I probably should have read reviews before going here because I was totally taken by surprise of the lack of the "usual" Japanese cuisine. I have never heard of this izakaya.....now I have and I'm better for it.
Once you can wrap your head around this type of cuisine it is worth experiencing. I ordered some sort of box (which I thought would be a bento box), and there was nothing similar about it (not even the shape of the box). Inside I had this aspara-bacon, some black cod, a whole shrimp (why can't the heads be removed?), some vegetable (was it even a vegetable?), another fish (was it fish?) with some weird bone structure, and pieces of tuna and salmon sashimi.
Final assessment: Different and not regrettable. I for a while I felt like I was not in Toronto (maybe it was because there were no windows or natural light). I think people should give this a try if you are willing to think outside the bento box and experiment with the traditional type cuisine us Torontonians are not used to.