Lunch date on a Saturday at 12:30pm.
We walked in at 12:30pm on a Saturday. Every table but 2 were taken by parties of 4 or more. We waited at least 10 min before being seated in a private room. Loved that, but that love soon turned to regret! It took just over 20 min for anyone to come in to ask us for our drink order, to bring us some green tea and to take our food order. 30-35 min since we arrived at that point. Their menu is HUGE! There are so many sushi, sashimi & terriyaki options. Large variety of special rolls - which i love! I placed the order for myself and my "guest" because we were going to share everything in addition to ordering a couple of items (sushi & salad) each for ourselves. The server took down the order & replied "that's a lot of food for you". Hmmm, REALLY?!? Even if i did order all of that for myself (which i didn't) - unacceptable comment.
Here are the items we ordered:
Deep fried tofu: generous portion of crispy tofu with terriyaki glaze drizzled on it
Gold 888 Roll - see pics
Double Dynamite Crunch Roll - see pics
Sashimi salad
4 pieces of a la carte sushi - maguro (tuna) - melt in your mouth goodness! Best i've had at any sushi restaurant in Markham!
My only issue was the wait time when we arrived. Also, we were there for just over 2.5 hours in total from the time we arrived to when we finished eating. NOBODY came to our table to ask us how our food was or to offer us anything else to drink after we received our order. I wasn't impressed by that at all. I'm hoping to go back & try the terriyaki & bento boxes. Hopefully service wont be an issue again. One thing we did notice was that there was a bell on the wall to push for service - they didn't point it out to us when we arrived and were seated. By the time we noticed it, they never came anyways.
Overall the quality of food was great. Flavours were certainly there for the different types of rolls and the sauces used to accentuate the flavour of the fish in each roll. Presentation of the sushi & rolls was beautiful and nicely done. Nothing fell apart. They could do without using curly parsley as garnish - doesn't go with sushi. The ratio of fish vs vegetables was perfection! Money well spent for the meal! They just need to work on service there.