Wasabi

One of the 3 Wasabi restaurants in Manchester, this sushi bar is situated in The Printworks, a part of town that i rarely visit.
On this occasion we needed a bite to eat after visiting the Odeon Cinema and with Wasabi being a quick, cheap eatery we decided to stop by.
It’s very small inside, but we were seated at the belt and ordered the Set Menu B. This consists of 3 grey plates from the belt and 1 hot dish from the kitchen for £8.95.
The pork soba noodles that i ordered were very good and the sushi off the belt was fresh and tasty. Overall, it’s cheap and cheerful!

This is the best not-​fancy sushi restarant I visited ever. Great food, everything I ate was tastey. It is worth mentioning that I’m a vegetarian, but a non-​vegetarian friend who was with me said the same about the fish and meat dishes.
Also, the service was really nice. It looks like they just re-​opened, but I might be wrong.
You should really try it out!

Originally I was not convinced by Wasabi but actually I have decided I do like its cheap sushi and I ate a huge amount here the other night (my friend looked mildly horrified) and it still only came to £14. Salmon and eel both of decent quality, I also liked the prawn maki.
Wasabi is great if you’re in a hurry and/​or dining alone. You leave feel fairly healthy, having eaten something a bit different and without having spent that much. Winner!

Wasn’t planning to eat here cause I usually just come here for dessert but ended up eating here for dinner. This place has a couple of real affordable dinner offers… For example I got a bowl of chicken yakitori udon soup with 3 types of sushi dishes chosen from their sushi conveyer belt for £8.95. There’s a couple of other dinner offers so if you’re going heap for dinner this is the place! The sushi isn’t spectacular or even good… It’s just sushi so don’t expect much from it, but hey with their prices why complain?!
The udon dish I ordered was flavourful and they are generous with their portion. The chicken yakitori was ok… Pieces of chicken and bell peppers with teriyaki sauce… Again nothing to rave about.
I couldn’t end the night without ordering another of their shaved ice! This time I got the strawberry and mango shaved ice… It definitely didn’t disappoint and in the end of the night, my tummy was happy and I only paid about £11.

Excellent place! Manchester’s Printworks has a lot of eating establishments but none that will exactly ring your bell if you are not a fan of chains (there’s a Lloyds bar and a Wetherspoons and a Pizza Express and a Hard Rock etc etc etc). We were trying to pick the best of a bad bunch when we spied this little Japanese place. I don’t know if Wasabi is a chain or not, but it certainly had a refreshing identity when compared to the ‘meh’ of the rest of the options. And what a magical wee find it was! An enormous sushi selection and the option to sit at the sushi conveyor belt or in a booth. We opted for the booth because the belt area was quite busy and with a group of 5, it was more sociable to sit around a table. We got a laminated pictorial sushi menu and a marker pen to circle what we wanted and someone went off to fetch our choices. It’s like SUSHI BINGO! I chose a meal deal were I got 3 sushi choices and a bowl of ramen. It was astonishingly good value as the sushi was deliciously fresh and the ramen was so enormous, I took most of it home in a takeaway container. I had a tofu parcel sushi which I’d never seen before (golden, fried), a spicy fish one with a super-​hot chili ketchup, and prawn nigiri. All delicious. I also had vegetable tempura ramen. The veg tempura came in a separate dish (so they didn’t go soggy in the broth, I guess). By the time I’d scoffed the light, crunchy, super fresh mix of vegetables, I was full so I didn’t really even start the ramen. The miso base was rich and savoury like it should be, and thick with seaweed and generous chunks of tofu. The noodles seemed to be home-​made: a bit thicker than normal, glutinous and bouncy-​chewy, so that was a nice touch.
The restaurant was full of young Japanese people, the walls are decorated with larger-​than-​life manga characters and the numerous TVs show bonkers J-​pop videos to soundtrack your evening, so you briefly forget you are in Manchester and the Printworks at all.
I am utterly gobsmacked by the price. It was an enormous, delicious, and excellent quality feast for NINE QUID? I had to double check the menu after my huge main course arrived as I was thinking «there’s no way all this can be just nine quid. It must be NINETEEN, and I read it wrong». But no, a nine quid meal deal it is. A total steal.
One slight awkwardness came about with a bit of a language barrier with the two waiting staff who attempted to take our orders. They are obviously used to mainly Japanese Manchester-​ites and so our Scottish accents were a bit of a stumbling block. They were so endearingly polite about it all, and everyone trying so hard to understand each other that the ordering process ended up a pantomime of good-​natured nodding and baffled smiling and thumbs ups. Lucky we had the pictorial sushi menu and the pen! It says a lot for a place that this awkwardness wasn’t at all irritating, and doesn’t result in any dropped points — it was just kind of funny and very sweet.
I want to give this place 4.5 stars, but I can’t, so it is a round 4 or a 5. I do have to knock something off for the very limited drinks list, hence it’s going to be a 4. So nearly a 5. SUSHI BINGO!

