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| - I stopped at this restaurant for dinner when I was looking at Seneca college in TO for a weekend with my Mom, who'd never really had Japanese food, and well, it converted her and impressed me! The restaurant, to start off, is BEAUTIFUL. Even the place settings. No cheap paper placemats and disposable chopsticks- proper Japanese dishes and cutlery. Also an interesting design to space out tables and booths, themed like traditional fusuma and shouji screens and with BEAUTIFUL noren curtains. And a live lobster tank by the sushi bar.
I ordered the lobster tempura dinner and Mom the teriyaki salmon- it came with miso soup, complementary tea (the whole pot, too), a bowl of white rice, and the main dishes themselves (mine was a lobster tail done in tempura, a variety of tempura vegetables including my favourite yam, and a salad of sorts, Mom's was a large salmon steak done in teriyaki seasoning and a large bunch of mixed vegetables, I think- I was too busy enjoying mine to look much!). Portions were good sized and both of us were too full to eat everything as a result, but we sure tried. A small complimentary dessert of lychee pudding too, that was a plus (didn't really like it, personally, but I just didn't like the flavour of it. There was nothing actually wrong with it). The lobster came fresh out of the tank when I ordered it, so was it ever delicious! And they served the meat fancily tucked under the boiled tail and on a bed of this deep-fried broom shaped garnish of sorts (I tried eating it. It's technically edible, just not tasty. Leave it as garnish).
Haven't tried the sushi menu yet, but I'm going back when I move to TO in September and I'll check it out then!
The service was fantastic, though the waitress was a bit on the "watch-you-like-a-hawk" side, especially with us right by the kitchens. I'm guessing because at the time we were the only ones in the restaurant (we had an early dinner and it was thursday night). I certainly liked the prompt service, though I tend to like a little more privacy than that to converse while eating.
It's a bit pricey (expect to pay $30-40 a person for a dinner out depending on what you order), but VERY worth it.
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