Ebizo Japanese Restaurant

I grew up on sushi. Let me be specific - inari and futomaki and handpressed rice balls made by my father and his friends are deeply ingrained in my memories of summer. I don't care about the newest trends in sushi, I don't care about fancy decor, I don't really even care about a variety of choices. I want perfect sushi rice, perfect nori, and fresh fish (if I order fish). I want my inari perfectly stuffed with just the right amount of sweetness. I want the vegetables to be either fresh or perfectly pickled. I am picky, just maybe not the way a typical sushi lover is.

This restaurant fulfills everything I want, and expect. It just makes me so sad that it's 1500 miles from where I live now. The best sushi we had in Victoria (and we tried a lot) and quite possibly the best sushi I have had in my life.

Sushi was delicious and affordable at approximately 1$/piece. Great selection, good place to go for a quick cheap good binge.
They also offered all sorts of main dishes and sides and sashimi but we only had sushi and miso soup. Miso soup is very good for only 3$.

The waitresses and bar tenders were very kind and genuine, shout out to Momo! The ambiance was lovely, had a great time with my wife. Will be coming back.

This place is soooooo good. My wife and I always go here when we are in Victoria. Fresh fish and great service.

This is what I call a hidden gem! No big advertisements, you really have to look for it.
Once you found it, you will be rewarded with awesome sushi/sashimi!
The food as well as the friendly staff definitely made our day!

Amazing food & nice staff. I've never had sushi that tastes so fresh. A hidden gem
My 8 year old said "can we review this place? 5 stars! Food tastes good and is looks good."

I like the udon soups. Reasonable price for the items and very friendly service. Service staff was fantastic.

This is a legit Japanese place. Real fresh crab on the sunomono salad and in the California Roll. They had Venison Tataki which is really unusual and delicious. Scallop roll and salmon sashimi were both very high quality and fresh.

This may be the best sushi I've ever had. I never understood what people ment by melt in your mouth fish but now I do. This was so fresh and delicious. The wait staff was wonderful and attentive.
I had clam miso soup which was flavorful and not too salty, chirashi don with huge pieces of fish and ikura cone (which I love).

Will definatly be going back!

Mixed bag experience. The miso soup was great, and the plate of edamame was substantial. Score one for the appetizer. We went with a sashimi platter (three pieces of salmon, surf clam, octopus, tuna and I think also tuna?) which was very good in terms of freshness, but a bit skimpy in terms of slice size/thickness. The roll menu was a little sparse and a bit expensive for what we got. Rolls were tasty, but very poorly put together (unrolling).

It was a tasty meal, but not a Top 10 kind of meal.

A town surrounded by cool crisp water and the sushi is boring and subpar. No oysters? In Victoria BC? Seaweed not crisp but gummy. Chef's are indifferent. If mcDonalds served sushi this would be it...an entirely predictable middle of the road, slightly indifferent fair.

I kept on hearing good things about this place so me and my boyfriend tried it out. Instantly regretted it. We ordered the venison tataki. Which is is supposed to be seared deer, but when we got it it was drenched in sauce and the meat while seared on the outside for some reason was frozen. We think they seared it then just keep it frozen. It was such a bad start that we should've known was a clue to leave. The tataki was just so off that I could only have two pieces and my boyfriend tried to finish it. The two rolls he got were decent enough and the nigiri combination plate I got wasn't that good. The fish and scallop tasted off, but my boyfriend thought it was fine so he finished it. Considered what we got from the meal it was way over priced.