First time here. Came right after the gym. The ginger is cold. How it should be. Wasabi hot. But not to hot. I can either way on this. I like things spicy. Hot. Now for the Sushi. I had the Black Pepper Sashimi. It was light and good. Then the Shrimp and Evil Rolls. Also very good. The place nice and clean. Would come back again. And I live about 20 miles from here. If you are looking for a new place. This is a good one. read more

Ginban Sushi - Umm. Yumm. - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Love the food! Sashimi delicious. Everything Delicious.. So good. Don't think twice order from here or dine in. Friendly staff. read more

Ginban Sushi - The flower design to the left are made with decorating pen. Nice touch. Beautiful. - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

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Such amazing sushi and great service! Love this place! Our new go to sushi restaurant. read more

Ginban Sushi - Sashimi Deluxe - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

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This place can't seem to understand timing of food delivery for diners eating in the restaurant. They always bring entrees out as they are ready - leaving some with food while others wait (longer than 10 minutes). This happens every time I dine in. The server should know better than to leave diners waiting while some at the table are eating. The food is consistently good but the service is consistently terrible. I recommend take out only. read more

I came here on a date with my girl and was very happy with the taste of the food and the courteous staff. Price was also very reasonable. We're definitely putting this sushi place above most in the valley. Gotta love supporting the local, small family owned businesses. Forget the franchises. read more

This restaurant always comes through for us. It is our local go-to place for a Phoenix sushi roll and large bowl of Miso soup with a side of tofu. Yum. Prices are reasonable considering other sushi place that have outrageous prices and lower quality. The service is always efficient and friendly. It's a little neighborhood gem. read more

Basis for my starred ratings (which skews heavily to the food or drink): 1 star: Never again. 2 stars: Poor food, poor experience, extraordinary measures in order for me to come back. 3 stars: Average, nothing really special, nothing particularly bad. 4 stars: Very good, would definitely return. 5 stars: A favorite, one of the best. I'm typically loathe to give a 2-star review to a place that's clean and where the service was good enough, but given the quality of the food, I'm surprised by the rating here. Less surprised if they are based mostly on ordering rolls, where extra rice, sauce, and other fillings hide the quality of the fish. Tried to order oysters and uni on a Wednesday. Said they don't have any - typically only on Fridays and Saturdays. I've tried to keep this fact out of my review. Started with the soft shell crab and ordered the sushi deluxe for my entree. My concerns were initially raised with the soup and salad. Typical salad with citrus/ginger dressing. Grainy and overly sweet. They use white miso in their miso soup and it was essentially flavorless - not enough miso. But these were free add-ins so tried to get past that. Soft shell crab comes out, panko crusted - it is well prepared. The sauce that comes with it is quite good. Probably the best thing I ate that night with the exception of the black meat in the crab. You expect a certain amount of muddiness in eating the black meat, but this was off-muddy. The legs and white meat portions were great, but my concerns of the freshness of the crab based on the black meat leads me to my sushi. Nigiri with a spicy tuna roll. The spicy tuna roll was neither here nor there - under-flavored but passable. They give you two pieces of nigiri for almost every type of fish on the plate except the more expensive fish - like yellowtail. They're running a business, I can ignore that too. I couldn't ignore the rice to fish ratio, which was far too much rice. And I couldn't ignore that fact that the rice was coming straight from the open rice cooker into the sushi, meaning it is most likely not seasoned at all and if it is, it is with the flavoring powder, which i still couldn't taste when I tried to rice on its own. The quality of the fish was not good. The salmon was very sinewy. The tuna (not albacore) was my biggest concern. The freshest tuna has almost no flavor. The best tuna for sushi, after a couple days, opens up flavors of the actual fish but more like the blood and irony richness that accompanies it, along with some brininess. This tuna was past that. Fishy and too soft. With the exception of a few fish (i.e. mackerel), no sushi fish should taste fishy. Same goes for the albacore and other fish on the plate. The yellowtail was passable, as was the escolar (aka white "tuna"). I get it. You get what you pay for, and this place is pretty cheap. But even for a local joint, the value of the meal here can't overcome the deficiencies in the fish that they serve, which is really, really subpar. Plenty of non-Japanese owners have opened up very good sushi joints, but this is not one of them. read more

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Ordered sushi and sashimi. The fish was really good especially the salmon. Smooth sweet taste Portion size was good. Miso soup was good too and salad had a sweet carrot dressing that worked well. read more

Good sushi, fresh and clean atmosphere! The pink lady was our favorite roll and the noodle dishes here are amazing as well.

