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| - So I finally came to what was previously the only sushi boat place in TO. This is very japanese, people, so get over thinking this is cheap quality fish.
Although with a party of 4, I didn't want to sit at the boat, so I ordered from the menu. Started off I was starving waiting for my friends, but I gobbled down that marinated eggplant amuse bouche. I moved on to some more authentic japanese food once we all were settled. A plate of tofu served cold with bonito flakes and ginger is authentic, but the waitress made sure I knew what I was getting. Perhaps a few people were expecting Chinese-style fried tofu?
A few of us wanted just sashimi to 'see what the place was made of'. So, I shared the 16 piece chef's platter of sashimi and was so glad I did. For $28, you can't buy that much excellent quality at any downtown fish market. It was all excellent. However the rolls were really a miracle of tastiness- spicy hatote (scallop) roll was my fave, but the vegetarian dragon was cute and delicious. Between the four of us, we ended up with two "bottles" of sake, 300 mL each, so really like splitting less than one regular bottle of wine. The sake we got was the unfiltered genshu kind and was decent, but not on the menu. The price per person? $44. With more food than we could all finish, two appetizers and half a main, this was a great value!
The minus one star is for the service - we had to ask for water 4 times and it came around the same time as the bill. Also, we had really wanted to fun place on Saturday night and we had to listen to not one, but two awkward first date-esque conversations because there wasn't enough background music/conversation to drawn out the silent moments at their table.
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