Shizenya in Vancouver

This place is sooo good ! The staff is so friendly and the service is great ! The food is amazing and it’s a very lovely atmosphere:)

Such fresh delicious sushi. My husband and I still talk about this place after eating here last year. High quality ingredients and our server was so kind and helpful.

Such a great solo meal here! Had the dinner combo. All the vegetables and fish were fresh and perfectly prepared. Nice ambience, friendly and kind staff.

Good experience, but could be better. The menu is a little bit confuse (too much information), there was just one server taking care of customers, also cleaning and serving dishes and my dessert was completely iced, it looked like it had been bought.

Amazing take on whole food based sushi. Everything here is tailored to be as healthy as possible and theyve knocked it out if the park. The vegan options are delicious, the vegetarian options are plentiful and the regular sushi options are locally sourced and focused on sustainability. This was asmlso the first sushi spot to offer only brown rice for all their sushi/Nigiri. Great place!

Great first experience at Shizenya! I really appreciate the restaurant offering brown rice as a standard in their sushi rolls (salmon and tuna tasted fresh). Also had the Sockeye Salmon Carpaccio, which had a nice sear and tangy tataki sauce. My favourite dish was their vegetable pan-fried brown rice noodle (we paid additional for the GF substitution). It had a nice selection of veg and the miso sauce was comforting and full of umami flavour! The service was attentive to re-filling our tea, and the server was nice to offer GF soy sauce after we ordered the GF sub for the udon dish! They also offered to clean their boards inside the kitchen to avoid cross-contamination, which says a lot about their care towards patrons and any dietary restrictions. Would highly recommend!

Very tasty sushi and sunomono. Their organic brown rice has a unique flavour and gives the sushi a great taste. Would recommend.

Enjoyed a nice dinner here with my kids. It was busy but were seated right away. Service was very good and the food was beautifully presented, fresh and delicious. I ordered the Ocean Quartet Sashimi Salad and Gomae. My daughter does not eat seafood and there were many vegetarian and "non-fish" options to choose from.

Amazing sushi restaurant that never disappoints. Good quality and fresh ingredients. Everything on the menu is just so good. Highly recommend. I recently tried the agedashi tofu and wow it was so delicious.

The prices are affordable for high quality ingredients. I wasn’t a fan of the sauce that came with my rolls, but the rolls were still tasty. I highly recommend the agedashi tofu app and the desserts.

The restaurant was cosy and at a good spot. The food looked and tasted fantastic and the staff was super friendly. I would totaly recommend going there if you are looking for ramen, sushi,…

Very good food. Very friendly service. Many vegan options. For organic food the price was very reasonable. We loved it!

The quality of raw fish at Shizenya is next level. They offer a unique organic menu, and serve sushi with brown rice. Its good food, but its a bit overpriced. Dont expect large portions. Personally, I find the quality of fish to be worth the price. I find the ambience and décor of the restaurant to be pretty lackluster. Come here for good quality raw fish, and yummy organic food.

Amazing little sushi place! Timely and attentive service, affordable and delicious! I had an appetizer, sushi roll and dessert with Jasmin tea for under $40

Nice japanese food with organic ingredients. The highlight is the sushi which is made with brown rice but still tastes delicious!Items had:- Vegetarian roll : Really good and delicious- Lotus root: Different than expected but still yummy!- vegetarian udon noodles : good but a tad sweet. I would skip these and just order more of the yummy sushi!- cauliflower tempura: great appetizer and definitely recommended.The service also was really good and our waitress kept checking on us to make sure we were happy. Definitely recommend this place to fulfill Japanese food cravings for vegetarians.

Absolutely delicious. Super knowledgeable about dietary restrictions. I’d go here again. Rice was extra delicious. I think they cook it with their homemade broth? Yummy.

Found Shizenya on Yelp and we came to here for breakfast because of the review and the price. The price turned out to be not much cheaper than other restaurants, but their ingredients seem healthy.We ordered an eggplant appetizer, chicken udon lunch combo, tuna nigiri and shiawase for dessert. The eggplant might be the best out on all, because the sauce was nice (a bit too much). The udon flavor is a bit lacking and I think it might be because they are going for something really healthy. They used chicken breast in the udon and its just chicken breast tastes like chicken breasts, nothing special (although Ive had really good chicken breast from Costco). The shiawase was misleading because on the menu it looks like jelly, but its just pudding. The nice thing about the pudding is that its vegan and made out of pumpkin.Overall the experience is okay. Healthy ingredients but I do expect slight better tasting food as Im eating at the restaurant. It would be nice if they figured out how to really balance their sauce and flavor (ex. Eggplant sauce and syrup for pudding was too much, udon is too bland). If you want to come here, I would recommend coming during lunch time and get the lunch combo special. It has more variety.

Some of my favourite sushi in the city!Its a healthy twist on a Vancouver classic. The fish and rice are much high quality and always seem fresher.Shizenyas unique rolls are so good. My favs are the giesha girls roll + greens roll - must try for vegans!

I really like that most of the items on the menu are organic. Good was delicious and the service was great. Prices are reasonable. Highly recommend.

