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| - Kushimaru is a Japanese skewer "Osaka street food" restaurant and takeout location that recently opened up at Bay/Elm, beside the very popular GB Hand-Pulled Noodles and taking the place of the Waynak Modern Halal Eatery and the New York pizza place before that. They had their soft opening on May 5, 2018 after many many months of renovation.
My dinner companion and I each got a combo set. The combo set came with a good mix of fish, meat and veggie choices. While you couldn't choose what went into the set, they were very accommodating with "don't-wants", for example if you didn't want fish, or meat, etc. The combo platter is served with rice (more on that later), miso soup with lots of ingredients and a salad.
The best skewer is by far the cheese skewer (which I didn't get as part of the combo but requested later), which is best eaten fresh and hot! It was incredibly soft and stringy - stretching for as long as you would pull it. It also cooled down very quickly, so you have to enjoy it while it lasts.
The oyster skewer (also not part of the combo), bacon-wrapped leek, cauliflower and salmon rounded out my other top choices of the ones served in the combo. The only one I didn't enjoy was the beef. All the skewers have delicately thin crispy breading and the filling was soft/juicy and never overcooked.
The skewers are served in a combo with spicy mayo sauce. At the table matcha salt and a thick brown sauce are available. I asked more than once what the brown sauce was and still don't have an answer... but nevertheless it's still good.
I'm by no means a rice expert, but I did note that they didn't use the short grain Japanese rice that I expected.
The seating area is unfortunately small, with just several tables and bar seating available. They seem to have set themselves up as a takeout restaurant, even though they have great customer service and place settings (pro tip: the pretty bamboo cup is for your used skewers). Staff are very pro-active - if you look at them they will come right away to see if they can help you.
The staff are quite new but they had lots of staff on hand. I noticed after the fact that they had only charged me for the combo price ($18.99) without HST when I looked at my credit card slip after. The combo price or the other dishes are the only things worth getting - the premium for buying skewers individually is way too high.
They say that they do not use nuts in their food.
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