Omg i love sushi and this is one place that never disappoint me. I dont eat everything on the menu but trust me what ever i ordered its. Excellent
One of my favourite places... wonderful food ... beautiful staff .... such a lovely spot to enjoy a meal on your own!
Excellent service, yummy food. Best thing it is a family friendly place. One of our favourite places to eat!
Very friendly staff. Clean and very enjoyable environment. The good was fresh and do delicious. Great prices and customer rewards are always a good touch. Fantastic greetings and goodbyes. Will definitely come again
Best sushi train in Adelaide. Freshly made sushi, awesome selection, super fast and top quality customer service. Loyalty rewards for all customers and great price...we always go back and so much fun too
This is the best sushi bar I've been to coming back from Japan last December.. pretty much the same friendly atmosphere and amazing food! Will be back.. cheers
Food and service always good, very happy with variety and you can have a beer or cider with your meal - happy
My fav go-to jap restaurant. Delicious food. Excellent service. Well priced!
I love the food here.... i eat here often and i still love it.
Love this place. Great food and friendly service. Love the green tea!
Food and people are great definitely go back again.
The food and service are awesome! Only downside would be the cost which is a little expensive just like all other “sushi-train” restaurants. But if you manage to go when it’s $3 for all plates then it’s probably the best of its kind in adelaide. I swear the menu also increases every time I go there, it’s huge with stuff like wagyu beef and all sorts of combinations for sushi.
It is a place to eat occasionally. Tempura Udon and Nigiri sushi are good to eat.
I recommend salmon, eel nigiri sushi, and Asahi beer. Beer is cool and well managed.
Staff were friendly and orders came out very fast for a busy saturday night, vegetarian dishes were great with plenty of flavour as were the meat dishes, very well priced
Sushi Bar Genki is one of the best sushi train restaurants in Adelaide. The sushi and sashimi are fresh and of good quality. Our family favourite is the salmon belly sashimi. We always spend so much here as we just can't stop eating :D They are so good! Another bonus is that they have a small $5 udon bowl, which is very tasty and good size for the price. Definitely our favourite place to dine in!
I consider this to be the little sister of Himeji. Same type of food, but much cheaper and faster. You can take food off of the train as it rolls around, or you can order food from the iPad on the table. You don't have to interact with any servers if you don't want to. You can't book here, but I've never found the wait for a table too long. Everything tastes delicious, I have absolutely no complaints.
I don't even know how many times I've visited this place.
Often leaving feeling satisfied, but on the odd occasion leaving feeling disappointed as the price is a tad high and sometimes unjustified for the quality and freshness of the sushi.
Sometimes this place can be a hit or miss for me personally.
I found that coming here through the week at quieter times the food isn't always as fresh as their sushi in their super peak/busy hours.
But, in saying that there has been more times that I've walked away feeling satisfying. The aburi salmon would have to be my favourite.
Some of the best sushi in Adelaide. I love the process of ordering off the screen as well as picking off the train - ensures that everything stays fresh, even on a quiet Monday evening!
We decided to come here after good reviews from zomato; at the end of gouger street a sushi restaurant appears. The outside looks very appealing as soon as we walk in we are greeted and seated straight away. Sitting around the train we noticed an iPad where you could order your drinks; call over the waitress and order food that wasn't on the train. I felt this was a nice way to order what you wanted without trying to get someone's attention.
There was a nice variety of food to choose from; everything was really fresh; the tempura vegetable sushi was really nice lovely flavours; soft shell crab and the fresh tuna was also well received. Service was really friendly; as soon as a customer left everyone yelled out goodbye. Will return
Fresh fresh and fresh. Better taste than sushi bar and fresher. Really like the environment that you can use technology to order things, very convenient. Suggested !
Fresh sushi cravings are a regular occurrence in our household. For fast and easy satisfaction Sushi Bar Genki on Gouger Street is our goto location. It’s easy to breeze in, take a seat up at the bar and plug away at an order.
Ordering here is very simple, you go through the options on the touch screens at your seat, select which ones you want to order and send them off to the kitchen. You hear a fun ding sound that rings through and you know that your order has been registered.
