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| - As far as All-You-Can-Eat (AYCE) sushi goes this place is as solid a 4* as you can get bordering on the 5 but not quite.
All the AYCE places I've ever been to in recent memory all have pretty much the same things in common. They are all starting to go tech with the ordering done through iPads, all seem to have a different menu for lunch and dinner and all range around the same price and offer the same items give or take a few. These days the only way you can assess an AYCE sushi place is what is on the menu and what isn't during lunch vs dinner... oh and how much does it cost?
That would be true if all the quality was equal which we know just is not the case. Sure salmon sashimi and nigiri, maki can all be prepared and presented differently but some staples are just what they are no matter where you go. These mundane items such as seaweed salad, miso soup, even Tempura don't vary much from place to place.
I think what makes K&B special is that it seems and/or looks like a more upscale type of place as opposed to many of the past places that I've gone for AYCE. The tables are still covered in paper so there's that quick way to change the table for the next customers but the ambiance, service and overall look of the place looks like they're going for a more upscale feel. The iPads for ordering is done quite simply. It's not complicated to figure out really. Items on the menu are broken down by category but there is no real description of anything. What's that? You don't know what yakitori or karaage are? Oh well... For the numerous named rolls which seem be known such as rainbow or green dragon etc... what's in that?
The menu gives you photos of the food, the quantities are explained in the corner so if you want 20 pieces of white tuna sashimi than you have to click on the "+" push to get your desired quantity.
Being that we went for lunch and we can't see what's NOT available on the menu for dinner we had no idea. It was not until my brother asked about the coconut ice cream where we were told that's only on the dinner menu. How else would we know since the iPads were in lunch mode and not displaying what we cannot have (greyed out or red X'd or something). No, the items we couldn't have were just not displayed so in reality we didn't know what we were missing.
The item selection for lunch overall is pretty decent and diverse. How much was it? It was 18.75 after tax for each of us. Is that a decent price for lunch? It's more affordable at say Moon on Erin Mills and that place is good too.
Overall I think what you're getting for what you're paying for is good. The food is good and you can have as much of it as you want. The rolls aren't overly done with a lot of rice in fact the rolls have a thin layer of rice so you're getting more inside than out so to speak. The portions, who cares really... you are able to ask for as much as you want. The quality is what matters and while I found the pad thai to be under spiced (I'm used to it being hotter) the rest of everything was good. The katsu was ok, the karaage was nicely done, the fried rice was tasty, the nigiri and other maki were nicely displayed and presented and the food tasted overall, good.
I can't fault the place for looking better than other places and perhaps charging a bit more. Their selection of hot food we also had ordered included kalbi, sesame chicken, beef and mushroom rolls as well. Notably they had salmon skin in both maki and temaki which I love but noticeably were missing unagi nigiri but unagi was available in a maki. I thought that was strange. Of course white tuna is available as a sashimi for lunch but I don't even know if they had red tuna on the dinner menu. Not being able to see it on the lunch iPad prevented that knowledge so perhaps ignorange is bliss? Not many places I've ever seen in Toronto offer maguro as part of a AYCE menu dinner or otherwise. This is not Miami...
Overall the place is one of the better places I've been for the price for lunch and while my brother has been for dinner before and I have not, he can't remember what else wasn't on the lunch menu but it didn't really matter. We had a good, decent AYCE lunch at a nice place for under 25 bucks each after tip. The service was very quick and it was a better than average value for the money since the food was good. I do want to come for dinner though to get the full experience. The place really started to get packed after we showed up after 12:15 and by the end of our meal there was a line up to get in.
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