Kerrisdale Nakamura

Due to COVID-19 Virus they will be opened for take-out from this weekend. Thank you for your supporting their business.

I’m a big fan of dessert first (and after! dinner, so after our afternoon treat at Nana’s Green Tea we headed over to Ajisai for dinner. Unfortunately for us, the wait was over an hour, so we did a quick search on Yelp and ended up at Nakamura. Nakamura is a small restaurant with seating for 25 people maximum. When we arrived we managed to snag one of the very last tables.

Nakamura is one of our favourite Japanese restaurants but because it can be expensive we save our dinner visits for special occasion. The flavours are delicate, fine presentation and service, and there is a Zen like stillness in the atmosphere. Never rushed and food is served in a timely manner, one after another as one finishes an order. We have not had any dishes we don't like. Great Japanese cuisine!

Ajisai is closed on Mondays so we decided to try this cute neighbourhood Japanese please that we've not tried before. The spinach gomae was amazing: particularly savoury. The sesame almost tasted like peanuts; perhaps it had miso or mirin. I'm not sure but we loved it. I always love miso black cod. Vancouverites: be thankful for it; this dish is impossible to find in Australia. The clams were scruptious with garlic and butter, and quite delicate and textured (rather than hard little molluscy bits). A very nice selection of sushi. We split a cold sake and were thankful to have tried it. Zomato's stopped half star reviews (I'd do 4.5 normally) but I've no problem moving this up to 5 stars.

This is THE BEST sushi place in all of Vancouver! Better than Toshi, better than Kishimoto, and better than Ajisai! Absolutely everything on the menu is authentic, beautifully presented and delicious! The Tuna Gomawasa ae is like heaven on earth ... this is an absolute must! The people are lovely, the atmosphere is wonderful, this is my happy place. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this everything about this place!