This is my favourite sushi restaurant in Adelaide. I have been coming here a while. The quality is super good and even better with an Asahi.
If you're on a budget weekdays 12-2 is $3 a plate such a great price.
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Irasshaimase!
- The greeting you will more than likely hear as soon as you step foot into GENKI!
I have been here countless times and cannot fault the quality of the food. Although at times the service (requests for table water) may be off, the quality of the food and ordering system makes up for it. If you're looking for an authentic piece of Japan to eat but in a more casual-relaxed atmosphere, this is the place to be. Every time I come here, I hardly reach for plates on the train that may or may not tickle my fancy, but instead order exactly what I want from the accommodating iPads they have at all booths, tables and bar side seats.
As a self proclaimed Japanese/Sushi connoisseur, raw fish - certain cuts of raw fish and shellfish is what I call the 'prize' that my eyes are always locked on whenever I look at a Japanese food menu. Here at GENKI, you can occasionally find wild blue fin tuna belly (toro), black fin tuna belly and even sea urchin (uni) on the menu, which are generally hard to find at other Japanese restaurants, let alone sushi trains in Adelaide. They have an amazing sashimi deluxe plate ($29.80) which I find to be generous and always leaving me wanting more. The cuts of fish such as salmon belly and shimesaba are hands down one of the best with regards to how thick and generous the cut is. It tastes even better and you feel less guilty when they have their lunch revolution special on - you had me at $3 plates (until 2:30pm)!!! Salmon Belly, Scampi, Unagi, Aburi Scallop/Salmon, Uni, Toro, Sashimi... Seek and if it's your lucky day, you shall find! They did at one point have a Premium Kaisen Don (somewhat pricey BUT to die for) on their lunch menu but I haven't seen it ever since and am still waiting for them to bring it back!
If you're reading this review to decide whether or not you want to give GENKI a try or you're missing that little bit of Japan on your mouth - stop reading, live in the moment and start your journey there NOW! Ps, they are currently also adding a few new things to their menu so what better excuse to go and try... or if you have already and weren't too impressed... give it another go!
Best sushi in Adelaide...
Excellent articulation of Japanese cuisine with fresh produce coupled with impeccable service and an efficient ordering system. Don't miss it!
As far as sushi trains go, this one is great. Quick, easy, no-fuss service. Good value for money and in an easy to get to location. Not over-engineered or anything crazy. They just do what they do and they do it well.
Great Japanese food and sushi, reminded me of being back in East Asia again, friendly staff, Japanese chefs, great atmosphere and reasonably good value too, a place that didn't let me down on my return visit, look forward to returning again.
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As a fan of the Genki Roll brand, it definitely took me awhile to get around to this store. Nevertheless, I have made it.
Known for their interesting and healthier take of sushi variations by offering brown and black rice, Genki has developed quite a firm following.
The decor is pretty underwhelming based on first impression, but we were greeted by a chorus of welcomes upon entering, which always put a smile on my dial.
Eager to feast, we settled down quickly and grabbed a few dishes from the train. Those included tuna and corn (not my cup of tea, but apparently delicious), salmon seaweed conveyor roll, sea eel California semi roll, soft-shell crab roll, salmon with cream cheese & avocado roll, dragon dynamite roll. All was nice, but felt like some of the dishes wasn't rotating fast enough, hence dryness being the result.
We decided to take advantage of their $3 per plate deal by ordering off the menu. Ipads are installed in each booth to speed up the process. We found that to be an effective novelty.
Aburi salmon roll, spring rolls, udon noodles with chicken and another tuna and corn roll was ordered. The udon was massive! I couldn't finish it even with the help of my friend. It was really nice. So were all the dishes ordered. Compared to my favourite Japanese restaurant, Wasai, I didn't think the aburi hit the mark this time though.
We thoroughly enjoyed our lunch today, both rolled out of there with a foodbaby. A return is definitely on the cards, especially with the competitive deal they have at the moment.
If you're a japanese lover then you should try this restaurant. So far this is the best sushi bar train..real japanese, you can tell. We usually order the same food: sushi sashimi, pork katsu, grill salmon and salmon avocado roll. Service is fast and the staff are friendly.
