Wasabi Sushi and Bento

Reviews

• Amanda L.

  star star star star star 26 May 2026

  Wasabi is an excellent sushi bar reminiscent of sushi bars in Japan, located on the ground floor by the main Concourse of the fabulous Grand Central Station in Birmingham. With its cool interior of bamboo esque long wooden tables and super cool circular slotted wooden lampshades along its single seated bar, all overlooking the busy station of shoppers and passengers.
  
  A great place to stop on the way home from work, meet friends or take away to enjoy at home or on your train journey.
  
  With a great selection of food and the main food option being sushi, in cute little boxes or choose from single packages of sushi to mix and match or a hot Bento box food stand with my favourite dish Katsu Chicken Curry in a bowl with a rice compartment, Katsu curry on one side and two pieces of fried breadcrumbed chicken in another compartment on top, also spicy chicken and teriyaki options.
  
  Love love love! This place

• Mark K.

  star star star star star_border 26 May 2026

  This is the second Wasabi location I have visited and I have developed a favorable opinion. I like the format with boxes of freshly prepared sushi and sashimi that can be selected without a lot of fanfare. The location for this shop in the New St. Station was very convenient. The service was fine and the seating area was spacious providing a good place to enjoy the fare. My 18-pc set and a sparkling water was £9.30, which was about $12 USD with the exchange at the time. This was a reasonable deal. In general, my assessment is that Wasabi offers good food at a decent price in a convenient setting.

• Seth S.

  star star star star star_border 22 May 2026

  Wasabi Sushi and Bento has become my go-to casual dining restaurant in the Birmingham New Street Station. Until recently, I did not know that they are a chain based in London where they have many, many locations. Although they have been around for a decade, the new brum outpost is one of only four outside of the capital. Count us lucky then, to have access to their wide variety of Sushi and Bento food items.
  
  The set-up is akin to a very large cold case you would find at the front of pretty much any take-away place in town. It's separated out by sushi boxes, salads, individual sushi pieces, bento bowls, and a behind the glass deli section. You can choose to go with one of their pre-selected sushi boxes, or choose pieces a la carte. Wasabi claims to be the first outlet in the UK to offer individually wrapped sushi pieces.
  
  There are fortunately a ton of vegetarian options, from seaweed sushi, inari tofu, vegetable sushi, pumpkin croquettes, several tofu curries, and tofu yakisoba. I've dined here over five times already and I still haven't covered half of their non meat meals. Although it's not explicitly posted, all of the items are up-charged if you eat in instead of take-away by substantial margins. The seating is modern, open, and airy, which means you'll have to deal with the frigid temperatures of New Street Station during the winter. I suggest getting your sushi as take away, and chow down at one of the benches further into the station.
  
  The sushi uses high quality ingredients, and unlike other spaces in the station, the food is made in their kitchen behind the outlet. So far, my favourites are their tofu sushi pieces, either as futomaki or the tofu nigiri, as well as the interesting pumpkin croquette set. The price points are affordable, especially for New Street/Grand Central. Two individual tofu nigiri pieces are only £1.50. My only fault with Wasabi is that it seems like most of the food is prepared in the morning with only certain items being refreshed throughout the day. If you arrive for dinner, you may find the items you planned on eating are no longer in stock. Overall you can buy a substantial meal at Wasabi, and both your wallet and stomach will feel good about it.

• Kristin M.

  star star star star star 16 May 2026

  All I can say is Yum!
  Thank goodness for this wonderful location in the Birmingham New Street Train Station!
  Quick, easy, plenty of options, open late, take away bag provided, dessert options, need I say more?
  Well, the box I had contained delicious salmon sushi with a soy sauce packet, wasabi packet, and ginger packet. At the till the guy threw in some chopsticks and a serviette... and I was on my way.
  There was also included a small portion of tasty edamame and seaweed salad. I also bought the red bean pancake for dessert.
  I will definitely eat at this place again. Hands down best fresh sushi I've enjoyed in a long time!

• Natalie W.

  star star star star star_border 12 May 2026

  Birmingham New Street station was for years one of the worst stations in the UK. Hideously ugly and mostly under what seemed liked interminable construction, I dreaded my regular commutes through there.
  
  But I immediately took back all the whingeing once I saw the finished (actually not quite finished as they are still building the tram line which seems to be taking approx 100 years) product. There is a John Lewis INSIDE the station. The station is BEAUTIFUL. There are so many CUISINES available. So many FANCY SHOPS. I honestly would borderline go to Birmingham just to visit this station at this point (although I of course would also visit Harborne, the Jewellery Quarter and the museum).
  
  ***as an aside, this would all be way more appealing were the train line from Manchester to Birmingham not an absolute joke. 2 poo-smelling direct services an hour with only 4 carriages (so it's always rammed, no matter what time of the day) and a 1h30 journey time is ridiculous and the fact this is not a priority over the connections to London is nonsensical***
  
  Despite the choice, Wasabi is my go to because it's so quick to pick up some sushi, some red mochi and some aloe vera juice and then head to my train where I anti-socially eat raw fish for the first leg of the journey to Wolverhampton.
  
  It's not cheap but I think the quality is very good, I normally get the rainbow set and have never been disappointed. IF ONLY such a sushi place existed in any of the Manc stations. Wasabi does also have two outlets in Leeds, where I also had a positive experience.
  
  The hot food doesn't appeal to me much but the miso soup was fine.