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| - I ate at Shogun for lunch today for the first time. With so many sushi joints in Yorkville to choose from, I thought I'd take a chance on this one.
Service was friendly, and prompt. I was dining for one, and the servers made it feel less lonely. Within a few minutes of ordering, my food was on the table. It was perhaps, a little too fast. The sashimi looked like it had been cut and plated hours before my arrival. I got the 20/20 Bento box as well. It came with the smallest portion of steamed rice I have ever received in a bento. The California rolls were poorly shaped and falling apart, 3 pieces squished into a space so tightly together that it took significant work to separate them, and left bald spots in the exterior rice. The veggie tempura was decent, but the broccoli piece was not fried long enough. The batter on the interior was still raw and the broccoli was too firm. The pieces were stuck to the cocktail napkin they lined the bento with. The tempura sauce seemed either watered down or flavourless (and for a normally subtly flavoured sauce, that is saying something). By far, the worst part, was the chicken teriyaki. Maybe 6 small chunks of fatty chicken, drowning in sauce. Upon my first bite, I found that what I had thought was a chunk of chicken was mostly fat, and a big chunk of bone. In fact, about half the chunks were fat, and the other half were fat covered bone. I've never had chicken prepared this way. Ever.
For the 20/20 lunch bento and a 3pc salmon sashimi it came to $17 and change. The meal wasn't worth $6. Toronto needs higher standards for sushi.
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