Memories of Japan

Just ordered take out and I am sadly disappointed in what I received.
I ordered their #47 SASHIMI KOBE. 3 Kinds of Fresh Daily Fish Sashimi (9 pcs.) 4 pcs. Daily Fish Sushi 3 pcs, California Roll, and I also ordered a salmon/​avocado hand roll.
I asked for just Tuna and Salmon as I am not a fan of snapper/​crab or squid and they told me it would be a $ 3 extra charge, ok no problem; however the only change they made was the sashimi the sushi was a mix of things I didn’t want.
My hand roll was over filled with rice and very little salmon and was also falling apart.
My sashimi width was normal but the length was not even an inch, the sushi was all rice, you could see the wasabi through the fish that’s how thin they made it, my miso soup was cold and my salad was browning.
I paid $ 29.43 for this and I am now sitting here eating crackers because this place can’t make food properly.
I would be fine with the portions if the quality was there but it’s not there; actually its so far from there that I think they left it back in Japan and now it’s just a memory.
Do yourself a favour and find another sushi place as this isn’t the place for you.

A little overpriced, but when you get the food, you realize everything is way overpriced for the quantity and quality of the food. Very poor quality control in what leaves the kitchen and is delivered to the table. Even before our sushi and maki rolls made it to our table, the maki rolls were coming apart, rice was falling off of the sushi when I picked it up by hand! And I want to emphasize, I eat sushi with my hands because it gives me more control and holds sushi together better, but the sushi was so poorly put together, the rice was not properly made, that it fell apart as I brought to my mouth…
I was not expecting good food at this place as I have been here numerous times since I was a child, and the only memorable experience I have ever had at memories of Japan was my first time here eating at the teppenyaki table when I was a child, and the Cook giving us an amazing show of flipping salt and pepper shakers, telling jokes, and cooking spectacularly. Since then, it has always been uneventful and unmemorable.

The standards have really fallen in the past year because the quality of the food itself is not as good. I haven’t tried the cooking tables but was very disappointed with the bento boxes on the last 3 visits.

We had our families Christmas dinner here tonight. We are surprised to have lobster added to the Tepanyaki dinner. We always come here for treats. Best food reasonable price.

This place wasn’t the best, but it was still okay!
The concept of Teppanyaki is pretty amazing though they underdelivered at this point.
There were two chefs, the first chef did tricks and was a great host! However, when we got the second chef, he did the bare minimum. There was nothing truly exciting about his lack lustre performance.
I ordered number ‘51’ which was a basic lunch at $ 11. It included, Salad, Miso Soup, Cuttlefish, Chicken, Rice and Ice Cream at the end.
It was great and all, but the service was slow and not really worth the wait.

I will not be back for AYCE. The menu is very regular and has nothing special. its competitive nowadays, the worse was… they did not have a quarter of the things they even list on their already limited menu.
Heres the breakdown:
The staff attending to us was not friendly, anything we ordered he would be rude and tell us they dont have anymore. for example… soup of the day? no… hamachi neck? no… hot and sour soup? no… beef skewer? … no… mango yogurt for dessert? no… ALL of these things were listed on the menu… they also seem very stinge with everything.
servings are small… which could be a good thing… i ordered beef sashimi. that must be the most horrifying color i have ever seen… it looked like rotting corpse from the walking dead color. just looked wrong. please see pics.
ordered the beef ribs… it came out jet black burnt… see pic. why would you bother serving it? it makes no sense. the dude left a paper on our table and did not take the order, so i brought it to the front since i was going to the washroom… he then gives me a lecture saying dont give orders to the front desk. i wouldnt have to if your service was better. water was never filled once.
the only reason this place gets 2 star is because they had red tuna as a sashimi choice. which btw came out two different colors. one time it was red. the second time i ordered it was light pink… i suspect they gave me F grade fish the second time around.
Oh yea they aint cheap either. 24 dollars weekday dinner. and heres to top it off. they only got a «conditional pass»

This is the worst sushi place ever! It is just a rip off place. For fish eggs they use food colouring and the rolls are pathetic! Just horrible!

We ate here today at (memories of japan). I say it will be our last! The serving is not overwhelmed due to small portion of the food. Then we order this salmon belly and the lemon still have that sticker from where it came from. I think for $ 26 per head is not worth it.

