Akita Sushi

I’ll start by saying that the service is definitely not the greatest. They don’t appear very welcoming, bring incorrect orders, and can take quite a bit of time when asking for small things (ie. refill, extra wasabi, etc.), they also include their own tip in the bill without telling you so watch out for that. However, I’m the type of person that can ignore crappy service fairly easily, and I enjoy their food which makes going there worth it! I wouldn’t say their sushi is fantastic, but I’m not picky and find it great! I personally love their snow mountain rolls, green dragon rolls, cheese wontons and spicy beef udon noodle soup. When they were closed after the fire a while back I had a pretty hard time finding places that had food that was as good as those (particularly the snow mountains, wontons, and soup), so I was happy to be able to eat those again when they opened back up!

The food was awful, the service might be worse. They didn’t even bring me half of what I ordered, definitely won’t be returning.

Food is okay, nothing special. The service itself is poor. I keep giving it a «shot» because it’s in town but I know there is so much better in the Newmarket/​Aurora area. If you are a first timer here– take a look at your bill. They include their own tip and refrain from telling you.

Food is really good… honestly very good… Service is spotty… often they’ll bring you the wrong items… but they’re always cool when you tell them they brought the wrong thing… again, food is great…

I went for the ayce dinner. The server didn’t really greet us at the door and wasn’t that friendly either.
There are a lot of choices in the dinner ayce menu but the quality of the food wasn’t that great. The sashimi was cut in super small slices and they fill the sushi up with tons and tons of rice. I remember ordering a spicy salmon sushi and what came to the table was a mixture of tempura and spicy mayonnaise mixed together on top of the sushi… there wasn’t even any fish in it.
The kitchen food was ok… I remember the chicken teriyaki was pretty good and the dessert was pretty average.
I definitely wouldn’t choose to go back to this place. there’s a lot of better options out there.

I had the All-​You-​Can-​Eat Lunch on a Sunday around 2pm. Lunch AYCE menu does not come with the two items I really wanted: sashimi and Beef Short Ribs.
I can deal with good food and poorer service (as a lot of Asian restaurants don’t have great service) but when both food and service is mediocre at best… I think I would have given 2.5 stars if they had half star options.
This is what I ordered:
Item 1) one Spicy Salmon Sushi. This came as 3 pieces, raw salmon mixed with spicy mayo wrapped in seaweed (like the way they do the fish egg sushi) with some tempura bits sprinkled on top.
Item 2) Kimchi salad. This didn’t come, then I reminded the server when she came by so that she ended up grabbing this for me.
Item 3) Salmon & Avocado roll. This came as expected, no surprises, which was good.
Item 4) Snow Mountain Temike (handroll), has crab meat, mayo, shrimp tempura. Decent.
Item 5) one order of Shrimp Tempura. This never came.
Item 6) Spicy Salmon roll. I would never order this again from here. It’s mostly tempura bits and the little bit of raw salmon that is lost in the roll it seems! I specifically asked the server what was in this roll and she said in her broken English that it had salmon and cucumber. Inaccurate description! I ate one piece and left the remaining 5 there.
Item 7) Deep Fried Tofu. Nothing great. I guess I was hoping for Agedashi tofu like I’ve had at sushi restaurants in Vancouver.
Item 8) one order of Sweet Potato Tempura. This came with 2 pieces.
Their take-​out menu that I had at home said AYCE Lunch was $ 13.99 but apparently that’s not updated, it’s actually $ 14.50. My bill came to $ 16.55 and I didn’t order anything not included in the AYCE. AND that was with a $ 1.50 off coupon. I should have asked for a copy of my actual bill, as they didn’t give me that when I walked up to the cash register to pay.
I’m wondering if they charged me for the spicy salmon roll that I sent back — again, I had told the girl that I didn’t want this and that the other server told me there was salmon, cucumber, and spicy mayo in it but it turned out there was no cucumber and it was full of the crispy tempura bits with some salmon. Barely any salmon in my opinion.
Lunch all-​you-​can-​eat is supposed to be $ 14.50. So minus my $ 1.50 coupon makes it $ 13.00. Add 13% HST and it should have been $ 14.69. They charged me $ 16.55.
I do recall another reviewer saying she wasn’t pleased with the automatic $ 4 tip that Akita added to her bill for AYCE. Maybe they added an automatic tip to my bill that I didn’t know about. I only tipped 9% for my bad experience but it looks like they still made about a 20% tip off of me.
Conclusion — not the best sushi, not great service, pricey for what you get. It’s unfortunate that I’ll have to drive 30−40Km out of Bradford to get better sushi.
Best LUNCH All-​You-​Can-​Eat sushi that I’ve had so far is Diamond Sushi in Barrie (they have better rolls, and Beef Short Ribs). $ 13.99 per adult Mon-​Thurs for lunch, which is $ 15.81 after HST.