Good sushi, excellent staff and service

Might have been my choice of order, but the food was not good. It had no flavour, good nor bad. Meat quality was good but the dish was basic and a waste of moneyI chose the braised chicken with rice. I thought it would be like Oyaku Don (or a not deep Fried Chicken Kutsu Don).

went here with my friend, food was incredible! nice quiet ambiance and excellent service. lots of great vegetarian options too, i got the geisha girls roll and i highly recommend. my friend got the dragon magic roll and she loved it as well. definitely would eat here again!

Great quality ingredients and nice service, but the food was quite bland. I was really disappointed with the beef udon, and spicy salmon roll that I had. There was nothing spicy about that salmon!!!!

As a vegan, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience here. The yam tempura rolls and the pumpkin dessert is life changing. The miso udon is a little sweet but very flavourful. Really loved this place and hope to come back if I visit Vancouver again!

I love this restaurant!! Me and my husband are almost regulars of this restaurant for many years. The quality has always been very good; food is always fresh, healthy and tasty. Service is very friendly and prices are good. Weve brought many friends and family here over the years who enjoyed the food and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for some good sushi!

I like taking my friends to this place :I always enjoy Yaki udon with sashimi - staff were very polite and nice!Organized and clean environment is a bonus point!!

Quick service, pleasant room, and I love the brown rice! High quality sushi at a very affordable price. Went for dinner but now that I know how good this place is, will also come for lunch.

Amazingly delicious food.Pictured is the ocean quartet salad, miso soup, tuna roll, beef udon, and vegan pumpkin pudding. All were delicious.

Visiting Vancouver from Toronto and popped in after the Art Gallery. Really great food - fresh with lots of vegan options. Everything is served with brown rice and is mostly organic and local. We ordered a couple special rolls which were delicious. My favourite was the Sakura Blossom roll. The gyuza look handmade in house and were really well made. The atmosphere is really cozy and not loud at all given it was a full house. Service was fast and staff were friendly. Would definitely recommend and we’ll back.

Overall, I really enjoyed this restaurant. Been here twice, and both time had very good experience. Food is really clean and high quality with thoughtful presentation. But the price tag also accounts for it. Everything Ive tried out taste really good, especially the tuna sashimi, and the Geisha Girls Roll.The servers were very attentive and quick to notice when you need something. I enjoyed the service.Theres really good vegetarian options here as well. And the brown rice definately provides a a bit different taste from your normal sushi.

Delicious sushi, love the brown rice. My partner and I came here for the vegan/vegetarian options. They have an extensive menu no matter what your diet. I loved the fact that all the roles we had came with brown rice, it was a delicious upgrade. We had the Geisha Girls Roll, Dynamite roll, Negitoro roll, and an eggplant feature all were amazing. Great menu, friendly service, prices seemed expensive at first but the portions were generous. On this visit they earned their 5 stars with ease, a great spot.

A wholesome little restaurant near the Art Gallery, with calm ambiance. I enjoyed their healthy brown rice rolls and rice lunch combo.

Shizenya is such a hidden gem - very cozy and tidy! Many vegan and vegetarian choices. The food is delicious, and we especially enjoy the curry & tempura. Great service and good pricing. Would love to dine here again!

Leaving Shizenya after a splendid meal of organic sprouted brown rice toro and salmon rolls; lightly dressed avocado, lettuce greens, crab, salmon and shrimp salad; whole wheat battered tempura; steamed edamame; miso broth; dry Japanese sake; and a pumpkin pudding for dessert — the shocking thing is that I felt so great. I had none of the stuffed feeling or glucose-and-salt rush of typical white rice sushi meals. Shizenya brings me back to the early days of Western sushi restaurants, when what I most appreciated was their clear simplicity. The food was so good, we couldnt resist tucking in before I could snap photos.

Went here on a Saturday night based on other people’s reviews and proximity to home. Lots of options. The wait wasn’t too long and they were able to seat us within a few minutes even though the restaurant was pretty full. The servers are slow to come by and we had to get their attention to refill our tea and water. Our server was helpful and made food suggestions for rolls. The chicken gyoza takes about 15 mins to make but worth the wait, the sashimi was fresh and definitely get the Sakura blossom roll. Overall good sushi, convenient location but slightly overpriced.

A small but refined sushi stop; the quality and care of each dish are really apparent in every dish that I have tried here. I love plant-based sushi options and they have quite a variety here (including GF and many organic options). The price is higher but that is a reflection of the higher quality ingredients that they use. The service is also always very friendly and fast.

I could not recommend this enough. Vegan sushi was incredible. We had a large range of options and the staff were really lovely. I would recommend the pumpkin dessert, I would say it was one of the nicest desserts I have EVER had.

Had an amazing lunch today at shizenya! As two vegans, we had plenty of options to choose from and it was all so delicious. Highly recommend the the vegetables rolls & tempeh rolls and the quinoa vegetable cone! The star of the meal however was the pumpkin pudding!

