Sushi & Bento Restaurant

I came here for lunch and not for ayce. The tea was horrible, it was just tainted hot water. The salad tasted weird and the dressing was bad.
The butterfish fish was cold and you can tell it was defrosted.
The salmon sashimi was decent.
For the price, I would definitely not come back again. Like seriously, how can you mess up tea?!!

HORRIBLE SERVICE HORRIBLE FOOD. I would rate this place 0 if I have the option. WORST ayce place! This is my first review on restaurant ever. THIS PLACE IS SO BAD. I have to share my experience. Just went to the place with a friend for ayce. Half of our order get dropped. We ordered 6 pieces of ribs, only 2 came and one of them is just pure fat. Same as sashimi, they give u half of what you ordered. They bring the food to you very slow the restaurant was empty when we were there. According to them they want to see you finish one plate before they bring you another plate. Their sushi has a lot of rice and their kitchen stuff is over fried to a point that you can’t even bite into it. When you complain to them or ask to speak to the manager they dont do anything abt it. The owner just hides in the back. Their fish quality is very bad too. We spent 50 dollars for the two of us and it was not worth the money. It was definitely not ayce service. We stayed for an hour and got very little food. At the end we got fed up and didn’t even get dessert. I would NEVER GO BACK again.

Was here for AYCE dinner on a Friday night, but did not enjoy it at all — will never come back again. It just seemed like they didn’t want to serve us sashimi.
We had 2 people. In the first round, we ordered 40 pieces of salmon sashimi, and they came the last — after all the other food was served. We got less than 30 pieces, but I think that is understandable. Then in the second round, we ordered 50 pieces and only a few other kitchen items, knowing the amount of what we ordered would be reduced anyway. Took about 10 – 15 minutes, and they served 28 pieces, which is less than half of what we ordered. Immediately, we ordered another 30 pieces, but they never came, so we left after waiting for almost half hour for those 30 pieces of salmon sashimi. Plus, their sashimi is very small and thin, which is why we ordered so much. Also, even though it was a Friday night, it wasn’t very busy so I don’t understand what took them so long.
Food was okay, but I guess I probably shouldn’t have come here for AYCE.

Just like everyone else, I can vouch that their complaints are still valid. Just went today and they still have ill mannered servers, slow service, and cheap quality sushi, which tends to be mushy and dry because it has wayyyyy too much rice.
The long detailed review, if you care to read more is:
The service is bad, as servers are rude. Just after the first round of sushi we ordered more but they rejected us because you have to finish EVERY SINGLE PIECE of sushi on your plate (which was like 4 maki pieces). The server even eyed me and told me to stop picking at my rice and fish or he will not bring me more food. The audacity he had to say that to a customer, and not even in a polite manner. If I have leftovers then yes I will pay for it, but what right do you have to refuse me food I am paying for. When I finished my food on the table I even had to prompt him to remind him to give the rest of the food we ordered.
At the beginning when we sat down I even had to prompt the server to bring us the AYCE menu. When we said AYCE we assumed they would bring the menu so we could start, but 10 mins later with no service I got the clue that I had to ask. I guess they don’t think initiative and customer service is essential. They should really retrain their employees if all the Unilocal reviewers have the same problem, which is a big indication that it’s a problem. Not to mention there were only 2 other diners (groups of 2) when we were there, so not busy at all. Had to prompt them to bring soy sauce too (is that not a sushi staple!?)
On to the food: way too much rice in the rolls, hence it tastes very dry. Sushi is supposed to be bite sized, but there are just abnormally big. And not a large variety of food. Dynamite rolls are all the same California rolls with different «toppings» (salmon on Cali, avocado on Cali, sauce on Cali). One thing that’s tricky is you order tempura by number of pieces, so for shrimp tempura which is corrected with white out on top of the veg tempura option. I assumed it is only shrimp as it’s corrected. But it turns out that it is not a correction but an addition, so for ONE piece of shrimp you get 3 huge pieces of yam and broccoli.
Quality food and QUALITY SERVICE makes a good quality restaurant. Lacking in both that the relatively cheap price ($ 14 lunch) does not make up for it. For cheap sushi it’s pretty decent but the bad service leaves a bad after taste personally.

