{"id":426,"date":"2008-11-19T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T03:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-11-19T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T07:46:23","slug":"nikkyu-japanese-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/nikkyu-japanese-restaurant","title":{"rendered":"Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant<\/strong> (web site<\/a>, map<\/a>, 3302 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-873-2220) is one of the few sushi restaurants on the east side of Vancouver that offers free sushi delivery <\/strong>within 5km. Check their web site for their menu<\/a> and you can even order your sushi online. But how was the food, you might ask? Read on for more…<\/p>\n

My friend and I are definite sushi aficionados, having tried many awesome sushi restaurants in Vancouver. We were originally in the area to try the Japanese food at Toshi’s<\/a> at Main and 16th, which has a great reputation. Unfortunately due to its popularity there was a huge lineup outside Toshi’s. My friend’s friend (who lives in the neighborhood) gave us a hot tip that there is a sushi place near Toshi’s just a few blocks north on Main Street. We walked around and the only one we saw was Nikkyu, so that had to be the place. We were in for a real treat!<\/p>\n

As a food photographer I always appreciate restaurants which put extra care and detail into their presentation of the food. Attractive and creative presentation is something I only expect at high-end restaurants, where the portions can be tiny and the food becomes more like edible art.<\/p>\n

Many Japanese restaurants in town go for quantity over quality, and while I do enjoy all-you-can-eat and gigantic roll places, I don’t mind splurging for aesthetics once in a while.<\/p>\n

But I was pleasantly surprised by Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant when the food arrived – the obviously very fresh sushi was presented in a simply beautiful fashion, with no grain of rice out of place, and the sprinkling of masago on the rolls put the finishing touch on some miniature masterpieces (pictured below).<\/p>\n

Here’s what we ordered (all pictured below): 4 Saba Sushi ($4.60), Mango Smoked Salmon California Roll ($5.95), Chopped Scallop Roll ($3.85), House Roll ($4.75), Q.E. Park Roll ($7.50) and 6 pieces Salmon Sashimi ($7.95). Looking at these photos makes me hungry again!<\/p>\n

\"Beautiful<\/a>

Beautiful sushi from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver, BC, Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sushi<\/a>

Sushi rolls from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Saba<\/a>

Saba sushi (Mackerel) from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Salmon<\/a>

Salmon sashimi from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chopped<\/a>

Chopped scallop sushi and saba sushi from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More delicious sushi from Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver, BC, Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nikkyu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nikkyu Japanese Restaurant (web site, map, 3302 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone: 604-873-2220) is one of the few sushi restaurants on the east side of Vancouver that offers free sushi delivery within 5km. Check their web site for their menu and you can even order your sushi online. But how was the food, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,63,180,175,10,77,141,69,117,36,197,58,13,68,94,2,160,26,14,15,38,192,5,46,7,88,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable","category-asian","category-authentic","category-award-winning","category-casual","category-comfort-food","category-crab","category-creative-dishes","category-delivery","category-east-vancouver","category-ethnic","category-favorites","category-food-photos","category-fusion","category-healthy-food","category-japanese","category-main-street","category-reasonably-priced","category-restaurant","category-sashimi","category-seafood","category-shrimp","category-sushi","category-sushi-bar","category-take-out","category-tourist-attraction","category-vancouver","category-vancouver-restaurants"],"views":22431,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}