One of the best sushi trains around. Always come back for their aburis-salmon and scallop is the best .The tempura soba is excellent as well.
Love this sushi place. Modern way of ordering with iPad at each table. Price quite reasonable, not over the top. Staffs are quite friendly from greeting till you leave. Sushi taste good - fresh and a whole variety to choose from. The only thing I did not enjoy was the fried lotus root. The lotus root was overfry that it actually taste bitter. It is not very enjoyable as a snack or nibble. Sushi and handroll wise is good. Udon was good serving. I recommend to share between two if you also wanted to try the sushi. Well seasoned and not too salty. A very enjoyable experience overall. Definitely will come back again.
By far the Best sushi train in the centre . Lovely people working there, excellent variety and the best noodle soup with beef ever ,only if they wouldn't open your refreshment ,I find that a bit weird . Other wise my fav sushi bar .
Great variety, reasonably priced, good service, delicious sushi! Pity that we are from melbourne --- will be back on our next trip to Adelaide!
I've heard so many great things about this sushi place, and I was not let down. Staff are friendly, sushi is made fresh and it's so delicious!! It's great that they have an electronic ordering system. Very easy to use and quick to order. I wasn't a fan of fresh salmon.. but then I tried it here and now I'm obsessed!
Definitely the best sushi train in Adelaide. I could eat the avocado baby rolls forever - they were incredibly tasty and everything is so fresh.
totally in love with sushi and japanese food!
this one store (bar) is like one of the best in adelaide, especially if you are craving for sushi. the taste of their sushi is superb! and their tempura? oh gosh!! amazing...they have a cute concept where u can just order all what you want through ipad and well..actually all of the customers could take their favorite menu if its on the bar, as their design is like all the chair & sofa is on circle / square -ing the bar.
i tried so many sushi that they offered and they and its all good. from the vegetarian menu with black/brown/red/white rice or just the normal one with salmon, oh god the salmon-mentay (sorry i couldn't remember the name and how it spells) is soooo good!!!
their tempura, esp. sweet potato is to-die-for (maybe because i just love sweet potato that much)
my friend tried their ramen, its okay (i think they use udon not the real ramen noodle), but personally, i prefer their sushi & tempura better.
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So tasty and fresh. Cheaper then other sushi places. New favourite, will definitely be back again.
Watch out for the iPad. A wide range of sushi, ramen and sashimi either grabbed from the train or freshly made when you order from you table.
Everything we had was delicious and there were a few surprises - french fries, for instance.
Just a tip - be careful if you sit your kids next to the iPad used for ordering. You might find a few things you didn't know you ordered turn up - like the mysterious mango icecream that arrived at the table. Our teenage daughter "liked the look of it". Still, it hardly broke the bank.\
Nice setting, friendly staff, specials and happy hours, a special kids under 10 offer to be had and really as expensive or as cheap as you want to make it. There were four of us, including two teenagers and the bill all up was about $15 each. Or we could have gone big time and ordered wagyu beef and scampi and watched the bill soar.
Food is great, waitresses and chefs friendly, the owner is a tool.. The sushi here is prepared well using fine quality ingredients, there is plenty of fresh choices available to ask the chef to prepare and the waitresses are only too helpful to assist you in placing your order.
The owner is just a tool, has no friendly demeanor or hospitality about him. You feel he treats the staff as "his" and they are forced to comply with any direction he carries out.
That aside, the owner is rarely there and the food is really really good. Definitely a must go to place for sushi. ]
"Totemo oishii!" Vast variety of freshly made sushi, portions were generous too. Service was very good and attentive; our green teas were always topped up before we even needed to call on the restaurant staff. Will definitely be going there again.
Delicious! Fresh sushi, clean and inviting atmosphere. Great selection and great service. My favourite sushi in Adelaide. Can't wait to go back again!
Great Food and Service. Generally I am very picky with Japanese food especially sushi. Because as you know there are many people really making bad sushi and ruining the sushi badly.
We were in Adelaide for short stay holiday over Christmas. Found this Sushi bar on the last day before we heading back to Melbourne. They offer variety of sushi and they taste so good. If they open in Melbourne I will certainly give it a go and try it again. (There are many good sushi restaurants in Melbourne, but very few sushi train especially the good one)
Service is brilliant and friendly.
