Had Friday off and decided to drop by New Sushi Island with some peeps for lunch. Now they have a lunch AYCE (All You Can Eat) for $11.99 pop not included. Which isn't horrible and isn't great. But for downtown the price range is alright.
We were starving and ordered the food asap. While waiting a sudden hypothesis dawned upon the group, "What kind of restaurant was here before?" The decor very much had a Japanese gloss over on a design that existed before. The top 2 choices were either 1) a seafood joint or 2) a Mediterranean joint. Personally, I think it was a Mediterranean place before.
The food came one by one and there was a constant flow throughout lunch. There's a number of good choices that one can make. The group really enjoyed the Jada Island Maki (essentially a shrimp tempura roll with a green grape), the chicken Teriyaki (a chicken fillet with a crispy/crisper skin on top with Teriyaki sauce) and the steak onion pieces (chopped up steak pieces marinated with what appears to be onion and garlic). Some other notable choices included the dumplings and the green dragon roll. Though we did have two green dragon rolls where one was good and the other not so much.
As an AYCE in downtown Toronto, it packed a good variety and though it wasn't the best it was okay. There's a good Maki selection and the hot food choices were alright. Having eaten the salmon sushi, it was.... mixed across the board with our group there. They seem to be inconsistent as may be good and bad ones mixed all together. I have a feeling it's dependent on each batch of salmon that was delivered for that month or week. Green dragon roll was alright.
Overall, New Sushi Island is an okay choice in downtown Toronto. But as a recommendation, only go there for lunch. As well, I would only go there for AYCE as if you were to go there for anything else it may not be worth it. If you're around the region, AYCE lunch isn't a horrible choice. You'll for sure leave full.