Sushi Umibe

Just went in for the first time yesterday.
What a cute little restaurant. It is tucked in, across from the value village strip mall on 207^th between Lougheed and Dewdney Trunk.
Tha atmosphere was nice, the dishes were cute.
The service was okay. We did get left a bit long between courses and our waitress was not very friendly.
We were very impressed with the food and the value.
Everything we tried was good to great. The toro was fresh and delicious as was the scallop… Both are my benchmark tests for Sushi restaurants. The miso was rich and delicious and not too salty.
We will definitely be coming back.
It is a great little sushi place in the lower — mid range price range.

Great shushi! Dynamite roll was big and delicious. Food value. Sockeye salmon nigiri was fantastic. Fresh wild salmon, perfect temperature. Crunch chicken (teriyaki) was great too. Very happy with my first lunch here.

I have been to Umibe at least 20 times! Every time the service is great, the waitresses have trouble understanding English but are pleasant.
I quite regularly order the spicy salmon sashimi, omg soooo good .
Nice and fresh.
I have also gone here for lunch with my friends at work ! We phone down our orders and they are waiting for us when we get there ! Great become we only get half hour for lunch!
The prices are very reasonable and the food is great !
Highly recommend this establishment.
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This is hands down the best sushi restaurant that I have found. It beats the ones in Vancouver! Great value, friendly service most of the time, fast, and delicious sushi!
I have been coming here for over two years and am a regular. Everything I’ve tried has been amazing! I especially love the house roll. It is very fresh and packed full! The tempura is the best I’ve ever had with a very light and crispy batter and never greasy. They always allow me to change the lunch or dinner box from chicken teriyaki to tofu without a hassle. The special rolls are huge and very ungraceful to eat but so delicious. These include the dragon roll, the summer roll, crazy girl roll, etc. I wouldn’t say it is authentic Japanese but they have some very fun combinations! And everything is of high quality!
To sweeten the deal, you get free in-​house made ice cream!

This is such a great restaurant even though it is a little hole in the wall. It beats other sushi places.

I read through some of the reviews on here and felt I needed to increase this restaurant’s score. I can’t argue about other people’s experiences if they had a bad time or a waitress was unkind — but the food is so good. It doesn’t deserve a 1 star at all.
I live right across the street from this place and that is dangerous, because it’s both affordable and delicious. If ever I want sushi I can walk a few feet and have some of the best Japanese food I’ve ever had. The prices are reasonable (for basic, non-​specialty rolls the sushi is 3 – 5 dollars a roll.) Which is great. The portions on their non-​sushi dishes are generous and also affordable. When I go I mainly have the same waitress, and she’s sweet as can be. I can’t understand why someone would complain about the service. Once when I was getting takeout she asked if I wanted some miso soup or water for my wait. I declined but it was really nice of her to ask. My boyfriend’s favorite Japanese dish is chicken katsu, and he says it’s the best he’s had. And the sushi is close to the best sushi I’ve had. At least in Maple Ridge, where I’ve been to 5 different sushi places — this is by far my favorite. Give it a chance. I couldn’t be happier to live so close to it, I’m only bummed that I didn’t give it a try for over a year. All the good sushi I could have had — that time was wasted.

So good, prices and taste is unbeatable. Staff is very friendly and the service is very quick. A favorite in Maple Ridge for sure.

I have been trying Sushi restaurants in Maple Ridge and I won’t be back to this one. I wouldn’t normally mention the parking lot but this one is really filthy. They should at least make the place look good. Inside the restaurant looks old, dingy and the booths look all scratched up. I wanted to sample this place to see if they get the basics right, they didn’t. I ordered a california roll and tamago nigiri. The tamago was OK but the piece was really small. Other restaurants I go to don’t skimp like this one. The california roll was bad. Almost no avocado and a lot of super fishy fake crab. I ate only a bit of it and the rest went in the garbage.

Went here a couple of days ago on a sushi kick to this cute little hole in the wall, after finding not much else open after 8pm on a sunday in Maple Ridge. It looks to be more of a korean-​Japa fusion place, given the menu. This made my eyebrow raise in suspicion but we were too hungry to care.
We picked up a ton of food to go to share with some friends. We were all so hungry we just dove in right away. After the quick devour, we all kind of sat back rather «huh???» than satisfied.
Overall the sushi was pretty low quality and the rice kind of mushy. Our tuna sashimi was still frozen in thick slices and highly unappetizing, our rolls were either dry and flavorless or deep-​fried and gooey. The croquettes had no seasoning and seemed still frozen, and the galbi was salty, dry, chewy and disgusting.
For the same reason other reviewers gave it 5 stars, I would give it zero stars… You know how great your sushi will be when you can order pizza, mexican, and «dirty girl» rolls (which from the taste, the name was literal) that have no authentic ingredients and is safe for those who eat Dominos on a regular basis.
Their food filled your tummy, but is not worth going a second time or even back to the carton for a second helping. There are much better sushi places in Maple Ridge, and this is the bottom of the barrel, despite the owners friendliness. Try Shinobi instead.

This is the best sushi place in the Vancouver area. I have yet to find a favourite sushi restaurant in Vancouver itself, but when I venture out to Maple Ridge to see my boyfriend, we always hit up Sushi Umibe. They have so many different kinds of sushi and they are all delicious. My favourite roll, which is a roll unique to Sushi Umibe, is the Mexican roll. It has a tortilla inside, cheese, salsa, beef, and lettuce, and is drizzled in their own sour cream sauce. It is so good, I could not recommend it enough. You also can’t go wrong with their spicy special rolls.
Prices are average, it is by no means cheap, but it is not overpriced. It is definitely worth every penny. Love this place!