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| - I recently moved into the Yonge-Eglinton area and decided that I had better get a move on trying out all of the Japanese restaurants here. :D Sushi Rock is the latest place I've visited and I can't say that I was overly impressed at all. It's not that the food was horrible or anything, it's more like the entire experience left me feeling really bland.
First of all, all of the food my boyfriend and I ordered wasn't bad. It was edible but if that's all I can say about the food, that's not a very praise-worthy complement. I ordered the pan-fried gyoza, vegetable tempura, ebi nigiri and the equivalent to a dynamite roll. My boyfriend ordered the chicken teriyaki entree and gave me the miso soup that came with it.
The pan-fried gyoza was made with chicken. They had a vegetarian option available but it wasn't labeled as being pan-fried. They were decent but something about them just fell kind of flat for me; I've eaten far better in other places. I think I might be picky though, since my boyfriend seemed to enjoy them enough. The ebi nigiri was alright but it didn't taste like it was really fresh. It was kind of warm but it still managed to taste alright.
The dynamite roll was listed as being a shrimp tempura roll, from what I remember, but also came with avacado and cucumber. It was poorly put together. The rice was flattened as thin as possible and patches of nori showed through on the outside. It also seemed kind of loosely held together. It tasted okay, but I wasn't really impressed.
The chicken teriyaki had both white and dark meat options. My boyfriend had ordered the white meat and found that it still had a lot of gristle. It came slathered in a copious amount of teriyaki sauce. I stole a piece from him to try for myself and it did taste okay but as he says, if it had less gristle, it would have been infinitely better. The miso soup was pretty average, no real complaints there.
The service was really good, for the most part. The waitresses were all friendly and quick to come back to refill our glasses with water. It wasn't until the end of our meal that I started to feel somewhat unimpressed. The waitresses all cleared our table and continued to give us refills on water but no one had asked us if we wanted to order anything else and we had to wait a while before we could even get a chance to ask for our bill. Also, the vegetable tempura was never brought out to us. (Fortunately, we didn't get charged for it.)
The interior of the restaurant is nice but I felt like I had absolutely no privacy as the tables were all spaced fairly close together. It was really loud and I felt like the crowd was a little pretentious for my tastes. I suppose the type of crowd that frequents the place can't really be held against the restaurant itself but I left the place feeling pretty "meh" overall.
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