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| - This place is Legit Japanese.
Having lived in Japan, restaurants which bill themselves as Japanese but then serve up something deep-fried beyond recognition as "tempura," or a mayonnaise-covered monstrosity wrapped in rice and seaweed and try to tell me it's "sushi" make me angry. Like green-skin-and-purple-pants angry.
I went here last week with the gf, and it was much better than I expected for a Japanese restaurant on the east coast, let along for one on Wellington St in Verdun!
The place has a very Japanese (but still causal) feel to it, which is obvious as soon as you walk in. The space isn't big, and it wasn't too busy when we went there on a Friday night. You could see from the back-log of takeaway containers that the place is popular (there was a constant stream of people coming in to place and pickup orders). I always feel like any popular sushi restaurant must be pretty good - there's not a huge room for error when you're serving raw fish.
The tempura batter was light, and dipping sauce spot-on (not too much soy sauce). The sushi was good, and I'll definitely be going back there. I wasn't a fan of the signature Wellington Roll (it's deep-fried, see above), but that's more because of my sushi-snobbery than anything else. I'm sure it's great for you sushi-heathens.
The prices were good value for money (not the cheapest place in town, but then again I wouldn't want to eat sushi from the cheapest place in town).
We didn't get sake, but there's a few of them on the menu so you can indulge if you want to get your samurai on. They also have wine and beer, but you can't bring your own.
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