Shun

My fav place for sushi in Seattle. Gotta go when Yoshi (the owner) is there. Good service and good food.
Occasionally they will be slow, but I always go at 5 to avoid all of that. Highly Highly recommended.
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I’ve now been to just over 50 sushi places. This is still by go to place. I miss it a lot now that I’m down in the bay area.

Shun! Why’d you have to close? It was the only legit Japanese restaurant in U-​District. Delicious, authentic, and moderately priced. Also, nowhere else has the Salmon don.

I love all the real Japanese food here! Good variety, good specials, great lunches and friendly staff.
My parents are Japanese who lived in Japan, and I grew up in Japan so I am a Japanese food snob. I don’t like to go to «Japanese» restaurants that are run by non-​Japanese people because those restaurants usually only serve your typical «fast food» — teriyaki, tempura (which usually isn’t that good) and sushi (rolls that aren’t really Japanese like the spicy stuff or tempura stuff).
Shun has waitstaff that speak Japanese and have the kind of items that you would find in a real Japanese restaurant. It makes me feels like being at home.

Consistently good nigiri and very reasonably priced for what you get. For high quality fish that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, Shun is the place to go. Order all the special nigiris on their specials menu and you can’t go wrong.

My friend works in the neighborhood, so we eat here from time to time. The service is always friendly, nice ambiance, clean establishment.
The vegetable tempura is the best I have had in Seattle, the veggies are very fresh!

When I get a craving for some REAL REAL sushi, its here. Service here is always really good and my cousin speaks japanese so they make it fun and order and talk back in forth in japanese lol.
BARACHIRASHI all day baby, cheap, filling, delicious!
The locale and price is a little eh makes me sad I can’t come as much as I would l like to but when I do, its been great so far!

Craving sushi for lunch one day, I happened upon a cozy yet contemporary authentic Japanese restaurant Shun near the University District. Since I didn’t have time to dine in, I ordered sushi & sashimi and brought it back to the office. Everything was fresh and very tasty.
The menu looked great so will have to return when I have more time. They also have chef specials and a la carte dishes, as well as a selection of sake and wine. The name Shun was cleverly chosen, as some day they may be as famous as the knives themselves. — I love using my Shun knives. Descended from the craft of samurai sword making, famous for their long-​lasting, razor sharp edges and exceedingly strong steel construction.

Had to have some Japanese food to satisfy a craving, and I’m glad that Shun was the first Japanese place I stumbled upon. I was surprised how large the portions were too: the Chicken Katsu should be more than enough food for anyone, and it was fried just right– both a light and crispy panko breading, but still ridiculously moist and tender, but lean on the inside. Most definitely worth the sub-​$ 11 price for the entrée.
Very friendly staff, almost overly so, to the point where I almost felt like they were patronizing me. Maybe it’s the cynical part of me who can’t fathom genuinely nice service staff. Definitely worth a stop if you’re looking for relatively cheap, but still good-​quality Japanese food.

we went here for a friend’s bday dinner. He called in advance to tell the owner we were to arrive with a count of 15 guests. The orders were incorrect and the restaurant ran out of fish. At a SUSHI restaurant. Really? The server tried the best he could, and was apologetic.
That was the 1^st & last time we’d be eating there.

Pretty good Japanese food and friendly service but nothing crazy going on here. There menu features nice variety of the ordinary favorites.
We ordered their cold soba with tempura, udon with tempura, and a spicy scallop roll. All were good but nothing great. In particular, the roll was quite $$$ for 4 pieces.
This is the place to go to conveniently satisfy the hunger (located just down the street) but its not going to be a whoohoo as good as it gets… minus points for the sticky table

It’s worth going for one dish alone, their scallop salmon roll: salmon wrapped around a large scallop and then broiled. OH MY GOD! It’s amazing. It was a special when I went there last month, but they seriously need to put it on their regular menu. I wanted to order another plate of it as soon as I finished it.
Very friendly staff and pretty good sushi – I feel it can be hit or miss with some of the fish. I do feel that it’s a *little* overpriced for sushi.
One major plus is that they have a parking garage!

Small place. Friendly staff. Wonderful pickled cucumber appetizer. The miss broth was good. Flavorful. The tofu and seaweed in it however were mushy and bland. As was the green tea. A letdown there.
For my meal I ordered the Seattle Roll, Avacado Roll and Eel Roll. All the rolls were sloppy in composition. Rolled too loose where they hardly held together. The flavor was good, and the size of the rolls quite large but you could go to Blue C and get full for less money.

So disappointed. So very disappointed.
I’ve been driving past Shun for years now, and always been very curious about it. So, finally, I’ve decided to try it, and will never go back again.
The good. The fish was definitely fresh, and the mushrooms cooked into the sukiyaki my date had were delicious.
The bad. I typically love miso soup and can’t wait to eat the floating seaweed — don’t do it here, the seaweed tasted off — very very fishy, so much so that I didn’t even finish the soup. The sashimi plate that I ordered had similar tasting seaweed as the only thing to go with the few chunks of fish that were placed on it and there was a tiny bit of shredded daikon.
The ugly. I ended up substituting the octopus in my deluxe sashimi dinner for toro, which made the dinner come close to $ 30. For this price, at Toyoda sushi I get enough fish that I can barely finish it all. Here, I received exactly 13 pieces — definitely not enough to fill me up.
In summary, the food is ok, but there is very little of it and you pay through the nose.

