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| - I've tried Kinjo's Dalhousie and McLeod locations before and I remember the sushi and service being mediocre but the hot food was good. I decided to try the newly opened Country Hills location as I could not be bothered to cook on a Friday night after a long day of work. The line was long but the wait was short. The restaurant is modern and huge. The Van Goughs paintings were an interesting touch. We ordered some sushi (tuna, salmon, male dragon roll) and hot items (gyoza, karage chicken and magic steak). The sushi came out first, and wasn't bad. It was better than the other locations. The rice was soft and the fish was fresh. The fish portions were reasonable for the price. The hot items came out slowly one by one after we devoured our sushi. The karage chicken was dry and just when we thought they had forgotten our gyoza and magic steak, our server, Fanny, checked their progress for us. The gyoza came out but the magic steak never came out. We asked Fanny to take it off our bill. She brought us the bill and apologized for the kitchen "missing" the steak. I would've been more amused if she said it "magically" disappeared.
I must admit, I was impressed this time by the quality of their food but their service is still spotty. The staff are young which means you can expect some degree of unprofessionalism. One young server even brought a volcano California roll to our table that we never ordered. She circled the room once and came back asking us "Are you SURE you didn't order this?" No, young grasshopper, we did not. As for the long wait for our food, I can only attribute that to half the staff being too busy singing Happy Birthday every ten minutes.
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