Foodie Experiences
Opened August 8Sumu grand opened in August in the old Sala Thai space, 130 seats of blackened steel and hand blown glass flowers, with binchotan yakitori mostly under $4 a skewer.
Burrard Street, downtown
More infoSumu opened August 8 at 888 Burrard and it is the rare downtown room that overdelivers on both theatre and price. Binchotan is white charcoal, hot and nearly smokeless, and a grill chef with 30 years on the skewers runs most of them at $3.88. Around that: mini donburi, temari sushi, and a build your own nabe hot pot picked from a display fridge with ten broths. The room is blackened steel, aged oak, a hand trowelled teal plaster wall and a canopy of hand blown glass flowers, which is a lot of sentence for a place where dinner for two can land under $50. No alcohol on the menu; the bubble tea program stands in for the bar.
