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| - First let me express my surprise with the otherwise glowing reviews of this Yorkville disappointment. I have to disagree, but first some disclaimers.
1) My review is based on my first and only time eating here.
2) I only had a light meal and was in a bit of a rush.
3) I spent a couple of years in Japan, and may have 'unrealistic' expectations for this type of cuisine...
Disclaimers aside, the restaurant was woefully understaffed on a Wednesday evening just after 8 p.m. You would think two waitresses would be enough for this smallish room, but my girlfriend waited five minutes at the door to even get seated, and we both waited longer to get a drink order in.
The waitress was smiley, and her kimono was cute enough, but maybe it was what was slowing her down? She also brought one tea, when two were ordered, and I had to call her back on behalf of a neighbouring table who were having no luck doing it themselves.
Poor service can almost always be overcome by good eats, but alas, it was not to be. The sushi combo "B" was a tray with six california rolls and about six or seven nigiri. The rolls were poorly made -- actually the worst I've seen in a restaurant. The maki were loose, and the rice seemed dry, which made them crumble in my chopsticks. They were also sliced sloppily, with long odds and ends of avocado and cucumber sticking out.
The nigiri were a mixed bag. The hamachi was buttery and tasty, but the hokkigai (surf-clam) was rubbery and the salmon was listless. This was also the first time I have been given a clump of rice with an entire piece of faux-crab on it as a nigiri. I didn't even eat that one.
Perhaps worse than the sushi was the "fried tofu" which I took to be an attempt at agedashi tofu. Maybe I shouldn't compare it to that dish, since the name was different, but it looked similar. Well, similar enough. The small triangular tofu pieces were swimming in a soupy sauce -- way more than you would normally get in agedashi. And when I tucked in I found the soup to be very sour, almost just like vinegar. The tofu itself also had a slightly sour taste.
Miso soup was nothing special, but OK. The little run-of-the-mill salad that came with the sushi set might have been the best part of the meal, as it had a half-decent ginger dressing.
After all that the price was a shocker too. For one person The bill was nearly $30, including one bottle of Sapporo. Ouchie.
True, there were signed photos of stars like Richard Gere, Lucy Liu and Michael Ignatieff (does he qualify?). But after eating here, I think this restaurant trades much more on it's location than it does on the quality of the dining experience.
Cheap but acceptable sushi is kind of a Toronto staple these days. Unfortunately, on the night I ate here, Shogun had neither.
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