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  • I haven't eaten on this strip of Bloor in years and was completely taken by surprise by the number of Japanese restaurants. It turned out to be a coin toss as to which one we chose and with hunger having a good grip on us we chose Noka since it had seats available. Now I know why. Aside from getting prompt service when taking our order I had to flag down servers for anything else. The roll we ordered (Noka Spicy Salmon) was a mushed up salmon mix piped on top of a lackluster roll of rice, pollack (the fake crab) cucumber and I can't remember what else. Way too much rice in the roll for my liking, and not much for flavour at all, even when eating only the "spicy" salmon topping. It was hard to tell if the salmon was fresh, though I'd bet it was old, hence making it a mixture. The fish slices on the sushi were dwarfed by the massive rice boat it sat upon. I was not partaking in the All You Can Eat menu so was perplexed as to why they'd still serve it this way. I ended up slicing half of the rice off, and there was still plenty left to serve as a bed for my fish. In my 20+ years of eating sushi this is the first time I have ever had to pick a bone out of my mouth. This pretty much wrapped it up for me on ever coming back to this place, or recommending it to anyone. The icing on the cake though was the surprise 12% gratuity added to the bill. Of course, as businesses who don't care about repeat customers tend to do, they calculated the gratuity after taxes. Tips are always based on the price of the meal, basing a tip with the taxes added is like saying you're grateful for the tax... which I don't think anyone is. The result is my tip was over 13.5%, and - of course - the bigger the bill, the larger the tip percentage will be. Don't let that 12% fool you. Now I'm not a cheapskate when it comes to tipping and usually tip above what their mandatory tip is, but I object to being told I must pay a gratuity for bad service and low end kitchen staff. Also we were a party of 2. If we were a party of 6 or more that would be a different story. In the end kids I'd say take 20 steps in either direction of Noka, or cross the street. Just take your business to any one of the dozen other Japanese and sushi restaurants in that 3 block strip. You really couldn't do much worse.
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