KAKAI SUSHI (Japanese Restaurant)

The reliable Vancouver spot with fresh fish, quick and friendly service. Tasty, consistent and great value.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dahyun is a wonderful server, great energy! Such a sweetheart

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The location of this restaurant is very convenient. The exterior of the restaurant is good. The interior feels like a home. The food feels like home cooked. Not bad! Too much vegetables on the a la carte menus, and I think donburi would suit me better. The rice on the salmon maki tastes too dry, and the seaweed was chewy instead of dry & crispy. I would stick with cooked food & deep fried items.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

i ordered the beef teriyaki and honestly it was a big disappointment. first off, i found a long hair in my food, which was super off-putting. on top of that, the teriyaki itself was bland and lacked any real flavor it just tasted kind of flat. the only redeeming thing was that the beef was tender, but overall it just wasn’t enjoyable. the miso soup and sushi, though, were actually great. i don’t think i will be returning

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

I got fly soup lol

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Fast & friendly service

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Got an order of California Rolls and Dynamite Rolls. Only got to eat half of it before the waiter took it away and I didn’t get it back. Wasted my money and time

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 5

Service: 1

Great menu options at decent prices

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My favourite spot in East Van! Super quick, great sushi, fair prices and super friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best value and best japanese food in town！will definitely come back again!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I ordered a sashimi box and the composition was amazing. The composition and taste were amazing for the price. The newly renovated atmosphere of the store was very clean and comfortable. I was impressed by the warm welcome of the staff and the jazz music was really good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Had a bad experience with a rude waitress. The food was bland at best

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We became regulars in this restaurant. Food options (Japanese and Koran) are always great and freshly made and served! Staff are very friendly and polite. They have a loyalty program so make sure you grab the loyalty card along with the discount card.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

AMAAZINGGG FRESH AND BIG PORTIONS

I loved this place! Usually when I eat at one of these sushi places it's good but doesn't leave a big impression, but Kakai actually impressed me. Not that it's super fancy food, but it was the simple stuff that you go to a sushi restaurant for in the first place done right.
I got the vegetables box: agedashi tofu and stir-fried veggies in teriyaki sauce, assorted vegetable tempura, mushroom tempura, veggie gyoza, salad, miso soup, and rice. It looked like a lot of deep-fried food but honestly I didn't really notice it as I was eating - usually I feel kind of gross after I eat a bunch of deep-fried stuff but that didn't happen here. I liked the slightly different assortment of food than the typical veg bento, like the mushroom tempura and squash in the salad, and the serving of veggies in the stir fry was a lot more substantial than average, with a huge pile of teriyaki veggies. It was a lot of food and it was all good!
The menu prices look pretty good all around. The vegetables box was $19.5 (before tax) for, again, a ton of food. If you're looking for something really affordable, at the time I visited (late July 2025), they had a takeout-only item, the Kakai bowl, which is teriyaki protein of your choice and veggies over rice, for just $9.5 or something like that.
The other touches that made the experience so nice were the friendly staff and the nice decorations and tableware. One of the plates in my box had cat ears and another one had animal faces that I discovered after cleaning the food off it. I thought that was so cute. Lots of other little cute posters and other decorations were strewn around the restaurant.
Unfortunately I don't live in the area anymore, but this is a place I would make a point of going back to if I did!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5