistent and dependable and with their new Menu which features a good variety of rolls, both vegetarian and fish, my daughter and I were satisfied.
Remembering that this restaurant is situated in a busy Mall, Sunridge and has been around for over a decade, it’s a place we go when we crave Sushi but don’t want to pay $$$ and/​or wait for a seat or drive across town.
Sumo is always clean, the service is traditionally Japanese and the food is good, solid Sushi.
For those who don’t get the non-​engagement of the polite service in a traditional Japanese restaurant it goes like this. Your server in a traditional Japanese restaurant is not there to give you a dining experience, make eye contact, smile and introduce specials, the food is supposed to do that. Also privacy is a very big part of the dining expereince in such a restaurant. You should be able to have a conversation without worrying about your watier or waitress interrupting.
So after a long day of engaging people, my daughter and I were more than ready for unobtrusive, but politley attentive service.
I did give a little freak-​squeak when I saw the price of the individual sushi pieces. I’m not used to paying over $ 3.00 for a single piece of salmon on rice. Especially not for a late lunch!
The manager herself came out and asked if we liked the new menu. I said I didn’t know yet. That was a big thing for this restaurant. Managers rarely come to the table unless there is a problem with customer satisfaction so I was very impressed.
That she remembered us made me even more impressed.
And yes, the new menu is good. The rolls are on par with those at the old Chopsticks restaurant across from Marlborough Mall which was a family favourite but is no more as the restaurant was sold and renamed a while ago.
So if you like rolls and polite, discreet service, a clean atmosphere, and a break from the noise and chaos of a shopping marathon, Sumo is a good place to rest your feet and savour the quiet.
And if you are a vegan, you can eat there without worry. The vegetarian rolls are prepared with thought to the vegan palate.

Mediocre Japanese restaurant. Maki were okay but they use a lot of rice so quite large. Service was subpar and not a lot of interaction with table. Very clean restaurant and a bit pricey for quality of fish.

Mediocre sushi and odd service. One maki roll arrived before the appetizer, the other 40 minutes later. Not really any better than food court food but pricier.

Tourist review.
It’s literally lodged between meh and a-​ok, but some tasty oysters pushed it over.
Granted I don’t know how the japanese food scene is up in Calgary, so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but i wasn’t a fan.
Sushi in my opinion was pretty expensive and it was a lot of rice w/​a thin sliver of fish that didn’t have much taste. didn’t soak up the soy sauce at all.
The oysters i did enjoy. Fresh tasting w/​yummy ponzu!
Soft shell crab nothing to write home about.
So 3 oysters, 3 salmon sushi, 1 unagi, 1 soft shell crab and $ 33 later, i find myself in the food court eyeing all the food there n getting ice cream.

Average sushi place, has a good selection of main entrée dishes. However I wish they had «special rolls», that sure would differentiate them from other sushi restaurants. If its one thing I can’t stand is warm rice with my raw fish so that was a negative. Deserves 3 stars for its nice set up, pleasant service, and average sushi.

I was recommended this by a co-​worker so I went for lunch.
While the service was very slow even by evening standards, the food was fresh.
My order included:
Crunchy Spicy Tuna Roll
Ebi Sushi
Smoked Salmon Sushi
Prawn Tempura Roll
House Roll
Dynamite Roll
Green Tea
While the service is slow as previously mentioned, it is pleasant. Hopefully, on my next trip, they will be faster!