Kami Japanese Restaurant

The freshest Japanese good you’ll find (in South Surrey anyway). Very good prices for such high quality.

Food was actually very good, but the environment was horrible. loud awful music, really terrible acoustics, and screaming children… I’ll not be back.

I am surprised at reviews about service but those were many years ago. I have been here 3 times in the last few weeks and it is the fastest service I have received at a sushi place.
I love that the ingredients are fresh and not over seasoned. The rolls are still unique and tasty without tonnes of sauce. The strawberry roll was a pleasant surprise.
You know a sushi place is good when they have a strong basic sushi menu and it is fun when they get creative too. Each time I go I try a new item and I have yet to be disappointed. I am not a huge fan of the salads because I find they have too much dressing but you can always ask for it on the side. Plus, who goes for sushi and orders salad anyways?
The tuna appetizer and sockey salmon sashimi are melt-​in-​your-​mouth. I am glad this isn’t so close to me or I would be eating there far too often for my own good. Prices are standard also compared to other sushi restaurants.

I love it. I could eat the calamari roll every day. My wife loves the beef roll too.

Yummy! Love the food and the presentation. Service needs to be improved with the waitresses. They are slow to obtain your order.

Excellent!!! Koran !!! Beautiful presentation. Clean pleasant décor. Very kind service.

I don’t get the bad reviews either! It always amazes me that ppl don’t give restaurants a second chance. Just look at your own workplace! Not every day is roses. We certainly don’t wake up in the morning intending to do a bad job!!!
My kids and I LOVE this place. My teenager and I sneak here sometimes… it’s a great way to get one on one time with her. The ninja sushi is my son’s favorite… the madman roll is my 6 year old daughter’s pick every time.
The staff are super friendly and care… perhaps language is a barrier at times but so what?! It’s not a burger joint. Go… it’s great!

Consistently good, fresh sushi. Try the Red Mountain Roll, the Ishi Yaki Bowl or Udon. Service can be iffy sometimes but the sushi is great.

3.5 stars.
I don’t really understand the poor reviews. This is one of the times I realize the limitation of Unilocal because I regret not going to Kami because of all the bad reviews of this place.
Their exterior is pretty modest looking but once inside, it’s way nicer than one would expect. They don’t have rich décor per se but it’s bigger than one would imagine and has a modern interior look with their dark lighting and the bar area.
I’ve had their Flower Roll and it is delicious. They also have other very appetizing looking specialty rolls on the menu and the rolls were very good.
One caveat I have noticed here is that you have to ask for wild salmon for their salmon maki rolls and they charge you like an extra dollar for them.
While this isn’t my favourite place to go for sushi, this is a very solid and dependable place to go to.

After many visits to this place I am never returning again. We were seated for about 45 minutes after placing our order and I was noticing people who were seated after us were eating. I asked «a waitress» when our food was coming because the one who took our order never came back to our table…
She came back with a shocked expression that our order never made it to the kitchen!!! 45 minutes of sitting in front of them and absolutely no presence of thought about our table. They never even came back to refill our tea.
I was very surprised the manager never came over to deliver the news, and make apologies. One more sign how incredibly disorganized this place is.

The quality of the sushi is about average, and everything else in the restaurant is kinda pricey in my opinion. I tried out the oyakodon. It was actually quite good, but the broccoli on the stuff was actually frozen. That was a bit shocking. The interior is very nice, giving you a comfortable feeling. I wonder why it has such bad reviews…

I’ve been here 10 times or so. The quality is decent but it is pricey in my opinion.
What prompted me to post here is the dwindling service.
The wait staff try to memorize your order and they always forget at least one item or get something wrong. It’s not usually an issue because I love all sorts of sushi and we usually order too much. Still, it’s kinda weak.
Yesterday we sent back a tuna cocktail which is Tina marinated in soy, sesame oil and has sesame seeds in it, because it tasted fishy (I think beach stank is the technical term). They took it back and told me the fish was actually a different kind of tuna than usual and that’s why… OK
—THE KICKER—
— is that I requested my negitoro roll that was clearly forgotten and it came made of the now warm tuna cocktail I sent back minutes before. WOW!!! This chef should give his head a shake. Isn’t it obvious that a negitoro roll is made with non-​sesame oil marinated warm beach stanky tuna?
Looking for a logical explanation but I’m lost for words.
Come to think of it I think I should be insulted.

Well there are many things that didn’t impress me about this place.
The main thing is that the waitress didn’t know how to answer our questions. So… long story short. We ordered something and asked for apart of it to be left out due to allergies. The dish came and was not allergen free. Neither of us messed with it or ate part of it or anything. But just said nicely that we didn’t want it and she took it away.
She asked if we wanted to take it to go instead. We said No. And that we just couldn’t have it. She said next time to order something else. …and then the item was on the bill! Are you freaking kidding me! She said that we had ordered it and we had to pay for it… oh but we could still take it home. … hmmmm hello!!! Clearly stated allergy before we ordered… I’m not going to eat it at home later lol. Anyway… I won’t be back.

First visit to Kami, located in the strip mall across from 5 guys burgers, decorated similar to a moxies, keg, cactus club (which should be a warning sign right away the food is going to suk!)
looks like leftover hearts from valentines day still on the wall when you walk in… (Aug 2012)
the food: quickly prepared and rushed to the table, i ordered tonkatsu which was faintly crispy and undercooked on the inside, bleh!
ordered some rolls for $ 9, they arrived at the table like a stack of poker chips and were just that thin, they contained rather pathetic slivers of avocado
if i had known they were that cheap on avocado i would have brought one from home for them (NOT KIDDING)
tuna sushi was ok, again very small pieces $ 3.50 for two
still not full i ordered a boneless chicken karaage for $ 9 which was less than ½ a chicken breast pop-​corned, tasted hard and oily
so yea, not impressed on my first visit, $ 40 and left hungry, the staff is friendly, obviously the cost of the location/​interior design leaves little in the budget for quality product or the training to the chefs to prepare it with some pride.
Check out my review of king sushi at15238 North Bluff Road in White Rock, a 2 person operation that isn’t pretty but the quality of the
food you are being served easily beats Kami’s, no fillers, poker chip rolls or fish slivers.
It;s laughable to be consistently rating a hole in the wall sushi bar better than these hip lacquered dark wood restaurant’s likely marketed for «real house wives» and the impressionable masses