The One Sushi

You better not take your breakfast when you are eating here. The value for money is somewhat in the mid level. Orders may take sometime to arrive during peak hours but when they come they come in succession. Order what you can eat. And ask to be seated in areas the waiter can see you (not in back or hard to get places for the waiters) to get served well.

Parking ⁵⁄₅ lots of parking
Service ²⁄₅ the service when we first got there was great. Then the longer we were there the food stopped coming out. The staff were busy cleaning up to close even though they had well over 1 more hour.
Environment ³⁄₅ nothing spectacular just like any other restaurant
Food ²⁄₅ food wasn’t very fresh sloppily put together. Didn’t taste great

Based on my experience this place is pretty good. I paid $ 17 for all you can eat with a bunch of friends and it was a good time. Although it was a slow day and we probably wouldn’t get that much attention normally, based on that sole experience the service and food were A-​OK. Food portions are kinda small but it’s all you can eat so whatever.

Magnifying glasses required!
Ordered take out and surprised to see how small the sushi was. It tasted good, but very very small. Never take out again from this place. Maybe the all you can eat
You might get enough food to fill yourself up.

I’ve been there many times. A buffet where you get served. Very nice selections, and to me it seems like the quality is comparable to much more expensive places. The iPad ordering allows for a very relaxing lunch. I recommend giving it a try.

Horrible food, atmosphere and service. The place is dirty, too. Zero value for money. These people do nothing well. Won’t ever be back.

Summary:
— Food appears and feels fresh
— Sashimi can be frozen sometimes
— Sushi and sashimi usually takes a long wait
— Unique and easy-​to-​use ordering system: ipads
— Price is acceptable for sushi buffet ~$ 29 per person
— Large selections of sushi, tempura and bbq
— Relatively clean and classy environment
— Service quality ranges from great to satisfactory

Currently sitting here waiting to be served. Over 30 mins. I arrived at 4:30 pm from Chinook Mall.
They have 6 servers on the floor and all are crowding the silverware like scavengers.
No one has come to take our order even though the iPad Menu is a nice gimmick.
If nothing changes I will go across the street to McLeod Sushi.
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It is now 5:30 and im going to McLeod Sushi.
Service here blows and the sushi is subpar even though others have said how good it is.

Me & my wife have been going here since day 1. The quality of the food is great, the portions were good but starting to get smaller.
The place has great atmosphere, & friendly staff, plus they can handle large groups easily.
Ordering is done by an IPad so you don’t have to wait for your server.
We have noticed lately that the orders have come incomplete & not the correct amount some of the time which can be frustrating. The new thing they have is all you can eat crab for a few dollars more which is awesome. Not really sure on how long this will be available.
Definitely give them a try, still probably one of the best in the city.

I’m always wary of AYCE sushi, but was very pleasantly surprised by the quality at One Sushi. The Sashimi was especially fresh and tender. Portions were small — a good thing with AYCE — so I didn’t feel overly stuffed with sushi rice. The fish slices on the nigiri were pretty small and thin, so order a combination of sushi and sashimi.
ONE offers a good selection of sushi staples and interesting maki without being overwhelming. The AYCE crab leg add on was definitely worth the extra $ 3. Restaurant was clean and service was very fast and polite. Whatever quality issues ONE may have had in the past, they’ve obviously worked hard to overcome them.

WORST sushi ever! This place is really dirty!!! The sashimi was not fresh at all and the sushi looked very dry and small, laughable quality!!! Will never eat here again!!!

Was excited to try out this All You Can Eat Sushi place that my friend recommended. I thought the concept of ordering on an ipad was cool. I was wrong.
You’d order on the ipad but then you’d have to wait for a server to come to approve your order. It took us longer than it should have to get a servers attention.
When our first few dishes arrived, we realized that we didn’t have saucers for the soy sauce. Waited for a server to come by but it took too long so we took it from another table.
After that we realized we weren’t given wasabi or ginger, so we then had to try again to get a servers attention. That took too long and by the time a server came by, we already finished our first round of dishes.
It was hard to get the servers attention, and they would walk past our table as if we didn’t exist. There was one time where we pressed on the ipad for the server to come to us, she walked past us and saw the notification on the ipad and walked away still.
We ordered tempura and by the time it came out. We realized after the server gave us the dish, that the tempura didn’t have it’s dipping sauce. So AGAIN, we had to get the servers attention.
The service I had, you can obviously tell that they were slacking. Customer service is terrible. And one of the waiters at this restaurant kept touching his hair and face. And that’s obviously unsanitary.

Horrific sushi. We will be lucky not to get sick. This is not sushi… just small chunks of room temperature fish on some rice. I took a picture of the rainbow roll so I could remember what made me ill 2 days from now. DO NOT EAT HERE. EVER

Nope. Never again. Went for lunch today. Restaurant was super quiet so no waiting for a seat. Upon walking in I noticed an overwhelming stench of rotten fish. This kind of made me not want to eat there but having not been there for a while we decided why not. Ordered the standard rolls, and some other things and wound up not getting half of what we ordered. Sorry. Not gonna cut it. And the server touched almost all of our food when she brought a new dish to the table. Wasn’t a good experience.