Real respect for sushi!. I love the respect they give to sushi.
it is truly an art and it is definitely shown in this place.
the plates are all fresh! especially the seafood plates... salmon and tuna.. mmmmmm! the price is also very reasonable. will definitely come back!
My new favourite. Licenced Sushi bar on the quieter end of Gouger St with iPad touchscreen ordering at each table and super quick service.
Plenty of options also on the train that were fresh and started from $3.
Dined alone last week and food was fresh and lots of choice. Service was excellent. Brought back 12 girls tonight and feedback was great from all of them.
Although they don't take bookings they cleared 2 tables for us. Meal approx $30 for sake, multiple plates of sushi, sashimi, dumplings and dessert.
Excellent service tonight and vegans also well catered for. Thanks will be back.
Yummy. Came here for lunch and had alburi salmon, Takoyaki, seaweed and squid salad, chicken teriyaki with mayonnaise, etc. The food was tasty and cheap! Won't mind coming back.
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Really fresh food. We ordered several items today, most of which were really up to expectations.
1) Aburi salmon - which comes with different extra toppings (e.g. plain, with basil leaves and mayo, or with chilli and garlic). This was my favourite dish of the day. The salmon was fresh, chargrilled to perfection, and the fatty flavour was just amazing. It was a real melt-in-your-mouth experience. We ended up ordering seconds and thirds.
2) Soft shell crab hand roll. The seaweed was fresh and crispy, and the filling really tasty as well. I liked having the option of choosing plain sushi rice, brown rice, or black rice for the hand rolls.
3) Spicy tuna hand roll. As stated above, the seaweed was fresh, and the ingredients were a great combo.
4) Gyoza - crispy on one side, soft and tender skin on the other. I really liked how juicy the filling inside was as well.
5) Cold udon - Nothing special, but ok I guess.
6) Lobster potato salad gunkan sushi - interesting combination of ingredients.
The only disappointment was that some of the noodle dishes we wanted to order were not available for the day.
The staff was attentive and helpful, the food we ordered took about 10-15 minutes to arrive, and overall this was a really great dining experience. Definitely prefer this to sushi train just down the road. It was also really thrilling to see Chef Ikeda
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+4.5
Yummy.... Very fresh ingredient. Friendly staff. Good quality sake. Value for money.
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A real Japanese restaurant that uses quality ingredients to produce fresh sushi and kitchen menu. I see genki as a proper Japanese restaurant that happens to have a conveyor belt. Sure sushi takes a bit more time to arrive but every piece tasted good especially nigiri as the rice was formed from scratch by hand and not machines. This alone showed the dedication of the chef to produce exceptional sushi, let alone many other little details that you can notice if you pay attention. It is respectable. Anyway the wait for each order was no more than 5 minutes. With such an extensive menu and given the fact that this is only their second week, I would say they are performing very well actually. I have been to the place more than a few times now and everytime I visit they improved noticeably, even customer service was a lot better also. I urge everyone who were let down by the opening days to return as genki has true potential. I hope genki can show others that Adelaide has the market for good japanese restaurants, good luck.
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Real Japanese food :). Opening weekend 27th & 28th July 2013 - everything on the conveyor belt is only $2.90! You could expect some skimping on the ingredients or portion sizes but no, the portions were generous and ingredients - fresh and delicious! I only managed to stuff in 6 plates, there were so much variety and the wonderful chefs were continuously placing more fresh dishes on the belt. I could've stayed longer just to see what else they brought out! My favourite was the Aburi Eel (not exactly everyone's taste) - it is definitely one of the best eel I've come across in Adelaide and in my travels outside of Japan. (The best place in Japan for Unaju (Eel on rice) is Narita) I can't wait to go back to Genki and have it again - I wonder if they do an Unaju. Something new to me which I enjoyed was the Chilli squid and seaweed salad - not hot at all, excellently marinated and very tasty. I love salmon! The salmon on the salmon nigiri sushi were so fresh and were NOT sliced so thinly you could see through it!
