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| - Sushi is my first go to when I first start travelling to a city. It's predictable, gluten free, and filling enough to stave off hunger for a while. Yuzu No Hana was my first foray into TO sushi and in one visit I tried a variety of rolls with the seafood rice bowl (shrimp, tobiko, scallops, seasoned vegetables, quail egg, rice, in hot stone bowl).
The food was neither good nor bad... just meh and rather bland. The rolls were generous in ingredients but oddly had no taste except for a smattering of sesame seeds. Strangely, there was no wasabi or ginger. I was able to swap out the shrimp tempura for plain shrimp in the rice bowl, but again, the whole dish was really bland. Also, the stone bowl wasn't hot enough to make the rice crunchy at the bottom (the best part of stone bowl rice dishes)... this may have been an unexpected good thing because the restaurant was super hot like a sauna (adding a hot bowl to the table would have made the temperature worse).
I don't actually know what to expect for sushi in Toronto. Perhaps my expectations are high after working/living on the West Coast for 4-years where even supermarket sushi is super fresh and melts in your mouth.
I will say that the wait staff (especially my waitress) were really sweet and friendly. The two-star rating is for the food.
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