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| - Tokyo Sushi House is a delicious fusion of Japanese cuisine and signed pictures of Tia Carrere. If you like either, this may be the spot for you, and if you like both, well...let's just say you won't be disappointed.
The multiple signed photos of Tia Carrere will greet you upon your entrance to Tokyo Sushi house. There are other celebrity photos donning the wall, and you are more than welcome to peruse them. X-Men actors Jack Human and Halle Berry both loved Tokyo Sushi House so much they broke their "no signatures pact" to pen their names on framed portraits, only for T.S.H.
Fun Fact: Tia Carrere is not the only cast-member of "Relic Hunter" to have eaten and loved Tokyo Sushi House. Tucked around the corner of a load-bearing pillar, you'll find co-star Christien Anholt's visage also endorsing T.S.H's cookery.
**If you're a humongous fan of Relic Hunter (and I'm not certain why that would be the case) then you can safely stop the review right here and head on over to the corner of St Joseph and Bay. It's already been vouched for enough for you! What more do you need? A recommendation by Lindy Booth??? (It's perfectly acceptable for non-fans to not understand this reference, there is no need for you to waste precious time on imdb as I did.)**
It took my GF and I quite some time to pick among the many roll options - we settled on a pickled radish maki, the St Joseph roll (Asparagus, cucumber and BBQ Eel) and a spicy scallop roll. The scallops were my favourite. I've noticed lately toronto sushi establishments like to overindulge their spicy rolls in tempura, but not at T.S.H. The rolls were packed to the brim enthusiastically with succulent scallop meat.
We also settled on a Chirashi Don which came with several varieties of Tuna, Salmon, Mackerel, Butterfish, Shrimp, and Squid, on a bed of very flavourful rice. I found the cuts of fish themselves to be abundant, flavourful, and consistently tender.
Pricewise, T.S.H runs higher than the standard Bloor/Yonge joints, but for good reason: the chefs know what they're doing, and I can trust them to deliver a solid serving of soosh. Depending on your tastes, I would advise skipping the sushi combos and getting rolls a la carte. Though, I'm not a Bento Box man and based on other yelpers' pics, those look pretty dynamite too.
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