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| - I ate here on Sunday at 12:30p. There was only one other couple eating there, which made me nervous (I never like to be the only person at a restaurant I've never tried), but I decided that most people probably aren't early risers on the weekend. Mostly I was craving sushi and the Sushi Q wasn't open yet. I went for the "All you can eat" lunch for $13. Not a bad deal. Started with perfunctory miso soup and iceberg salad, which was simply drowning in the, albeit delicious, ginger dressing. Ordered salmon and red snapper sushi. The salmon was so-so, not extremely fresh tasting. The snapper was chewy. Maybe this is normal texture, but i had to literally rip it into two pieces to chew it. Strange. The rice was quite warm still which added its heat to the coolness of the fish.
As for service, the only thing worse than a server having the disappearing syndrome whenever you need something, is the server having nothing better to do than watch your every move and pounce as soon as the last bite enters your mouth. Even as I was chewing the last piece of salmon, my waitress took away my plate and asked if I would like something else. I excused her as being eager to please.
Next I ordered a spicy tuna roll that took awhile to arrive, probably owing to the fact that they didn't have the tempura bits on hand yet and fried them up fresh. Normally I would have tried the eel, but they did not have it on the menu as sushi and I simply couldn't eat another roll.
Again, even before I was finished the waitress was back asking if I would like anything else. The other tables were finally starting to fill, so now I took her attitude as actually trying to rush me out to get the table back. So much for my relaxing lunch and catching up on reading session.
Just for kicks (and maybe out of stubbornness), I decided to order the vegetable dumplings, pan-fried. I always like to try dumplings at different restaurants to see if I can find ones that are anywhere near as good as the ones my friends' mom used to make. As always, I was disappointed. These were filled with indistinguishable mush.
So there you have it: a so-so experience of sushi that is pretty much the norm in Toronto.
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