Came here on a Sunday and sat at the counter with my hubby. The food here is great! It is the best sushi restaurant I have tried in Toronto so far, but not the best I have ever had (best sushi is Sushi Dai in Tokyo!). This place is pricey but the food is excellent quality for Toronto.
$50 sashimi platter with lobster added - nice variety of seafood, ranging from extremely fresh and large spot prawns (my fav on this plate cause it is so buttery) to tuna and salmon. The lobster is a great deal since it was only $10 more and you get 2 lobster miso soups with it which were nice (not too salty). I feel like some of the fishes on this platter can be fresher like the tuna but overall it was good.
Beef tartar - pleasant but was not outstanding, the bread to meat ratio is off, we were really generous with topping our bread pieces with meat and still had lots of meat left over with no bread.
Nama - 7pieces of sushi, the rice was a nice texture, not mushy and has a nice vinegar ratio. Rice to seafood ratio was good, the sushi here is very comparable to a slight above average sushi place in Japan (but quite a distance from the best ones).
Aburi - 7 pieces of blow torch sushi, I ordered this on a friend's recommendation but I must say I did not love it since the cooking from the blowtorch took away the endogenous natural taste of the fish and also changed the texture in an undesirable manner. These pieces also were adulterated with mayo topping for the pressed sushis. I guess for me the raw seafood complemented with mild soy glazes or a bit of ginger or wasabi or scallion depending on the seafood is what I love. So this was a miss for me.
Service was attentive but not intruding. I quite like this place and right now it ranks the best in downtown Toronto for sushi and sashimi for me. Hopefully this focus on quality sushi trend is an upward trend, maybe one day Toronto can have a sushi restaurant close to the level of Sushi Dai in Tokyo.