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| - Ate here, well, by accident. I was having dinner with my cousin and he made reservations at Yama at the other end of the block; he always gets addresses wrong so after I sat in Yama for 20 minutes waiting for him, I decided to check out the other place on the block with a similar name and lo-and-behold, there he was... He was too embarrassed to go to the place he actually had the reservations at, so we stuck around.
I spent 12 years living in the San Francisco Bay Area so my tastes are... well, somewhat snobbish. There's nothing like living on the West Coast to teach you the finer things about eating raw fish. I find that most of the really popular sushi places in Toronto taste like supermarket sushi to me.
I miss having access to dozens of restaurants that serve the kind of ngiri and maki that, once you take a bite, you *have* to stop and savour and have little mini food orgasms. I've only encountered one Japanese restaurant in Toronto that offers that, and unfortunately, I can't afford to go back there more than for VERY special occasions.
So I go to Yumi. Are they up to the standard I like? No. Are they better than the average Toronto Japanese restaurant? Yeah.
It's better than decent, the service is good, the prices are reasonable, the place is clean, well-lit and well-maintained, and all in all, worth a visit or two. Well, three for me in the last month. :)
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