First time at the place. Price is a bit expensive, maybe ok for a sushi.
Food is ok, some very tasty.
The grade is most related to the bad service. Even the manager/​owner is not so nice. We just moved to Bradford, I told my wife it will take a long time before I try again.
Better gead to Newmarket to get a decent japanese food.

The sushi is thoroughly average. Nothing exciting. The service is cold and abrupt and it is far too expensive, in my opinion. That is especially true then their coupons are laughable. Why waste the paper to print a $ 2 off deal? We will gladly drive just a little farther for better and warmer service.

I went here earlier with a couple of my friends. It was my second time going, and I was extremely hungry after the exams. Since this was the only sushi restaurant in town, we went to Akita’s. Honestly, I would have to rate Akita’s sushi a three.
The sushi was OK, it was not the best nor was it the worst. The appetizers tasted better, in my opinion. My friends and I, ordered the cheese dumplings which were very delicious. We also ordered salmon, tuna, California roll, spicy tuna etc… It was not the best. As for the ice cream, I would say it is the best. There are many flavors that you can choose from and they all tasted really good.
The service was terrible. It took us a while to get a waiter, and they got our orders mixed up many times.
In the end, for an AYCE it’s OK. The price at lunch of $ 12.99 is average, considering that it is the only sushi restaurant in town, and the quality of the food. The automatic $ 4 tip was very dissatisfying due to the fact that I did not enjoy their service at all. The quality of the food was OK but the service was terrible.

Sushi was pretty good tasting for Bradford at least however the prices are pretty high for what you get.
The issue we had with Akita was that the service was much less than stellar. The first order of sushi had decent turn around time although there were mistakes and the second time we had to wait over 10 minutes before we waved down our waitress and asked what the status was.
The restaurant was very busy this evening so I hope I’m a one off case and others get better service in the future. The manager at the end discounted our bill and was very polite.

Re-​opened after many months of being closed due to a fire. Great atmosphere and the AYCE was amazing too! So happy they are back.

They’ve been closed for renovations for awhile now. I guess they decided that all the coupons that they distributed in the area would cost them too much money so they closed shop under the renovation pretence. Coupons have now expired so they’ll probably open back up soon. Too bad for them we found another sushi place that is much better and cheaper (and no added automatic tip).

The food is flat out terrible! Please don’t subject yourselves to the torture of sitting in this restaurant.

I love all you can eat sushi and I have my favorite spots I like to eat, this is not one of them unfortunately. My boyfriend and I took some friends here from America and the food was really good and quick. They brought us some wrong items a few times and forgot my friends handrolls and sushi, which was… not cool. I live in Brampton and we used to have an Akita sushi, it was only okay as well.
My group still had a good time and filled up on the food but the menu is limited when it comes to sushi items, focusing more on teriyaki and other non-​sushi items. Meh. I would not go back because there are much better sushi restaurants around, with a better wait team and menu.

Akita Sushi is OKAY, Ive had better sushi in my lifetime, but what makes me not want to go back there is their staff, they are rude and disrespectful, especially the guy at the front who thinks he’s the boss, I’m assuming he’s not the boss because he’s way too dry and ignorant, he does not have the decency to say thank you when paying the bill or even when leaving the restaurant.
Price: For ACYE sushi you’d think t would be a good offer for $ 23, but i was wrong, the bill for my husband and i was $ 60 and thought we over paid.

I am what I like to think a sushi expert. This restaurant is very dirty. The waitress’ are very rude and they bring you wrong dishes. I once had to wait 15min for wasabi major disappointment !!!

