I could not resist the 18-piece veggie tempura dinner with soup and salad for six bucks! Tempura is my major culinary weakness.
The tempura has a nice mix of veggies -- mushroom, sweet potato, zucchini, Japanese eggplant, and broccoli -- without any of the filler veggies that I never want. I can't decide which is the best piece to save for last. :) They're a little sparse on the batter as if it were a bit too watery.
The place is really warm and comfortable and not pretentious. It looks like a bar, with all the fixtures and wood and metal, and they're playing classic rock/pop in the background. The art hanging on the walls consists of random Japanese tchotchkes, but otherwise it just looks like a bar (a clean shiney well-kept bar, not a dive at all!). It's a fairly small place, and I don't think there was a table with more than four seats, so don't take a big group. It's not accessible as there's a step up to get in and the washrooms are upstairs.
I'll call this 3.5 stars for now. I got takeout, so I'm sure I'll be adding another star once I get to try the sushi and/or eat in the restaurant (so that the food is fresher than if it had just had a ten-minute ride in my bike basket).
Edit 21 Feb 2011: how can this sushi be so good and so cheap? There must be a catch. Just veggie rolls, of course, but they're very flavourful and stuffed to the gills. The wakame panko maki is an oddity but very tasty. A whole other star just for these rolls and the speed of delivery. Damn, these things are addictive. I appreciate restaurants that get experimental with veggie maki. A big mouthful of slippery wakame and crunchy panko... I love it until I have to start flossing bits of seaweed fibre out of my teeth. But that goes with the territory of being a seaweed salad junkie.
Okay, I'm right around the corner from them and I still had to order $20 of stuff to get delivery (too cold to walk, shuddup) but it's worth it. I'll probably save the veggie udon for breakfast because the rolls are just so satisfying. $20 plus tax and tip got me two big stuffed veggie rolls, plus veggie udon, plus 18 pieces of tempura and miso soup and salad.