Walking in, is just like walking into a shop or restaurant in Japan with "Irrashaimase" greeting and Japanese staff with excellent service who are very polite and helpful. Each place at the conveyor belt is neatly set up with ipads for ordering anything you need. There are some tables for larger or smaller parties who do not wish to watch the food go by in front of them. There were lots of Japanese people there, which is a good sign of the reputation this new restaurant.
The menu boasts to have over 150 items and I believe it. There are quite a number of vegetarian plates, for the health/diet conscious there are also sushi made with brown rice or black rice!
This is definitely a place I would visit again.
Sushi Bar Genki is a restaurant that opened towards the end of Gouger Street in Adelaide China town. We love to come here for good, quick, authentic Japanese food. It is a sushi train restaurant but we like this place a lot better than the restaurants named “Sushi Train”. The food here tastes fresher, better quality and larger in portion. It also has one of the best ramens in Adelaide voted among our friends.
On The Chopping Board
+4.5
The majority of chefs/owners of current Japanese Restaurants (Kenji, Manpuku, Wasai, Genki Roll, Takumi, etc) in Adelaide have all been trained and worked under one of Ikeda-San's many restaurants. The popularity of sushi and Japanese food doesn't seem to by dying any time soon, with many restaurants and sushi bars still opening up around Adelaide, so how does this one differ itself from the rest? The interior is bright, spacious and seating is plentiful (60 ) and the sushi tracks are situated in the middle of the entire premises. Head sushi Chef Shozo Ikeda stands proudly in the centre, instructing his Sous Chef and assistants while tapping his fingers on a Nigiri sushi for one of the guests.
The cloudy tonkotsu broth was just packed with pork flavour and slurping this up with melt in your mouth pork belly made me struggle to keep the conversation going. Curly ramen noodles were chewy but still had a bit of bite; garnished with a lovely ramen egg that was a bit sweet and a bit soy AND A BIT RUNNY (am I the only one excited?), juicy bamboo shoots and nori sheets – you can feel how much effort is put in with everything single element tasty and they’re not skimping you on anything. I went during a ramen lunch special time where this came with a side of crispy, juicy fried chicken at no extra cost :D
I have for some weird reason sat on this post for a while, I have since revisited a further three times. Yes, it is that good and yes, it is my new favourite sushi bar. Sushi Bar Genki is owned by none other than the famous Shozo Ikeda who has opened six Japanese food outlets in Adelaide over the years and trained many chefs in Japanese restaurants around Adelaide. Sushi trains are a very popular and well received concept today full of temptation, visual stimulation, watching your food made fresh and quick service. My first impression was a clean and bright store with high morale friendly staff. Next my eyes were drawn to the state of the art touch panel ordering system. I thought that was a fantastic idea because every menu item came with a picture. Also, you didn't have to wait for something to come around the or even get on the conveyor belt. Just push a button to place your order and they will bring it to you. This restaurant definitely demonstrated Japanese efficiency. The menu i
I’m not sure what took us so long to get here but I’m glad we finally did. Sushi Bar Genki (same peeps as Genki Roll in David Jones) is on Gouger Street, on the ‘other’ side of Morphett Street close to Matsuri. I’m telling you, it’s the must go-to ‘sushi train’ in Adelaide, and we think it’s better than our trusty favourite of Sushi Train! Front signage, touch screen menus, self serve pickled ginger and soy sauce at the ready. They’ve implemented ipad/touch screen menus on each table for our disposal as we tap tap tap away at the menu and order our favourite dishes and beverages at our finger tips. There are sooooo many aburi salmon and scallop topping options (my favourite) that I wanted to try all of the ones available. That would have been a meal in itself if I ordered from the aburi category alone. Mmmmm~ Their menu is huge with a heap of variety ranging from sushis, sashimis, nigiris, hand rolls, tapas, noodles, salads and desserts. There are even options of brown rice and black r
Upper glass sushi train really, and parking I city always hard, but prices are fair and service is fast! And it seems to be high quality ingredients which is a plus and sets it apart from other sushi train establishments
I must say maybe it’s a bad idea for the new owner to use exactly the same name and logo of previous restaurant. Customers come in expecting Genki signature bento and noodle will be disappointed. But all the sushi uses the best quality ingredients.
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