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| - Toshi Ryoriten is the rare authentic Japanese restaurant in York Region. It is expensive, but mostly worth it.
I had dinner at Toshi late week and fortunately the restaurant was empty. The owner is probably not glad for it, but I prefer fast service and we received it. The waiter and waitress were attentive. There is not a quality check, but they are politely observing you and attentive to your needs.
The menu offers sushi, cooked food and combination sets. The omakase (chef's seasonal choice) sets are either a $65 or $85 course. I had the $65 course and was offered a uni and ikura appetizer (fantastic), a series of sushis (salmon, tai, toro, anago, shimaaji, kanpachi, etc. the star of which was their exclusive foie gras which was literally melt-in-your-mouth), a soba noodle bowl and a red bean jelly dessert. The fish is tasty and expertly cut, the rice is superb and the chef has a couple of techniques up his sleeve that clearly work.
Everything was either good or excellent, but the sushi was superlative, while the cooked items were just good. For those who want to order bentos and items like Teriyaki, etc. Toshi has a good menu selection as well.
The washroom and restaurant was clean. I am not sure why they have the braids at the entrance, but it is irrelevant what the place looks like when the sushi is this good and the staff are polite. The restaurant shares a typically ugly and bland suburban plaza with the likes of Price chopper and Tim Hortons, which is the usual I gues.
Toshi, a transplant of downtown, is joining Inaho, Miyabi and Zen as authentic sushi restaurants north of Steeles and that is a very good thing!
I wish they would lower their prices a tad so it becomes more of a restaurant one can visit often, but they are still cheaper than Zen and Yasu a tad and mostly just as good.
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