Wasabi Japanese Restaurant in Thunder Bay

100 dollars didn t go very far and food was disappointing. Ordered delivery, food came with no rice and the curry chicken for 22 dollars looked like had 1/4 of a chicken breast and the portion was small. Veggie roll had mostly rice, should call it a rice roll. Overall not worth it. California roll was good but have had much from a grocery store.

Rolls are pretty thin on fillings, not much food for the price

I ate very well here for lunch recently. If I were to split hairs, I would ask for a wasabi option. I like my wasabi like a solid punch in the nose. The wasabi served was a bit weak for my tastes. Thunder Bay market may still have a majority of novice wasabi-ists. Same comment re the ginger. Other than that, I can not wait for my budget to loosen so I can go back. Parking: Lots of seating. Private dining booths with curtains for your business meetings or private gatherings. Kid-friendliness: My 9yr old had a shrimp bowl minus the spicy. He was skeptical but thoroughly enjoyed it. He loved the miso soup.

I had the Wasabi Combo. Very fresh and service was friendly and excellent Parking: I would estimate 20 spots Food : 5/5 |

One of my favorite sushi places in town!

I just order at the delivery app and i paid almost 50 dollars for a small container of ribs without the rice that is supposed to be included in my meal.Some people order on delivery app for convenience after a long day at work and dont have the energy to cook its just really disappointing to see that they charge high but the quality you will get is not what you expected.

This is our favourite place to have delicious sushi

When this restaurant first opened it was really really good and became one of my favourite places to eat and I have a good memory of my baby trying there miso soup. She practically took my hand off to keep the spoon in her mouth she thought the miso soup was so good. But the last time I went there with my grandmother the food was very gross and not the quality it used to be. The miso soup used to be very very very good.. now it s really really really gross and the sushi rolls I got where nasty to it tasted like someone put mayo on cat food and rolled it up in a sushi roll.. To be honest the grocery store sushi tastes 100000 times better and it s cheaper.. witch is sad because I really used to like there food.. now it s not very good at all. Feels like a waste of money to pay that high cost for food that tastes so bad.. you call tell they are using cheaper ingredients and they taste gross the waitress was nice and good at her job and very attentive. But some of the other staff seemed like I was unwelcome in and made me feel uncomfortable. They did not talk to us but they where looking at us in a way that felt uncomfortable and I felt unwanted and tense and seemed like they did not want us there that s how I felt. Not welcoming at all. It felt like he was giving me annoyed disgusted dirty looks.. and the way he was moving around seemed like he was angry. I honestly felt uneasy for a time..I don t know if he was was the manager or owner or what but he made it feel very uncomfortable to be there. used to really like and love this place but now I don t think I will ever come back to be honest.. It was a while ago a few months? At first I was not going to say anything but the more I thought about it, it started to bother me. And I thought maybe my feed back might help. I don t normally complain or make reviews. The guy there I don t know if he was having a bad day or what but it was uncomfortable. But the female blond lady who was serving us was very nice and good at her job. It was lunch and when we got there it was not very busy maybe one other table was seated. but a few people came in after us. We sat at a booth table, I don t remember what my grandma ordered but myself got miso soup and 3 different types of sushi rolls that I shared with her. And to be honest they did not taste very good. Not the way they used to when you guys first opened. Kinda makes me sad because I really liked it. And had a good memory of bringing my baby loving your miso soup so much she would not let go of my hand and not letting me are the spoon back to get more broth for her. Lol she would cry a little and go momma mine. And held on to my hand with a baby death grip. And when she first tasted it her eyes went all big and sparkly and gripped on to my hand hard right away. She was turning one years old at the time. That was when you guys first opened. It was like that cute video with the baby trying ice cream for the first time when she grabs the cone after her eyes go all big only with miso soup. Lol I wish I recorded it.

