i have eaten at Wakame over the last three to four years. As it is walking distance from home. Excellence has never been a noun I would have ascribed to this establishment.
Food has been uneven and service abysmal. The latter to the point that on a recent visit I brought my own pencil for the all you can eat menu. In response to a previous time where we waited over ten minutes for one.
This week as I attempted to enter the place I was taken aback by the red Dine Safe sign affixed to the door stating the establishment is closed!
An order issued by Toronto's Medical Officer of Health. Done so as a follow-up to a conditional pass issued on March 27th. of this year. It's unfortunate that the owners were given nearly four months to clean up their act and failed to do so.
Now a secondary sign put up by the management reads (and I quote verbatim):
Restaurant Renovation Notice
Dear Our Value Customer
To serve you better, we will closed for whole kitchen renovation,
We will reopen soon!
We are apologize for any inconvenience
Wakame Sushi management
The apology is more than a little late. Akin to a kid expressing regret after they were caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jar. One's health, while dining out and trusting an establishment, has far more potential impact if gone awry than been caught stealing a cookie. I walk by this restaurant several times a week and they're almost always full. So a lack of financial resources to redress the issue of the March conditional pass can't be the reason.
If and when they re-open, consider carefully whether this is a place you'd like to patronize.