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| - I can't figure out exactly why all these amazing reviews have been posted for this place. Those reviews are exactly what compelled me to try this place when I was feeling like sushi in Whitby this afternoon. It's not easy to find good sushi and I was looking forward to finding a gem in a city that hasn't lived up to my sushi expectations.
Lunch is well priced, $12.95 per person for AYCE with a good sized menu. Note that any items with flowers are only available for the dinner menu. We ordered a good selection of stuff, including spicy salmon rolls, dynamite rolls, beef pad thai, vegetarian rice paper rolls, spring rolls, wontons, dumplings, sushi and tempura (broccoli and shrimp).
I ordered a seaweed salad which came first, the portion was too large for me for a starter salad with lunch so I wasn't able to finish it but it was as good as you would get at any other sushi restaurant. Rolls came next with the sushi - sushi was good. The rice paper rolls really piqued my interest but the vegetarian ones were boring. Just vermicelli noodles, cucumber and another veggie, not carrot. Nothing really going on there - disappointing. They could have thrown in some veggies of different colours or something to kick it up a notch. The salmon rolls weren't very good - they did that thing where they chop up all the ends of the sushi and use them in rolls mixed with spicy sauce. Not only do I hate this style of preparation, they weren't very good. Too much rice and no additional sauces on the outside. So these became the type of rolls that, if you don't like sticky rice, you'll want to gag on. Boring.
The dynamite rolls were much the same, uninspired rolls as the salmon ones and I couldn't finish them. No extra sauce drizzled on top, as is customary with these rolls, very dry and very boring. Tempura shrimp and avocado in a roll need some extra help, more so than soy sauce can give them. The spring rolls were full sized but there was too much of one particular spice in them. The wontons were great, but you can't go wrong with deep fried wonton wrappers. Almost no filling in them though... don't know why they bothered to fill a teeny tiny portion of whatever it was. May as well just fry them plain,they're good like that. The tempura was okay but nothing special. I didn't eat the beef pad thai but my boyfriend said there was barely any beef in it, but he did eat the entire portion.
Service were was very good - prompt and friendly, our waitress explained the menu to us when we indicated we hadn't been before. Lunch included a soft drink or green tea, which is nice because it helps keep costs down.The restaurant itself is very modern and clean and has a nice atmosphere. But those things can't bring this restaurant back from the boring uninspired food we had today.
Something super important to me in a sushi restaurant is being able to execute sushi well. If you don't eat sushi then sure, you don't care about the quality or taste of it because you get chinese and thai dishes. But you can't offer sushi and have it be boring or poor quality. The sushi here - don't order it. If you like chinese, this may be a place for you but definitely not a place for a sushi eater.
Overall, not worth a second look. Do yourself a favour and go elsewhere for sushi in Whitby. I won't be back, only because so many dishes were so very boring and lacking the extras that you would find elsewhere that everything fell flat.
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