U-Know Sushi

Just ordered take out from just eat. I was super impressed with the food and how quickly it was delivered! I have tried so many sushi places so I am super critical. This isn’t the best sushi I have ever had but it was really really good! The shrimp tempura was perfectly crispy. The nigiri was beautiful and the salmon and tuna rolls were super yummy. Will definately be ordering again!

My fav sushi place around here. Quality, service, and all around greatness. They’re so friendly and kind. Everything I’ve tried here has been excellent! Don’t be put off my the location or exterior. It’s what’s inside that counts ;)

Not a lot of sushi places in this area — and the few that are in the area, like Momiji on Bloor St W, are overpriced.
I like U-​Know Sushi’s unpretentious yet straightforward offering: you get good sushi (=fresh and tasty) for a good price. It looks like it’s a family business. They’re all nice people. It’s as simple as that.
Note for the context of my review: I have always ordered take-​out with this restaurant. I don’t know how it is to dine there. Momiji may be more expensive because their restaurant looks fancier, but that doesn’t really matter to me.

Great place. I went here with my cousin for lunch on Monday afternoon.
The location is OK. Not the best, but not the worst.
The food was great. Nice and fresh. I had salmon sashimi (5 pieces), Tako Yaki (5 pieces), and Chicken Katsu.
I would come back to this place again if I’m ever in the area.

I was really craving sushi the other night and thought I’d give this new place a try.
I called ahead and ordered the «Dinner Spicy Roll — SD6» and, because there was a bit of a language barrier, I confirmed that it was three rolls — spicy salmon, tuna and dynamite. I was correct but, they said that they only offer «half» a dynamite roll. I guess they should have indicated that on the menu but whatever …
Anyway, the positive was that they used good quality ingredients — the rolls were very fresh. The negatives were that the rolls were quite small; they were smothered in mayo to the point that I couldn’t differentiate the salmon from the tuna; and there was little signs of shrimp in the «half» dynamite roll.
I would have given it four stars but, what really turned me off (actually pissed me off), was the lettuce in the salad was all brown — gross. The miso soup should have just been named «miso flavoured broth» because it only had one little piece of tofu and no trace of seaweed.
The cheque came to $ 18 with tax. I felt a little taken and will likely NOT return — 2.5 stars.

Random went to this place with friends, everything was great! It was really fresh. For sure I am going back again.

What we had:
Salmon sashimi appetizer — best value ever! So fresh we ordered two
Pork bone soup — also best value ever!
Kalbi appetizer
Tuna lover rolls
Chicken udon
All dishes were flavourful and delicious. We were the only people but then after we got there more people came so food came quite quickly. Wait staff very friendly.
Décor — it’s not the fancy Japanese restaurants downtown Toronto but it reminds me of the little family run restaurants in Tokyo off on the side streets.
$ 65 before tips for all this and the 3 of us were absolutely stuffed.
Yum!

Delicious sushi, made so fresh and some of the most friendly owners. They’ve only been open for 3 months. Menu is about 10 – 15 $ an entrée. I love contributing to family run shops instead of big corporate chains. Money stays local, helps a local business. And it’s tasty here!

U-​Know Sushi just opened along Queensway just east of Parklawn. It replaces my favourite local Thai place that recently closed down.
I went in to grab some sushi on my way home from work and since it’s new, they weren’t very busy yet.
To keep things simple I ordered one of their 30 piece sushi platters.
Eventhough there were only 2 customers when I arrived, my order took 40 minutes to prepare! 40 minutes!
There was 1 sushi chef, 2 waitresses and 1 bus boy. They should have brought in an extra chef and sent home one of the waitresses since it wasn’t busy.
—— PROS ——
1. The sushi was very fresh and delicious
2. The prices are extremely reasonable ($ 37 for a 30 piece sushi platter)
3. Staff was very friendly and pitched in a free order of edemame
—— CON ——
1. The service is excruciatingly slow… Call ahead for take-​out.
Right now it stands at 3 stars because I hate long waits for food. I understand if the place was busy but it was a slow night. I can’t imagine how long one would have to wait once this place gets busy… Since it’s local, and I LOVE sushi, I will likely be back here in the near future. I hope they look into this problem and speed up the service.
To be continued…
Tip: If you go in the evening, there’s free parking along the west wall of the building in the Active Green + Ross garage parking lot.

Going in, i think the place need an actual designer to come and change it up. They did a wonderful job trying to remove the old style which was horrific, lol but over all the place looked bright & very clean! Next i was greeted by a very nice woman who assisted me with my order which was very helpful in deciding what to get.
this is what i ordered
–miso soup– excellent
–salad– it was salad with half slice of tomato with an onion based white dressing. no bad but different
–Fried calamari– 8 great big jumbo pieces and the squid is very squid NOT frozen or rubbery or tough! the batter is good too. (FYI: they are so smart: when they put the calamari to go, they snipped the two corners of the to-​go container so the calamari steam would not be trapped and make it soggy. (Talk about attention to detail)
–15 pieces of crab sushi & salmon sushi– it was so delicious. next time i will get all salmon
–15 sashimi– the salmon was excellent. It was very fresh, excellent quality and the pieces are huge. Also, the décor
–6 california rolls – they were delicious and exactly how fresh sushi rolls should taste (and not too much rice, more crab, avocado & cucumber)
All i have to say is that they won me over with there clean space, friendly customer service, speedy takeout, large portions & remarkably fresh food. They deserve 5 stars because they do go the extra mile for their customers, even if its takeout.
They will have my buisness and my clients business too.