My partner and I booked a reservation. Given that we love to eat sushi, it's a shock that we've never gone to Aoyama when it's so close. I also went to Jabistro (on Richmond Street West) and here is what I found...
Aoyama is more price effective then going to eat at many other high end sushi locations.
Aoyama is also much more delicious than Jabistro.
Aoyama was incredibly filling. My partner can eat quite alot and he was beyond comfortably full.
We ordered the omakase set which came with 3 appetizers, miso soup and the omakase sushi ($97). The omakase set is for 2 ppl. That's 10 pieces of sushi per person and 3 of pieces of the salmon hasomaki each. I think that this would be sufficient for 2 people.
However, we also ordered the sashimi omakase and it was quite fresh. I've never had fresh red tuna in Canada. Never. But this was fresh. :) I've worked in a sushi restaurant before and had red tuna in many restaurants (including those in Japan). These were the freshest and nicest cuts of red tuna I've had in Canada. I don't have any complaints regarding the other pieces on the omakase set. However, I don't think we can fully appreciate the uni sushi. It's too fishy and sea water pungent for our liking. ( I believe it's an acquired taste.) But that was fine, we just packed that to go and gave it to a friend who actually likes uni. However if you know that you don't like uni, you can ask the waitress to substitute the uni for something else (aside from the toro).
We also ordered the omakase sashimi ($29). Apparently, you can eat the shrimp head. It was fresh and delicious. Very value for how fresh the sashimi was.
Would come back. The ambience was also very nice. They took us to this separate area and it kinda made me feel like a princess :) I liked it there. Would definitely come back.
Oh only down side we came across, the seaweed/Nori o
n the spicy Salmon handroll was kinda soggy and not crispy.