Great food and sevice

I was really looking forward to some flavour so I ordered their Delux wonton soup, 22$ tai curry chicken, a dragon roll and shrimp nigiri , EVERYTHING WAS DRY (no idea why they even add noodles to a wonton soup but it ruined it and made it sweet, the shrimp in it over cooked, flavourless meat wonton, the curry had a sour taste, but nothing else had flavour .. even the bed of rice for the nigiri didn t have that sweetness other sushi places have, the shrimp ebi ontop looked rough and idk if it their bland wasabi that they must buy at a dollar store or something but even that didn t tickle my nose , thankfully they took the curry off the bill but I still will never come back here it was a waste of money and I ended up driving to kfc.

The bento boxes are great for lunch. You get rice, tempura, salad and a bunch of edamame with you choice of meat.

my friend is chinese

Wonderful service, great food

Great food and good times.

I had the best date night with by partner here this evening, Feb 6th 2023. I was served by a lovely young man and our food was amazing , service up standing, tried new things on the server s recommendations. We have eaten here a dozen time but never had so much fun...

Food takes over an hour now and its half empty in here. Its brutal. Food is okay, but waiting over an hour for food is unacceptable. Its been like this the last two times Ive been here. Whats the deal!?

Excellent food! Service can be very slow at times. Had to ask for miso soup but the couple who came in 20 mins after us got their soup right away (we had been waiting for 45 mins at this point). After an hour of waiting our rolls started to come out. Regardless, we will come back, even if we have to wait lol best sushi in town. The sashimi is also excellent, thick pieces. Wish the hours were better.

Excellent as always! Have been a long time customer!

As always just great sushi. And as always we ordered to much lol Great service friendly very welcoming

Nice staff and atmosphere but the quality of the rolls was incredibly poor. The spicy tuna and salmon were ground to the consistency of cat food. Just wrong. I hope they can learn to improve in the future.

When they stopped the all you can eat it just took the appeal right out of it.

If you accept there s skip order You will lost your one hour

Go to spot when in town now, the food is soo good. I got the beef Rice Noodle Bowl at the servers recommendations and it was so fresh and light. Butterfish app was

No professional Japanese restaurant, put the raw bean sprouts in the food .This is normal knowledge, it is poisoning. Please see Googal to know !

Subpar sushi at best. Staff was friendly but the sushi itself was a let down

Maybe I am too picky. The restaurant did not care about presentation and the wasabi and ginger were in packs. No extras, expensive, and not very good. The rolls were totally coated in sauces and the rice wasnt fully cooked. Disappointing.

Staff is very kind and knowledgeable. Food is always perfect and the pricing is fair! One of my favourite places to eat! Vegetarian options: We re able/willing to change menu items around dietary restrictions.

Aleays great service, awesome food and very clean.

Wasabi offers the best Japanese menu Ive found in all of Northern Ontario. From Muskoka to Hearst, Sault Ste. Marie to Kenora, Wasabi is the best hands down. Exquisite satiating fare served majestically in an intimate atmosphere of ambience or the privacy of your choosing. The food is immaculate & the service is genuine. I enjoyed my visit immensely. 5 stars from me

Great atmosphere and food is delicious

Sushi was poorly made. Place was busy service was good. I would not recommend the sushi.

We re consistent costumers of Wasabi and have been for years. This review is in hopes that they get their act together. I don t know if it s because they prioritize take out, or because of their lack of staff (was personally told by a worker the owner runs a skeleton crew to save money) but the service and turn around time for water, food and overall time spent in the restaurant is nothing short of deplorable. And it s not an isolated experience, it s every single time we visit, which is often. An hour and 45 minutes to be exact last visit for 3 rolls and an app. We will be finding a new spot if this doesn t change for the better soon. The food is always good enough to keep us coming back, the service and pace will be the reason they lose as customers permanently. Get it together

Waited for an hour and 45 minutes for food in an almost empty restaurant. Very little interaction from staff. Delivery orders were going out the door, as we waited. If you want to prioritize take out. Be a take out restaurant.

