Sushi & Thaimat has been recommended on this site before. Thank you guys! Not all of the recommendations we get we agree with, but that is a good thing. It is good that we have our own favorites around town, so that we won’t all be in line at the same places… 
This recommendation I totally agree with though. Sushi & Thaimat was a good experience and I will come back for more…
I love Thai food as well, so the smell that meets you when you come in there is just delicious. The premises were clean and the people at the counter was friendly and efficient. Getting my food took a while, but really - it is a stamp of approval when people both line up to eat here an order d also their food home. Lots of people came by while I was there.
I don’t think the place itself is very charming, it is very much a take-away place, but there are some high chairs and some tables for you to sit and eat as well if you need to.
I don’t want to eat that much exotic fish while being pregnant, I usually stay with my salmon and cooked things. Their fish here really looked good, and the special menu consists of salmon, butterfish, tuna, halibut, scampi, scallops and red clam and looked very nice. My take away box also looked delicious, the fish was good, the tempura was crunchy and the pieces were cut in the right size (for my mouth - I don’t like them being to big). A very good meal! Yeah, I will go back here.
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Summary:
Surprisingly good take out sushi place. Have to try again when I can eat exotic fish again…
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General information:
Street adress: Ullevålsveien 39, 0171 Oslo
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 11-21, Sat: 14-21, Sun: 15-21
Phone number: +47 22 93 01 86
URL: sushi-thaimat.no
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This place is very near where I live and I’ve used it a lot and I have always got good service & food with reasonable prices!
I use it as a take-away place, and indeed it is very modest looking so I think that (takeaway) is what owners also had in mind when setting it up…
Good for take-away for summer “picnic” at St.Hanshaugen park!
It’s actually hard to explain how bad my experience on Wednesday with Sushi & Thaimat was. Actually, the whole experience was so mediocre that it makes the time I tried refridgerated sushi from ICA (it seemed like a good idea when in a hurry to get to work) seem like a fabulous experience in comparison.
Now, this place came highly recommended by friend who live in the area, and when catching up with them last Wednesday, we decided to buy take away and go sit in the park. The queue for take away was long, and the popularity of the join probably raised my expectations. I order 2×12 piece sushi and a set of spicy tuna maki (8 pieces), for me and a friend.
The positive: The waiting time was as expected, around 20 minutes; the price was very reasonable: 109NOK for a 12 piece sushi menu (maki + nigiri) and 55NOK for the 8 pieces of spicy tuna; finally, the nigiri was nicely made (though the pieces perhaps were a bit long)
The negaitve:
For one thing, they packed my sushi order in a bag with another person’s order. Granted it was a friend of mine, but still, they didn’t inform us properly about this, nor ask our permission, so we had to spend quite some time talking to the lady to understand the order right. Like, how could she know that I wasn’t going to take the sushi home with me.
Then when we unpack the bag after ca 10 min walking, we find out that she’s forgotten to put chopsticks in the bag (!). We ended up having to buy plastic cutlery from a restaurant nearby. Now, I’d normally rather eat sushi with my hand than use a fork & knife, but that was impossible becayse the maki rolls weren’t properly rolled. They just unrolled when we picked them up, and all the filling fell out! Alas, the sushi was really badly presented. Not only did the maki fall apart, the sushi “chef” also did a horrible job presenting & packing the sushi. My friends 12 pieces were tightly packed into a small box, and my menu + the spicy tuna maki was tightly packed into a barely larger box. Though I’ll admitt I’m quite in awe of their ability to pack sushi. If it was out of concern for the enviroment, they did a good job ’cause all the maki was packed in 2 layers (the top layer nicely squashed against the lid), thus there was no need to use an extra box. Finally, let me comment upon the quality of the fish; the tuna (my favorite with regard to sushi) must have been somewhat old. It lacked the nice red colour that it usually had, and didn’t “melt” on the tongue. And also, there was nothing spicy about the spicy tuna: “I thought the first piece was spicey, but that must have been because it was lying next to the wasabi” my friend said.
If there’s one thing that’ll upset me for sure (and likely ruin my day - yes, I know there are worse problems in the world!), it’s bad sushi. And I’m not talking about the fish. More like bad craftmanship, mediocre quality fish, and horrible presentation. Now I know you get what you pay for, but I’ve definately had much better sushi in Oslo for the same price, or even less, than I paid her. My verdict: 4 thumbs down (I had to borrow 2 extra ’cause it was so bad)! Now, enough bitching and I’m in awe if you’ve bother to read the whole thing! Thank you for your patience