One table. Different cravings.
A new chapter for a Vancouver address that already lives in the city's memory — now reimagined as a warm, elegant room built for the way we actually eat together.
888 Burrard Street
SUMU arrives to 130 seats in downtown Vancouver — a new dining room built around flame, broth, and the yokochō spirit.
We chose 888 Burrard because a room this generous is rare in this city — high ceilings, honest bones, a footprint big enough to fit every kind of night the neighbourhood asks for. Weeknight drinks. First dates. Long tables of friends. A quiet dinner at the counter after work.
What we wanted to build is not another restaurant, but a different kind of shared dining room — shaped by a single, honest question that every table of friends already knows by heart.
"Where do we go when everyone at the table is craving something different?"
One Table · Different Cravings
Yokochō · the alley
Drawn from the spirit of yokochō.
In Japan, a yokochō is a lantern lit lane of small counters, quiet grills, and loud conversation — a place where whatever you're hungry for, someone nearby is already cooking it.
SUMU borrows that warmth and folds it into Vancouver's multicultural table: a room shaped by thoughtful lighting, a lively bar, generous seating, and long tables built for slow conversation and unhurried nights.
Gather, connect, unwind, remember. The room is designed to hold all of it.
Built around Flame, Grill & Broth.
Different cravings, one dining room. The menu is arranged so that every seat at the table can order for themselves — and still eat as one.
Imported Binchotan.
White charcoal shipped from Japan, coaxed by a chef with thirty years at the grill. Every skewer is placed, turned, and finished by hand — heat controlled to the second.
Personalised for the table.
Over one hundred ingredients and a full library of broths — from delicate soy milk to slow built mala. Build the pot your table wants, then let it simmer between you.
Thirty drinks, made for moods.
Cocktails, teas, and nonalcoholic pours designed to sit beside the food — plus a short list of creative fusion small plates that bring colour to the middle of the table.
S · U · M · U
A word we built from the evening we hoped to create — the one that begins the moment you sit down and stays with you long after the last plate is cleared.
- SSharingthe table, the flame, the night.
- UUniquea menu that meets each guest where they are.
- MMemoriesthe reason a good meal outlives itself.
- UUnforgettablewhat we quietly work toward, every service.
A meal that belongs to you.
SUMU's answer to Vancouver
"One Table. Different Cravings."