My all-time favourite Japanese restaurant in all of lower mainland. Brown rice and tons of vegetarian & vegan options. Organic and super fresh. I’ve tried a fair amount of their menu items, and let me say, none of them have failed to impress me.The servers are always super friendly. Our server was always smiling and giving off a positive vibe. If I could, I’d give this restaurant 6 stars. I’ll definitely be going there again and again whenever I’m downtown. 👍(Pictured are Geika Girls Roll, Organic Vegetable Roll, Dynamite Roll, Salmon Roll, Chicken Breast Teri Roll, Ocean Quartet Sashimi Salad, Wild Sockeye Salmon)

The brown rice was good but all the other flavors were flat and it was pricey. Totally not worth it. I can do better at home and still keep it healthy. Theres no quality to the food or any substance to what they feed you. They just fill you up with rice. The service was rude, we went late, half an hour to closing. I thank them for letting us in. I am ok to pay first so you can close out, but dont start cleaning the moment I hold the credit card machine up. I only had half a bowl of cold soup left, 1 minute wont make a difference. They dont accommodate for a simple California roll so youre forced to pay the premium (extra $6for them to add mango in top, which I dont even like. Not like they dont have the ingredients. I think people eat there becuase theres not many restaurants that does brown rice or they like to feel like they are eating healthy. Its still round rice!! 😱

When I heard that theres a sushi place in town that has a few different vegetarian options, I knew I had to try. Having tried out a couple different kinds of sushi here though, I have to say that while the service was excellent, and the sushi pretty decent as such, but it isnt anything extraordinary. If youre a fellow vegetarian who misses sushi, this place will likely not blow you away.

Everything here is intended to be super "healthy" - they only use brown rice, little to no sauces and only sockeye salmon. The miso soup was entirely vegetarian and tasted like vegetable broth. Salmon was too lean and had very little taste in my opinion. The sushi rolls looked creative and promising on paper but were really meh in reality. The mochi was also below average quality.On top of that, the prices here were insane. 9pc salmon sashimi was about $20, most sushi rolls were $15, and even the tiny bowl of tasteless miso soup was $2.50. The place was small and crowded, but on the plus side the servers were nice and polite.Overall, I would only recommend this place if you want something super lean/healthy (or possibly vegan), or if you dont have many other options in the area and are willing to shell out the extra $$.

A charming and cozy place to have lunch or dinner.Shizenya Restaurant is famous for being healthy; their sushi/rolls are made with ethically sourced organic brown rice, which gives your food a unique flavour and aftertaste. Nearly all the fish used in the dishes has Ocean Wide certification. The menu has a lot of vegetarian options, with is unique to Japanese places.Design of the cafe is very simple and clean.Be sure to book a table for dinner, as it is usually packed.Overall a really good place to visit with family or c/o. Definitely recommended!

Excellent place for extra healthy sushi. We loved the Greens Roll. It was like a salad but so creative and the dipping sauce was delicious. Crab California roll was tasty, the star was the nigiri. Very fresh fish and generous portions. I didnt love the brown rice - I think it was just underseasoned for my personal preference. The spot prawn tempura was delicious. Veggie tempura wasnt as good. The batter didnt stick very well. It was very interesting to try whole wheat tempura! Restaurant ambience was casual but elegant. Highly recommend.

Unbelievably delicious Sushi. Comes with brown rice but it tastes just like white rice! The fish grade must be very high because it was like butter!

Hole in the wall atmosphere serving unique brown rice sushi. I did not notice any texture differences in relation to regular sushi rice, but it is supposed to be healthier. Menu pamphlet explains how they achieve a soft texture with the brown rice.Prices were reasonable and portions were fair. Waitress was very friendly and helpful.

Went two days in a row, thats how much I liked it! Delicious and healthy vegan options - I ate spinach curry one day, udon the other day, veg sushi and a vegan puddin for dessert 😍 they also serve a nice tea. My bf is not vegan, he had salmon and tuna sushi and really liked (they use brown rice). Well be definitely going back!!

Great sushi, really reasonably priced - the perfect place to have a casual meal alone. The sushi here (I had the sakura blossom rollsis very fresh and good quality. The side dishes are great too - I had the hijiki (chickpeas and seaweedand goma-ae (spinach with sesame dressing). And I loved the gobo cha (caffeine free tea). Staff are good!

Oceanwise, only serving sockeye salmon, brown rice, vegetarian and gluten free options, lovely staff, and great prices for quality and location of this little restaurant. I dont think I can ask for more for a healthy lunch option.Their lunch udon lunch combo is such great value: chicken or veggie udon with 3 piece dynamite roll and 3 piece salmon roll with a side salad for $11 including tax.Must try the toro tataki nigiri, expensive at $3 a piece, but if you can splurge, do it!!They recently expanded to a larger space and it makes dining in so much more enjoyable. Lunch takeouts are quick, easy and healthy. Love it!!

Fresh ingredients. Healthy. Variety of veggie options not just the normal kappa rolls or avo rolls. Brown rice used for all sushi and rice dishes. Quinoa optional for an up charge. A tad pricier than other sushi joints. Wouldve liked tobiko or masago in the chirashi. Small space but can easily order take out. Bonus: wasabi packs a punch.