I’ve been to this restaurant many times for lunch. It’s one of those indistinguishable Japanese sushi places with more or less the same things on the menu. Fast, cheap, and sushi!
Express lunch takeout is by far my first choice. You can select two rolls and a drink for $ 7.90 cash, can’t beat that price. Selections include the standard fare — spicy salmon, spicy tuna, california, etc.
All you can eat — I don’t really know how to comment on this because cheap and good don’t usually go together.
The general lunch menu has an assortment of maki rolls, sashimis and bento boxes. The key selling point for this place is Torch sushi. Try it!
Tip: I find the rolls kindof dry, so ask for extra ginger or soya sauce as you see fit.

Out for a walk we were hungry for lunch and spotted Sushi & Bento and decided to give it a try. Located in a strip of restaurants along Dundas Street just west of Bay and east of University the restaurant is located on the south side of the street with windows looking north. The place is small with a selection of tables running along both walls of the restaurant and the sushi bar and kitchen at the back of the restaurant. The service was quick and attentive but we were disappoint by the quality of the food. Like a lot of sushi places in Toronto the sushi was dressed with mayo to hide the fact that it was poor quality sushi. Between us we had the tempura udon and a bento box and the only thing that was any good was the edamame that came with the bento box. I guess restaurants like this depend on the rushed taste buds of the lunch crowd from nearby offices.

I had the Pork cutlet bento box, and it was pretty great. The service was really good, but it was slow a little bit due to the number of staff. They were very accommodating.

This place used to be one of my favourite sushi places to eat at but I guess the original owners sold it and have moved on. Sushi bento now has only one server who is super rude and clearly thinks she is too good for her job. My sister and I did the lunch ayce option and despite the fact that it was Thursday at 3pm and we were the only patrons… service was slow, the server kept giving us dirty looks and told us she would charge us for ordering more if we couldn’t finish what was on our table before ordering. We wanted to order in advance while eating since it took so long for the food to come the first time. At exactly 4pm when my sister was finishing up and requested another dessert… She was told no because the special was over. I will never come back here again.

You wouldn’t expect it, but one of the better AYCE places.
1. Fish to rice ratio — generally on point.
2. Torched rolls — a nice find not available at most AYCE restaurants and pretty well done.
3. Kitchen items — generally pretty good! The ribs weren’t 90% gristle as you might usually find.
4. $ 10 12oz warm sake — because it’s freezing now, right?

Walked in on a whim tonight. While we were waiting to order we skimmed some reviews (which seem at either end of the spectrum). We didn’t want or have time for AYCE, so I ordered the Valentine roll ($ 11) and salmon sashimi ($ 4) and my partner ordered the chicken tereyaki bento box ($ 13) and added on the salmon sushi and sashimi (2 pieces each and I believe for $ 2 more).
I found the service to be quick and efficient. My roll was large, in size and quantity (10 pieces). The pieces were shaped like hearts! But the best deal was the bento box. Chicken tereyaki, rice, dumplings, veggie tempura, spicy salmon roll and the add of for $ 15. Seriously that’s a lot of food! I found the taste of the spicy salmon roll was okay but the valentine was really yummy. Honestly, not sure why it has so many polarizing reviews but I would come back if I were in the neighbourhood.

Came here for ayce at lunch on a Saturday. Price is the same as most places (12.99 $) but it’s one of the worst ayce I’ve been to.
They’re really stingy on fish in nigiris and rolls, a lot of rice in everything.
Selection is really small, no eel.
Some items from our order just got forgotten
Service is slow and diners who order from the à la carte menu are prioritized.
Not a good experience, don’t eat here.