This Wasabi Japanese Restaurant is one of best sushi restaurants in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada

We ordered takeout sushi that was delivered to the wrong house and dropped off only half our order! It was so hot that the rolls looked like they were melting and tasted so bad the rice was mushy. The pad Thai tasted like plastic we ended up throwing out 60$ of food and the other 60 didn t show up I ll never order again!

Picked up take out. Food was good...probably would have been a bit better fresh at the restaurant but was still great at home. The Tuna Tataki Salad was delicious. For a bit of a downer... I said Id pay to get extra wasabi, soy and ginger for our sushi but was told not to worry and they would make sure I had plenty. I got three Ketchup sized packets of each for an order for 6 people... They did tell me not to pay for extra though so...

Excellent place. Food was wondeful, Tuna Tataki is to die for!

Our first trip to Wasabi and we will definitely be back! Amazing food, friendly service, great portions for the prices. Highly recommend the Dragon roll and Saki Nigiri. A trip back to Wasabi did not disappoint. Great food once again. Update: weve been back to Wasabi 5 or 6 times. It never disappoints! Great service, lovely atmosphere and the best sushi in town.

Good a la carte sushi!

This was our second visit to Wasabis, this time for my partners birthday. Due to it being a Friday, I was thinking I might need to call and check to see if I would need a reservation...turns out that I did! I also asked if we could get a quieter table if possible, and the man who took my reservation said that they couldnt promise anything, but that they would try to accommodate us as best as they could. When we got there, it was certainly far busier than the first time we had eaten there, and I was quietly grateful I had made a reservation. When we were seated, I was further surprised to find that not only were we given a quiet table, but that we were given a table that was enclosed! I said to my partner, Theyre getting ALL the tips. We ordered a dish of harumaki to share, my partner ordered a bowl of wonton soup, and an order of beef yaki udon. I ordered a spider roll, a Mt. Fuji roll, and an order of hachimitsu chicken. All of it, as usual, was fantastic! Top to bottom, we had a terrific time, and well definitely be back. Wasabis is one of the hidden jewels of Thunder Bay, and I cant say enough good things.

The Seattle Roll and the Chicken Katsu were alright but I didnt like the vegetable rool , it was completely taseless. Please ask the customers if they want a Miso Soup cause all Sushi restaurants offer a free Miso Soup while customers are waiting for their order to be ready. Food

Customer service is top notch the server was excellent, food was great highly recommend

Foods always out of this world. can never complain. Wish I could eat Sushi daily.

Worse than grocery store sushi. Sushi was delivered over an hour late (initial delivery time was estimated at an hour and it took closer to 3). It also came in the condition portraid below. Mangled, drowned in mayo, mulched beyond recognition, mostly cooked or even burnt. They fully forgot several parts of this order as well. No thank you. As to your comment about my apparent lie, you offer delivery through skip. A service which you are clearly not prepared to provide. Regardless of the delivery time, the food that you provided was gross and missing parts of the order. But by all means, call me a liar as though that makes your business look better.

! Love the owners great attitude and ability to maintain quality.

We loved our dinner here! We originally walked into a sushi spot down the road, but our gut told us to run for it. Thankfully we came into Wasabi for a wonderful experience! It was an almost full restaurant on a Monday evening, and we had fantastic service. The food was fresh and delicious. We particularly loved the Caterpillar Role. Thank you for a great night!

Best sushi in town

Wonderful food and a really nice restaurant. We had a little private room that was fantastic.

Great food and a really nice restaurant

Service and food is Amazing everytime! Cant go anywhere else for sushi!

Really good sushi

Best sushi in town, good apps, their noodle bowls and pad Thai are great as well

Wow, wow, wow is all I can say. We got the salad roll, the 807 roll which was fantastic and our new favorite, the dynamite roll and a sashimi combo. I wish I had taken a picture and I probably will next time. The potion size and the freshness of the meal were fantastic. Cant wait to eat from here again!!

