Sakae Sushi

really great service and great fresh sushi. We didn’t get AYCE just the regular orders off the menu. My sashimi was fresh and the assortment was great. In one sashimi order I got butter fish, white fish, tuna and salmon and no weird squid pieces. Great little place!

First time trying this place and got the lunch bento and maki lunch items ($ 15 for both and comes with miso soup and salads) no tax on pick up orders with cash
Very generous with portion sizes ^.^
Everything tasted great. I read before that one person mentioned the miso was watered down mine was fine.
Pleasant and fast service.
I didn’t see anything wrong with this place and you definitely get more than what you pay for.

Pros:
— Cheap
Cons:
— watered down miso soup
— sushi overstuffed with rice
— paper thin slices of sashimi
— No A/​C (was very humid and uncomfortable)

Visiting toronto from Victoria I stopped in for lunch and ordered the Maki lunch special. Wow the freshness of the sushi for the price you’re paying is astounding. So delicious. I am craving the sushi as I write this review. So good!

Just really doesn’t cut it. First off when we’ve just sat down please don’t ram your rules down our throats. We understand AYCE sushi and it’s written in plain English. Very off putting.
The rolls are hit and miss. Eel was none existent, shreds of skin with more BBQ sauce than anything else. The salmon is very fatty. It almost resembles salmon belly. The table really enjoyed the wings. Some of the other hot stuff, rice and gyoza were same as everywhere else. The wait times were pretty bad. We were with some children and they were antsy.
We only go here out of necessity, there are way better AYCE sushi spots if you can go a little further distance.
Service is just embarrassing. Couldn’t get tea for 20 mins because it was brewing-​? She reminded us at least twice about the ‘no left over policy’ and the manager chef guy managed to come over and also tell us this once. Plus they forgot a BUNCH of the orders. At least 6 items. We couldn’t be bothered after 2hrs of trickles coming out of the kitchen. There was only one other table of two. 1 star service. 1 ½ star food.
This place was way way better 5 years ago. I used to come here almost every Saturday for a long time but now every time we have come with the family it has been disappointing.

I love Sakae Sushi! A great family run business with caring servers. We live in the area and frequent Sakae for their All-​You-​Can-​Eat menu and the servers have come to know our orders! Food is Always fresh, and for hungry families, this is a great deal! Love the Dynamite Rolls! Don’t let the small space fool you!

This s ours first time went to AYCE. We were there last weekend. The restaurant was slow, but ours food take more the 1hr to come. Sashimi wasn’t fresh, very fishy. We didn’t finished .
Overall the food take long time to come, quality of the fish wasn’t fresh. Not recommended !

This is my favourite AYCE sushi place in Toronto. The fish tastes great, especially the butterfish, which is absolutely excellent. It’s pricy for lunch (I think it’s $ 16.99 on weekdays and $ 18.99 on weekends) but that’s because there’s no differentiation between the lunch and dinner menus, so the price doesn’t change. On weekdays especially, it’s a great deal since you’re getting all the delicious sashimi and fancy fish that isn’t normally included for lunch.
It’s not as good as some à la carte places, but as far as AYCE goes, I haven’t found better in Toronto.

I went in for their lunch special today. One of the two rolls (spicy tuna) was less than fresh. It tasted down right sour. The soup didn’t taste like miso at all. In fact, it tasted like bleach. I asked my server if I could have a new bowl of soup and she claimed the next one would taste the same. I said it was my bowl that tasted like the bleach may have not been rinsed well. She just said «no». No, it doesn’t taste like bleach? I have worked in the restaurant industry for years and I would never just deny what my customer was claiming, taste-​wise. Instead of apologizing and trying to rectify the situation, she just gave me a look of, «I don’t care».
This is the first time I was unhappy with the service and food. All other meals were enjoyable. I was really disappointed and won’t go back.

I’ve been to Sakae a few times now, twice for dinner and once for lunch, and it’s been just fine. There’s nothing that blows me away about it, but I’m not a sushi snob by any means, so it’s good enough to satisfy my occasional sushi cravings.
At a cost of about $ 7 – 8 per roll on the regular menu, the AYCE option is actually a pretty good deal if you can eat at least three rolls. As other reviews mentioned, though, they will charge you for any pieces that you don’t eat, so do several small orders to make sure you really can finish everything you order.
I had lunch there today, and for $ 7.50 you get soup, salad and two rolls. Really good deal as far as I’m concerned.
The servers are very sweet, and while they might forget to bring water over right away, they’ll rush to bring it to you as soon as you remind them

This place really needs to employ more people. The 2 waitresses were unbelievably busy and it always took us atleast 10 mins to get their attention. The service was slow. The food soooooo boring. Never visiting ever again

Probably the worst all you can eat sushi experience I’ve had. The servers were friendly, but the quality of the sushi just isn’t there. And I think they charged nearly $ 17 for lunch which is absolutely outrageous. I will never go back.

We ate there for the 2^nd time this past week. While the sushi is quite good and nice selection, the service was atrocious!
The server forgot our order! We sat there for 30 minutes chit-​chatting until we realized why are those people who came after us, already eating their sushi? Well, it turns out, she had lost our order. I was angry, fueled by hunger.
At that point though, they got their act together and served us.
Unfortunately, they made no concessions when it came time to settling the bill. They seemed to recognize their error but did not give an inch!

I’ve been really pleased with the take out and the sushi at Sakae. I should start with the disclaimer that I’m a vegetarian so I can’t comment on the quality of the fish but my co-​workers always seem pleased. It’s become our new go-​to sushi joint.
They have a few things on their menu that you don’t see everyday. Rolls wrapped in cucumber instead of nori have become a co-​workers favourite.
Personally, I’m impressed at the vegetarian maki available. Not the biggest selection I’ve ever seen but way above average and if you order the specials, it’s also very well priced. And they actually have decent vegetarian specials!
The lunch service is prompt and friendly.
We haven’t tried the all you can eat menu yet but it looks impressive with a wide variety of choices but it does look a tiny bit expensive.
Overall, this is a solid sushi spot to check out if you’re in the neighbourhood.

We got delivery from Sakae last night. Their menu has been tempting me all month. Delivery is free with orders over $ 20 and their delivery area is pretty big, bounded by Yonge on the west, Bayview on the east, St. Clair on the south, and York Mills on the north.
We ordered a hand roll set and a veggie sushi set. Both came with salad and soup. (I didn’t order kaiso salad. Why did I not order the kaiso salad? Next time.)
I have a bit of a beef (hardee har har) with veggie sushi, sometimes. If you see ‘asparagus sushi’ or ‘spinach sushi’ that is not described as a roll/​maki, it’s a lump of rice with plain veggies tied to the top of it with a strip of nori. It’s… very bland and very plain, and too much to chew. I guess if the rice was really excellent it would be nice, but this style seems only to be made by places who really should be dressing up their rice more. These needed a dip in the soy sauce. I’ll stick with rolls from now on.
The rolls were decent — my veggie set came with yam tempura and avocado rolls, which are my favourite roll. These were a bit sticky and occasionally the yam seemed a bit too firm, but they were pretty tasty.
The sets are $ 9 and up and very generous. If you have a craving and don’t mind if it’s a little less than perfect, this is a good place to order from.