I was absolutely surprised by this place. I was aimlessly wandering the danforth on a day off and happened to see their lunch special sign. Woodbine and Dan isn't a place that usually crosses my mind for sushi. Bored and hungry, I went in anyway. The place looks like a hole-in-the-wall pub back home but I did notice even though it was ugly it was very clean. I couldn't clock a single stray grain of rice on the carpet. Stuff was about a dollar more than the budget sushi places downtown or in the annex which put me off for a second. I ordered a lunch special with california roll, spicy salmon roll, soup, and salad ($7.95) with a yam tempura roll on the side ($4.95) thinking the special would be too small. This was waaayyy too much food. The extra dollar apparently goes to mega-sizing your portions.
The soup and salad are both bigger than other places. The salad has cukes, tomatoes, and carrot. The miso soup is the super salty kind I love but some others might find over salted. The rice in the rolls was well seasoned. The rolls, despite the 6 pieces in the special pictures, were 8 huge pieces. California was on the tasty side of average. The spicy salmon had the most salmon I have ever seen anywhere in a salmon roll. It was a whole lot of fish. They also stuffed in avocado, spicy mayo tempura bits (the crispiest I've ever had in a roll), tobiko, and lettuce (wtf?). It was kind of like a kitchen-sink roll but it was great. The yam tempura roll was also on the tasty side of average. Tea was free and at the end of my meal I got half an orange and a fortune cookie (wtf?). The server was super nice and attentive while I was eating. She sucks at math and brought me a bill for $23 for the above (wtf?) but after I corrected her math she was very apologetic. This place is a solid 3.5 stars. Rounded up to four for being close to home. I'll go back when I'm too lazy to hit the Annex.