First time here. I would like to say they are toddler friendly and have a kids bento box which is awesome. Honestly the kids bento box was the best part. The menu is very Americanized and not really what I look for in sushi. Overall sushi level for the price was not really worth it. Staff are polite and attentive. Food: 4/5 Service 5/5 Atmosphere 4/5 Will we be back? Not sure. read more

I just ordered delivery thru Yelp and the service they used was grub hub. The only reason they aren't getting a super low rating is because the food was decent and it got delivered very quickly. I got two kinds of rolls, a house salad and the shrimp tempura appetizer. My favorite thing was the spicy yellowtail roll. The tuna roll tasted a little fishy. House salad was good just because of the ginger dressing, some pieces of cucumber looked old and translucent therefore flavorless. The tempura tasted like it was dipped in the batter way too many times, almost like pancake batter. Much too thick for a usually light treat. Also, no one texted or called to tell me my food was outside, normally I wouldn't care but it was sushi..... ya know, something that shouldn't be kept waiting in the sun. read more

I found myself here because I purchased a Groupon...oddly enough, it is right next to the grocery store I frequent every week, and yet I never noticed it. Sometimes I go to the grocery store to buy sushi rolls, oblivious that I am walking past a sushi restaurant. That is because from the outside, it looks like nothing. At least nothing safe. The windows are completely black. I had some buyers remorse once I saw the outside. But, as the saying goes, "you can't judge a book by it's cover" because the inside provided the atmosphere I was expecting, down to the fish tank. I loved the menu. If you love raw fish, you too will love this menu. Our dinner was pretty cliche, with miso soup, caterpillar roll, spicy tuna roll, and saki bombers. At the end, we ordered mochi ice cream, which was totally foreign to me. I am still confused about this item...it is basically ice cream that is covered in chewy candy, like a soft gummy bear (or an Airhead is a better description, if you are familiar with candy). It reminds me of the time I put chocolate ice cream on my baked potato. The ice cream absorbed into the potato, leaving me a chocolate potato (and hey, don't judge, if you ever dipped a french fry into a Wendy's Frostie, you know what I am talking about). Anyway, my point -- some things are just texturally an odd pairing, even when they taste good. But, the whole thing was covered in whipped cream and drizzled in chocolate sauce.....so, whatever, I'd eat it again. read more

Ginban Sushi - mochi ice cream - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

If you've been going somewhere else for sushi then what the heck are you doing?! You're going to the wrong place ya big dungus! Ginban sushi is the place to go and let me tell you why. I've been here over a dozen times now and that's a lot of times considering I've only been in the area for like 8 months. Before I came to Phoenix I've been all over the world and I've eaten sushi meats from coast to coast and let me tell you something - I don't know a lot about sushi but I know when I put something in my mouth if it tastes good or not, and that's why I'm writing this review because if you want some sushi meats that you put in your mouth and you like the way it tastes then just come here, what are you waiting around for?! First let me tell you about the owner, ok? He's a great guy and he's a sushi master. The menu has a lot of great sushis on it. Maybe you want some rolls, right? Well then what the heck - just get one of the rolls with banana tempura in it and you're gonna love it! Or maybe you want some fresh fish so just order some fish or ask them what they recommend and he'll give you the best that he recommends. I don't know why I have to explain this to you, just do it already. Or maybe you're a guy and you're like "Oh I don't want some sushi because I like cooked food" ok then big man, just order off of the kitchen menu and they'll bring you some sushi meats cooked and some rice and some tempura shrimp or whatever you order, it doesn't matter because it's all good. Ok finally maybe you're here already and you're looking at Yelp because it's time for desert. And maybe you're at Ginban with your special lady and it's a romantic evening, so you want to know how to close things our and seal the deal (Ladies this is a good place to take your man also if you want him to know that you're the boss and you wear the pants when it comes to picking where to eat and you're not going to settle for Wendy's or Taco Bell anymore) so just listen to me and do what I tell you: order the mango salad, and a peach saki for desert, and share it. The Mango Salad isn't on the menu and I hope the owner doesn't get pissed about me saying it, but order it anyway. I don't know how much is costs all I know is that it's real sushi (like maybe it's crab salad and tuna salad inside of a mango wrap) and it's delicious and it's real food, not some fru-fru desert that a gypsy tries to sell you when it's checkout time at an Italian restaurant. And the peach saki is the perfect sweet way to end the meal so that when you give that goodnight kiss you taste like peach and not like whatever else you ate, and just have a good time, ok? Because it's a great place to eat some sushi. Stop going somewhere else you're wasting your money and you look like a big dringus! Look at the pictures that's actually what the food looks like and it tastes as good as it looks! read more