Do not go here! I came here for an AYCE sushi dinner for around $ 20, and it was NOT worth my money or my time. The service is absolutely horrendous and I have no intention on ever coming back. There are so many other places down the street you can go to if you’re looking for sushi in this area.
There was only one server working for all of the tables. She barely spoke to us, and when she did, she was extremely rude in her tone. It is AYCE, so we ordered 20 pieces of salmon sashimi along with other things. It was a reasonable amount of food for the two of us, nothing too drastic. When the food came out, there were a lot less than 20 pieces, which didn’t bother us because we figured that when we finished, we would just order more. However, after devouring the sashimi with the craving for more, we kindly asked for a few more pieces since she didn’t get the number right the first time anyway.
Her reaction? A quiet blank stare that awkwardly walked away without saying anything. It left us assuming that she would be bringing it. After waiting for quite some time, we ask again, only to realize she never planned to bring anything out in the first place! She rudely told us she cannot and will not bring any more sashimi out unless we finish the other items on our table because her boss said she can’t. Why couldn’t she have told us this the first time we asked instead of ignoring us?!
Anyway, this was upsetting because it is an AYCE restaurant after all… And there wasn’t even that much on our table. There were a few small dishes that we knew we could finish. We just really wanted to eat the sashimi that we never got! Yet she (with her terrible attitude) refused to bring anything we asked for out until we were done, constantly telling us that we had to finish all of our food. And this was only our first round of orders! Where she didn’t even come close to bringing everything we wanted!
The food was OK but not that great. Perhaps the service has affected my judgement. 1 star — Do yourself a favour and go elsewhere.

Decent cheap AYCE sushi for $ 20 per person (even on weekend nights!).
But since you gotta order it from the server and the service is less than adequate, it’s not the best place I would go to for GOOD AYCE.
Food: There’s sashimi and blow torched sushi which is a plus. The quality is pretty average or less I would say. The rest of the selection is mediocre as well.
Personally, I think if the servers cheered up a bit more and improved their service, I would actually WANT to come here again.

Some of the dishes didnt get served. I asked for the menu and the server told me finished what i have otherwise i will get charged for the waste. If i couldnt finish thats my problem, but you didnt serve me the dishes! …I asked for the bill and told her the chicken cutlet and teriyaki in the sushi roll are over cooked caused the middle part hard to chew. She had no reply nothing so i asked if she is listened and she just nud her head. Dont go there if you ever have another choice. I would never back again even its the only restaurant in the planet.

There are better places just a few doors away.
The servers were rude and constantly told us that we had to finish everything we ordered. This happened probably 4 times during our meal from the same server.
The selection for the all you can eat is extremely disappointing.
The rice to fish ratio on the food is completely ridiculous. Way too much rice in every piece.
Go somewhere else. I wouldn’t recommend this place.

Service very bad. Food very bad. Get alot rice in sushi and vinegary in rice, teriyaki very bad to. And i never comeback.

I came here a couple of times before but this time, the service was meh, their service got super slow when the place got busier. My friends and I did ayce and some food did not come. The sticky sushi rice was very vinegary and we did not like it at all. Some of the sushi roll were chunky and sloppy. I’ve had better sushi elsewhere, so I may or may not come back.

Just a random stop as we were looking for some food to eat, I would say it’s was pretty good, service was so so, but food was pretty good for the price, presentation was nice. everything seem very fresh. Would come
Back again,

I came here with my boyfriend for the all you can eat dinner today. The all you can eat per person is $ 19.99 before tax and tips. The service here was good and the seating was comfortable. I didn’t feel cramped. So far this is the only all you can eat place that offers Torched maki rolls on their all you eat menu. The food quality here is very good. I would for sure come back.

To be quite honest, I only ended up coming here for lunch because Japango just down the street was packed full and there was like a 30 min wait. I didn’t know this place existed and it can be quite easy to just pass by. Unlike Japango, we didn’t have to wait at all to get seated.
They have a pretty big menu, and their bento boxes look like pretty good deals, since you can get a pretty big amount of food for less than $ 10. Because I still had Japango on the mind though, I was determined to try one of their «Special Rolls,» and ordered the Rainbow Roll which was basically a California Roll topped with salmon, tuna, tilapia, shrimp and avocado. It came with 10 pieces, which was sufficient for lunch, and was presented quite nicely with some sauce drizzled on top and on the plate. It was pretty flavourful on its own and with the sauce, so soy sauce wasn’t even necessary.
I will say that on the whole I enjoyed my roll, although it didn’t really stand out to me or blow me away. It was definitely pretty decent, it was fresh, it was tasty, but just not particularly memorable — especially considering it was a «special» roll, I guess my expectations were just higher. I don’t think the staff came around too frequently, but they were generally pleasant. Could have used more water refills though.
Would I come again? Probably. I don’t think I would make a trip out of my way just to come here, but if I was in the area again, then sure.