Yuki Japanese & Korean Restaurant

Came in for a quick meal before heading to Yorkdale Mall. Was quite impressed with the service, fresh ingredients and cozy atmosphere. We ordered a variety of their dishes-​sashimi, rolls, kalbi/​tempura/​chicken bentos. The rolls and fish was very fresh. Tempura was crispy and had just the right amount of batter. I wasn’t as impressed with the cooked food– kalbi was quite oily and chicken was just okay.
Would come here again if I’m in the area– good variety and reasonable prices. But generally, I think there’s better Japanese/​Korean options in Toronto.

This is my favorite neighborhood sushi spot. It always has consistent fresh fish and is a great deal with salads and Korean pancakes that are on the house.

Yuki’s isn’t the best sushi out there but it’s pretty darn good if you’re looking for something in the area. I’m not a big fan of sushi so I usually come into this Japanese-​Korean restaurant and order from the back of the menu. From experience, the rolls here are huge! I can’t eat it in one bite. Lots of rice, flavourful and very filling. The bento boxes are worth the value. Very filling and they do substitutions within reason. I find most meals will come with a salad and miso soup. The tempura I find just has way too much batter. My favourite though is the hwedupbap (basically a salad with raw fish). Hwedupbap is very fresh with a good amount of raw fish. The fish here is pretty fresh. Have never had a problem.
They have private booths if you’re lucky enough to grab one. It can get pretty busy here and when that happens, service is usually compromised. There’s one or two people working at a time and being in a private booth you have to wave them down. Fruits at the end of every meal. Excellent way to clean the palate. It’s a homey place that serves good food. Recommend if you don’t want to travel far.

Like the ambience even is a small place is cozy. Food is fresh and portions are a good value for price. Service was acceptable. Be careful going to restrooms since has steep stairs on the basement.

I tried this place out for lunch. If you’re coming for lunch, come early as it gets packed quickly.
Pros: Has lunch specials and dinner specials, food came out quickly, tempura and japchae was yummy
Cons: miso soup was too salty, the waitress sat me in a booth and didn’t check up on me once the food came, didn’t get a water refill, no banchan or kimchi, skimped on the Kalbi for the lunch special
If you’re looking for a place in the area that serves Korean food for the same price, your best bet would be the Seoul house on Orfus Rd.

The positives:
Sushi was well cut. Good quality rice. The hwae-​dup bap salad was cut perfectly, vegetables clean. The cho-​gochuchang was ok. The yellowtail sashimi was exquisite.
The negatives:
Nasty customers who know how to destroy a pleasant ambience — have their speaker-​phones on their cell phones (loudly) in a quiet sushi place. Unbelievable. I feel badly for the wait staff in this place.
Bottom line. Restaurant cannot control the behaviour of their customers. Food was good. Customers inconsiderate and rude.

You might said I’m picky but I don’t think I would come back to this place.
Overall everything is just ok. I came here on lunch time and got lunch special. I think they have good price for sushi/​korean food.
I ordered sushi&sashimi bento while my friend ordered chicken teriyaki set.
He was so upset about his choice because it wasn’t good that he expected. The teriyaki sauce is too sweet and chicken has lot of burn, «taste like dirty shoe”-according to him.
The sushi and sashimi is better. The sashimi is alright, but for the white tuna, i don’t know why they make it as tataki, it’s burn little bit and taste weird at the burn part. The rice is too dry and doesn’t have much flavour.
However, service is good. Staffs here are friendly and helpful.
In conclusion, Yuki is good for having little bit sushi taste with cheap price.
Hope you have better experience than me.

A friend took me here for dinner and we got the sushi boat D.
The sushi was good, fresh and had just the right amount of rice.
I found the tuna nigiri had a bit more wasabi than the salmon though, so it surprised me when I alternated between the two.
The tempura was pretty batter-​y, and oddly we got ¼ of an onion in the tempura mix — definitely did not eat that.

Well well finally made it to Yuki Sushi. I’ve driven by this place many times and wondered…
Well it was good, its not all you can eat and kinda on the pricier side but nice for dinner for 2
The restaurant was clean and the service was great.

Decided to go here because they have the lunch special till 4pm everyday. When we entered the restaurant it seemed to be very authentic but after we sat down we realized that they were playing like top 40 music and rap. We asked the waiter about the music and he said it was the sushi makers mix, killed the mood. On to the food, it was good. The sashimi was very tasteful and the tempura was decent. For the price not bad but if your a big eater then the portions aren’t that big.

Pretty decent for a Chicken & Tempura bento box for lunch 12.99. Good soup & hot green tea! Home made tempura sauce was delicious. 3 shrimp tempura in the combo. Their lunch specials are til 4PM.

