Ah, a Saturday that promises rain. What better way to spend the lunch hour than taking your time eating a nice sushi lunch and reading a book? Well, I couldn’t think of one, so I put on my shoes and headed toward Eglinton. I know there’s a few places I haven’t visited yet, including one that was still under construction…
But under construction no more! Nice interior, and a pretty darn interesting menu. Not just the usual maki, but a fair bit Japanese fare. Wow, what a bad sentence. The first thing that jumped out at me was a Lobster Tempura Roll ($7.98). While it was a little anemic when it came to contents, the lobster was very fresh. We’re talking the tempura hadn’t even had time to cool yet, it was deliciously warm. Deliciously tasting too. Lobster is one of the few foods I know for darn certain when it’s prepared well or not. This lobster was really quite good. Far better than I expected. Next up was the ubiquitous Salmon Pizza ($7.98). This was also very well done, the rice patty was fried just a bit more than “usual” which was nice, and the generous amount of spicy mayo, tempura flakes, salmon, and avocado was just right. There really isn’t an way to make it “wrong” (unless you put cheese on it!) but this was probably in the top 5-10 for me.
It also gave me a chance to try out the camera in my new iPhone 4, so if the snaps aren’t up to the usual quality, there you go. But I quite like N.K. I can definitely state that I’ll be back here for lunch!
How do you know when you’ve been incredibly busy, almost too busy to breathe? When you’ve had a sushi review sitting on your hard drive for nearly 2 weeks and you haven’t found time to post it. While biking through my neighborhood, I discovered that one of the hole in the wall greasy spoons had been replaced by a sushi joint. This speaks to me, and I made a point of visiting it at the end of July.
Kokoro isn’t a fancy place, and it isn’t in an upscale area of the city, but you notice that there has to be something good about it when people come out to a god awful strip mall to get sushi. On Marlee. Really. It was surprisingly busy, but the food was pretty darn good and the pricing wasn’t bad either.
I went for a staple and a stand by this time, with the usual Spicy Tuna at $4.50 and a Green Dragon at $8.99. The presentation was better than I expected (my expectations were low, this *was* formerly a greasy spoon) and the fish was very fresh. The spicy tuna was a little on the bland side, but nothing wrong with it. The Green dragon had perfectly sliced layers of avocado, and most importantly the tempura shrimp inside was far better than average.
The service was prompt, and there were a lot of people taking advantage of the 10% off for take out orders. The next time I have an evening sushi craving I may just visit this place rather than head down to Eglinton. Thumbs up for a fast food style sushi restaurant!
This is probably the first of whats going to become more of a staple around here, the 5 minute quickie review. Most places like this are in the “Food Court Sushi” category, and Quik Sushi is no exception.
Last weekend the Sister, myself, and a friend visiting from Berlin went out on a bike ride. It was decided that we’d have breakfast at the St. Lawrence Market on the way to our adventure. While the others went for Vegan raw food, I found Quik Sushi and after a quik peruse (hah!) grabbed a couple of rolls for a cheap brunch. Personally, I have no problem with el-cheapo sushi as long as it’s priced accordingly and the ingredients were at least fresh when the rolls were made. For $5.95 each I grabbed a Spicy Tuna and a Crab roll and was pleasantly surprised. It was food court quality, and was made hours previously, but the rice was good, and the fish was fresh. The tempura crunch in the spicy tuna roll suffered from the soggies after being in the cooler, but it didn’t detract that much.
Both were 8 piece rolls, and I wound up stuffing myself and was grateful for adding 40 more kilometers on my bike that day. Worth checking out for fast fuel on a weekend morning while getting the groceries!
One of the things I’ve noticed is that with all of the time spent in and out of bike shops lately, is that I haven’t eaten as much sushi as I normally do. I managed to correct that a bit a few days ago with a pit stop at Echo Sushi after visiting a couple of the Yonge st bike shops.
I actually opted for their all you can eat lunch special ($13.99) as I felt rather peckish and the price was really quite reasonable. First off I went with their Salmon Pizza to see what version might turn up. This one was rather bland, though generous with both sliced salmon and crab stick. I was disappointed that there was just regular mayo on there, some spicy mayo and maybe even oyster sauce would have helped. Up next was a Dynamite hand roll, which delivered on the tempura shrimp and a nice large slice of Avocado. Rounding out the main course was another of my favorite stand-by’s, the spicy tuna roll. Again, while the fish was fresh and generous it lacked any sort of kick. For a spicy roll it really wasn’t very spicy.
While the quality and price were very good, from what I sampled it seemed a little bland. Thumbs are fairly firmly planted in the middle.
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