Qi Sushi

We were at Riverdale Park looking for somewhere to eat sushi and read good reviews on this place. It’s a small and cozy place and there was a few people there (it’s 9pm on a Thursday).
The waitress that served us was really kind and accommodating, really good, no complaints at all. We ordered 2 sushi rolls that came with 10 pcs — white snow roll and crunchy dragon roll. We waited quite some time to get our order but both rolls were good nonetheless. Zambia liked the crunchy dragon roll better than the other and we would recommend it. Opposed to the wait time, the only other complaint we really have is that they didn’t give us plates so we were eating over our napkins.
Overall, we would come back to this place if we were in the area but wouldn’t go out of our way to get here.

The waitress was un-​attentive and made us feel that we were wasting her time. Food order came wrong (vegetarians were served a beef dish). I had to go to the counter and ask for another round of drinks, and finally to get our bill.

I love the cute owner. She’s so friendly and sweet that I keep coming back!
I do love the katsu here. The chicken and pork katsu is really good and they give big portion of it. I always order the black dragon roll and love how you can order 1 shrimp tempura or 5. Sometimes if its just me, I can realistically only eat 1 – 2 so I like how they give you the option of ordering small.
The atmosphere is really small but quaint.
Flavour and freshness wise as a whole menu is only about 3.5 but the welcomeness and gratitude they show your customers makes you want to come back and support their business. To me, the black dragon roll and the katsu is a solid 5 out of 5. I been to many sushi place where the chicken katsu was breaded, soggy, and gross but at Qi its very crispy and yummy. Its one of their must tries.

Came to this dainty sushi spot on a Sunday afternoon with a group of 20 people after church. Heard about it upon a friend’s recommendation and boy is this such a great hidden little spot. Will be back again!
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅
Price: ⁵⁄₅
Presentation: 3.5÷5
Taste: 3.5÷5
Portion: ⁶⁄₅
Service: ⁶⁄₅
Atmosphere: I wouldn’t normally venture to this part of town of know of this restaurant if I had not heard about it from a friend. When you walk in, it’s extremely cozy and definitely a place that you could host a great party with all your close friends over many shots of soju! The owners/​waitress is so personable I got a very positive vibe from her.
Price: Really great value for the price you pay.
Presentation: Typical presentation I would say. Nothing bad but nothing stood out either.
Taste: I think their food is pretty typical of most sushi spots. I liked how they had noodles in their soup which is different.
Portion: Their servings are actually ginormous. Combo 1 or A — forgot which one — came with three rolls, including my favourite wh he is the sweet potato roll ($ 12). We shared this between four people and were already full! We also order another combo which came with a lobster roll ($ 15). Still liked the sweet potato more though.
Service: We had a group of 20 people and I called the restaurant only 20 minutes before we arrived to let them know we were coming. All of us got seated immediately and they even let us reconfigure some of the dividers in the restaurant just so we could combine tables. They were pretty prompt with service even though we had a large group. My tea was always full and I never had to ask the waitress for more.

The rice to fish/​meat/​topping ratio is amazing! You definitely get your money’s worth. Lunch specials are always cheap and filling. This place is a hidden gem.

Great service and delicious food! Delivery costs $ 2.50 extra and you have to order more than $ 20. I’ve tried a few of their special rolls and they never disappoint. I came from Vancouver where sushi joints are plentiful and all above average. I have to say this is one of my favourite sushi spots.

A nice local spot for cheap sushi. Everything is reasonably priced. I usually go for combo 1…8 spicy salmon rolls, 8 spicy tuna rolls and 8 yam rolls. All for about $ 14. Can’t go wrong.

Had a 10 dollar combo from here, it had yam sushi, 3 pieces of salmon sashimi and 3 pieces of salmon nigiri. It was okay, the salmon was reasonably fresh though I felt that the yam sushi was a poor excuse for a sushi as it’s purpose is literally to fill you up with the rich, starchy yam. For the record I actually quite liked the yam sushi, it was savory and sweet and when dipped in soy sauce had great umami flavor.
The salmon nigiri are quite small, normally I complain about nigiri sushi having too much rice, these nigiri have too little of it, a tiny boat of rice with a long tail of salmon. The waitress and owner are both very friendly.
Perhaps I should have tried the hyped lunch specials because for a 4 star Unilocal establlshment Qi sushi failed to impress.

Warning: you will become addicted to the amazing salmon
This place has never disappointed and I go a lot

i can’t believe this is a 4.5 star Unilocal establishment. maybe we need to define what 5 star means, Unilocal?Is this really «Woohoo, As good as it gets» ???
the only guidance we have for ratings is the little blurb of text above the review box. And for 2 stars it says «Meh. I’ve experienced better», by that scale I think maybe that’s even generous for Qi Sushi.
I have to say that i was quite excited to come here for dinner on saturday night. i even drove from quite far to get here. the place itself is nothing special, it has aesthetics which can typically be sported by locations of amazing food quality, but by no other establishment, especially when the food and service are sort of lack-​luster (¹⁄₅).
maybe the best part of this business is its price (³⁄₅), since i am struggling to find any other good features. the food was quite bland, and some fish tasted unfresh, un creative and stale (²⁄₅).
the service (²⁄₅) was super slow and we had to wave down the person after waiting on many occasions for 10 – 15 mins for her to come out form the back. the place was full and no-​one was attending to it.

