Kanpai Sushi

One of Edinburgh’s best sushi restaurants.

the food was amazing everything was super fresh. however took really long for some of our food to come out

Great sushi as always! I make it a point to visit this restaurant every time I'm in Edinburgh. The Dragon sushi is exceptional, and the aubergine with miso is a must-try. Highly recommend!

Amazing sushi a bit more expensive than usual but that's okay given the quality of sushi and service provided

Il ristorante è molto carino all’interno ma molto minimal (a mio parere più indicato per il pranzo). Il personale è gentile ma un po’ freddo. La qualità del cibo e la scelta sono strepitosi. Prezzi ottimi per la qualità.

Got there for our reservation at 8pm, were stood in the lobby for 10-15 minutes before being taken to our table. Ordered food around 8.30. Some people in my party got food within half an hour, such as gyozas and a sushi roll while others such as myself didn't receive anything until around 9.30, an hour after ordering. The sushi roll I got was very nice, but quite pricey at around £15. Staff seemed to be rushing around and appeared to be very stressed, the manager didn't appear to be doing anything other than chatting to people at the bar. We ordered some Sake after finishing our initial drinks while we were waiting for food to turn up (which most of it never did). The sake never came so we asked a waiter where it was and then another 10 minutes after that we finally got it. In the end after waiting for an hour and a half, we still didn't have most of the food we had ordered and so we ended up cancelling the rest of our order and getting the bill. We were overcharged by £30, one item was an extra sake that we didn't receive, probably due to chasing the initial sake we'd ordered and another bottle of something that no one at the table had ordered. I ended up paying £30 for a sushi roll, a glass of wine and a third of a bottle of sake, with the sushi roll not turning up until an hour after I'd ordered it. The staff, other than the manager, were all very apologetic and seemed to be extremely stressed. We were told that part of the reason for the delay was that they had ran out of rice. We were only told this after chasing the food we'd ordered an hour ago. If I was the manager at a sushi restaurant and we ran out of rice then I would be very very embarrassed. Overall, the food that we did get was fine but arrived in dribs and drabs, with around 2/3 of what we'd ordered just never arriving and in the end after being there for nearly two hours, we gave up which I have never done before at a restaurant. Overbooked, understaffed and very badly managed.