Issues with Service:
This is my second time visiting this place and it is shocking how bad the service has gotten. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a slow night or we weren’t part of the all you can eat crowd. It took forever to get a server. When they did come, it was to bring us someone else’s food.
If you are coming here, don’t get a private room and expect a wait for a refill of tea.
Issues with Food
The food was good but the presentation was poor. We ordered the salmon boat (30 pieces) and got it in a small white plate. This is not a place to go for a date, it’s the place you come to when you don’t care about impressing anyone.

Came here for lunch AYCE on a weekday.
Their menu doesn’t have anything unique or special, pretty typical selection for AYCE sushi restaurant. Their nigiri were very fragile, with the rice part broke into two almost immediately after being picked up by chopstick. Their spicy salmon and salmon rose were much better and consistently made.
The service is very slow. I arrived before noon before lunch crowd came and it still took more than 70 mins in total. You’d better order everything in one order or else you have to be ready for extended lunch break. The waiters are generally friendly, but amount of sushi delivered were often less than what was ordered.
Overall, it’s an okay AYCE sushi restaurant, one of many.

In general, this is a very mediocre Japanese all you can eat restaurant. With all the competitions around town, they really need to do better. The sushi wasn’t fresh, the waiters showed no interest. One of them was so uninterested she would bypass you when you tried to get her attention, even though she was right by your table. The owner was the only slightly friendly person. Food quality is definitely very poor. Compare to Genghis Khan Mongolian Grill next door, with the same price you get much more, plus fresh food and better service. I wouldn’t recommend Memories of Japan to anyone and I would never return.

Being close to the hotel I stayed at, I drove by the restaurant a few times before I decided to stop in. Normally I’m not a fan of buffets, but it was late and I didn’t know the area very well.
The food was surprisingly good. It’s not a standard buffet, where everything is cooked at once and left sitting there under heat lamps for a few hours. The server hands you a few order sheets, and you mark down the quantity of each item desired, whether it’s sushi, appetizers, soups, noodles, hot dishes, etc., and they make everything to order.
That’s correct. Everything was made to order.
This was nice as it let me try a variety of different dishes and appetizers. The sushi was also good, and tasted fresh. The waitstaff was prompt and friendly. I saw that they also offer hibachi, but I didn’t try that, as I was dining alone
Definitely worth a try if you’re staying. In the area.

Have only had the AYCE sushi, so not reviewing the other items. It is quite good with generally very fresh offerings, including some Thai stuff. The main problem here is the very slow service and the tendency to forget items or bring less than the quantity ordered. If you are not in a hurry and want AYCE, it is not a bad option. The pseudo-​Japanese décor is a little tacky looking.

I like their A La carte menu. Prices are great. quality is great. Service is OK!
I go there if I crave Japanese food!

Went for the all you can eat deal they have here and it was great!
I’ve been coming here for years because of the Teppanyaki, where they cook right in front of you and sometimes put on a show, which was always fun. About a year ago they added the option of AYCE since a new restaurant that was doing that opened up a few blocks south of here. But Memories of Japan is way better value.
I had the miso soup, salmon rose, white tuna sushi, salmon belly, beef rib, chicken teriyaki, salmon teriyaki, beef teriyaki, enoki beef roll, pork cutlet, chicken cutlet, deep fried scallops and green tea ice cream. All of the food was good. They usually have more dessert options but seemed to be out today, but that didn’t bother me since I was absolutely stuffed. As long has they have green tea ice cream I’m happy :)
All that for $ 13.95 + tax and tip was well worth it, I will definitely be back for more.

Super small portions for their orders. We would order 3 – 4 portions and then still get the same amount as 1 portion. So many items never made it to our table. We had to call the manager over and he said they do that so people don’t waste and he said from now on if we order multiple he will ensure we get it. Well they didn’t happen. We ordered 4 orders of squid and got a tiny plate with a small lump of it.
Staff look unhappy and not welcoming at all. Out of all the all you can eat sushi places this is the worst one. Go to Tenichi or Maison du Japan or anywhere else.

