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| - Alright, so I went to a Yelp event at KaKa AYCE and met some mighty fine Yelpers. It was a fantastic tasting event, well organized and lots of food, however many of us Yelpers have reserved our opinions that night because we realized that the restaurant was just opening and the owner seems really enthusiastic about the opening. The owner shared his vision of this downtown KaKa AYCE location to be a more upscale version as compared to the Markham location. I can see where they are trying to go with this as it has a prime location and the renovation of the restaurant is quite nice.
The combination of the food and drinks was awkward. I can see the intent behind some of the items trying to be more upscale, but it was like the chef who designed this menu got a little too creative without actually tasting some of these dishes. We gave some honest opinion about the lychee mixed drink being too sweet (lychee liquor is already sweet, add grenadine for some nice pink colour, but then you're just drinking sugar). I also grimaced at the dish with truffle oil drizzled on top of sashimi that did not look so fresh. I'm not even going to get into the roll with asparagus, mayonnaise wrapped in sashimi.
It still seemed like a fine establishment that can recover, so I decided to host a lunch for my work team here. I was curious about the AYCE torch sushi. They did not take reservations for groups of less than 6.
When I came back on a weekday lunch I found out that they no longer offered an AYCE lunch menu. We ordered a la carte, and the one roll that I would recommend would be the Chef Frank's roll. We also had the poke roll and that was good too (pictures shown). If you go here, definitely order these. Don't order anything with truffle oil, or anything that sounds creative (coming from someone who is a very adventurous eater).
I was disappointed that they charged for regular green tea that would typically be free anywhere else. Usually when sushi restaurants charge for green tea, it's something a bit more upscale and they would usually leave the tea bag in.
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