Arashi Japanese Restaurant

Humble and unassuming - this is my go to Japanese restaurant in Calgary. Decent price, good quality ingredients and friendly staff and chef. I come here at least once a week either lunch or dinner and I am happy each visit. Lunch combos are well priced and satisfying. Tempura + chicken + miso + roll , better than other lunch meals out there During dinner, the sushi and sashimi combo is plenty and delicious. My husband likes the ramen and find the broth to be flavourful. He has tried at least 3 kinds of ramen they serve. The rice combos are very good with a lot of variety. Age dashi tofu is perfect, not starchy. The beef kushiage is my favorite - tender with great flavour. The service could be slow some times (during dinner) but only when slammed with both take out and dine in. There's usually only 2-3 staff (including chef) so I can understand. I would say this is in the same price range as tokyo street or ikusa and some small local japanese restaurants. However, I find the quality of Arashi much better than the other restaurants I mentioned.

Updated: We ordered out and the experience wasn't as good as eating in. Also the last time we ate in the restaurant the food quality wasn't as good. Great for casual Japanese food in NW Calgary. We often order the tofu and one of the donburi dishes. Very yummy!

Good food but sometimes service is quite slow. We had to wait a long time for the food to be served and then noticed that the quality was not quite the same as several months before.

It's a nice cozy little spot with excellent service and kind owners. I took my partner here for a little date and we were more than happy with what we got and how it tasted The sushi is very good and you can tell they put care into making it, along with the sashimi being very fresh. The ramen we both got was very tasty and filling as well, the broth having an excellent taste to it.

went there following reddit reviews, ordered tuna bowls . they used white tuna on top of rice which looked really unappealing and frozen. i’m sure they have good food but our one of experience was not good.