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.
Order in rounds of two or three skewers so nothing goes cold, and make the premium beef and miso black cod the splurge at $8.88. Add a mini donburi each and fight over a temari sushi set. There is no alcohol on the menu, so this is the rare downtown date that ends sharp; a bubble tea slush stands in for the last drink. Lunch 11 to 3 and dinner 5 to 10 daily, and the build your own hot pot fridge is the move once the rain arrives.
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