I just got home from dinner at The One with a friend. It was so much better than my last visit. Thursday night here is so much better than a weekend. We arrived, were seated within 30 seconds of walking in the door. Our drink order was taken immediately. We were seated 3 tables away from the closest occupied table. Everything came out in a nice spaced-​out manner. Half way through our meal someone who was not our server (a manager maybe?) came by the table to see how everything was. She also asked if we wanted to try the ginger chicken or ginger beef — which were new and not on the iPad ordering system yet. We tried the ginger chicken. It was alright — not as good as Silver Dragon — but that’s understandable. The chicken was moist and they were nice sized pieces.
The sushi seemed to be a bit smaller than my last visit (specifically the rice balls) which was a good thing because we didn’t feel like we ordered too much when we left — which is usually the case with me at all you can eat sushi places.

The one sushi that my wife ate turned into a second, third and so on. The food was good and the atmosphere, although strange, was fitting for a Calgary eatery. It does not look like a sushi place but was enjoyable.
The wife approved.

The food was good tonight, came out really fast which was awesome. Sadly, our table was dirty, our servers were non existent tonight and weren’t on top of drinks like they usually are.
They switched to disposable chopsticks which is the first time I’ve seen it. My green tea came in a giant plastic soda glass. Also a first and totally a wtf moment.
Its still the best AYCE sushi in town and worth the money even with the annoyances tonight.

You’d think that if someone wanted to reopen a new restaurant inside the former location of a buffet that was known citywide for having had the biggest health code violation fine of all time… one would… you know, spruce the place up a little. And by spruce I mean sandblast the kitchen and dining area. Or maybe burn down the old building and salt the earth.
Let’s start with the parking lot. How much does it cost to blacktop a parking lot? I parked in a dirt lot that made me feel like I was heading to an outdoor music festival on a hill top. That’s not a compliment.
A sign in the window lets you know that their menu is set up on an iPad. Maybe that’s what they spent their reno money on, because the rest of the restaurant looks like they just reversed the signage of the old restaurant. The interior is the same. Same blinds. You can even still see Home Food Inn signs in the patio leading up to the entrance. The floor leading toward the table where my party was seated, was sticky. My table was off-​kilter and was a recipe for spilled food.
The two stars really is for the service. The waitresses were friendly, efficient, and knew the menu well — which is good, because the fancy ~iPad menu~ (which was as sticky as the floor) only had photos and names, but with no descriptions. They worked in teams and communicated well with each other; we never had interruptions in service and the AYCE orders came out in a steady stream.
The food? Meh. I mean, I guess you can’t expect too much from AYCE sushi, and if you’re hungry and in a time crunch, it comes out super quick. It wasn’t terrible. Just ordinary. I’m glad they offer gluten free soy sauce, though.
The bathroom was also sticky. So no, I probably wouldn’t come back. I don’t want to do things that make me sticky.

Not bad sushi at all for all you can eat… one thing you need to be careful of is how much you order at the start. If you order too much the server will judge your amount and bitch that it’s too much to eat and demand you take some off. So, in other words… rude servers. You will also wait for a bit at the front as they don’t seem to have a dedicated host/​hostess, which is important.
Also beware that if you order above your first order it seems to take longer and longer to get your orders. We waited over 20 minutes for some items and just gave up and left.
Their level of service seriously needs to improve if they want to keep customers coming.

Oh lordy, where do I start?
We arrived. «Please Wait to be Seated». Several servers everywhere, we finally got someone’s attention and they sat us after a wait. They told us that for $ 27/​person we can order as much of anything we want off the menu! SWEET, let’s do this.
The waitress did a good job of explaining the iPad menu ordering system to us, but this in the end was the place’s undoing. We ordered one round of assorted items (the menu is really big, which is great!) the items began coming quickly, and then slower, and slower and so slow that we had to flag down a server (they must’ve been short staffed, since it was the afternoon of NYE) each time to get them to manually remind the kitchen of what we ordered. We didn’t get everything we ordered, but we got most of it, and decided we were ready for round two. We ordered another bunch of rolls, sashimi, and desserts. This time we received maybe 2 of the 10 things we ordered and had to find someone to remind them of each of the rest. It was tiresome. We waited nearly two hours to get the simple orders.
There is clearly a big flaw in the iPad ordering system. You cannot just send the order to the kitchen, the waitress does that for you, and there’s no way to use the iPad to communicate/​ring over a server, as I’ve seen at all other places with iPad menus. The waitress was nice, but man, there was nothing we could do. Eventually, she told us some of the things we ordered were sold out and said we could have ice cream instead of mango pudding. She took our flavour orders and within seconds returned with the wrong flavours for each of us.
We were still missing several things from our second round at this point and decided to just leave. HOWEVER, at that moment the waitress swooped by with two shot glasses full of pink jelly stuff, said nothing, and left. We sniffed it. Was it… cold pepto bismol? It LITERALLY could not have been anything else. We tried it, it was undeniably that sweet, medicinal taste. Whattttttt the?
The food in general was fine, but nothing to write home about. The presentation was actually embarrassingly awful sometimes. I guess that’s what happens when you get «All You Can Eat».
Okay, we are outta here. We went to the check out where they said, yay! 10% off your meal because it’s NYE. That’s nice. I pull out my mastercard and she says, oh but the 10% only applies if you pay in cash. Okay, nevermind.
This place gets two stars because I think if it were a quieter day and they were properly staffed, it would’ve been maybe even fun to order on an iPad and eat all the sushi you can! I won’t risk going back to find out, though.