The never ending quest to find the best sushi in the GTA brings me to this out of the way spot time and time again. I usually depend on a ride from my drooling omakase-crazed friend for a ride to Newmarket but this never takes longer than a few seconds of suggestion to get him to comply. Yes, to quote the cliche - It's worth the drive to Newmarket!
Solo Sushi Ya is in a nondescript little building way the heck out in middle of nowhere and is owned and operated by a mild 'sushi-nazi'. Legend has it that he has chided many a folk when they unwittingly order mundane concoctions like "sushi-pizza" and other 'fast foody sushi" at his establishment declaring it an insult to his fine skills.
Master Jyo is not far off base with his chiding, I tell ya! Once you have eaten here, you will almost never eat at another one of those mass 'sushi' houses or gasp, 'all you can eat sushi buffet' places ever again.
At a not unreasonable $55 for omakase, every dish of prepared food and sashimi as well as sushi is expertly prepared. It's impossible to find a weak spot here. All the prepared food is gorgeously presented, changes often with the seasons and super tasty. Likewise, the sashimi and sushi plates are supremely fresh and expertly cut like how the gods intended and far from hacked off pieces of raw fish that you might get at lesser establishments. You learn quickly that sashimi is NOT merely cut up pieces of raw fish and there is a great deal of care and thought put into the selection and cut of the sashimi.
On our most recent visit, the main prepared dish found a steaming put of 'gen kani' (a bizarre hairy crab) soup/stew loaded with fresh veggies simmering in a sweet briny broth (not sweet like sugar but sweet like flavourful). Wonderful!! Eating the hairy crab was an usual experience but more than worth the effort for the sweet delicate flesh.
I cant say enough about Solo Sushi Ya, each visit is a whole new amazing experience and probably some of the best Japanese cuisine one can sample without flying all the way to Tokyo.