This place is pretty amazing. Went there Friday for lunch the first time. Their rolls were really good. Awesome volcano roll. The sashimi was also very good and fresh. Definitely order the fresh wasabi. Reasonably priced also. read more

Ginban Sushi - Salmon on happy hour! - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

First time here and I thought it was good. I ordered a bento box with beef teriyaki and chicken katsu. I also ordered crab rangoon. The crab rangoon was very tasty. I didn't like the sauce it came with; I preferred to dip it in the sauce that came with the chicken katsu. I was grateful that the teriyaki wasn't super sweet. I usually don't care for California rolls because they are almost always fishy. These were not. I was pleasantly surprised. The bento also came with potstickers, salad, and soup. The soup was good but a little too salty for my taste. The salad, while simple, had a very tasty dressing. I enjoyed everything I ordered. We ordered takeout and I didn't pick it up so I can't speak for the inside. read more

Went Sunday for Happy Hour ( all day Sunday) Ninja Jalapeños were on $5 and worth every cent Also had a few sushi dishes ( whitefish and Tuna) both were fresh although still $3+ each and not really stand out from a sushi train type place where dishes are $2 or so Anyway would really recommend this for a couple looking for something more than a sushi train.. if you just want a quick cheap bite then maybe try elsewhere read more

Ginban Sushi - Happy Hour menu all day Sunday - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

So happy to find yummy sushi. Happy to support a local business. Good customer service at curb side pick up. Will continue to support them and try more yummy rolls. read more

Wow this place blew me away. To start the atmosphere is great. Its very modern with low lights and great ambiant lighting, even our order had a blue LED light placed in the ice which was very cool. Even the windows are blacked out to help set the mood. The menu is full and there are pleanty of options. My wife and i love a mix of sushi and sashimi so we went with the love boat for 2; it was wonderful. Another in group ordered a bento box that looked amazing. All in all the food was great and the setting definatly added to the experience. I would definatly suggest this place and will be returning. read more

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I ordered from here for the first time tonight. My doordash driver was over 30 min late and I was so hangry by the time my food came. It was worth the wait though. It was probably the best sushi I have had in a very long time. The salmon was nice big chunks with delicious flavor. Everything tasted very fresh. The rice was perfect. It wasn't dry or gummy. Everything held together well and omg the flavors. Every bite was perfection. The salmon skin role was next level. I can't wait to try more of their food. read more

I've been here twice already and both times I ordered the bento box. There is a bunch of selections and you choose two of them, in my case I picked the shrimp tempura and sashimi. I'll include a picture, there's so much food that I barely finish! Very good. The service is great too. The server was very attentive. read more

Ginban Sushi - Bento box with shrimp tempura and sashimi, not pictured is the miso soup and salad that comes with it - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

New to the area so decided to try. You couldn't tell from the front! In the same plaza as Fry's . Great food. We order the salmon be to box, teriyaki chicken and some rolls. Great flavor. Fresh fish. read more