One year later and still very happy with their sushi quality & service! Ordered take out Combo # 10, Hamachi sushi, Toro tuna sushi, Shrimp sushi & Edamame.

Extra charge for water/​tea refills.
Three out of four visits, sushi took 40 minutes to come.
Ordered Sushi Combo #1: the sushi pieces has more fillings and less rice = awesome!
Sushi is great but service lacks. My throat was itchy and they were going to charge me extra for a tap water refill.

I LOVE THE 6 $ LUNCH SPECIALS, they never disapoint me and are cheap and are made the way i like them (i ask them if i want my chicken more grilled or not) I ALSO LOVE GETTING SASHIMI AND NIGIRI FROM THIS PLACE, NICE LONG STRIPS OF SALMON AND SMALL BALLS OF RICE THAT’S A DONE DEAL. seriously, MORE FISH THAN RICE *applouse*, where’s another place you know that does that ;)
the kind service is amazing and I love this family owned restaraunt, and they actually are japanese (some japanese places aren’t owned/​runed by Japanese).
also thankyou waiters I like when you make my sushi combo platers look really pretty so I can instagram them :).

I don’t know why this place was rated so high.
The deco is really cute. Look like family owned restaurant in Japan. The service is nice too.
However the food is disappointing.
I ordered the California sushi pizza and black dragon roll.
The roll has Unagi on top. The taste is average. A lot cucumber. The last piece was fell apart. The gods thing is its large portion.
The California pizza is surprising. But not the flavor I like. Kind of spicy. And eating a lot of fried things always make sick.
One sweet thing. They give you small bite dish between the order and all taste ok.
Overall, good service and deco, fair price, large portion, average taste. The rate is too high and got me high expectation. But actually You can find the same menu in many other Japanese restaurant in that level. It is safe place.

I’m thinking maybe Qi Sushi had an off day.
It was my first time here, but based on the reviews I walked well out of my way to try it, instead of the other sushi places I’d considered. I ordered a crunchy avocado roll and sweet yam tempura roll. First off, the portions are huge and the prices are great. You really can’t beat them. The service was great, really friendly. Sadly, the food didn’t live up to my expectations.
The avocado roll kept falling apart. I’d say 6 of the 8 pieces totally fell apart, to the point I had to just kind of pick it up with my hand in pieces and shove it all in my mouth. That was the first disappointment. The yam tempura, which is one of my favorite go tos, was barely warm, and there was nothing drizzled on it, which now looking at other photos, it seems like there should have been. Overall, it was ok, but it all tasted very bland to me, which was really disappointing.

I feel so bad by giving a bad review to this place just because our service was amazing, I’m pretty sure this is a family business and our server was probably the owners wife or in some way related. and she was the sweetest, I can’t complain about her at all.
First of all the place is super small and I loved that, kind of hidden, I read the reviews and were for the most part pretty good so I was excited.
Let’s talk about the food
We ordered a LOT of food, we were hungry and the prices were really cheap.
For the must part ordered lots of items with salmon (we love salmon)
The salmon tasted… Something weird, I’m not sure what it was but maybe had something to do with the freshness, it was very slimy. I started to feel gross after eating so we ordered some sake
(idk if it makes sense but usually when something doesn’t agree with me I take a tequila shot and problem solved, they didn’t have tequila so I figured sake)
Anyways we ordered some «crunchy» roll, you know with the delish fried crunchy stuff. OK there was like a pound of the crunchy stuff, there was even green crunchy stuff, I mean the roll was totally surrounded by crunchiness. It was too much and it didn’t taste good, by that time we were regrating the amount of food that we ordered. I wanted to leave our plates were almost full.
don’t go with big expectations

Good sushi for a low price, definitely isn’t over charged like certain mediocre restaurants. One of my top five sushi places to go to no doubt. I’ve been there twice and the quality is still the same. It’s a small korean family owned restaurant but they do delivery. They are reallly nice and give complementary ice cream and other things once in a while. The décor in there is also cute although it has a smaller space they made the best out of it. The first time i went i spent around 40 $ but my boyfriend and i were stuffed and had extra. I don’t believe that there are many gems like this anymore or they are hard to find and hidden away.

I’ll put this sushi up against any in the city. The nigiri is more fish than rice, the rolls are beautiful even before they are delicious.
The service is very sweet and friendly, and the prices are crazy reasonable

Qi Sushi is my favourite sushi place in the east end! The owner — sorry Unnie I don’t know your name — who is often at the cash, is the sweetest thing, always has a smile and is down for joking around.
I would love to see this place expand their Korean dishes to jajangmyeon, or pajeons — but that’s just a secret dream of mine haha.
the price point, the food and portion sizes, and the homely hospitality earns this place a 5 star experience.

I really liked this place. The babe and I were the only ones in here on an early Wednesday dinner time.
Service was sweet and prompt. I was surprised to see how reasonably priced the sushi dishes were. The server started us both with a complimentary miso, crunchy noodle soup, and hot green tea.
I enjoyed the soups and my meal which was the salmon combo. The spicy salmon was very tasty and the salmon sashimi was super fresh. The BF ordered the #1 combo which was spicy tuna, spicy salmon, and yam rolls. He said the majority of his rolls were actually tempura and not fish/​yams so he was not a fan.
I would definitely return and would like to try out other rolls on the menu.