Amazing food and friendly staff!! Always our go to for Sushi

Everything tasted pretty good! We got the uni platter, the sake roll, and dynamite toll. The salmon and butterfish sashimi was tasty and the california and dynamite rolls we got were just as I expected. Nothing super crazy, but overall pretty good! However, the tuna sashimi was a weird grey colour and felt unsafe to eat. The staff was very accommodating and gave us some new pieces, so 10/10 for customer service!

Really quiet nice place. Cute booths with privacy curtains. Waitress was very attentive and nice.

The food was great but my server McKenna was the highlight of my dinner. Incredibly nice and always smiling, incredibly infectious energy. Not only for me, but it was clear she was making the rest of her tables experience so much better too. Might be the best waitress Ive had in a long time.

Absolutely wonderful. The staff are very competent and so friendly. The food is always delicious and never disappoints.

Perfectly fine sushi and good service. It looks like the best place in the area.

The sushi were very disappointing. The sushi were not fresh at all. I wouldn t recommend going to this place. I can confirm that superstore sushi is better than this.

Had a great experience! The sashimi was perfect! Large portions, fresh and tasty. Service was incredible, friendly, prompt and accurate. I will return for sure.

Beautiful place, nice background music. Staff super friendly. Awesome well see you again soon

Omg this is the best Japanese restaurant I ever had. It was amazingly tasty, it blew my mind, and the waiter was very charismatic, friendly and recommended amazing dishes. The menu is huge and has pictures of the dishes. The restaurant looks very fancy and has private tables. I will come to this restaurant again.

I ordered cooked salmon sushi and I got raw fish so I didnt eat a single bite. My table was shoved into a little corner behind curtains which felt uncomfortable to be closed in with my dinner guests. I wont be returning.

Food was awsome but no service at all had to wait 1 hour for 4 rolls...

The food was delicious. The service wasnt so great. The atmosphere was nice and would love to go back for the food. Overall a nice experience.

Crowded! Popular! Service was slow, food was worth the wait.

Interesting place with a pretty good menu. Food was delicious and the service was great as well. Would definitely go back. Great atmosphere and prices seemed average.

Best sushi in town! Dietary restrictions: Good at making foods meet needs. Parking: Good parking, large lot for the size of resturant

Expensive and i believe it was canned tuna in my california roll?!?!

I just love this place. The food is always delicious and the service is great.

***Update: I reached out to Ken and he was extremely apologetic about the service. He wanted to make it right and gave us 2 hand rolls and a roll free of charge. Five stars for wasabi!! I come here regularly and my order is usually wrong. This time I was charged for a 2 Rolls instead of hand rolls. Called the restaurant and got no help from the rude person on the phone. Also the butterfish is never fresh.

So good would repeat if I lived here

Great food, great service. Been here many times and never disappointed!

Best Javanese food around. Friendly, excellent service. Highly recommended

We have been regular customers. The last two times we ordered, the food was much less tasty with no attention to detail, and the quality of the seafood was below average (not cooked or flavoured nicely). We are disappointed. It used to be better in about a year ago.

Maki rolls are divine! Decent prices compared to the other places in tbay. Teriyaki dish was perfect!

Good food and fair prices. Staff are very welcoming and we appreciate how well the restaurant accommodates social distancing. We love it enough to make it the spot for a birthday dinner. And big shout out to Thomas who was the epitome of a congenial server.

Great Sushi!

Best sushi in tbay, dont get your hopes up for yellowfin or Odorigui, but still best in tbay

Very tasty

Great service. Lots of choices. Enjoyed. Will go back.

Not good. That is all

I was here a couple of days ago.To be honest the quality of food were not what I expected. The shrimp tempura was too greasy and it seems that the frying oil was not fresh enough. Sushi rolls were not the ones that tempt someone to try it again.

