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| - Went out with a friend and we decided to give this place a try. It's new in the area but a chain, there are some others elsewhere in the GTA.
The place looks like a bar not an all you can eat sushi joint. The music is really loud and the tables are really close together.
The wait service we experienced was unbelievably overbearing! You'd hardly have the last piece of sushi off a plate and the 3 spies 5 feet away would be descending on the table and reaching across your face to take the empty dish. Over the course of 5 minutes we informed 6 different wait staff to leave the "empty" bowl we were using for our edamama shells ON the table and stop trying to take it. One waitress went so far as to pull another off to the cash counter point and sneer at us - completely unacceptable. The service was genuinely annoying! Yet the servers were nowhere to be found when you actually needed something and definitely had some difficulties getting by in english (which isn't entirely uncommon for an AYCE joint, but typically you can get by)
They also made a big deal out of us asking to change tables due to some disturbing and unwelcome conversation by other patrons right next to us - tables are a little close for comfort, booths are nicely spaced.
The "buffet" salad bar was more reminiscent of Sunday morning brunch than any type of Asian establishment. Romaine salad with a variety of dressings, 4 different kinds of soup, crab legs, a bunch of different "salads" of sorts (corn, chicken, one looked like it had shrimp, another chick peas) there were about 8 or 10 all told - didn't try any of them. Soups didn't look appetizing. All we had from the buffet was the ice cream (nothing special/nothing to complain about)
The 23.95 any night of the week for an adult is a little pricey for what they offer, I can get a bigger selection, better quality, better service and a few dollars off at other AYCE joints equal distance from my house.
Deep fried or greasy food was REALLY greasy, didn't want to eat it greasy, a few unique items that were tasty. Had 4 different varieties of cuisines, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Japanese. Lemongrass beef tasted like it was teriyaki not lemongrass even though waitress insisted it was the lemongrass dish. Edemame overcooked by a long shot.
Will say that the, I think it was called "cripsy milk pudding" it's a dessert item, was pretty delicious. Asparagus bacon roll also pretty good (hard do mess up bacon!)
Definitely wouldn't go out of my way to go back
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