If you feel like having Japanese food, but don't want the same old sushi joint, check out Izakaya Ju. The majority of their menu items are cooked and their speciality is grilled dishes. I've been here 3 times since I found out about it in early January and that's a pretty good return rate for me! I love the maguro zuke don with all the yummy red tuna with soy over rice. The ikura and salmon gohan is a bowl of salmon and salmon roe over rice. If you like salmon roe you might like this, but I found that there was hardly any soy and my bowl of rice didn't come out yummy like the maguro zuke don did. The takoyaki and grilled cod were table favourites and the BC salmon on the specials board was apparently really good too (I didn't have it).
The decor is weirdly cute... giant shower curtain at the entrance and plastic hearts over track lighting.
I've found that, as an observation of the three times I've been here, it's easy to end up spending more money than you expect to here.