Good quality at a great price
Okay, if you’re hankering for sushi on a belt, the first place you think of is Yo Sushi, but what you’re paying for is that cheeky branding, the ridiculous robot noises and the location. Go a little further afield, to the Printworks or even to the Chinatown branch and hit Wasabi (not the take out one in the south of England).
Yes, it’s run by Chinese staff and chefs but the food is good quality at value for money prices, especially for the weekday lunch time special, which also runs all day Sunday. Spectacularly good when I went (with the parentals for mum’s birthday, and they don’t do eating out!) was the eel inside out roll with bonito flakes: fishy as sushi should be but flavoursome with a novel mouthfeel.
I’ll be back for the ramen — it looks amazing!

I have been here in the past and the lack of customer service put me off. before they used to be rude and snarl at you if you asked for something off the belt…
Sooo I decided to come back because I could not be bothered walking to the one in China town…
The atmosphere is a lot better now and the customer service. and I liked the cozy feeling you get. the menu is the same as the other wasabi restaurants.I.e cheap sushi and main set meals.
I highly recommend a Ramen soup dish with a spicy base. it’s not for the faint hearted though as the portion is huge!
Overall I’m glad I came back. its amazing what difference having new staff can make :)

Went here during a spectacular week off work. After the dreary disappointment of Man of Steel, myself and my lucky lady decided to give this place a shot.
Must admit, Japanese food can be rather hit and miss with my companion so I wasn’t exactly certain they’d be much choice for her. After a quick browse through the menu, my fears eased as there were numerous tasty dishes that would keep her happy.
Naturally (as I do at every Japanese restaurant I visit) my starter was the gyoza dumplings. Delicious and fresh, quick speedy service too which pleased me. This was followed by another staple, chicken katsu curry. This is a dish I’ve sampled a lot of, up there on my top 5 favourite dishes and I have to admit this didn’t disappoint.
Only criticism I’d throw is the staff weren’t exactly attentive, I kinda felt I had to really try to get their attention, and as it was fairly empty, the atmosphere felt a little cold.
Not enough to put me off though, the very reasonable bill arrived (less than £20) and put a smile back on my face, I’ll certainly give this place another try.

Wasabi. I do love wasabi the paste, well, not to the extent that I’d eat it with a spoon because that would no doubt make my tongue disintegrate. But I do think it adds a certain je né sais quoi to sushi, thus as soon as I saw a Japanese place named after it, I was sold. I instinctively trusted it.
And rightly so. Wasabi’s alright it is. A much-​needed independent addition to the Predictable Printworks, this little sushi and noodle bar can deliver to your very own home. I actually discovered it via the Just Eat website, for which I owe both thanks and fist-​shakings at Laura N — my life is so much more convenient and tasty, yet my entire pan collection is gathering dust. My friend and I ordered a sushi platter on Saturday night for TV funtimes and it did the job perfectly, plus the veggie tempura we grabbed with it was delish. Quality-​wise I’ve had better sushi in California, but while we’re limited here, it’s the best we can get and great value too.
It’s been brilliantly worded on Unilocal before as a great jumping off point for Wagamama fans. You’ll find a lot of similar dishes but much more variety, so you can stick with your favourites and experiment at the same time. For example, does Wagamama do tempura? Is George Michael on board with upping the criminal classification of marijuana? Well, just to explain, the answer to both of these questions is a resounding nay.
As well as the tasty hot mains and yumdedum starters, Wasabi has a sushi conveyor belt for eating in but you can also order platters to be delivered to your home with the recognisable nigiri, rolls, maki, gunkan and sashimi. As both a lover of nibbling on sushi and slurping on noodles, soups and rice, this place is pretty much perfect and is a great little alternative if you’ve become disillusioned with Tampopo or Wagamama. And for the prices, the portions can be mighty generous. Definitely a keeper.

