Manzo Itamae Japanese - Richmond

My absolute favourite sushi restaurant! The sashimi was fresh and delicious with gorgeous presentation. We ordered a variety of dishes and everything was amazing. Service was excellent as well! Can’t wait to come back :D

It’s been 5+ years since I’ve last visited. Used to come here to get drunk late night, so of course I wouldn’t remember the food and what it tasted like. Dropped by recently and honestly the food was good, and service was super kind and nice. Really liked the engawa sushi, and the uni crab roll. The bluefin tartar was melt in your mouth good. And the tako wasabi so crunchy and punchy. They kept coming to clean up the dishes and was super attentive all night, despite not spending much. The only down side is that this place is expensive. And in that price range and in Richmond, you have plenty to choose from like Kyabia a few blocks down.

Only the oysters was good. Sashimi cut so thick… the nigiri rice is bad. Foie gras overcooked…

This was one of my favourite go to Izakaya’s in Richmond for a while. Everyone knew Manzo and they even opened a second location because of their success. Ebi mayo was synonymous with them and they were great back then.I will admit I haven’t been here for a few years, but coming back it seems a lot of other izakaya’s have surpassed them, unfortunately.We may have caught them at a bad time, but we sat down around 8pm and ordered promptly since it was a late dinner for us and we were hungry. We didn’t get our first dish until close to 8:45pm. The table beside us sat down around 8:30pm and got their food at the same time as us. There was a large group being served so it’s probably just bad timing, but spreading out orders or letting your customers know could be helpful. After asking twice, we were finally told it’s on the way.We ordered 5 things but only 4 were keyed in so we decided to just leave it at that, didn’t want to risk waiting longer for food.The waitress that took over later and got our bill sensed we weren’t happy and comp’d ice cream for us, which was a nice touch.Like many reviews have said, it’s quite hit and miss for them. Unfortunately, we got served a miss.

I felt like it's a Chinese restaurant instead of the Japanese. Bad services and it's not authenticated Japanese. Overpriced and low quality food. I would never come back. This story happened back to 2007.