Kibo

Reviews

• Benjamin S.

  star star star star star 17 August 2026

  Great Japanese food with a home-cooked feeling. We got the lunch box and the pork katsu and everything was so delicious. The owners are a super sweet couple that love living in Hope. So glad we stopped on our way from Banff to Vancouver

• Al R.

  star star star star star_border 13 August 2026

  One of the tiniest Mom & Pop restaurants I've had the pleasure of dining at.
  
  They make tasty soups and yummy tempura. My wife and I visit this restaurant probably two or three times per year, as it is a cozy place to have a nice meal on our way out of town.
  
  The one caveat is that they don't really make authentic Japanese style sushi. Rather, they make Korean kimpap () style, with the laver (seaweed) on the outside as a wrap.
  
  Usually only the manager is present to wait on customers, and often there is a waitress; but service is not a problem, as there are only six tables in the dining area.

• John P.

  star star star star_border star_border 2 August 2026

  'Kibo' was our pick for dinner the first evening of a recent July stay in Hope.  Though a good while ago, it was a return visit for us (we dined there in 2017).
  
  We chose to sit at the same table as before (but the restaurant's ambiance & surroundings did look more than a little changed & unfamiliar).  Our server (new to us as well) was at our table promptly, with menus, and not long after, with mugs, and a large pot of hot tea.
  
  We used the printed menu, and the wall board's listing of 'specials or featured items of the day' to decide what to order, and went with the following:  -- from the regular menu:  spicy agedashi tofu -- from features on the wall board:  house special rolls, and chicken yakisoba, which included servings of miso soup, and an appetizer-sized, assorted tempura.
  
  Presentations looked good, but all preparations just lacked ingredients, and some flavourful "spunk & excitement".  The miso soup was warm, but just flavored water.  The tofu was creamy good, but what was that spicy, red sauce dripped on top? it looked and tasted like a few drops from that commercially-prepared bottle of red stuff many of us know - I washed it off in the watery, quite unflavourful sauce underneath the tofu, so that I could eat and enjoy the tofu.  I counted only a few, very tiny 'slivers' of anything looking or tasting like chicken meat in the yakisoba preparation - and the preparation itself was bland.  The tempura was fine - thin coatings, sweet & tender ingredients.  The rolls, though I remain unsure what the ingredients really were inside them, looked and tasted fine as well.
  
  To sum up our overall dining experience at 'Kibo'  -- service was fine (though quite short of being very cordial or personal), food presentations were fine, but ingredients and preparations were just 'ok'.  I rate our total dining experience well-below what was experienced at this restaurant before.

• Carolyn L.

  star star star star_border star_border 1 August 2026

  It is a charming little place set against the mountains backdrop.
  
  The prices seem fair, a bit lower than those in Metro Vancouver. The portion is also smaller. That probably explained the next table ordering another bowl of rice to go with the dish.
  
  Food was decent but it was nothing really outstanding. Maybe for Hope, Kibo is considered one of the better Japanese restaurants around.
  
  Service was ok, and too prompt. Bill was given while we were eating halfway. Then my friends' plates were removed even though I was still eating. It created a very hurried atmosphere, and the place was not even crowded.

• Lauren L.

  star star star star_border star_border 1 August 2026

  A good little Japanese restaurant in the middle of Hope. I enjoyed their salmon rolls, but I was disappointed with the chicken teriyaki roll. Any roll you can make "spicy" may just have some hot sauce on top. However, my husband thoroughly enjoyed his regular beef teriyaki.