Shun is one of those authentic Japanese restaurants, that never fails me no matter how many times I go. I really enjoy going here for sushi or any of their japanese dishes. If you’re in the mood for sushi, definitely sit at the sushi bar for the best service. Service is always very attentive. I tend to eat early (happens when you have a toddler) so it’s usually not that busy when we go. I like the way they make their agedashi tofu.

When I drove by this place, I noticed it was REALLY packed, so I thought oh! must be a good place. Meh, I was wrong.
The sushi is over-​priced and won’t fill you up. We got a combo plate that had an assortment of sushi that came with miso and salad, and the Seattle roll. Didn’t fill us up, SO I got the Karaage chicken. It had no flavor, I cook WAY better fried chicken and I’m only 22.
The server was nice, but it’s not enough to bring me back.

Very solid, nice sushi near U-​Village.
Best thing was the seaweed salad — there’s very very few foods I dislike, and seaweed salad is usually one of them. My wife always gets it and she said this one was particularly good, so I tried it, and — wow — absolutely fantastically fresh, a great variety of probably 5 or 6 different kinds of seaweed, gave it the look of a great mixed field greens salad. Perfect acidity in the dressing complemented the brininess of the seaweed, etc. I’m officially a fan of this particular seaweed salad.
Also, the matsutake mushroom «tea» — big steaming teapot with rough-​chopped matsutakes and aromatics, first you drink the tea it creates as it steeps (a soul-​warming umami-​fest of yummy brothiness), then eat the mushrooms out of the pot when you’re done.
the sushi itself was solid, good, fresh — totally worth going back to, not off the charts.

First of all, there are two entries on Unilocal for this establishment. under «Shun Japanese Cuisine.» For some reason that is where all of the logical reviews went.
My boyfriend just got back from 4 days hiking in Enchantments and was hungry for a decent meal. We always like ordering the Omakase from other sushi places, so we thought we’d give it a try, because it has so many amazing reviews on Unilocal!
All I can say is what a let down. Worst. Omakase. Ever! We got one plate for the two of us, each fish variety had three pieces — for two people! Really? Who does that? I went for the salmon because it’s my favorite — and it was FROZEN in the middle! You have got to be kidding me, right? Nope! All of the fish had been previously frozen, the color was bad, and the taste was dull.
We complained and they brought us out a small plate of sushi as an apology. This was a noticeably better quality fish, but didn’t make up for the fact about the Omakase. In other restaurants an Omakase for two usually means several different kinds of plates of the freshest fish that leaves you busting at the seams yet wanting more.
We were polite about the ordeal, paid and left, and don’t plan on ever returning. Go to the Italian place down the street, there fish was way better!

So we went here on the recommendation of my Japanese friend who has been to the previously location and described the food as «authentic». We were totally excited since we were craving sushi and to have an actual Japanese person say that the food was good and authentic made us salivate even more!
So we got there and the place looks clean although slightly on the smaller side. There’s street parking and an underground garage which is always a plus. We got the $ 30 Omakase combination meal and the salmon and scallop roll to try. The omakase platter was good with plenty of fresh sashimi, but it wasn’t very much at all for $ 30! The salmon and scallop roll came with TWO pieces! That’s it! It would’ve been nice if they had mentioned how many pieces the rolls contained. My hubby and I were still hungry after this $ 50 meal, but thought we had spent enough already and decided not to add anything else onto the bill.
Overall the food was yummy but just way too expensive for our tastes. It wasn’t that much more «authentic» compared to other places. .. we’ll get our fill elsewhere and with more money in our pocket.

I usually like my sushi to be an unrealistically high combination of quality and quantity, but this one fell below the mark on both. It is also unreasonably priced for the quantity of food you receive.
I live one block away from this place so I decided to give it a try when they sent me a $ 10 off coupon. We got four items, a variety of tuna and fish nigiri, California rolls, spicy tuna rolls, one last roll that’s slipping my mind (if I had to guess it would have a Seattle theme to it) and shrimp tempura platter. The place was packed and we were seated at the bar so I got to see why the rolls are so small. I like rolls better than the sushi, but they skimp like no other. What they do is portion out enough protein/​crab/​tuna for three rolls and plop it in the middle and spread it to go across all four pieces of the roll — so the two end pieces only have about 50% of what they should. And four rolls? Are you kidding me? I inhale those things like they’re peanuts so I’d like at least six pieces.
Sometimes places will give you four rolls, but they’re really wide in diameter, but these were probably the width of a quarter.
The chef forgot to make some of our sushi and we had to wait about 10 minutes to get it from him. Quality was average, nothing more or less. There was no roll or sushi that was memorable after eating here. I will not be going back.

Boop.
._​.” I wasn’t really blown away at all.
The interior is snazzy enough, modern enough and the sushi is definitely a better quality than Blue C and its all quite beautifully presented. But I made the mistake of ordering hot entrees. I imagine you’d be better off with the sushi.
I just ordered a simple salmon sashimi and it was delightful. It was buttery and really cute (see picture! (heart) I love visual references tee hee) but the hot entrees were bleh. Miso soup was also interesting: D it had a significantly different flavor from ones I’ve tried everywhere else (I’m not sure what it was I was tasting — dashi?)
Service was prompt in the beginning — they dropped off a glass of water and a cup of tea just as you sat down but they kind of disappeared after that. :(I understand it gets busy — but really, they had two waitresses and the restaurant wasn’t all that big.
Oh well — if I’m ever in the area I would still choose Shun over Blue-​C.