Umami Shop

The home of my favorite Bibimbap! Love the selections of this store, always fresh and always delicious. Before moving, I used to love my afternoon strolls for a nice Iced Lavender Tea and Macarons. My excitement goes without saying when they became available on the Skip The Dishes app. Recommend any day to anyone looking for anything light (or hearty) & authentic!

Excellent food, ambience and customer service. We ordered chicken Ramen, Butter chicken with black rice and cappuccino. Perfect balance of taste.

I love seeing how this store has changed over time. Amazing staff and I have seen more and more variety over time. My most recent visit I was so ecstatic to see some of my favs from South Africa.

Amazing food and atmosphere the owners are wonderful and caring.the bubble tea is my favorite

Called to place a $60 order 22 minutes before closing and was told that they can't take our order as they were closing soon. Guess restaurants are not as hurting after the pandemic as they claim.

A great selection of local meat and cheese. This is my go-to store if I want to make something unique or fancy and need hard to find ingredients. Their Vietnamese coffee is also delicious! And if you're looking for lunch, the Vietnamese subs never disappoint! Really enjoy coming here for the diversified product selection and experience.

The food is good and tasty, but the wait times are pretty bad.

Good place to find foreign products from all places.

We ordered Pho Soup to stay, it was the most tasteless soup we had ever tasted, soooo bland, it's like you are drinking a hot water, I asked for water and didn't serve us any. If you put a dining table then we expect to serve but no idea if it's a self-serve or something but expecting us to leave a tip on their debit machine. It's not a good image for the cooking class they offer, I was interested to book for a cooking class, but if the food wasn't good enough then I won't be anymore interested. Will revisit to shop but not to eat.
Hope they improve the taste of their dishes.

Thank you for being awesome and shipping to Quebec!
You made some hard to find items here in Quebec show up on my doorstep as if I lived around the corner from your store!

The worst service I have ever received, the store was so unorganized, I waited 30 minutes for a poke bowl and the ingredients were wrong. When I called back to ask for the right bowl with the right ingredients she told they didn’t have it, and hung up on me! No smiles, no instructions on where to order or pick up your food, 3 counters only 2 people working, the boss was rude and rushed the entire time

What a great little store. If there's an ingredient that you're having a hard time finding, try here. Especially Asian ingredients. The restaurant is delicious as well. We will often get the Bahn Mi sandwiches and Bao Buns. Soo tasty!

Ordered the satay beef sub. Worst Vietnamese sub I’ve ever had. It had absolutely no flavour and was 95% pickled carrots and nothing else. Had a few tiny pieces of flavourless meat and nothing else. Horribly disappointing. Will not eat here again.

Their sweet and sour pork is some of the best ever! Food here is amazing, staff are lovely and they have a great selection in the store. 10/10.

Excellent Ramen, if you are lucky and talk with the lady who cooks the soup. The owner (lady) she doesn’t know what a customer service means, very rude, demanding and she loves to use the word “I don’t care”, when you are making your order; nowadays you must have appreciated your customer more than ever.

I edited my review just to answer you dear.

It takes a great person to accept a mistake, only an ignorant deny it.you know you said that and you know you were very rude; and the best part is, you remember the kindness of my husband and my answered to you because you mention the macaroons.
Hopefully people will read this review and understand what it is about it. I'm not the only one who complaint about your poor customer service; and dear, your employee Mariel was the one who prepared the soup for us, and it's very good that you recovered your memory and now know what Creamy means.
We wish you all the best!

Cool store, milk tea with pearls wasn't that great. Also thought I'd try their Vietnamese subs, they aren't very good. I've had way way way better, they are not very legit, too sloppy and the veggies were not very fresh.

Its final, no one in Lethbridge knows how to make a proper Vietnamese sub

Put simply, this is not good food, and this was not a good price.

Quite possibly the worst Vietnamese food I've ever had. While I cannot speak for their other food, this was 100% in-authentic Vietnamese food that wasn't even good, at a high price.

To start, I ordered Salad Spring rolls and a Beef Sub. I decided to add Shrimp to the Salad Spring rolls since there were no Shrimp Salad Spring roll option. The Salad Roll was $8. That is already quite expensive for Salad rolls. My order was $9 to include Shrimp. Normally at Vietnamese places, it's about $4 for 4 rolls. I was shocked to find I had ONLY HAD 3 ROLLS.

Not only does that I mean I ended up paying $3 per Roll, it was filled with MANY carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, and WHITE ONIONS (?). To top it off, it only had ONE. SHRIMP in the roll. It was ONE SHRIMP, sliced in half in the roll. It was not good, not authentic, and not worth it.

Onto the sub. While the umami sauce was decent, the sub was not. The sub was about 80% Carrots and 10% bread. I ate about 50% of the sub before I was able to taste any meat and I had to SPIT IT OUT. The meat was NOT hewable and indigestible. I opened the sub to find there were about 2 pieces of meat.

I had no choice but to trash the rest of the sub.

In summary, this was NOT worth the price, and not worth eating. Would NOT recommend this place for Viet food at all.

Love Umami! Great place for healthy seafood, speciality items and of course a great dinner date night!

Always good food. Best location for international foods in lethbridge by far. Very helpful and knowledgeable staff.

I went to Umami shop about a month ago, searching for ingredients for hot and sour soup. Lots of items on shelves were expired. When I went up to the til and asked the owner if there was any non expired packages of what I was looking for, he said no. I felt that him and his wife did not care, as they did not offer to reorder the product or a genuine apology. I’ve been to the Asian Supermarket before and have received better customer service there, as well have noticed less expired products than at Umami. Please check the expiry dates of products if you’re shopping at Umami shop!