YO! Belfast in Belfast

This place is between fast food and restaurant food. It’s a bit cheaper than other Japanese restaurants but still quite expensive. We got noodles with salmon and pieces of salmon were small and the temperature of food was colder than we expected. Salmon sashimi was good, fish was fresh The most significant thing in this place is conveyor belt what makes you able to catch a dish you like to eat. Waiting and cooking stuff are very polite and kind.

Lovely Japanese food and good service

Very nice and friendly staff!! Very good sushi!! Only sad the cheesecake was Out of stock 😭 Lovely atmosphère!! The chocolate mochi was tooo much chocolate for me, but the pancakes was very soft and light and perfect !! Not to sugary. Also the Sashimi was SOOO GOOD!! It melted in your mouth!!

This is now Bootleggers... Didn't have food but it looked amazing, canny bar but cocktails were a bit over priced as they were very watered-down..

Friendly staff. Only had a coffee ☕ but it was lovely. Made very welcome.

Very disappointed today with Yosushi Belfast. I ordered the ramen which was not cooked chicken was only warm due to the warm broth and soft boiled egg was like mush. When asked if everything was ok i asked for a manager whom didn’t bother even coming to our table. Very disappointed and will not be back given paying over £70 for 2 people.

Small portions but expected as they write calories in menu, so bit expensive but tasted really good.

Best experience of MY LIFE. A true church of God.

I really enjoyed my YO! Belfast last night. The staff were very helpful. The food was lovely; a great selection for a vegetarian and a vegan. The unlimited Miso soup was a real noveltyy. Would have been five stars except we had to input the order twice because the site lost our table number and the music was slightly odd. Really minor issues, we'll definitely be back! Was back in September 2024 and this time we ordered from the staff directly. Still very good.

Need to remortgage the house to eat here. Will looked after and great food.

lin-manuel miranda served 6 of us and staff were very accommodating. we had lots of water, wasabi and ginger. food was not disappointing at all but i've had better sushi before; the prices are sort of ridiculous but lin-manuel miranda made it worth it. atmosphere was skibidi, if a little too loud because of a particular young neurodivergent critter, but very good because of lin-manuel miranda. thanks lin-manuel miranda.

The service is amazing! The staff are all so lovely and sweet.

ordered collection for 7pm, arrived at 7 and was told to just wait for it. 25 minutes later when we enquired about the progress of our food the waitress shrugged and went and asked the chefs who had not even started preparing it. very bad service, would not recommend collecting at all as we did not receive the food until 7:30 pm

The food was very good, you choose from a big range of plates and can even order from the menu. The service was great and waiters were checking on us regularly.

Nothing special this place. Food is not that great

Nothing will be available. Overpriced. Felt like I was a hassle for even showing up.

it's good but the chicken katsu curry definitely needs more curry. the rice makes the dish dry up quickly. wouldnt be a problem but ordering sauce on the side is unavailable. a lot of the dishes are unavailable too. this place needs better management.

Visiting from NZ where we regularly eat top quality sushi we made the trip from Coleraine yesterday for a sushi fix. The sole waitress took several minutes to seat us even though there were only about 4 other tables occupied. A quick look at what was on offer on the conveyer belt should have told us to go elsewhere - a pitiful selection of dishes spread meters apart on the belt. We elected to order off the menu - salmon top hits for my wife and I ordered the chicken yakisoba. Let's just say pictures can be misleading! The sushi arrived quite promptly- tiny pieces on a saucer more suited to holding a tea cup. We had to remind the waitress to bring the sparkling water that was ordered and she had to be reminded twice to bring the fork that my wife had requested. My dish eventually arrived as my wife was finishing her meal. Although it tasted OK it looked very different to the picture. I think the little cubes in the dish was the chicken? Overall a very disappointing (and over priced for what was provided) dining experience- one restaurant to be avoided!

