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| - Quick summary of the positives: This place has a nice atmosphere, and I enjoyed ordering from the ipad. I also liked being served my own personal pot of green tea. The shrimp tempura was good, and the rolls weren't bad.
I went here for Sunday lunch and found it pricy, but I was more than willing to pay the $16 given the great reviews. There were many options for curries and rices, but I was here to eat sushi, and I found the selection of rolls/maki extremely limited! On the whole list there were 3 rolls that sounded interesting to me. The tempura rolls were cold through and pretty soggy, which to me indicates they weren't fresh. I also ordered squid and shrimp tempura, and as I mentioned the shrimp tempura was good, but the squid tempura was not. The batter was also completely different on the squid.. barely even what I would call tempura batter.. so I'm pretty sure they just served frozen fried calamari and did not batter it at the restaurant. I got my shrimp tempura first and my squid tempura at the end, after everything else, which I found very strange. My rolls were okay.. nothing special and nothing I'd crave or particularly recommend to anyone. I also had pad thai and I didn't enjoy it. Mostly onions, green peppers, and red peppers. The chicken had a weird texture and I wasn't used to seeing so much red onion in pad thai... On top of all that, my meal gave me very bad heart burn for the rest of the day, and I never have heartburn. And I know this sounds strange, but their soy sauce seemed somewhat flavourless to me! It was probably just low sodium but it bugged me.
Overall, I was very surprised to find this place had so many good and rave reviews. Not to be overdramatic, but for simple comparison's sake, this might be the worst AYCE sushi experience I've had. Given, I haven't gone too many places, probably because once I find a good place, I keep going back, but I will not be returning to Heart Sushi. I usually do AYCE in Toronto and once in a while in Newmarket and I've never had a bad experience, and I wouldn't say this experience was 'bad,' but neither was it 'good.'
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