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| - After hearing about all the reviews, I decided to finally try it myself. Came here on Monday for dinner for 2.
First is the call for reservations. Have hearing about one yelper let it ring for 30 minutes, I wanted to see. My call lasted 8 minutes before they decided to pick up.
As for the food:
- Lobster bisque: wasn't warm, and even slightly cool. The shrimp inside the bisque was also cool. Come on, soup should be warm or hot. Taste was meh. 4/10.
- The torched sushi: somehow from the yelp pics, I was under the impression that there would be a lot of variety. But there seems to be only torched salmon, tuna, and beef sushi. I guess weekend dinners have more selections. The first 2 orders didn't have a lot of torched taste. The third one was warm and had a good torched taste. 8/10
- Pressed sushi was okay. Also 3 kinds--Salmon, tuna, and shrimp. 7/10.
- Salmon sushi, ika sushi, masago sushi, and saba sushi were good. 7/10.
- All the sushi had excellent fish to rice ratio. It's worthy of mentioning because some places give huge rice with little fish.
- Salmon sashimi was not that good. Pieces were a bit thick. Tuna sashimi didn't completely defrost yet. 5/10.
- Baked oyster and mussel were good. Nice and hot. 8/10.
- Shrimp tempura: was ok, but the sauce didn't come together with the tempura. I was thinking "is the sauce really coming? forget it I'm gonna have a shrimp first." Then sauce came after we had 2 shrimps. 7/10.
- Lamb and quail skewr were ok. 7/10.
- Beef ribs were good, but one or two were like 90-95% fat and 5-10% meat. 8/10.
- Creme brulee was decent. 7/10.
- Lamb in mashed potatoes was excellent. Nice and hot. 9/10.
- Mango slush was good. I ordered 8 of those things (more on why right below). 8/10
Service:
- Food came relatively quick for a roughly 75% full house.
- Not really related to service, but the restaurant was kinda hot. Mom was a bit hot too, but not like me. I sweat a lot (but I tend to sweat easily). That's why I ordered so many mango slushes lol.
Cleanliness - A few turn offs:
- First, when I was handed the ipad as the server explained the menu, the ipad had a piece of rice with a piece of fish roe on it. All the time she was talking, I was just looking at the rice and thinking "is she going to notice it and remove it? will she? WILL SHE??" Nope, aaand *flick*.
- For the the 2 glasses of water, the glasses came with some serious stains. The teapot lid was also grimey.
- I was told one toilet in the ladies washroom was clogged with toilet paper.
- I noticed one instance when a server was serving sushi around the restaurant, the table number ticket (the one that indicates which sushi plate is for which table) was put right ON and touching the sushi. Come on, that's just.. sigh. I've noticed this in a couple other ayce sushi restaurants too.
Price:
As of today, price was 26.99 for weekday dinner, 24.99 for weekday senior dinner. A bit pricey for ayce sushi restaurant, but I'll give it credit by saying it's one of the better ayce sushi restaurants, especially since it's a bit more unique as it serves pressed and torched sushi.
Obviously, Jabistro's pressed and torched sushi is much better, but Jabistro's 8 piece torched sushi set is 28 bucks (when I had it).
Conclusion: Good sushi, but the quality is still only of the ayce caliber. Worthy to try if you haven't tried yet. Not sure I'll come back again on purpose (just cuz I don't go to ayce that often), but if friends are planning for ayce sushi, I'd recommend Kaka.
Quality: 7/10. Service: 8/10 Value: 7/10. Overall: 7.5/10 - 0.5 (for cleanliness) = 7/10 (not an average)
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