I heard that this place is a good asian place so we tried it. I had Dinner Bento Box with Salmon Teriyaki for 25$ and Id say its nothing special. Even the rolls they had with the box doesnt look appetizing, Ive tried better rolls than that. The shrimp tempura we had is a bit oily and I was surprised to get a bell pepper tempura which was definitely weird taste. I might change my review if I eat there in the future. But so far my first impression was meh.

Awesome as usual. The assorted tempura and spicy California roll are soooo good

Great atmosphere! The food is really fresh!

Food was amazing and i cant really say nothing but satisfying .. i rate it 3 because the service wasnt to appealing . Restaurant for me is service and food combined. It was busy hours and it was super slow service. I am working in a restaurant too and i can say that there is more that they can do to improve the service instead of making the cx wait for more than 30 minutes empty table and not being accommodated. But i guess worth the wait ! And i would like to take note as well , i guess some people who serve are the owners but still, i feel its not nice to ask people around you to wear mask while you yourself is not wearing one, specially if you are in front desk serving people, its insulting and disrespectful to me , just saying , might as well just stay at the back in the kitchen

Went there and asked for a dish with no nuts due to an allergy. We were assured that the kitchen would take the necessary precautions. However, when the dish arrived and we started eating there was an allergic reaction to peanuts. Ive tried to reach out directly to the restaurant to let them know, but nobody has responded. If you have an allergy or food intolerance, do not eat here!

Always warm and friendly, great Food

Good atmosphere. Good variety of food. However, for a sashimi lover like myself, the quality of fish here was not stable. Also, they serve slides of sashimi half or third of size of a normal sashimi slide, which is tiring cuz I always had to order more and the serving time for sashimi was very slow. So I always ended up filling myself with other kinds of fried food or meat, which is funny, cuz I went to a sushi restaurants but I didnt get to eat as much fish as I could.

Best sushi in town. Sit at sushi bar for fast service at peak hours.

Best sushi in tbay hands down

The rolls are pretty good here.

Had a great meal here! Service was awesome! Prices were fair, food was good, and I would come.hack.again.

First place I ever tried Sushi... I ate like a pig and can never get enough lol... Fantastic food, service and atmosphere... Love it

Always happy with portions & quality

The best sushi in town

best sushi in town!

Awesome unagi, friendly staff...the sushi was exquisite

Love this food

Great service and awesome meal!

Excellent sushi and appetizers! Very fresh!

Extra star because of covid. Very slow service, hot food not hot.

Amazing food.. great service.. reasonable price.

Went out with my girl and her friends. Food and service was exceptional!

Good time

Up there with anywhere in Toronto, but with much better service. Takes bold risks to put their own twist on sushi rolls that pay off while still providing classics. Try the flaming eye rolls. Menu provides a deep variety of no sushi options as well. The owner definitely runs a great ship! Cant wait to come back when im in town again.

We had a good variety of dishes, all of which were excellent with good presentation. Service was friendly and timely. Covid 19 protocols were adhered to.

Fresh sashimi, reasonable price, and nice interior But on the weekends, I waited almost one hour to get the rolls. Lol I m not going to use indoor, but pick-up is always awesome))

The food was good but it took over 2 hours to get our food!:(

This place has always resulted in a great meal for me. A great place for a date night dinner!

First time eating sushi ever. Pretty impressed. Will be coming back. Good show folks.

The worst sushi of my life I read the reviews and they said it was good The surprise in the place, terrible service aged fish The salmon tempura was neither salmon nor tempura The spicy prickly pear does not come with prickly pear Disgust service Please dont come back to this bad place

Bad food, we went there for the good reviews and we supposed to have very nice and delicious food but no. We order tuna rolls and salmon rolls and they put inside those smashed canned tuna and salmon, the raw fish did not have any good taste and aspect (colors and texture was old and frozen). I can say the tempura shrimps was good and the miso soup

Very fresh, well presented sashimi and spicy tuna roll, interesting wine including Ontario vintages.

Grear food, good service.