Yuki has great lunch specials at great prices until 4pm! My boyfriend and I popped in here for the first time after spending some time at Yorkdale Mall and at the stores on Orfus Road, all of which are very nearby. We arrived just before 4pm (just in time to take advantage of their lunch specials). We were seated in one of their private booths, which was closed off with curtains. Their private booths are great for romantic meals and/​or quiet conversations. After being seated and reviewing their extensive lunch specials menu, my boyfriend ordered the Chicken Terriyaki Bento Box for only $ 6.99 and I ordered the Futomaki Sushi Bento Box for only $ 7.99. For what we paid, we were very pleasantly surprised with the generous portions and taste!!! My Futomaki pieces were HUGE, the sushi rice was perfectly cooked, our combos came with a generous amount of miso soup, we loved the small sides (lettuce salad, seaweed salad, bean sprout salad, and japchae), and my boyfriend had a lot of chicken in his bento box. This will definitely be our go-​to lunch spot whenever we’re in the area!

Decent Japa-​Korean resto with a pretty extensive menu. We had the Niku Don and the Salmon Crunch which was absolutely massive. The Niku was ok and the roll above average. Went pretty late and the place was surprisingly busy. Seems they were somewhat understaffed at the time as well but the service was decent. Will definitely look to come back and try their lunch specials.

Its a small restaurant but it has a very friendly cute atmosphere

Very large portions, friendly staff. Not the best sushi I’ve had but it’s my go to when I’m craving and don’t want to go downtown.

Good good to be frank with the audience. But our experience turned bad when no one was taking care about the table. Empty glasses of water, no customer service and even wrong the bill with food never ordered or eat! No excuses or any effort to apologize.

Defitnely one if the best sushi places I been. Try the dragon roll or the salmon teriyaki.

My friends and I had dinner here yesterday because it was the closest sushi restaurant by Yorkdale that wasn’t AYCE. I’ve been here before for lunch and its usually super packed during lunch hours.
The service was good, our server was helpful but a bit pushy for us to order, I guess it was because we got there fairy late and stayed until closing.
As for the food, their sushi portions were HUGE, we ordered the green dragon roll and the spicy volcano roll. We also ordered some apps but ended up taking the sushi to-​go. The quality for the food was worth the price.
I would recommend this place for anyone in the area that is looking for decent sushi that isn’t AYCE.

It wasn’t quite fair for me to write my first short review of Yu Ki after only one visit. It was also unfair of me to have written it based solely on a bento box.
That said, I went for a second visit on the weekend and ordered an assortment of rolls and appetizers. It was all very, very good.
Everyone in my party was very impressed by the quality, size and presentation of the food, especially the sushi. (I might also add that it was the perfect temperature… I can’t stand sushi that tastes like it was prepared, straight out of the refrigerator.)
Considering it was a weekend, we were the only ones there for lunch in the somewhat non-​residential neighbourhood. I work close by but generally avoid Yu Ki at lunch during the week due to the crowds.
But at least I can now fairly say that I know why it gets a crowd. Yu Ki is great!

This was our third visit to Yuki Restaurant, and we were expecting good food and decent service, which is what we’d experienced before.
Instead, what we got was fish that actually smelled fishy, and looked visibly stale, like it had been sitting out. We ordered a plate of mixed sushi and maki rolls, and another plate of mixed sashimi. It seemed as though some fresh fish had been mixed with stale fish, maybe to try to get rid of the old one. There were cuts of salmon that were perfectly fresh, and cuts of salmon that looked crusted almost from sitting out — these bad pieces had a definite fishy odour to them. We were also unable to eat the tuna and two other kinds of fish (I’m not sure what the names are), as they were also fishy and not at all fresh. My mother ate a shrimp that was obviously bad. It smelled terrible!
All in all, we ate less than half of our meal — only the cuts of fish that actually looked like normal, fresh fish. We mentioned it to the waitress when she asked how everything was and she immediately told us that they only serve fresh fish, and that their food could not possibly be bad. She didn’t smell the fish, and frankly, she barely glanced at it when we tried to point out that it looked terrible. We were not rude at all and didn’t request that our meal is free, but again, told her that we had been there before and never had a problem with the food before.
The waitress went to speak to the chef on staff, and came back to tell us that the chef said their fish is very fresh!
We were very, very disappointed. No one other than the waitress came to speak to us, and all the waitress kept saying is that their fish is always fresh. My mother and I are both sushi lovers, and have been to many sushi restaurants around the city. We are not expecting stellar service every time, but we don’t appreciate being lied to and wasting our money on food we cannot even eat.
Be very careful with this restaurant. We left wondering if we made a mistake trying to even eat part of our meal, in case it was all bad fish.
We won’t be visiting Yuki restaurant again.