Kokoro Sushi

Kokoro Sushi
572 Marlee Ave

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 While biking through my neighborhood, I discovered that one of the hole in the wall greasy spoons had been replaced by a sushi joint.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!