A couple years ago, I had the chance to eat up a whole lot of it on my dream trip to Japan, and I wasn’t even remotely tired of it by the time I returned home. As you know, Japanese cuisine is one of my absolute favourites. It is a tad pricey at $80 a person, but that’s because you’re pretty much renting out the entire restaurant when you go with your friends and take one of their 13 seats and enjoying top notch seafood.I just ordered a plate of aburi sushi and a salmon hand roll from our local sushi joint, inspiring me to write up this post on my favourite Japanese restaurants in Toronto. I can’t wait for my next one! As a matter of fact, Yasu is a restaurant I would probably love coming back to again and again to try the chef’s selection. After the experience, I said to myself, “how can I go to any other Japanese restaurant in Toronto now for sushi?” The quality just won’t be the same! Nevertheless, I now know more about fresh sushi and what authentic omakase is like. The unbelievable quality and freshness of the fish cannot be beat. It was truly so unique the way that you get to watch every piece of sushi being made in front of you by an experienced chef and have an incredible experience enjoying the sushi in each course as well. So efficient!Īs you can tell from my review, I absolutely loved every minute of my first omakase experience. and they had just enough time to prepare until their next seating at 7:30 p.m. The omakase lasted two hours until 7 p.m. Everyone really enjoyed the Red Snapper! I actually didn’t know this about omakases. Gladys was smart to know that in most omakases, the last piece is actually complimentary, so we asked for the Red Snapper. The key word of the night would be “perfect”, I believe, haha.Īfter all the 18 courses were over, the chef asked us how everything was and if we wanted to try anything else. Actually, all of the rice in each sushi portion was measured perfectly so you didn’t feel like you were eating too much rice and that the seafood balanced out with the rice perfectly. The way the individual salmon roe pops and explodes in your mouth with the rice is unbelievable. You wrap up the salmon roe with the piece of seaweed and eat it all in one bite (the server also told us that everything should be eaten in one bite that night). When they gave it to you, it’s on a separate plate unlike the other sushi where the chef places it on to your individual plate. I absolutely love uni and this place does it perfectly! ❤ I also really enjoyed the salmon roe. The uni was so unbelievably fresh and melted in my mouth when I ate it. My favourite of the night was the sea urchin. Here is the order of the sushi that we had the pleasure of trying that night: I think I got a really sweet spot as the sushi chef was right in front of me! I took a lot of pictures.Įach sushi was so fresh and “freshly sliced and placed atop warm, loose rice then brushed with a touch of nikiri soy for a perfectly balanced bite”. There were three chefs and all the seats were filled by eleven people to watch them prepare the sushi. It was clear that he was skilled beyond comprehension and his hands knew exactly what to do with each fish. It was amazing to be able to sit right in front of the sushi chef and watch him carefully assemble each fish and sushi. The sushi chef would make the sushi in front of us and then present it on the plate in front of us (which also contained a small mountain of pickled ginger to clear the palate after each course). Nevertheless, I was so thrilled with the night and how it unfolded. The chefs were clearly Japanese and sometimes when he announced the sushi after placing it on the individual dish in front of us, I found it a little difficult to discern what he said. I am still learning all about sushi and their Japanese names.
The sushi was prepared for us in quick succession. Throughout the night, our gentleman friends were kind enough to let us sip the sake so that we could also get an experience of the sushi with the Japanese wine. Both Eric and Steve chose the sake pairing with the omakase.
Upon sitting down at the sushi bar, the server asked us about our drink options. It’s a very minimalistic restaurant where the focus is on the seats that face the sushi bar. The restrooms are located straight up the stairs. The rest of the restaurant space is dedicated to a coat rack and the kitchen. There are only 11 seats at the sushi bar in this restaurant and two seats at a small table.
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