The sushi was good , not too much quantity but the quality of the food overall is very good and the ambiance is great and the staff is very friendly, I would recommend to try out their various sushi and their main course

A pleasant place to have a bite to eat, but the menu includes foods that were not possible to order.

It's okay, except I ordered takeaway food twice and didn't get something twice. The first time I reprimanded myself, and the second time I didn't want to, so that's the only thing I have a problem.

The food was dry, tasteless and cold, as if it had been in the fridge for several days, and the service was very slow. One of the worst places I have tried in Belfast.

We went to Yo Sushi as my kids wanted ramen. Last time we were there we had the spicy seafood which was great. This time, not so lucky. They had no salmon which eliminated a significant portion of the menu. They only had veg ramen.

Completely wrong order, i ordered chicken katsu curry and ive recoeved gyoza and some kind of avocado and crab rolls.

I have ordered on kiosk and was waiting for my food just to get it cancelled without informing me. Disappointed with their service.

The restaurant service is slow from being chronically understaffed. Every time I've been there's only one waitress who you can tell is overworked from having to serve all the customers and clean up after them - getting their attention for anything is impossible. Why remove the ability to order food from your phone if you aren't going to hire more staff? Half the menu is always out of stock, they haven't had any vegan meat substitutes in for ages. The straw that broke the camel's back was today when the only vegan option was chips and miso soup, I ordered one cup of miso soup to go from the order point and after waiting twenty minutes - because there was one server who forgot about the order - had to walk up to the chef who apologised and made it up. I've been disappointed too many times, not coming back or recommending it to friends.

We were a party of 9 and were so well taken care of. The food was delicious and our waitress SU was kind and friendly!

Really poor. The server forgot to take my partners order. Literally walked off after I had ordered (we were the only people in the restaurant). had to flag her down to get the full order. Food was fine. Price is on the expensive side for what you get. Wouldn't go back again.

Extremely rude and worst staff I have ever seen in my life , these people close the store more than an hour early than the restaurant’s opening time . I would suggest never go to this place , there are way better sushi outlets with respectful staff who knows the meaning of hospitality. Extremely unhappy about this outlet (Victoria square mall)

No variety on the Sushi belt - just the same salmon and tuna going up and down and nothing else. Disappointing selection but the sushi that we did have was fresh and tasty.

Was extremely disappointed was YO! Sushi. Completely under staff. And was able to offer half their menu due to this. Nothing special, asked for ginger with my sushi to cleanse my taste buds but never got it. Selection of sushi was terrible. Won't be back... Better places to go then this place, took about 15-20 just to get sitting was literally about to walk out and go to boojums, before a chef noticed us and waited us to a table.

Not a great experience. They had roughly 10 plates floating around on the belt with a choice of no more than 3 different things. Not a lot of choice on the menu either (that they actually had in or could make!). couldn't make a handroll. Forgot to bring a Miso soup. Walked in and waited a few minutes but no-one greeted us so we sat ourselves down and started eating, then got told by the chef who served us that we should have waited by the door 🤣🙄. Poor experience. Shame this is the only yo in Ireland because not all franchises are this bad back in England.

Could not even eat there as they only accept contact less payment

What has happened to Yo Sushi? It used to be such a fun experience. Today is the second time I tried to eat there this week. On the first occasion I waited for five minutes in a half empty restaurant without at least being acknowledged so I left. Today I got seated immediately then had to wait 10 minutes for my order to be taken. Couldn’t take anything off the conveyor belt as I had no chop sticks, no soy sauce dish, no wasabi, no ginger. In any case there were only about 10 items on the conveyor belt sadly snaking through the restaurant. When my order came (3 items out of 5) I had to ask for chopsticks and soy sauce bowl and wasabi which the staff then had to go back to the kitchen and wash in front of me. Never got the other 2 items. Woeful.

The only reason I travel to Belfast! I love the food here. My favourite katsu curry! Just the best! Staff so nice and such a nice warm atmosphere. Love the sushi there too!

