Kanji has just reopened in Parkdale and has taken up the mantle of the only sushi in the neighbourhood. The food is incredibly expensive for what your receiving and the service really, REALLY sucks. When they're not trying to sucker you into ordering more food or over priced cocktails they seem to think that the best method to keep you ordering is to ignore you - we asked for the bill and after 30 minutes of waiting and a conversation with the floor manager were finally given an opportunity to pay. Our waiter then presented us with a lame excuse about how the place was so busy he couldn't make it over to our table and yet there are over 5 waiters on the floor on a Tuesday.
The food was fairly mediocre, we ordered a Boston roll, a veggie plate and a salmon selected plate and it was all quite good but nothing to get excited about - its food which is served with a myriad of pretty but un edible and thus useless garnish. We also ordered two cocktails - my companions drink was lovely and lemony which complimented the sake nicely, mine was what appeared to be an old fashoned made with sake instead of bourbon and no sugar - which gave it a kind of rotten taste that reminded me a little bit of steaming compost. I suspect It would have been easier to order these drinks or any drinks at all for that matter if our waiter had actually given us a drinks menu rather than saying in a barely audible voice what of the two cocktails were selling well.
Bottom line: Food okay, service unforgivably awful.