I’ve been coming here on several occasions now starting from years ago. The food has gotten better along with the staff as the place has grown over the years. The place looks essentially the same as it did over 10 years ago, but it’s not a bad thing as it has a kind of peaceful and quiet décor. I prefer their private rooms as they are nice and quiet for a group gathering our just a couples dinner. The regular seating is not bad as well. One thing to note is their washrooms are way too small for the size of this place!
The food is standard and comes out fairly quickly. It is nothing special, but it’s always cooked well and I have never had a problem with my food. They do offer sea urchin on rare occasions and it’s a delicious option to have. I do suggest going with any bento box combo they offer as they come with a lot of choices of food and will fill you up.
Overall a nice place to take friends or family and the prices are not bad at all for what you get. I’ll come back here again when I’m around the neighborhood.

This place is mediocre at best. We came for the lunch buffet. The fish wasn’t really fresh, the spicy salmon sushi is just leftover trimmings of the salmon nigiri that get put on a roll of rice with some spicy mayo tossed in there, which would be fine if the fish was at least fresh. The «tiramisu» is a 2 inch tiny cup with a piece of vanilla cake, with sugar syrup and cream on top, it’s nothing like actual tiramisu. And fyi, the Unilocal deal is only valid for dinner. You might as well go to a real sushi restaurant for their lunch bentos, or just go next door to Mongolian BBQ buffet which is way better.

I’ve dined here a couple of times. The most recent time was by far the worst experience yet. There was only three of us, and we had dinner AYCE. Our first set of order which was hardly even six choices from the menu took atleast an hour to be served. I am not over exaggerating when I say that. I live about 5 minutes away from the restaurant, and I’ve been wearing my contacts all day so because the food took so long to come already being 40 minutes into the wait I left and drove home to get my glasses– drove back and STILL the food wasn’t there.
Finally after the blue moon the food was served… Oh, but wait? Only ²⁄₅ things came out so we waited… and waited… I asked the server to check on our order because by now we had already put in our second set of order. She told us they were making it but even when the second set of orders came out our FIRST order never did. So basically they forgot. I was pissed off. However the food was decent. The service was horrible, and the waiters weren’t helpful at all.
We would ask for water, napkins etc. Never came unless we reminded them at least 3 times.
Concluding my review. It will be my last time dining there, I do NOT recommend this restaurant. There are other reviews here that make this restaurant look so good. That’s just too bad my experience there was the opposite.

I’ve ate here on 3 different occasions. A week ago, a year ago, and ¾ years ago.
First time I came here, it was very busy during dinner hours. The décor looks the same now as it did then. The main thing I remember was having lobster sashimi for the first time and it was amazing. I love lobster and was worried about it tasting bad being uncooked, but i was quite impressed.
Second time I came, my friend was working there as a server. It wasn’t very busy. He got us the chef who he said was the best chef working there. He was an older man who spoke mandarin. He did do a few tricks, but I guess it’s usually the younger guys who like to show off, entertain, and impress. However, his cooking was great. Delicious food. Even complimented me saying how I knew how to eat my steaks; Rare, as oppose to the rest of the table whom ordered medium and medium rare.
Third and most recent time I was there, we requested the Filipino chef. I apologize ahead of time for not remembering his name, but when we requested the Filipino chef they knew who we were talking about. He was very involved with our group and you could tell he enjoyed doing his job. Put on a great show and cooked us an even greater meal. My nephew who is almost 6 said it was his new favourite place to eat. The chef knew how to entertain the 6 year old and even my 85 year old grandpa who is not easily impressed.
Our group got a combo dinner. It was a special that requires a group of 8, everyone got a few maki/​sushi rolls, a bowl of salad, miso soup, fried rice, a shrimp, a scallop, chicken, mixed veggies, salmon and steak.
There were a few hiccups though. The servers, although really don’t have to do much because the chef does everything, needed to come by more frequently to top of our tea cups, water, and other beverages. For dessert, I got the mango pudding, and noticed it tasted funny. A tad sour, the milk they used may have gone bad. My uncle agreed and we asked for ice cream instead and they were very compliant about it.
Overall, I guess if you know what you want. You’ll have a good experience there. I plan on bringing my friend there for his birthday. He has never gone to a teppanyaki place and I think he’d enjoy it. Needless to say, I will be requesting for the Filipino chef again.