Lin Hai Sushi Restaurant - Kitchener, Ontario

Wow! Just wow!! First time ever here... And Wow! Friendly, amazing atmosphere! Absolutely fantastic food. It's like I walked into to my best friends house for dinner. The selection is out of this world!

My first visit to this restaurant. It was empty around lunchtime. The service was friendly. I ordered a combo platter with a miso soup. The food came rather quickly and sure was not fresh. The rice looked gray and unappetizing. The rolls insides were mushy and had no defining ... taste or flavour. The whole experience was very disappointing, especially considering the very steep price. Too bad. Read more

AMAZING!! Had a lovely dinner here. The miso soup is quite honestly the best I’ve ever tasted and my favourite roll is the Linhai – Highly recommend these! The owners were also very kind and friendly as well, I enjoyed chatting with them. Will be coming back for sure!

Very fresh, and tastes great! Would definitely recommend this, and I'm looking forward to coming back. Went with my family, and we all had a great time. The food was really great looking, super fresh, and smelt great! Great family owned business, great place to bring the family, or just your ... special someone. Read more

I was passing KW on my way to Toronto and attended Linhai on a Sunday evening (around 7pm). The place was totally empty (which I did not mind at all). The restaurant was also very clean and the customer service was fantastic. The music choice was, well... an acquired taste ... but fun (see the video). I ordered a Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk ($4.95). Very pleasing, but hard to mess that one up. This is where the good ends. Everything on the menu looked far too overpriced for what it was and for the amount it came in. 2 slices of salmon sashimi for $5? Good Lord! But I made my food order anyway. I ordered the Avatar Rolls and "Shrimp Fried" Rice + Miso Soup. Avatar Rolls ($16 for 10 pieces): - Advertised as having salmon (which I expected to be a proper piece on top of each roll). But it wasn't. In fact, I had to ask the waitress where the salmon even was. She pointed to a tiny piece of it within the extra crunchy shrimp tempura mess that tasted like OLD oil encapsulated in rice. A sushi roll should never taste like that and leave the aftertaste of old oil in your mouth for 2 hours after. "Shrimp Fried" Rice ($13): - This one was just false advertising and NOT Shrimp Fried rice. It was a plate of (beautifully presented) greasy rice (OLD OIL AGAIN!) with some cabbage and a little bit of carrots and sesame seeds... with 4 shrimp laying on top. For $13. Miso soup ($4): - Nothing spectacular. The mushrooms in it tasted sort of old (potentially rehydrated?). Also, the place charges EXTRA for EXTRA ginger and soy sauce? That's a first one for me. All in all, a terrible culinary experience for almost !!!$43!!! for one person! Maybe I did not order the items that the place is known for, maybe I got the chef on their off day... Or maybe I am spoiled by the abundance of high-quality sushi places for a good price in Toronto (Sushi Legend, Mi Ne Sushi, Sushi Rock, August 8 (Hamilton) etc.)? Important to note, a friend of mine attended this place prior to me and had very good things to say about the restaurant. So there is that. Regardless, as clean as the place was and as lovely as the staff were, the poor food quality is what is remembered most. Based on the previous reviews, I really wanted to like the place, and I'm all for supporting local businesses, but I will certainly not be coming back to this one. Read more