Inatei

This place looks and feels very clean. I had the omakase menu (chef’s choice) where the chef designs a special menu. There was a lot of blue fin tuna belly sashimi and really good cuts of fish served. Each dish was prepared to perfection and the seasoning really brought out the natural flavours of the fishes being served. Everything was freshly served and very well prepared. The waitress brought our 9 course meal in a timely manner and explained what everything was in detailed. The presentation of each dish was beautiful as well. Highly recommended if you’re looking for a high quality Japanese restaurant!

Mediocre sushi and sashima (but pricey for its portion), grill salmon was a bit overdone and not enough fat in it to make it tasty, grilled eggplant was mostly bland even with the sauce, pork chop with curry simply tasted strange (mostly because the curry was not authentic. in general, very average food quality, and generally on the pricey side. Good ambiance and service though.

Good food and customer service but they seriously need to maintain their washroom were quite disgusting and they were in dire need of plumbing.

One of the higher end Chinese run Japanese restaurants in the area. The quality is good and the place is pricier than others. Any substitution in the menu is a $ 1 charge. The duck breast ramen is good, but small. Make sure you order extra noodles. Spider roll is good as well.

This place had a very nice ambience and is very clean. It is owned by Chinese people. The sashimi, sushi moriwase we ordered was very delicious and it was super fresh, and very nicely portioned. I’d say it’s more on the pricey side but you get what you pay for.
Service was great and we were taken care of. Food came out fast. We had complimentary dessert which was awesome!

My family and I came here to celebrate a birthday. We ordered sashimi off the «Today’s Special» menu (Toro and the Omakase) as well as a variety of appetizers, udon, and chicken teriyaki.
All the cooked food was really good, however I didn’t find anything special about the sashimi. I was a bit disappointed by the sashimi. It was a lot more expensive then most Japanese restaurants but there was nothing special about it and it wasn’t particularly fresh.
The service was spotty, we asked twice for our plates to be changed and they were very reluctant to do that. I’ve been to Inatei three times now and the last two times have only been so-​so. There are better Japanese restaurants.

I came in thinking that their online menu was a tad too standard for my liking. I enjoy trying new things. I was so happy that in the restaurant, they actually had menu specials (like special types of sashimi, etc.)
I have a small gripe with Inatei though. I ordered in two phases (we were hungry, but I wasn’t done looking at the menu). During the first phase, I ordered a sashimi dinner, a lobster tempura dinner, and their Japanese wagyu (A5) skewers. During the second phase, I ordered yamakake, grilled ginkgo nuts, fresh crab chawanmushi, Hokkaido scallop skewers, and okonomiyaki. The man who took my order for phase two asked me what I wanted. I waited for him to take out something to write with, because I knew that my order was complicated. He didn’t take it out. Instead, he asked me again what I wanted. I then started rattling off my order. Then he got rattled, asked me to wait while he got something to write with, and then we had to start all over again. Sigh.
Sashimi dinner — 15 pieces of sashimi (salmon, tuna, surf clam, mackerel, octopus, scallop, and what I believe was herring — the one that has the yellow fish roe at the bottom). Decent sized pieces. Quite fresh. Scallop was very sweet. Mackerel sashimi, I find, is usually quite dry. This was the juiciest piece of mackerel sashimi I’ve ever had. It was delicious.
Lobster tempura dinner — lobster tail tempura with assorted veggie tempura. Lobster tail was cut into chunks and battered. The shell of the tail was also battered. It is beyond me why they bothered with that, because there was no meat inside the tail. It was very misleading, because for that price point, I feel like there should have been much more lobster meat than like six small pieces of tempura lobster. Lobster meat was also tough. Liked the tempura shiitake mushroom though. Not many places do that.
Wagyu skewers — served in a small sizzling pan. 2oz for $ 25 ish? My first time trying Wagyu. Four wagyu pieces on skewers. The pieces were cut a tad thick for my liking, and because of the way it was cut, it didn’t melt in my mouth quite the way I wanted it to. I was still recovering from my wisdom teeth extracture and I couldn’t use my molars to chew, so that kinda sucked. That being said, this wagyu was incredibly juicy. Mmm.
Yamakake — chopped maguro (tuna) with Japanese yam. I didn’t know how the yam was going to be served, but I took a chance. Turns out it was pureed. This had such an awkward texture. The yam looked and felt like slime. Served with wasabi and soy sauce, this had a pleasant taste, but because of the texture, I don’t think I’d order this again. It was presented beautifully though.
Grilled ginkgo nuts — two skewers. I really like ginkgo nuts. Roasted, they’re slightly addictive. These were slightly tough to chew on and slightly bitter. Probably my least favorite dish of the night.
Hokkaido scallop skewers — Either Hokkaido scallops are very thin, or they took two scallops, cut them in half, and threaded the four halves onto skewers. These were okay. The spice they put on the top was a tad concentrated at certain places.
Fresh crab chawanmushi — chawanmushi is steamed egg, for those who don’t know. This was served in an adorable little cup. There was definitely fresh crabmeat in there, and also enoki mushrooms. This was very light tasting, but very pleasant.
Okonomiyaki — with eel. I never expected this dish to be labeled okonomiyaki. All the other okonomiyaki’s I’ve eaten look like thick pancakes, quite on the yellow/​brown side of things, and covered in okonomi sauce, Japanese mayo, seaweed powder, and bonito flakes. Inside, there’s always tons of cabbage, and at least a little pickled ginger. This looked like the eel pancake you see on a number of Japanese ayce restaurant menus. It’s a very flat pancake with no yellow tint. It is topped with eel sauce, eel slices, and bonito flake. The only thing that makes it resemble okonomiyaki in the least is that there were some pieces of cabbage in the pancake. Please don’t get me wrong. This was delicious, and at $ 11 ish, I would get it again. I’m just not sure if this item is labeled correctly.
Two of our meals came with dessert. They gave us 4. Apparently, this is standard procedure for them, and I approve. Four dessert shot glasses filled with a tofu pudding with a red bean topping. I would have preferred the pudding a tad sweeter, as I had the red bean topping before the pudding and then the tofu was sort of tasteless, but all in all, a pleasant way to end this meal.

Nice décor and the food quality was okay good, sashimi was fresh. It’s was abit smaller than expected with the price. This place with more sake choice， it’s good if you love to drink.
The service was just okay, wasn’t that’s good and bad.

Went to Inatei yesterday for lunch. There was no line up so I thought lunch would be fast. Didn’t turn out that way. It was a long wait. We were late going back to work because it took 45 minutes to get our food. When asked, they said that they were low on staff.
Ordered two bento boxes. The food quality was good. The sushi was very fresh. Like always, the portions are a little bit smaller for its price. Over all, an ok experience.
Pro
Fresh fish/​food
Con
Long wait for the food
Small portion for price point.

I came here with my boyfriend one night to celebrate a special occasion and so we weren’t skimpy on our order. Between the two of us, we spent about $ 250. We ordered their special fish of the day and I thought it was very meh. I know good fish and this was not it.
I’ll be honest though. Their uni was pretty good value and tasted pretty fresh. I also liked their spicy salmon roll.
The waitresses take the time to explain what each fish is. They should though. Considering how much money I was spending.
Anyway I won’t return. Way better sushi out there. This place doesn’t amuse me. Sorry.

Been here for lunch and dinner a couple times, and I gotta say, its definitely a Japanese restaurant worth looking into. With really fresh sashimi for a decent price, and great hot food, you can’t go wrong coming here!
Came by today for lunch, and they have quite a nice lunch menu. Prices seem to have gone up recently, but still reasonable. I got one the Bento Boxes and my mom and aunt got different noodles with sushi.
A bit more than I would want to pay for a bento box ($ 15.99), but a great meal overall. The Tonkatsu was absolutely perfect, fried just right with a great texture contrast on the outside and inside. The Salmon Onigiri is on of the specialties, and definitely worth trying as it not something you get to try a lot in this area. A bit dry for my personal taste, but can always add the tonkatsu sauce!
The noodles are awesome as well, as you get a whole maki or hand roll, as well as your udon/​soba/​ramen. Definitely a great deal with each between $ 9.99−12−99.
Make sure you check Inatei out if you are a Japanese cuisine fan! Great for both lunch and dinner!

Came here with my usual designated sushi friend. We both ordered the omakase sushi that was 33 dollars for 10 pieces. The set included suzuki, houbou, aji, ika, mirugai, amaebi, hotategai, one that looked like real shredded crab, uni, and an ago. The names of the fish were given by the waitress, which was a plus. The waitress also offered to fry the sweet shrimp head, which was also a plus.
Ok I was slightly disappointed that the omakase sushi didn’t include otoro. However, we did order two pieces on the side (at $ 20 per 2 pieces) because if a place has toro on the menu, we just have to test it out.
In terms of quality, it was good, but not that spectacular. The mirugai and the amaebi were good, but the uni and the hotategai were not as fresh as they could be. The highlight tho, was the otoro sushi. The texture and softness were excellent, and it was of a generous size (ie not being stingy). Quality of otoro was comparable to that of Yasu and Jabistro (tho the rice was probably better at Yasu and Jabistro). For comparison’s sake, yasu otoro and jabistro otoro were $ 10 and $ 13 per piece, respectively, at my last visit.
We were unfortunately still hungry, so I ordered a tonkatsu udon ($ 11), and my friend ordered tamago sushi and a tempura. The tempura shrimp was huge! And it was not overloaded with batter (like when I was at kiku, an ayce resto). My udon was good but I remember the soup flavor and udon quality was better when I was at Aoyama and possibly Le café Michi (the latter I need to test again). The tonkatsu was excellent. At $ 11 dollars tho, kinda pricey for a tonkatsu udon I think.
Our meal didn’t include a soup, which was a downside. I guess the omakase sushi wasn’t technically a dinner meal? They did offer a coffee pudding dessert at the end, which was really tasty.
Having looked at the menu, it seems like this restaurant offers some better selection than some typical Japanese restaurants. Their special menu included torched toro, oyster soup (which I so wanted to try but didn’t), and other items one wouldn’t typically see too much of. Most of it is on the pricey side tho. They also serve ankimo (monk fish liver), which was a plus (tho I didn’t try).
To conclude, the omakase sushi quality was good in general, but not as fresh as it could be. Excellent service, but most things seemed to be on pricier side.
8.5÷10 for the quality (8 for everything else, +.5 for the awesome otoro)
8.5÷10 for service
⁸⁄₁₀ for value
8.5÷10 overall (not an average)

This place was packed on a Saturday night so the only seats available was at the sushi bar for two which I love since I can socialize with the chef and learn more about the food.
Food was good but quality wasn’t as top notch as other Japanese restaurants for the price we were paying. But overall ambiance, décor and service was good.
I love their plate setting and lychee pana cota dessert

This one is a personal favourite! My first time here and the first impression was tremendous. Came here with high expectations because many friends have commented on how their food is über fresh. They were definitely right! I really enjoyed my stay tonight — service, environment and food were all exceptional.
We ordered quite a bit of food and I probably had 85% of it lol. We ordered two dinners, one hand roll and sushi. I don’t remember what the fiancé ordered for sushi, but it was so good. The sushi was the perfect amount of soft/​tenderness when I bit into it. It didn’t fall apart like T&T sushi, but how can you compare? Sushi came before anything else, so I kind of devoured it before I managed to snap a picture LOL. I did, however, get a picture of the hand roll. I didn’t have one because we only got one. According to friends and fiancé, this roll is thaa bomb — I will try that next time. The two dinners that came shortly after were the fried oyster and grilled steak. I obviously had the steak because I’m beef boy. The steak was seared to perfection (medium rare) and with a bit of teriyaki sauce all boiled down to a NOM FACE. It was evident that the steak was not of Keg status, but it was good enough. Steak was tender and slightly chewy, but it wasn’t medium rare as I asked for. I guess it didn’t really bother me because I was just that darn hungry hehe. The fried oyster was equally impressive and delicious, meaning I will not further comment on it lol
Let me backtrack for a second — we walked in thinking it was kind of sketchy because the windows were plastered with a matte white material (got something to hide?). When we were inside, we were immediately greeted by a gentleman that looked like the baus. He made it feel like I was home. It was cozy and very nicely furnished. I kind of hated my seat because the backrest was so straight, oh well. No points taken off this review, even with the limited parking spaces. Because the food was just that fresh!
Service was quick, accurate and courteous. Cannot get better than that! Go and check this place out if you haven’t!

haven’t set food in this plaza for ages so it was nice to revisit the area and looking fwd to try the other business in that plaza
was wary to go there since this place seemed quite expensive but to my surprise it was quite reasonably priced.
you get what you pay for on the menu and their combo does offer a dessert (albeit small).
I ordered the Sashimi set. The rice that came with the combo was hot and the fish was really fresh.
Service was quite good.
Definitely recommend it if you are in the area or looking for fresh sushi at reasonable price. the quality is definitely there!!!

Finally! A 4 star review for a sushi joint.
I had their chirashi and loved the freshness of the sashimi. It had good variety as well: salmon, mackerel, shrimp, scallop, tamago, red tuna, octopus etc. Will definitely come back for this.
Also, they gave earl grey pudding instead of the usual green tea ice-​cream for dessert. It was smooth & not too sweet. Perfect ending to a great meal.

What, I have not reviewed Inatei yet? Now this is a major oversight, as I have recommended Inatei to so many people. Inatei serves good quality and really fresh raw fish. It makes fresh makis. Its udon is al dente on spot every time I order it. Lunch entrees offer good portion. If you get one of the tables along the back wall, there is a nice sense of privacy.
The decoration is a pleasant, contemporary traditional. The lighting is slightly dim. The services is polite and effective. I always have a nice dining experience here.
Inatei is not the least expensive, but the quality/​portion/​cost ratio makes sense, so I will say you get good value. Does it have a fusion or adventurous menu? I don’t recall. But as a traditional, non-​AYCE, Japanese restaurant, it is the safest bet to recommend to people every time someone asks me for one in Markham/​Richmond Hill.

3.5÷5
Honestly this was close to a 4. However the $ 250 bill for 4 made me think second from giving this four stars, and the poor service we received certainly didn’t help matters.
We chose Inatei for my dad’s birthday. He’s been talking about this restaurant for the longest time, but understands the huge price factor here (I would’ve given it $$$ instead of $$). We already know it’s probably gonna be a once-​a-​year place. Nevertheless we still wanted to try this place just to see how it stacks up against other restaurants.
We had the tako sunonomo, bluefin toro, sashimi funamori, chawanmushi, beef tataki, grilled beef steak skewers, just to name a few. Before I start, if you order the sashimi funamori, you can give back the shrimp head to the waitress and the kitchen will fry it for you so you can finish the whole shrimp.
The tako sunonomo was very good, and you can tell the tako was fresh, not frozen. The bluefin toro was the reason why the price ended up quite steep, and quite honestly it didn’t wow me like crazy, but it still tasted good. The sashimi funamori had decent variety, and the fish themselves tasted very fresh. The chawanmushi and beef steak skewers were nothing special, and the beef tataki was okay.
Our biggest disappointment of the night was the dessert. They ran out of pudding, so they resorted to giving ice cream for us… and the ice cream was the warmest, most tasteless ice cream I’ve ever had, almost to the standard of yogurt in terms of sweetness.
Service was also not the best, as we were forced to sit in a table of 2 despite the fact we reserved for 4, and despite the fact there was an open table for 4 available. The servers also missed one of our orders, and at one time forgot to return our teapot. Otherwise everything was fine.

Quite pleased with this place. On a Sunday afternoon I was expecting it to be a lot busier but there were many free tables.
Chicken teriyaki with eel for $ 15.99 — I really like the portion of eel they give you with this bento box and the price is pretty good for what you get included with the meal. However, overall the portion is a bit on the small size and I found myself still wanting more to eat.
Pork Udon $ 10.99 — Udon portion is really small and the pork was a bit on the dry side. Comes with a side of salmon sushi.
Both meals come with salad and miso soup and also a pudding dessert.
Great food and service but portions are a bit small.
One thing that bothered me was that the waitress would be standing and waiting to serve customers but this one waitress always ended up standing right in front of our table and it was like she was watching us eat. She was in our personal space :)

Inatei is a pretty decent Japanese restaurant in uptown. Although the owner of this restaurant is Chinese, the food they serve is still somewhat authentic. The sashimi is very fresh and they have a good selections of fish you can choose from. They have weekly or even daily special fish where you can order the whole fish and the chef will create at least 2 dishes for you.
Environment is very cozy and the seats are very comfortable. Servers are very attentive and friendly and is always there to check if we are having a good time or not. Food in general is decent for the price you pay. If you want decent sashimi and sushi, I would recommend this place!