Exceptional quality and service. Try the Tuna Tataki.

All I can say is WOW....Hands down, this was the very best experience Ive EVER had at ANY restaurant....The sushi was excellent, the service was excellent, everything was super clean, the prices were extremely fair, we were even seated in our own private room....To top it off, the owner of the restaurant spent a good hour talking with us, telling us all about places to see on our trip across Canada....He really made us feel special by spending so much of his valuable time talking to us....If youre looking for a great dining experience in the Thunder Bay area, you really have to try Wasabi Japanese Restaurant....And to top it off, they have an ALL YOU CAN EAT MENU....Thanks again Ken, for making us feel so special....You are THE MAN!! :)

The food quality was very poor and the service was unprofessional. The maitre de informed me that the all you can eat ends in 45 min. The server comes and begins to rush me as she says the all you can eat ends in 15 min. The rice was undercooked and I informed them. The manager when informed I over him saying that he knows that already. Then the other waitress saw me picking the meat from the sushi and asked why Im doing this, I informed her that I cannot eat the rice so she took the food away and wanted to try to charge me for the weight of the rice. The 1 st waitress informed the owner who was sitting beside me and he offered no opinion or comment. Nothing was done, I was charged full price and the owner clearly doesnt care about the quality of the food of his restaurant. An awful place and awful food. Avoid this place and save your money.

Everytime our entrees were served so late.

Absolutely one of my favorite restaurants in thunder bay. Try the shouga beef!

Poor service

Poor customer service

Server was great! Food was awesome!

Always awesome. Food was excellent.

Best sushi/Japanese Canadian food buffet

Super friendly! Excellent fresh food!

Service is very slow. We ordered and half order is missed. Then the quality of sashimi is very poor. Salmon and Tuna very smoosh.

Love this place, only place to get good sushi

I dont know why I havent reviewed yet. Wasabi has the best salmon, tuna sashimi and rolls (sake roll is my favorite). Do not hesitate when you are craving for sushi.

Fave Sushinspit in town.

Pretty good for small-town, middle of Canada sushi. They dont give you enough wasabi which is strange. But Tom is the best and he always hooks you up with more. Tom seems like a nice young man, always has something to say and positive attitude like you wouldnt believe. I think hes from town, seems to know a lot about the area and has an appreciation for it. He said hed lived in BC for a while and that was really nice, maybe would have stayed if his roommate wasnt so crazy or something. Ill have to ask him more about that next time. Its tough living with people, finding alone time and respecting each others space. Right now Im renovating my house and there isnt even a place to put a couch so me and my girlfriend dont have much space to do our own things. Makes it difficult. I was thinking of finishing the basement this fall but my mom said I was crazy and not to get started on that until Ive finished some other projects. One of my friends was telling me about various personality types, and allegedly there is a type that never finishes projects once they have it all figured out in their mind. Understanding the solution is enough, then the interest dwindles. Friggin story of my life. I wish they had red bean ice cream. ***Update*** November 2019 We walk into a dimly lit room and are greeted by a familiar voice. The voice of an angel? Maybe. We are seated promptly and a plethora of delicious food is brought to us that seems to never end. At the end of the meal we sit in a collective silence rarely observed outside the end of a tremendous feast or hours of animalistic sex. Unsure what to do next we are suddenly met with the voice whispering I can make magic happen. He does. To be continued.

Excellent service! Great food.

Very good sushi, it tasted very fresh and looked great. The staff were nice and had good knowledge of the menu.

Excellent as always...amazing food for a more than fair price

Great food. Great service and always satisfied. Fav Sushi place in town.

Ah its good sushi. The head chef was able to come to our table and talk about some dietary restrictions. Service was great and sushi is best in town.

I loved the Sushi from here. A tad on the pricey side, but worth it. Everything is fresh and they dont use simulated seafood like other places.

Everything Ive had from here has been excellent. Im vegan, and they are very accommodating! Yum! Mmm the tempura especially.