Akita Sushi was dIrty, sticky menus, unfriendly to the point of rude waitresses AND poor quality sushi… don’t waste your time with Akita Sushi… make the drive down to Newmarket to Golden Maki on Leslie, worth the trip.

There are warning signs in life. A dog with the hair on its back standing up… A wisp of acrid smoke coming from an electrical outlet… The guy with the tinfoil hat and the hunting rifle…
The place was packed on a Friday evening, and I was able to get a deuce by the front door, complete with a sticky surface. Warning number one.
I should have known better than to forgo the All-​You-​Can-​Eat sushi for something off the menu, but I wanted good sushi – not a carb loading. I saw a lot of «white tuna» on most selections, which should have been my second warning.
I ordered the Sushi Fall combination, and substituted the white tuna (I hear there is no such thing as white tuna) for salmon. The meal started with a standard Miso soup and a lettuce salad with what tasted like a salmon dressing. OK so far.
The sushi platter was a shock. Each piece was a handful of rice with a wallpapering of fish tissue on top. I then realized that ordering off the menu at an AYCE means they likely just make up your special order with the stuff pre-​made that morning for the bargain eaters. The total amount of fish protein must have been less than 4 ounces, for $ 15.
The spicy salmon hand roll, instead of being crisp, was chewy and flaccid. Normally I find a hand roll has fish right to the bottom of the cone, but this one faded to pure rice halfway down. The octopus sushi reminded me of accidentally eating a piece of pre-​chewed gum a week later.
I found that if I took the fish off two pieces of sushi and put it on one portion of rice, the proportion became reasonable. However, the fish was not as fresh as most sushi restaurants, and I would rate the freshness at the sushi kiosk in the food court of Upper Canada mall better.
Should I have gone with the AYCE instead? No. At most restaurants, all you can eat is made in advance, so it could be sitting since the morning. Golden Maki in Newmarket does all you can eat the right way, making it mostly when ordered, and is pure gourmet in comparison.

AYCE sushi. I used to love these places but have realized there is much better sushi out there. I also find I over eat at these places and feel lazy and tired afterwards. This was pretty much my first AYCE sushi I went to and have been to this establishment multiple times. Of all the AYCE sushi places I’ve been to I do find this place to be my favorite and my family feels the same.
The restaurant is run by Chinese and most of the waitresses are also Chinese. Dealsies if you can speak Cantonese with them! The service here is good for the most part but I think they need a new organizational system as almost immediately after I order, another waitress is at my table asking me for my order. Another thing that prevents me from giving this place a higher rating is that they sometimes forget my order or part of my order and after a large order, the staff seems to slow down with the attention they give you. This is generally not an issue with 2 – 3 people but becomes especially annoying when you come with a larger group.
Location: Bradford… Akita is close to the Wal-​Mart. Not a bad location I guess.
The food: They are quick. The rice is always cooked well and the amount to fish you get is usually a fair amount. I say usually because again, after a large order, if you order another piece of say, teriyaki salmon, I’ve found my next piece is generally a bit thinner. Fish is fresh. As far as tuna goes, they only have white tuna. Their soba is filled with noodles (too much) and it tastes like the same broth for every type of bowl you get. Yummy though. As for me, I usually get the cold rolls or sushi: California, B.C., avocado, salmon and then salmon sushi or sashimi if I’m there for dinner. And then spicy seafood soba. I’ve eaten other stuff that family or friends usually get and the taste is delicious with almost anything I’ve eaten there except the tempura. Something about it I just don’t like. 4 flavours of ice cream: red bean, green tea, mango and vanilla.
Pricing: Don’t know the exact prices but I was there for lunch today and for 2 people without any alcohol it was about $ 35.
Anyway, will I come there again? Of course but just not often. Like I said, there are far better places but as far as AYCE, this place is great.

I’ve been here a few times now and the food is pretty good. However, the staff don’t speak very good English and are very unenthusiastic to clear your plates and take orders. Some of the servers smelled like marijuana today which I find very disappointing.
Although I enjoy the quality of food for $ 11.99 lunch special I won’t be back due to the staff and the drugs here.
Don’t forget the bill includes gratuity.