Ginban Sushi - Volcano roll and dynamite roll - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Wonderful quality sushi/sashimi here! It was very fresh and the presentation is beautiful! I adored their Pink Lady Roll. The prices are very fair for the quality of food we enjoyed. The restaurant is sleek, modern, and clean. The service is slow, but let the staff was friendly. The only complaint I have is that when the waitress accidentally spilled/dropped plates and soy sauce all down my back as she took our dishes, the manager didn't swing by our table. The waitress offered to treat us to dessert, but we were stuffed. It would have been nice to get a discount or even just a "are you ok?" from the manager though. Despite this small snafu, we'll be back. :) read more

Ginban Sushi - The Love Boat for 2 - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

This was dead. I understand it's a Wednesday but there was a couple and me that's it. Staff was super friendly. I wasn't impressed with the selection of rolls and lack a sashimi combos. Most of the rolls I ordered were dosed in sauce. Not fair to write a review of the place a week after I had the best sushi of my life in New York. read more

Ginban Sushi - Great salad and a good beer - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Want to have a bento box for dinner? This place is it!! Great tasting bento box! I had their tempura shrimp and shrimp teriyaki and WOW what a large amount of food for dinner! It came with salad and soup for starters and then the bento box with a side of rice!! Good stuff!! read more

After going to three different sushi places and finding two incredibly long waits and one we sat a table and no-one came; we left after 15 minutes. So off we went and we found Ginban and called, they said no wait. We arrived and found only one table sat, we were a little apprehensive about the quality due to the short wait but after a quick look around the restaurant; it has such great decor, even the restrooms are amazing! Now on to the food! Incredible yellow tail, and delicious seared tuna. The rolls: caterpillar and evil one! Seriously amazing. Do yourself a favor and visit Ginban. It is now our favorite. read more

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Visited here for dinner with my husband. I like the updated look and everything is clean. Great place for families. Also had prompt and attentive service. I love that the food and feel of the place were exactly as expected per the pics/reviews posted on yelp. Had a nice warm green tea and to eat we ordered the Salmon sashimi, Alaska roll, Spicy girl roll, and Tiger roll. Tiger roll definitely has a lot of fish, spicy girl is exactly as described, the sashimi was flavorful and fresh tasting! Will definitely come back! read more

Good food place for lunch. My favorite during the week is the bento box with your choice of protein, edamame or gyoza, green salad ,sushi and rice. read more

This has been my go to for carry out as a slightly less expensive option than Sushi Ken which is my favorite. Unfortunately tonight my $55 order was disappointing. I ordered a Rainbow Roll and it came with imitation crab as the filler. Yuk! My spicy tuna hand roll was mixed with some kind of crunchy rice-based product and the tuna roll had like literally 1/3 tuna and 1/3 cucumber and 1/3 rice. Super dissatisfied- I sure hope that they had a shortage of ingredients but either way will be taking a break from Gingban for a while and if this is their idea of upping their profit margin, I'm gone for good. read more

We live so close and keep talking but finally tried!!!! AMAZING! So fresh and tasty! Roger is great and we enjoyed ourselves! I know why this becomes a local fave place! I think this will be our once a week eat out spot since I cook daily! Walking distance! read more

Ginban Sushi - Amazing! Giban roll was so great! Try a special roll along with more common ones! - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

I love restaurants that are consistent, and after eating here several times now, I can say that Ginban is consistently great. It's become a favorite for my family very quickly. Although it is pretty much standard Americanized sushi fare, they don't go crazy on dousing everything visible in eel sauce and spicy mayo, and I appreciate that. Those things do see the menu of course, but I think they have a great selection of raw, cooked, and Americanized sushi selections. I personally like to start with raw nigiri and sishimi and then move into the larger and heavier maki rolls, and they have great selections in both areas. If you're a calamari fan, try it. Great gyoza as well. Service is always attentive and they were able to accommodate my mom's low-salt dietary restrictions when I called ahead. The one drawback is that I would say their mixed drinks are a little expensive and not very strong, but... they are still tasty. Worth a stop in if you haven't been! read more

