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    3.8 (42 reviews)
    Closed 11:30 am - 9:30 pm

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    Miso soup, seaweed salad, and California and spicy tuna rolls.
    Thembi S.

    The only thing disappointing about this restaurant is how dingy it looks. Ichiban occupies the top floor of a building and the stairs up to the space are covered in fairly gross carpet. This carpet extends throughout the restaurant as far as I could tell. The rest of the decor is "Sushi Restaurant 101" with water fountains here and there and scrolls on the walls. We were quickly seated and orders were taken. I'm not adventurous when it comes to sushi so I went with miso soup, seaweed salad, and California and spicy tuna rolls. Our food came to the table quickly and we dug in. I was quite happy with the miso soup, which can taste like salt water at other places. The salad was pretty tasty and the rolls were no less good than any I've had elsewhere. Overall good food and service! I'd visit again, but would also suggest they re-carpet the place!

    Sushi & nigiri

    Excellent service and really great food. An overall wonderful dining experience! The portions were substantial and many vegetarian options offered which is appreciated.

    Marouane S.

    Reviews look mixed but overall I had a great experience dining here. Fish was pretty delicious and so was the sushi, my favorite thing in the whole menu was the soft shell crab. By the time I left this place I got pretty buzzed from the Sake and the beer lol but this was a pretty enjoyable sushi spot. I made the observation that one of the sashimi cuts felt like frozen and that's why I am not giving the place the full 5 stars but overall it was great dining here.

    Ika Geso
    Queenie C.

    We are so glad that we tried this awesome place! We went to Ambleside Beach on Sunday and wanted to find something local to try. WE LOVED IT! We love the traditional decor and the little booths that provide privacy. We came with our little 3.5 years old and the waitresses were sooo friendly! They greeted us when we were going up the stairs and played with our little toddler to make him feel comfortable in the new surrounding. Very attentive, especially asked if we needed the wifi password when our little guy wanted to watch some videos after he finished his meal. they always filled our water and checked if we needed anything else. The food was excellent!!!! We ordered the chicken rice bowl for the little one and he loved it!! We loved it too, crispy chicken, tender, sweet teriyaki sAuce with vegetables. The fish were all fresh and tasty, the chawanmushi was nice and smooth. The Owl's Nest (vegetarian) roll was my favourite (which is never the case because I love meat and fish a lot more than vegetables) The Ika Geso (fried squid) was soooo good! With a salad and pickled raddish as the side. We absolutely loved every dish! The only complaint we have is that it's not close enough so we can come every week!!!!! Must try if you want a down to earth, nice traditional Japanese place in that area. :)

    a closer look at some of the customer art Sakura has collected over four decades.
    Keith K.

    This place is a North Shore mainstay, it's been in the same location for over four decades. I'm not sure if the ownership has changed over the years, but the interior of the place hasn't changed very much since the beginning. Truly Japanese design makes this a spot worth trying, even if you don't like sushi. The window dining area continues in the old school style with several sunken dining rooms (most only fit 5 or 6 people), where you leave your shoes off before hunkering down to a lowered picnic table style meal. These rooms are mostly private too, think romantic date here. There's also a smallish sushi bar and more standard two and four top tables, for those of you that want to keep your shoes on, in the main dining area. At night the feeling is dark and romantic, during the day it's much more kid and family friendly. This is the kind of restaurant that usually has a few employees who are experiencing their first jobs here. Service can be somewhat slow to annoyingly slow, but the employees are always polite and hey, you gotta start somewhere, right? The menu pricing is for the most part quite fair, with a basic California Roll coming in around $2.50. They have a traditional Japanese menu with sushi as well as cooked foods. Foodwise, the sushi is good to very good and most all the cooked dishes I've tried are the same, not the best Japanese you're ever going to get, but quite tasty indeed. The stairs that take you from the sidewalk to the restaurant are lined with pictures, pretty much all the pictures, drawn by customers. As you might guess, this customer art collection spans many decades and can easily make your stair climb take much longer than it should. In regard to some of the previous reviewers here (it has been several years since the last one before me), I found the restaurant to be very clean, a lot of dusting must take place and the floor was equally well manicured. Quite possibly it has undergone a spring cleaning of sorts in the last few years? This place is definitely better than the two and a half stars rating it has now. Did I mention that it's across the street from the beach? yeah, it's that too.

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    The food was good and the staff are very nice with great service and they earned a five star review

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    Very good food a bit on the pricey side but its worth it ! Has a big variety of specialty rolls that are quite unique!!

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    Best sushi in west van! Try the volcano roll. Their boxes are a great bang for your buck, too!

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    The chef and servers are lovely. A quiet spot with amazing sushi :) love the volcano roll and chirashi don

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    Came here with my daugter and my mom. Daughter was craving an Acai Bowl so she and I both had Acai…read morebowls. Hers was the Nalu and mine was the Banzi Bowl. My mother had an Avocado Toast. Holy smokes, the Acai bowls here are massive. We were soooo full. If we ever come here again, we will just share one bowl with each other. Not sure that we will come here again though. The Acai bowls weren't bad but I've had better. I feel it could have been a bit sweeter. I was not impressed with my mom's Avocado Toast. I could see my mother struggling to cut her Avocado Toast so it seems the crust was quite hard. She ended up leaving a lot of the crust on her plate and just ate the middle of the bread. On the website I had seen Avocado Toast, sandwiches, wraps and Salmon Lox Bagel. I was quite dismayed to walk into this place and not see any of that stuff written on the menu. There was a small sign by the cashier that said to ask about Avocado Toast. I guess by the same token, I would have had to ask about Salmon Lox Bagel. Why make us ask about it? Why not just include it on the huge menu that was up on the wall? Might have made life easier when it came to ordering something for my mom who isn't into Acai bowls like us. This place seems to be somehow shared with Bean Around the World coffee shop which is right next door. There's no wall separating the two shops. You can walk from Anchor Eatery straight into the coffee shop next door. We ended up taking our food and drinks from Anchor Eatery and sitting next door at Bean Around the World coffee shop. Assumed it was allowed since there was no separation between the two shops and nobody tried to kick us out of the coffee shop.

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    Ichiban - sushi - Updated May 2026

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