Stealth service charge left me with a bad taste. The food was grand, overpriced but I knew that going in, the service was poor, very slow and then added a stealth service charge at the end. With the prices they are charging there is no need to include any service charge and the staff certainly weren't deserving of it.

Food was average, low on stock in majority of the food. Waitress was incompetent to the fact the cook had to give us cutlery. They pretty much forgot us. I wouldn't go back tbh

Terrible service, seafood ramen was served with the spoon sunk in the plate. It was 05/18/24. I read other negative reviews and realized that most people have the same problems. Crisis of incompetence. And by the way, we left 76 pounds there for three and left hungry.

Just picked up some avocado sushi as a takeaway. Self serve makes it so easy to get what you want quickly.

Absolutely pathetic service. Completely confused staff members. You have to ask 3-4 times for a simple thing. Will take 10 mims to give you a fork while 1 staff member will come & tell you that they will have to clean some forks for us then will give it. The staff member will come to you 3 times while you are eating to remind you to give the feedback through the tablet that they provide while you are in the middle of having food. Seriously training gaps! Would never visit again!

If I could give 0 stars I would. Shocking service and slow server just staring at the floor ignoring us when we wanted to order. Ended up leaving and not buying anything. Could have had 4 paying customers. Won’t be back.

Worst sushi I’ve had. The staff who was serving us was very forgetful and incompetent. Would not recommend

Food is nice, got everything as expected, staff are always very helpful and friendly.

An absolute waste of time and money at this Yo Sushi branch. When I said this branch, I particularly mean this branch only. Never had such a bad experience in other Yo sushi branches. Service was absolutely slow and the quality was not up to Yo Sushi standard. Wait staffs lacked experience and knowledge on the food. Kitchen staffs were busy with their own lunch then sending food out to the table. Literally, 25 minutes for one fire cracker rice. 2 of the dishes didn’t even come to the table and after 40 minutes of waiting we decided to leave. The only good thing was we got to see Neil Patrick Harris. Stinson out

Blows the London branch out of the water. Can't understand the low ratings. Incredibly attentive service, delicious quality and excellent variety on the well-stocked belt. I'll be back for SURE.

Very bad service, food quality is not that good.

Not the experience we were hoping for. The sushi was good and the best we have had in a while, but other than that I wouldn’t recommend visiting. We ordered 2 warm dishes (noodles and rice) of which on the noodles came. When we mentioned that we hadn’t received the food the waitress just said ok and removed it from the bill. No apology and very disinterested. The staff in the restaurant were all chilling and not putting effort in to serving the customers (other than one of the sushi chefs who helped us… props to him 🙌) with one waitress sitting down and eating on her phone for more than a hour, before going back into the kitchen to get more food (probably my fried rice that didn’t come… hahaha) Don’t think we will be returning!

Food is barely good enough, fairly plain Service, good enough but is SEVERELY understaffed Atmosphere is not really the best, the lack of staff is not helping

Service was very slow! Only one waiter serving the whole restaurant. Sushi was of poor quality too, won't be going back there again.

Great place if you want to chill, but that was about it. Food was not worth the price, and the service was very slow.

food was cold, very small portions for the price you pay

The hot food wasn't that hot or even that tasty. The small plates on the carousel were okay but the selection wasn't great. The hot food we ordered was warm and lacking in any real quality. The service to be fair was good. The person serving us was friendly and attentive. I think this is more a lunch place rather than somewhere to dine in the evening. Little atmosphere and little choice

What a dreadful experience. Booked a table for my son, wife and I last week as Yo Sushi has always been a favourite for my son who has Autism. Firstly we were left, with several other groups, standing in the door with no acknowledgement of our arrival. My wife finally lost her patience and walked down the restaurant to explain that we had arrived. A further 10 minutes went by while they cleared our table. After we sat down we could not get a member of staff to stop and take an order for drinks or the hot food, I was actively ignored on at least three occasions. My wife and son both made a choice from the belt, but for the entire time we sat there no fresh items were placed on it as the prep staff appeared to be concentrating on delivery orders. Couldn't get anyone to bring us wasabi or some cutlery as my son and wife can't use chopsticks. We decided to leave and strangely enough there was no issue getting someone to stop and take my money!!! No discount was offered. As a result my poor son had a panic attack and our day was ruined. I contacted their customer service and still haven't received a reply. Wish I could give zero stars!

