Tatemono is located in the large AMC Plaza near Thickson Road in Whitby and is the sister to Makimono, which can be found in both Ajax and Pickering.
I came here with my friend for my birthday dinner as I just moved to Whitby and wanted to find a good sushi joint to start going to. As noted above, Tatemono is the sister to Makimono so just about everything on the AYCE menu is on Tatemono's. And then a whole pile more! I was soooo surprised to see that Tatemono's menu has a number of Thai dishes and Chinese dishes to try out. And they're all reasonably sized so you can try a bit of everything.
Some of the new things I tried on this visit (and the following visit two weeks later) were the coconut shrimp, super crispy with a nice sweet coconut sauce, garlic shrimp, almost a stir fry style with lots of veggies and chicken balls, little tiny ones, so cute! Everything was super tasty and all of the sushi was up to par with the normal standards at Makimono.
Now service here has varied the few times I've come - my friend asked for a bottle of Blue and she had noooo idea what he was talking about. And he pointed to the menu item and everything and she still didn't quite get it. We were surprised when she came back with the right beer. We do get some things brought to us that are wrong, whether the waitresses can't read the menus or the kitchen can't read the orders is beyond me but it happens every time we go.
The upsides to this particular resetaurant is definitely the expanded menu and the atmosphere. It's a much nicer feeling place than Makimono, feels a little more upscale and a little more private even if you're not in a booth.
Overall, Tatemono was a great surprise and I'll continue to come back here and enjoy. Beware service at AYCE restaurants is never amazing so don't have high expecations there!