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| - I came here for the dinner AYCE sushi ($20.99) with my boyfriend and a friend who was moving back to Montreal. The restaurant itself looked like it could seat no more than 30 people and it wasn't particularly busy due to it being a frigid Tuesday night.
The AYCE menu was not necessarily more extensive than most AYCE spots within the city but the quality of food is noticeably better. Round one of four consisted of various sashimi, rolls (kamikaze, rainbow, tuna, spicy salmon and salmon avocado), fried tofu, karaage (Japanese fried chicken), spring rolls, beef ribs, miso and seafood soup, beef udon, beef teriyaki, and various tempuras. Knockout winner in this round was the sashimi. The ribs were more fat than meat but the sauce was the saving grace. I hated the tempura batter -- I went as far as trying to peel off the batter to get at the veggies inside because it was so thick (not the most easiest of tasks). The roll pieces kept sticking together and unraveling as I tried to pull them apart, but that's just an aesthetic hiccup and it was still tasty...so whatever. Beef teriyaki was tender and delicious. The subsequent rounds just felt like a different variation of the first but I did order more and more sushi pieces as the night went on (eel sushi and salmon sushi was very good, tuna sushi was alright).
The service was subpar. The waitress gave us the wrong beer in our first round and we just assumed that what we had asked for was not available, but a heads up would have been cool. Maybe she had misheard us or believed that asking for a Canadian really meant give us Heineken. As the night went on, we ordered more Canadians but kept Heinekens. We also didn't recieve all the orders we had checked off on the AYCE list. My boyfriend had checked off a bowl of steamed rice in every round but it never came and neither did my curry chicken rice entree. I would have given Yonge Sushi four yelp stars, but the service wasn't on the ball. When we got up to pay (we had to bounce, so waiting for her to mosey towards our table wasn't gonna happen) we also saw Canadians stacked in the fridge. Charging us an extra 30 cents per beer was pertinent it seems... Anyways, I'd come back for the food but be way more vocal on the missing orders and wrong beer.
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