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| - Probably the most horrible place I have been to in all of Toronto. I'm very surprised at the positive comments below. The place will not do well if they do not make improvements on quality of service, food, and prices.
I have been to this place twice since it opened. To see what Camto(the bar before Japas) had become is a true disappointment. Firstly, it is not a true izakaya if there are no free side dishes (Otoushi) when you first arrive.
The first time we went, my boyfriend ordered a bowl of rice for his grilled saba(mackerel). The saba... was probably the most delicious thing on the menu, so kudos to them! However, the rice arrived cold... as though they had scooped cold rice into the bowl and forgot to microwave it. This is beyond taboo. It's like they accidentally revealed a secret! Anyways, we asked them to heat it for him and the waitress looked very embarrassed and quickly went to reheat it. When it came, the middle of the rice was still cold.
We also ordered two draft Sapporo pints. And for a true beer drinker, you could immediately tell the beer was old. It was slightly rancid and flat. I called the waitress and told her in Japanese that the beer was flat and she offered to pour us another pint, but I refused since the second batch probably would have been the same.
I had the Kaiseki Oyakodon which was Salmon sashimi and salmon roe over rice, which was not as bad as I had expected... but really, how can you go wrong with sashimi... you don't have to cook it.
The second time we went, which was a few weeks later the gifty bouquet of dead flowers were still in display at the front entrance. My boyfriend insisted we give them another chance since they really messed up the last time.
This time we ordered 2 bottles of Coors Light, a bowl of Udon for me, and fish and chips for him. The bowl of udon was obviously instant. Frozen raw udon and Kikkoman Menmi soup base. The udon was over cooked, and the soup was so thick and sweet I could not eat it. My boyfriend's fish and chips were also a disappointment. The fried fish were size of two man's thumbs, and the "chips" were cold and oily. Tar tar sauce was great though, it probably came from a jar.
All in all, if you're going to serve guests instant food, you might as well go the extra mile and be creative. I understand it's the age of the izakaya battle for Toronto, but this is what happens when you have Chinese capitalists thinking they can get away with overpricing a service they can not even master. If they really want to get in on all the action, they either need to hire a few Japanese chefs to run the kitchen or go to Japan themselves and see the real deal, instead of imitating what's here in Toronto.
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