I live right down the street from this restaurant and drive past it constantly so my boyfriend and I thought we would give it a try. They also have happy hour all day on Sunday's, so that helped swayed our decision. After waiting about 20 minutes for our food, I ended up getting the Crazy Roll and the boyfriend tried the Dynamite roll. The Crazy roll was supposed to be spicy, but it actually turned out to be extremely sweet and not what I was hoping for at all. Almost had a banana taste to it. I thought his Dynamite roll was delicious and wish I would have ordered that instead. Also, even though it says happy hour all day on Sunday's, the speciality rolls are only 20% off AFTER 8:30 that evening. Made this mistake of not reading the fine print. read more

Ginban Sushi - The Crazy Roll and the Dynamite Roll. - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

Ordered via door dash. Was not impressed with the quality of sushi for the rolls. I enjoy California rolls that are made with a crab salad instead of the crab sticks that the restaurant made. read more

GREAT FOOD! Better than the "big name" places and no wait for a Friday happy hour! Comparable menu items mean there is something v for everyone. Haven't had better service anywhere. Lovely crew and friendly atmosphere. read more

Ginban Sushi - Crunch roll (snow crab, rice, avocado, shrimp tempura w/ a drizzle of eel sauce) - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

I place the order to go included the 21-piece sashimi combo and 3 other dishes. The sashimi was not fresh, smelly fish, and it caused one of my guests to get sick the next day. This restaurant does not know how to prepare authentic Japanese dishes. The dynamite appetizer was drowned with mayonnaise and siracha hot sauce. This place should not be called as Japanese sushi restaurant. A one star rating is generous, if I could rate it lower I would. read more

I've done about 4 ubereats orders from this place since quarantine began. My order is always correct and fresh. Sushi is good quality. The only thing I don't like is the lettuce in some of the rolls, so order the rolls but axe the lettuce. read more

Went with the family on Sunday for sushi and grabbed the love boat for 2 with some happy hour rolls (salmon skin, and snow white roll). Overall, the salmon was deliciously buttery but the snapper tasted a bit funky. The Snow White roll was great incorporating snow crab but the happy hour price ($9) didn't make me that happy with every other roll on there being around $4. I think the highlight for me personally was the salmon skill roll which is normally hard to find in Sushi places around Chandler (or they make the recipe kind of odd, or taste burnt). Overall, I would probably visit again but try some other rolls and stick with Salmon for deliciousness. read more

Enjoyed a great dinner here this evening. The service was very friendly and enjoyable. The rolls and sushimi were fresh and delicious as well. They have a great selection of drinks and food. Hidden gem tucked away next to Fry Marketplace. Good times. read more

Ginban Sushi - Dynamite Roll - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

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I HIGHLY recommend. So good. Super sleek and simple and stylishly updated. Love the fish tank. My fiancé said it was the best spicy tuna roll he's ever had. Eat. Here. read more

Are usually sushi spot was closed so my husband and I headed decided to try this place. Their dining room is open and everyone is wearing masks. They have the tables distanced from each other. The space is clean with a modern vibe. Service was very friendly. My husband tried the spicy miso which we felt was pretty unique and it is delicious if you like spicy. I had the sashimi deluxe which came in a fun presentation. Overall a great experience! read more

Great place! I have finally found a place that make a roll similar to what I would get from Sushiya in San Diego. The roll from Sushiya is called a snowball and the one at Ginban is a Crazy Roll and Ginban's roll is even better!!!!. I also got a Philadelphia which everyone makes the same so I knew it was a good comparison to start with. WOW I think I just burst my own bubble... Well after some looking it seems that other places have a similar roll to a Snowball but call them Jalapeno rolls (deep fried, Inside: Jalapenos, crab, and cream cheese. Topped with spicy mayo, eel sauce, green onions and masago.) The only difference with Ginban is that their Crazy Rolls has crunchy spicy salmon, avocado on top. Everything else is the same. If I had to choose between RA and Ginban I would pick Ginban every time! I liked the feel of the place much better and the quality of the sushi was better too. Ginban is going into our rotation of regular lunch spots. read more

Ginban Sushi - Philadelphia (front) roll and Crazy Roll!!!! (back) - Sushi Bars Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona