W Sushi

Let’s get this out of the way. The food is decent. Let’s set that aside and explain why W Sushi totally sucks. My first order on the ipad went through fine. Ordered only about half the things I wanted. Things were going great and this is my first time there.
I placed my second order of food and ice cream + desserts. The server with glasses came and even asked if I wanted the ice cream right away or at the end. I said yea at the end is even better. So me and my date waited and waited. We waited so long she went to the ladies room and came back with no food arriving. This is over 15 minutes past now…
The server wearing glasses brings me the bill! I was just stunned… I told him NONE (0) of the food of the second and last order has come! So he says I will go check on it. He explains after that the computer had a error and the food will come.
The female server wearing the kimono outfit brings me the debit machine to pay right after seeing the bill on my table! Remember I havent received any of my second order yet! Not ONE item. I was stunned!!! So I paid and left a tip despite the horrible experience so far. I told the female server I was still waiting on my food!
I wait and wait and OMG no food is coming out! I am steaming at this point. Trying to keep it civil and polite. Finally the glasses dude see’s that he messed up big and gets some other server to give us some random ice cream.
I eat it and leave. I will never ever ever come back to W again. Incompetent staff. Average to mediocre food. Sure this probably wont happen to you but it did to me and I want everyone to know how it could happen to you!
AVOID — STAY AWAY— 0 STARS WORST SUSHI IN GUELPH!

A bunch of us had a blast chatting in the wonderful atmosphere they provided. Since there was 8 of us, we succeeded in ordering every item on the menu. Some more then once. Which seemed to irritate them since we payed only a couple tens each for more then 100 dishes.
The food was delicious and simply good. And I won’t go further then that since some things were plain like the mussels and masago sushi, from the top of my head. But at the same time there were exploding tastes in my mouth with some of the regular known sushi, soups, and meat dishes.
The waitress was a little slow taking our order down since we had rather large orders. They took as long as I expected to make which is good. And since we ordered again when we go our first dishes, it felt like food just kept coming.
To conclude my review I wouldn’t mind visiting again for the amount we ate at that price. But I know other sushi places I’d rather return to first.
Thanks for reading, it’s Gabryś

this is my favorite sushi place ! good service… excellent menu, nice cold beer, and a nice atmosphere… best of all the sushi is so good here !

Great sushi
Great all you can eat Sushi restaurant.
A lot of variety like sushi and rice dishes, chicken teriyaki etc…
Not top notch sushi but that’s what you get for an all you can eat place.
It’s clean and service is good.
For Guelph it’s a great spot, there are other places in Guelph but this one is better then average for all you can eat.

Not a bad place. And the food is ok. My greatest gripe is the service. Often times the miss parts of the order on purpose.
The also really want to push you out the door. I get it, that’s business, turning over tables. But the place was dead anyways.
Probably won’t go here again. Ben here 3x now.

My husband and I have been here a few times. It’s our favourite sushi place in the area. I don’t really like the ordering process. Saying the names of the dishes seems more cumbersome than simply saying the number like other places. The food is good though. Just be wary of deep fried rolls. They tend to be greasy.

Over the years, my family and I have gone back and again to W Sushi, it is our favourite place in the region (and we are big sushi fans who have tried many sushi places in KW, Guelph and Cambridge).
Try ordering directly from the menu instead of the buffet, the buffet is good, but the menu items ordered directly are MUCH better and bigger.
For those that think the quality is not that fantastic, try the regular menu instead of the all you can eat, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Granted, it is hard to call it the best sushi in the world, I’ve had my share in other countries and some are really great, and could not qualify if in Japan (or Korea or China, where sushi rest owners in Canada tend to be from) is any better, I would assume true Japanese sushi must be miles ahead, but living in Guelph and being a bit of a foodie, I think it is most likely the best in the region. Service is also always great.

When this place first opened, it was fantastic. Sushi was of decent size, sashimi was plentiful, they had lots of really cool new rolls, etc. As a previous student at the U of G, I have many great memories at this place — post-​exam dinners, birthdays, post-hangover…anyway, you get it! As students, we loved this place and we felt that the price was reasonable and you got great value for what you paid for.
I’ve since graduated from Guelph and a group of my friends from school & I decided to use Guelph as a central meeting place for a mini-​reunion and we decided to take a blast from the past and go to W-​sushi for lunch.
My…have things changed. We arrived at around 2 pm ish for lunch. They now have a «lunch» menu, in which you can’t order certain rolls until dinner time. They never used to have that. Sashimi is still reserved for dinner, which is not uncommon for all you can eat places.
What bothers me is that they’ve taken skimping to a whole new level and I’m pretty sure it’s not that my standards have changed (now that I’m working and a bit less poor than a student).
They’ve definitely diluted the soy-​sauce. No soy sauce is that light. When I poured it, it was LIGHT BROWN. The soy sauce also really lacked any flavour at all.
Their nigiri’s now consist of a paper thin slice of fish with a HUGE chunk of rice so that they can fill you up. After one round of nigiri’s, we decided this was ridiculous and didn’t order more. My friend ordered a hand roll and it looked like it was packed down with rice too.
Their Japanese fried rice (aka, we call it crack fried rice) is still just as delicious and addictive. All in all, their cooked foods haven’t changed but their dishes are now a lot smaller and thus, you have to order more frequently.
At 3 ish (close to 4 pm), we were told that we could only have 1 more round of orders (we only had 1 order made previously) because they were «closing down» to set up for dinner. We therefore ordered everything BUT nigiri and hand rolls.
Overall, I was quite disappointed that this place has become so cheap and has decided to skimp out so much. I used to come here over all the other all-​you can eat places because they didn’t skimp.
Because of the Toronto power outage, I migrated to Guelph during Christmas and went to Hockey Sushi — WAY better bang for your buck. So all you students, go there instead because they definitely give you less rice and more goods :). Unless… you like to die from a rice coma… that’s fine by me.

I visited W for I think the fourth time last night. Unlike other AYCE sushi placed there is a small modicum of actually variety of sushi by Canadian standards, however while in the genre of AYCE sushi this place does well, it’s really more fitting under the general category of Japanese food and not Sushi, as the sushi itself is limited to mostly salmon variants some crab (both real and sashimi and faux crab) and literally one hand roll that features eel. However the fact that there hand rolls at all is pretty impressive .
There’s also some sashimi, again as a former New Yorker, I’m a little put off ordering sashimi in a small Canadian city that’s not near the ocean, but we are close enough to Toronto that getting fresh fish is possible, I’m always a little questioning as to how much really fresh fish an AYCE place is going to feature, but I’ll give then the benefit of the doubt .
Sashimi features mackerel, red snapper and if course salmon, some white tuna, beef and the ubiquitous egg and non traditional sashimi things tossed in for North American pallets .
They have an interesting selection of what they call special rolls.
Where they shine as Japanese food is of course the old standby of tempura everything under the sun, and when you get down to it, you could tempura up an old shoe and it would taste good .
A nice selection of udon & ramen is available as well and while it’s not a technical triumph to have a decent tasting miso soup, I’ve had enough watery bad miso to acknowledge when I have good miso, there’s a few other nice soup and salad selections as well .
Previously I’ve had the salmon teriyaki which was good, last night it was just poorly done, I also had the fish cake appetiser which was great ingredient wise, but was poorly executed cooking wise. I’m personally in love with the deep fried scallops with mayo and I’ve previously had some of the Katsue variants which have always been good.
They have a few different dumplings in the menus including a few deep fried, I’m afraid in that particular area my tastes have remained with the NYC East Coast Chinese fried dumpling, and so everything else seems a bit off to me, the filling is good, just not what I personally have associated with dumplings or even gyoza. I’ve noticed that they also have oddly enough General Tso’s chicken on the menu, I guess for the one person in your party whose still pissed that you didn’t end up having Chinese, I haven’t tried it but I intend to. Just looking at the option of a tempura mini hot dog made me want to stab my eyes from seeing it, I’ll reserve judgment, lots of things I like to eat others find repulsive so to each his own I guess. They have a nice selection of ice cream, something called deep fried milk and something called a golden bun which i haven’t tried and look interesting and are included in the AYCE menu
AYCE dinner is $ 23.99 a person with seniors at $ 21.99 kids 7 – 10 at $ 16.99 and kids 4 – 6 at $ 10.99
AYCE lunch goes for $ 14.99 seniors at $ 13.99 kids 7 – 10 at $ 11.99 and kids 4 – 6 at $ 6.99
I was there on a Friday night and the service was fast, the wait staff friendly but limited in English, the staff behind the bar where the cash register is decidedly not very friendly, but that’s fine, I’m there to sit my bill and if they don’t engage in chit chat it doesn’t take away from the overall service or food.
With two beers and a coke dinner ended up being around $ 74, which is a bit dear for AYCE, but I’m figuring about $ 16 of that went towards the beer and there’s a good selection of Japanese beer and whatever my table mate had looked both good and worth $ 8 a can so really no complaints

I find they are very chincy with the servings, I left there still hungry, and had the hardest time understanding the staff. The missed a few of my orders. The food was good though.
Steven

Guelph has a surprisingly decent amount of asian restaurants and grocery stories despite the actual asian community here is pretty small. Though I do not complain since I often find myself having cravings when I’m back home.
Recommend going for lunch if you do AYCE since the price is much better and the menu for the large part is very similar (there are a few pricer items offered during dinner only).
This is my personal fav for AYCE in Guelph since it is very clean, nicely laid out and offers good food for the price. The fish is usually good, though obviously don’t expect high-​quality sashmi at this price point.
Service is usually very good, never had a really bad experience. Once in a while they forget an order if its really busy but that’s not shocking.

If you like all you can eat places, this is the right one with Sushi. However, for other occasions it is not anything special. Food is very good, but portions are small.

I came here for dinner and it was about $ 25 for dinner (before tips and tax). I found it expensive that’s why I try to avoid all you can eat sushi. However, I was visiting my friend in Guelph and we wanted sushi so we came here.
The food here is good, the service was great and the food came fast. My only complaint is that the rolls were just a tinge too big for my liking and I think the shrimp was very small in the shrimp tempura. My two friends got miso soup and it was very salty (perhaps they just messed up that one night). However, they thoroughly enjoyed the Udon.
I like the dessert choices they have. I got the deep fried milk which you don’t see often at ayce sushi places. The green tea ice cream was good as well (some places have really bad green tea ice cream).

Been to W Sushi a few times. I’m a fan, but I can totally see why others rated it low.

I think when reviewing sushi places, especially in Guelph, is that you need to realize this isn’t high quality sushi. That should be an expectation when walking into sushi places around the area. That doesn’t mean it isn’t good though. W Sushi is as good as the Sushi scene gets in Guelph. It certainly is a far cry from «world’s best», but for a little city in the middle of Southern Ontario where Sushi certainly isn’t expected to be phenomenal, it’s pretty darn good.
I went for the lunch special all you can eat special today, and there is such a good selection compared to other places. Ordering the likes of;
. California Roll.
. Spicy Salmon Roll
. Shrimp Tempura
. Shrimp Tempura Roll
. Dynamite Roll
. Sushi Pizza.
. Seaweed Salad
All were up to par for what I expected.
The staff were very friendly and often checked in to see how we were doing. The only complain I had was that a few of the things we ordered never made it to our table. This wasn’t a huge deal because it is all you can eat, you can reorder, and there is always food on the table, but some organization would be a little more important.
Other than that, it was delicious.
The free ice cream is always such a good touch, and there is such a wide variety.
If you want sushi in Guelph, simply come here. I have been coming for years, and have never been disappointed.
I recommend it to anyone who isn’t expecting fresh out of the ocean fish!

Poor.
All around disappointing. The soy sauce was watered down the point where there was no taste. The tea was hot water, the rolls were not tight and presented well, and rice inside was hot. A cold piece of fish on a ball of hot rice is less than appetizing to say the least.
The tempura was dripping in grease and was cold.
Atmosphere was loud and disorganized.
For $ 22.99 per person, we were expecting a lot more.
We do NOT recommend this restaurant to anyone who has ever had GOOD sushi.

It’s a pleasant impression upon walking through the door to the university’s local sushi hangout. The smell is fresh and airy without a single fishy odour to send you running for your intestine’s life. Service is quick and polite, though it was early enough that they were hardly stressed.
The good:
–Selection, it’s a well-​sized menu
–Shrimp tempura, it was light and not greasy
–The beef and salmon tataki were delicious
–The fish is fresh, cold, and firm.
–The salmon and scallop sashimi were particularly excellent.
–The ice cream was creamy and delicious with zero flakes of ice
The bad:
–You’re limited to single servings of beef and salmon tataki
–The squid «tempura» is just poorly-​cooked calamari rings
–The squid tendrils were flavored like a spicy calamari and more tender, but far too greasy to eat.
–The salmon roe nigiri was skimpy the first time. On the second order you could see half the rice underneath. Hugely disappointing.
–Shrimp egg rolls look like they’re from M&M’s.
–The sesame chicken is breaded with a sweet sauce. No sign of sesame seeds. Or flavor.
–The spicy beef is thinly sliced, tough, and flavourless other than a blandly spicy sauce.
–Say no to the mussels. They’re absolutely awful.
–The mango pudding is aromatic, but a but off in flavor and the texture is too gelatinus.
I realize the «bad“s look long, but I really do recommend the place. Just stick to the fish and ice cream and you’ll be pleased you came.

Staying in town for work, I decided to check out the Guelph Unilocal scene, not expecting much. W Sushi was one of the first favorable places to show up, and having not had sushi in a while, I gave it a try.
As previously mentioned, the restaurant interior is well designed and good-​looking; we showed up around 9 and the place was fairly empty (Last call is at 9:30). This just meant that we had three different waiters/​waitresses taking our orders, so yes, there was a bit of repetition, but not a big deal.
I can’t remember the names of the rolls I had, but they were great. The miso soup is standard, maybe lacking on the tofu side. I finished off with the chicken teriyaki udon, which was probably my favorite.
There is so much on this menu for an All You Can Order restaurant; every time I ordered something, the waitress would leave and I’d see something else that I wanted!
Looking forward to going back on my next trip to Guelph!

Great AYCE sushi… orders come fairly quickly and tastes very fresh.

I decided to try out Guelph’s newest all you can eat sushi restaurant with a group of friends and I’m happy to report that this is easily Guelph’s best sushi restaurant. Everything we ordered was fresh and tasted great. The fresh salmon was especially good. We ordered the sakura love on a whim, and it was both visually appealing and delicious. A few pieces of salmon sashimi were wrapped around a ball of rice topped with mayo and fish roe to resemble a flower.
The only negative point is that a few things we ordered never made it to our table (most notably a few bowls of miso soup), and we got the sense that we were perhaps eating more than they had hoped we would be able to… but when there’s a group of 8 hungry people and 3 rolls of sushi are arriving at a time, they go pretty damn fast! We had a few different waiters, so that could explain some of the confusion. Having those paper order sheets could also help smooth out some of the problems. But in the end, it really didn’t affect our meal as we were all happily full by the end of the evening.
Other than the few ordering mishaps, we enjoyed ourselves and I’ll definitely go back and recommend it to friends. The food was good, the décor is tasteful and really, it’s the best option we’ve got in Guelph.