First time getting from here via click and collect. Food and service were good but I do feel the restaurant looks a bit tired and could do with a face lift. I also noticed some of the protective screens and windows were a bit dirty and needed cleaned.

We ordered Poke, and the portion is good. The taste just average, and it seems they are under staff. The service is not quite efficient even though it still has empty seats. We tried the sushi served in the conveyor belt, and it is below average of the common sushi in the department store. Portion is small, taste is below average, but pricey.

Food was freezing cold. Tiny portions (looks like someone had actually ate most of the popcorn shrimp). Never again

Dined here for lunch Wednesday 3rd April, food was great but the server was excellent, so much so we will be back.

The service is really nice But the sushi is really not good and really small. The ingredients are not great (eg: we feel that the avocado is not ripe and the rice is not tender enough) On the other hand, anything hot is really delicious (Katsu curry, terryaki skewer) So I have mixed feelings because the concept of the restaurant is to eat sushi…

This Yo restaurant always seems understaffed. Food is terribly presented and dubious given the seemingly lack of regard for food safety and quality. Service terrible as on entry staff don’t acknowledge your presence and once seated waitress looked at me like I was crazy for wanting to place an order. Only witnessed from Belfast branch others I have been to are fine so obviously just a reflection of this management. If you reeeeeally want sushi there are better places locally.

This was meant to be delivered and it then came up that it had to be picked up I have no way to get this. What do I do. Am trying to ring and mail box to leave a message is full.

Used to go all the time and walked out before we were even served last night. They were massively understaffed which is shameful for a chain like this. There wasn't a single thing on the belt at 6:30 on a Thursday evening and we didn't get served for ages. They didn't items from the menu. We just walked out.

Great as always, but no soy sauce for takeaway orders 🥺 I’ll be back as always 🙌🏻

Nice service and cool concept, value to money ratio is poor however. Tiny portions and nothing special on the warm food, looks different to image and many options sold out.

First visit on 21st March. What lovely helpful staff - thank you! Would highly recommend getting a few plates from the "conveyor belt". Everything that was taken from it was delicious. Will definitely be back 😊👍

Been going to yo! For years now. Unfortunately in my opinion it's getting worse. We arrived Sunday at 1.45pm several people needing seats. One person seating people, taking orders and taking payments. One person was clearing tables slowly (seemed like a new person so understandable) This wasn't the problem. I don't mind waiting as the only person doing all the work was working hard to clear through each task. The food was lacking. No one in our party of 5 enjoyed it. Firm favourites we usually go for just seemed to lack taste and just didn't seem right. We ate what we ordered and a few things from the belt. We paid and all left hungry and unsatisfied. Which is unfortunate as we had been avoiding yo! For a year now and thought we'd give it another go. Others around us seemed to be eating enough though. It was busy with takeaway and orders so it must be fine for others just not us.

Decent quality of food. However, price is on the high side. With sashimi platter running 8 euro for just 4 small pieces. I think dinner here easily can cost 50EUR per person if not more for average quality food. Id avoid on that basis

Everytime I see vegan I have to Crack up. What do you snowflakes want a metal for being mental. I love this sushi restaurant for the sushi. I like it cause it's top of the line Japanese. All you vegan snowflakes. Need to get a job and stop living off your trust funds. I know it scars you that your parents ate meat. But that's how your living the snowflake life....tick tock

The concept of the establishment is cool and modern. The interior is nice, but that's about it, hence the 2-star rating, as everything else is dreadful. The sushi portions are tiny, and the price does not match the quality. We spent more money than usual on dinner, but none of us got full. Also, the chicken in sauce we ordered separately was overly fried.