The Mr and I went here when we struggled to find places open on NY Day 2012– not knowing Manchester we knew it would be a bit difficult!
Now, I’m not a fish person so have always been put off Sushi bars due to the misconception that it’s all fish however I read the menu and settled for the fact it wasn’t ‘just fish’ and if all else failed I could have soup!
I’m really glad we had this experience as the food was super.
The ‘conveyor’ style sushi was predominantly fish but had a generous amount of veg to offer and a token ‘chicken’ plate which kept me happy with the offerings.
I went for a set menu for £8.95 which was 3 ‘sushi’ off the belt, Ramen noodles in a spicy vege broth and a portion of tempura veg– this was all so delicious and the broth was just on the right side of spicy to almost heal me of my disgusting ‘Xmas flu’. It included a beer too which I found presented excellent value.
My Mr had Ramen noodles with chicken skewers and his also was delicious.
The sushi was fresh, tasty and excellent quality and I would now be more encouraged to be a little more adventurous in sampling a few other similar dishes.
Total lunch bill under £15– absolute bargain!!!
Quick service, not rushed out the door, clean and bright premises– can find nothing to fault with the experience (except i marked a point down as they sat another couple right next to us when there were a lot of spare seats!!)
They have a deal on the menu for everyone weather your wanting lots of sushi or noodles or a mix of both.
I am a fussy person and I was happy with what they had to offer.
Give it a visit!

Went on Sat night before a concert. We were in a rush and the place was very busy so we sat at a table rather than the belt so cant comment on the standard of the sushi.
The service was very quick and the quality of food was decent although the portions could have been a bit bigger. However, only ordered the grilled chicken and noodles so would maybe get a starter/​sushi aswell next time. Exceptional value for money, main and a beer was only £7! (30% off al carte menu). Will definately be visiting again!

This is probably the better of the two wasabi restaurants in Manchester, the other one (found in china town) certainly has a more authentic atmosphere but I often find there is more choice in the printworks restaurant as well as being larger and offering table seating for those not eating off of the belt.
The Sushi is always fresh and the portion sizes are great, I Tend to go for the set menu consisting of 3 plates of sushi and a main course dish of either noodles (soup noodles or wok fried) or rice, this costs under £8 and offers great value for money. Occasionally I go to the wasabi in china town for my lunch and if you go between 12pm and 3pm midweek you can get each plate of sushi off of the conveyor belt for £1 and 4 – 5 plates will fill up the average fellow.
The service isn’t great, but it is fast although it usually takes a while to get their attention if you need something.
All in all this is a good sushi style restaurant, which is very good value and I recommend giving it a go

Wasabi, I taste of the orient spreading across the nation like wild fire. Wasabi does Japanese pumped out at a commercial scale, the food is nice and the menu easy to understand. It’s broken down into dishes in different coloured bowls, different colours cost different amounts of mula. You sit at the conveyor belt and wait till something that takes your fancy comes your way, this means if your not fully aware of whats going on you can spend a lot very very quickly which is always upsetting.
The dishes are nice and the staff quick off the mark so you never go short but just watch the bill rise and rise if you don’t keep doing algebra in your head. Big variety though of sushi and thai curry style dishes. This place always leaves me hungry though, could definitely do with bigger portions.