Sushi Shop Sparks - Ottawa

I visited this restaurant with my husband and young son to escape the rain and satisfy our craving for sushi for lunch.

I ordered takeout from Sushi Shop for dinner and I really liked it.

I visited downtown to get a feel for this city while enjoying the great weather (chilly, but sunny) today.

Wandering around downtown Ottawa around noon, I was looking for something light to eat before going out to the airport. In the course of trying to find one place (I never did) I came across Sushi Shop. This is a hole in the wall operation on Sparks Street.It has a serving counter and very small number of tables. There is a sushi menu and a more general menu.It is clean and new-looking. In the few minutes I was there several people came in to order, so it clearly fills a market niche.I don't know much about Japanese food, but decided that I would venture beyond sushi, and ordered Seafood Tonkotsu ($9.95). This is apparently a common Japanese soup with noodles, sometimes called Hakata Ramen. It has a milky pork broth, and this version included seafood. The dish was served quickly, and I ate in the Sushi Shop. I found this to be an interesting dish. The needles are a thinner kind, unlike the thicker Udon noodles, which I like a lot.I enjoyed it, and it certainly was what I was looking for, not too heavy.If you are looking for quick Japanese food in downtown Ottawa, this is a good place to go.

A fast food version of an already fast food. The south keys Sushi shop location advertises in the window that they had ramen, so I decided to give it a shot while in the middle of Christmas shopping.My expectations were in check, because of the fast food nature of this chain (housed alongside Thai express), but I was pleasantly surprised. The presentation was not great. I received a messy bowl with uncomplicated ingredients - but it was tasty nonetheless. As generic a bowl of noodles as you could expect, it's mighty tasty and will satisfy your cravings if you decide to stop by. ---Broth (possibly from concentrate): 8/10 well balanced, delicious in its own right. Good to eat. Aburaage: 8/10 (deep fried tofu) a nice addition to the bowl. Good texture - no complaints. Bean sprouts: 10/10Raw and fresh. Not too many of them in the bowl and a nice crunch to have included as a garnish.Spring onions: 10/10 delicious and handled with care. Egg: 7/10 decent, yummy and hard to remember, in retrospect. Chicken: 7.5/10 in a place serving faster fast food, this was the obvious choice to throw in as the meat. It would require less prep time than pork belly, and was plenty tasty. Nori/fish cake/bamboo shoot: NAAll in all: 7/10. My personal feelings on ramen would object to it being served in a cafeteria style restaurant like this, it's already fast food - and shouldn't necessarily be made any faster. However, I think this place did a bang up job of offering a tasty entree-sized portion at a reasonable price, in 5 minutes flat. Well done, Sushi-shop