Half the menu unavailable, messy kitchen and floor space. Will not b returning !

Horrible experience. Disinterested staff, complicated ordering system and an app which didn't work. Food was mediocre and expensive for what it was. Waited an unnecessarily long time to be seated and couldn't order some items because the app malfunctioned. Couldn't get assistance because the place is understaffed, and even when the app was refreshed by the overworked staff, it still didn't work. Wouldn't recommend even though it is in a very convenient location. Definitely worth looking further afield for a better sushi experience.

Food was bland. And who the hell puts tobacco onions in sushi?

Love sushi so glad they deliver to our area again.

Food was cold and both were small portions instead of large and small, soup was freezing and portion sizes n all where tiny

Unfortunately it looks like things have gone down in yo. Most of the popular dishes weren't available- Ramen, Korean bbq,etc. Miso soup had no even a single bit of tofu. And the noodles I ordered were mediocre. The girl serving us did her best, no fault of hers but when you go out you want to be in a place that serves what you want from the menu, not just what's available.

Food was tasty but cold by the time I got it, had to wait half an hour after pickup time before I received it

second time I’ve ordered from here.. order has been missing items both times. Try to ring them.. they never answer , says to leave a voicemail and it’s full.

Great food but I assume understaffed as waiter took forever to even bring me a coke. We paid nearly 40 quid and left hungry still. Extremely small portions for the price

Missing part of the order - the soup

Myself and my partner decided to give Yo Sushi a try whilst here in Belfast, as it didn’t look very busy (makes sense now!) we were told there would be no food on the belt as it’s late (3.5 hours before closing?) there were empty tables but we were sat at the bar, fine. The bar was absolutely filthy, food and sauce on the tables and menus we were given. When my partner politely asked the waitress if she could clean the table, she looked at us gone out. The spaces next to us were dirty, with empty plates and glasses piled up, this was the same for other empty spaces. The restaurant was not busy and there were plenty of staff standing around drinking and checking phones. I would strongly advise those considering dining here to avoid.

Ordered a mix of sushi and sashimi to collect along with some soy, ginger and wasabi. I collected it on time and when I got home I discovered that none of the soy, ginger or wasabi had been included. This is very frustrating as these are integral to eating sushi - so I called the restaurant to complain and I was offered a choice of making a twenty minute round trip to collect these items or to have them refunded (they were free). I told them that they could do far better as they effectively sold me an extremely bland meal. Added to this the food was very average - thin, limp sashimi and hastily prepared sushi that was just tossed in a cardboard box. I've had better experiences in the restaurant itself but the indifferent service and the refusal to take responsibility left me extremely underwhelmed. Also, it's overpriced - I won't be back.

Horrible experience, the worst sushi and rolls I have ever seen and had in my life, better close this place , it doesn't have any future

Very, very little from menu available, paper copy given was entirely pointless, service incredibly slow and unhelpful. Beer (not brand ordered) was not brought out initially as "not cold, only just put in the fridge" only to be delivered 30 seconds later, warm, by the same staff member. Food tasteless or overly spicy and entire experience very disappointing.

really quick delivery, food 8/10

Beef very very tough. I could barely bite through it. Not normally so tough.

10% service charge for self service restaurant. Doesn’t make sense. Staff were lovely though

It's ok, expensive for what you get. My food took ages, and arrived after everyone had finished 😔

There are never any staff to greet people here. We came in and stood for ages but no one sat us so we had to leave

I don't know if this is only this place .... But it seems that the food standards in Belfast are either quite low or I have been very unlucky. Must be craving for Asian food to go there.

Well, we waited one hour for 3 menus. There were only three table customers. Good luck.

Food was great.service bit poor. Took 30mins to get our drink order.young girl ran of her feet.rest staff expected her to serve drinks take orders.seat people.clean up. Deserved a metal.

