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| - Food: 2.5/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Overall experience: 2.5/5
(1- Terrible; 3- decent; 5- Fantastic)
Decided to check this out for lunch after my bf discovered it while he was walking around in Kensington. Compared to other sushi places in Calgary, Tenshi is on the bottom of my list. We both got lunch specials which range from $10-$12; I got the sushi and sashimi lunch combo and he got the teriyaki beef or chicken/tempura/sashimi combo.
Like most Japanese places the lunch combo comes with miso soup and salad. The soup was alright, a tad bit salty but I liked it because it was full of tofu and seaweed which is what I like in my miso soup. The salad was horrible! Instead of greens, they give you vinegar soaked cellophane noodles with cucumbers on top which had a very 'off' taste. I decided to stop eating it in case I paid for it later with a trip to the toilet. When my sushi/sashimi came I was quite disappointed. It came with 5 pieces of sashimi: 2 tuna which wasn't fresh and tough to eat (ideally it should melt in your mouth), 2 salmon, and a scallop; and 4 other dinky pieces of nigiri-zushi: red snapper, shrimp, roe (fish eggs), and shiromi (white fish). The nigiri had so little rice, literally about the size of a loonie and tasted plain (it should have a sweet vinegar taste from the addition of sushi vinegar). Like some places I've been to, I thought I would be getting at least one california roll or cucumber roll. Totally not worth the ~$11.25!
My boyfriend's combo came in a bento box, and I've definitely had way better; I really enjoy the lunch bento boxes at Shibuya which costs just about the same at Tenshi but is of better quality. The teriyaki beef was way too salty, overcooked, and the meat was of poor quality (very chewy, rubbery, and chopped up into small pieces). The tempura was just OK as my bf puts it. The shrimp was over-battered, but I did like the yam tempura which was lightly battered, nice and crispy.
The service was quite good, our server came by to take our finished dishes away and refilled our glasses when it was running low. The restaurant itself is small with about 6-7 tables, hardwood floors, and cute lanterns above each table. The cost of the sushi here is the average price you find in Calgary, but the size and quality of it doesn't justify the price. Then again.. it is run by Chinese people and not Japanese.
Overall, I've had wayyyyyyyy better in Calgary and I definitely won't be coming back. I'm going to assume the assorted sushi you can pick from was of same low quality as the sushi I had for lunch, and I suggest you skip this place for someplace better. Now that i think of it, I feel kind of jipped and wish I had tried the other lovely cafes in Kensington.
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