Shinsen Sushi & Lounge

My son and I visited between his baseball tournament games. Service was outstanding, the rolls and my cocktail were unique and bursting with flavor. Highly recommend and will be sure to come back next time we are in town!

We ordered sashimi, nigiri, rolls and shishito. While the sashimi quality was decent, it was certainly not worth the price. There is better quality fish available in the area. The rolls were very mediocre, they were bland and tasteless. The shishito was delicious. The house wine was just blah. Better to bring your own bottle and pay corkage. Service was ok - our server had quite an attitude -definitely not customer oriented service. Overall,this place is not worth it.

This was our first visit to Shinsen Sushi and it was wonderful. The quality of the sushi was amazing and the customer service was excellent. Overall, it was on the pricey side so it won't be a weekly visit but we will definitely revisit the restaurant.

The sushi was incredibly fresh and tasted great. Everything we got was top notch. To my surprise they even had a live musician playing who was very talented and elevated the night. Can't wait to try more.

If you like authentic sushi, like what you would get in Japan, this is the place to go. It's a family owned business and they really take care of their customers, especially if you are lucky enough to get Paul as your server. He knows I love hamachi, so he insisted I try the new hamachi carpaccio. He said, if you don't LOVE it, I won't charge you. And I did love it. Who even does that these days. We have been to this restaurant many times and are so happy we no longer have to drive all the way to Portland (or fly to Japan) for good sushi. The Chef's choice 15 piece sashimi is always fresh and amazing and if there's something in it you aren't fond of, they will change it up. Nothing else in Vancouver compares to the quality of fish you get at Shinsen. They also have an excellent selection of sake and a cute little bar if you just want to stop in for a drink.

Very warm and inviting atmosphere. Service was right on point. Questions easily answered, Food excellent. I would highly recommend eating at your establishment.

Both of us enjoyed the fresh sashimi very much and believe it's the best we've had in Vancouver. The service was good although part of our order had to be ordered again. We'll return soon!

This was the first time visiting and we went for late lunch, so was not crowded. Service was great and very attentive. My husband order teriyaki chicken which was prepared differently than in other Japanese restaurants - sliced va hole chicken breast. The flavor was very good. I had the chirachi bowl which had quite a bit of sashimi on it. Good variety of fish that had a fresh taste. The red tuna was unfortunately tasteless. I also ordered a unagii, which was excellent. A nice size piece and perfectly grilled.

Amazing quality of food! You can tell they care very much about the details. We will be back!

We had a wonderful meal. Paul our server was courteous and very attentive. We will definitely return

Amazing bartender. Fantastic cocktails. This girl nailed every cocktail with fantastic presentation all while being by herself and STILL making sure we always had everything we needed. Great date night in the bar sitting area!! Sushi rolls are on point. Not your wanna be sushi place stuffed with cheap fillers of cream cheese and over rolled in rice.

I wanted to surprise my wife with a date night and Sushi is one of her faves. From the look and feel to the attention to detail in style and dish presentation we knew this was going to be great—we were not let down. From the edamame to sashimi and spicy tuna roll we were impressed. Great atmosphere, service, and high quality sushi. Definitely recommend.

The worst “service” if you can call it that. Our server literally would walk by looking the other direction. Waited an hour after ordering, still waiting for 50% of our meal but people who ordered 30 minutes or more after had all items. Sad part, the food that we received was top tier. By far the best sushi I've had in the 360. It's sad the company rather not have a manager present (did not see one the 90 minutes we were there) and left our server ( Ivor J) who obviously wasn't ever trained nor did he care about hospitality. Ivor would walk by us looking the other way and I had to genuinely yell to get his attention the third time he walked by our table. Even the table behind us was cracking up. It's rare to leave a restaurant hungry but we weren't the only ones. Another group a table away left because they didn't expect to spend 2 hours at dinner.

Adorable little sushi place. The sushi was excellent. My only complaint was the time to seating and service timing. It was sloooow. As long as you aren't in a time crunch, this place is great.

While the sushi was good (I can't give an accurate accounting because I'm coming off sinusitis), what I wanted to laude was the delicious cocktail (freshest strawberry flavor), the really nice server, and the tasty dessert (pistachio ricotta cake).