Even the place wasn’t busy but lots of people were waiting for so long in front of door and food was also took ages ! But the kitchen wasn’t even busy at all !!!! The worst experience in restaurant I had so far.

Went here today with a friend and upon entry had to wait 15 minutes for someone to acknowledge us,after this a waiter told us that he would' "grab" us a table and proceeded to ignore us. We eventually got someone to take us to our table however people that arrived after us a couple)got seated before us. The selection of foods they had were very small going around the belt and just the same stuff over and over. I ordered my main bowl and waited 15 minutes for it which would've been acceptable if the chefs were cooking instead of chatting majority of the time. it was near impossible to get someone's attention and my friend had to wait it was near impossible to get someone's attention and my friend had to wait 45 minutes for her bowl after being brushed off multiple times by workers. She asked several times and was told that they will check by people who never returned to US. Aside from one waiter with the blue hairnet the service was lacking. For a place meant to be self service we were there for around an hour and a half which is shocking. Don't visit if looking for a calm quick meal.

I had to ask a staff member to seat us after waiting 10 minutes with no success, he instead went to chat with a co-worker and did not provide us any service. After another 10 minutes of waiting and having to ask a different staff member, we were finally assigned to a table (only after people who arrived after us were seated!!). Food options on the conveyer belt were extremely limited and did not contain many of the items listed on the menu. I ordered a chicken katsu curry for my main course and it did not arrive after 30 minutes so I questioned the staff as to where it was and I was brushed off and was told it should come soon (It did not!!). After waiting another 20 minutes, I had to inform another staff member of the problem and he eventually sorted the issue and my main course arrived soon after. The same helpful member of staff who finally delivered my katsu curry had to inform the staff at the till to let me pay as he did not notice my presence. Overall, the staff were spending too much time chatting and not enough cooking!

Beautiful food and lovely atmosphere.

If you look at other reviews I have done you will know that I do not score this low regularly. Not only is this restaurant disorganized and way overpriced (£5 for two very small and shoddily made nigiri as an example), pretty sure that a sushi chef rolling cigarettes at his workstation is a health code violation. Really had high hopes as I love conveyor belt sushi restaurants, but please STEER CLEAR OF THIS ONE

Absolutely awful service. Tiny portions and . Nothing like the display pictures. Food arrived late and freezing cold. For food that is priced at a premium, the quality is pathetic. YO should be ashamed of themselves for the food I recieved today. Do not buy from here!

We booked a table online, and when we arrived we were informed that the prep person had called in sick for the day, and they were running a reduced menu. The entire store was empty. Fine, these things happen.. we ordered some hot food and took a couple of plates off of the carousel. We waited around 15-20 minutes for our hot food, before one of the staff members came and askes us if we were ok, we told them we were waiting on hot food. Eventually the food came, the gyoza's were overdone, and the curry sauce was runny like water. The biggest let down for us was that there was no edamame being served. Im no sushitologist, but i dont think its too hard to throw some frozen edamame into a hotpot for a bit, but what do I know. The staff member who served us was lovely and helpful. We were really excited about having sushi, but honestly it was a massive let down. If the prep guy has called in sick, go somewhere else

Got the food from them 2x via uber eats. First order got no soy sauce for sushi. It is standard to include sauce for every sushi place all over europe. OK, maybe my bad. Gave it second shot Today. Ordered 3x maki + 3x soy sauce to be sure. It took them ages to prepare and in bag I have only 2 maki, but 5 packs of sauce. **ck them!

We normally love Yo Sushi in all their locations but this one wasn't very good. The Sushi on the belt seemed to be only a few kinds of the same things. It was mushy rice on anything we had and not great quality. We only got offered ginger and Wasabi halfway through our lunch. We saw pre-made rolls being used which is probably the reason for the mushy rice. Not a great visual experience today as the restaurant wasn't very busy everything seemed untidy. Just disappointed today.

Really gorgeous and so fresh! The staff are absolutely fab too