New restaurant alert - Japan-style conveyor belt sushi, Tsubame Sushi in Vineyard
New restaurant alert - Japan-style conveyor belt sushi, Tsubame Sushi in Vineyard
Grab the 🍣 🍱 you what from this fun Japan inspired restaurant
Fresh-made sushi, on a brightly lit conveyer belt. Plates are microchipped to make sure everything is fresh and at the right temperature.
Japan-style conveyor belt sushi has come to Utah. Welcome to Tsubame.
What is Tsubame Sushi
To answer that, let’s go back to 1958 when the first kaiten-zushi, literally “rotation sushi” was invented by restaurateur Yoshiaki Shiraishi.
Shiraishi had a sushi restaurant, and was inspired to create a sushi conveyor belt machine after watching beer bottles rattle through a conveyor belt in an Asahi brewery.
At a time when Japan was becoming obsessed with efficiency and production technology, Shiraishi opened the first rotating-sushi restaurant in Osaka Japan in 1958. Shiraiashi's concept of fast food sushi took over Japan.
The idea spread worldwide with thousands of restaurants around the world, and has finally come to Utah.
Where: Vineyard Utah
Next to the movie theater.
576 N Mill Rd Suite 101 Vineyard Utah 84059
Why: fun atmosphere, unique experience
This was my first time eating at a rotating sushi restaurant and it was kind of exciting. The hypnotic conveyor belt kept bringing past new flavors and items.
We estimated it took about 2-5 minutes for the belt to make a full rotation, so if you missed the flavor of roll you were looking for, you could just wait and it would come back.
Even then there was some excitement to identifying and grabbing the roll before it passed you by. Maybe some remnant of our hunter-gather ancestors there.
Eat Utah Review: 4/5 stars would go again
Overall it was a very fun experience.
I would say the sushi isn’t as good as our favorites like Itto, but the experience made up for it.
There is something fun and stressful about the sushi passing by you and you have to discover, find, and grab what you want.
At other conveyor restaurants I have seen in videos, the plates are tallied up automatically but here, the server just helps you count when you need to pay.
It ended up being just about the same price as other sushi places.
If you like sushi and want to try a new experience, I would recommend it.