An intimate Japanese fusion restaurant in the heart of Vancouver. Where white binchotan embers whisper across premium yakitori, night after night.
Sumi · charcoal
SUMU is a Japanese fusion room built around the discipline of white binchotan — a charcoal that burns cleaner, hotter, and quieter than any other. Around it we assemble the pieces of an easy, generous meal: yakitori by the skewer, market nabe you build yourself, mini donburi to share, and a bubble tea and matcha bar treated with the same care as the grill.
One table. Different cravings. All night.
Marbled short rib basted in our house secret tare — a slow built glaze layered by hand for years, brushed on between turns over screaming white binchotan. Smoke, sugar, soy, and something we won't tell you.
Ten broths built the slow way — bones roasted then simmered for hours, dashi drawn from Rausu kombu and thick cut katsuobushi, aromatics coaxed until the pot smells like the season itself.
Charcoal kissed steak fanned over warm pearl rice, glossed in house teriyaki, crowned with a soft onsen yolk, scallion and toasted sesame — a small bowl built for the middle of the table.
Blackened steel, aged oak, a hand troweled teal plaster wall and a canopy of hand blown glass globes — a room built to hold the whole night, and every table inside it.
A full bubble tea and tea program runs alongside the grill — house brewed milk teas, ceremonial uji matcha, roasted hojicha, cold pressed juices and slushies. Sweetness and ice level to taste, tapioca cooked fresh through the night.
Two blocks from the Vancouver Art Gallery, on the ground floor of the Burrard building. Valet nightly from 17:00.
From counter dinners to private rooms — a seat for every mood.
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