Takumi Sushi House

Takumi Sushi House
484 Yonge St.

So Saturday was some “back to school” shopping for Todd. Of course, a couple of new pairs of jeans and a book about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for a guy nearly 40 probably doesn’t count as back to school shopping, but it did get me out to Yonge st. Yonge is another of the sushi strips in the city, and up north of college you can’t throw a rock without hitting someones Maki combo.

The first thing that I noticed when opening the menu was that they offered Omakase. Wikipedia defines this as: “The expression is used at sushi restaurants to leave the selection to the chef.” I’ve never actually tried it myself, but one of these days I’ll give it a whirl at a fancy restaurant. The rest of the menu showed a pretty wide variety of Japanese fare, so the name is slightly deceiving, it’s not just a sushi house.

I went for a ubiquitous favorite, the Salmon Pizza ($6.95) and a variation on a favorite. A Black Spider roll ($9.95) which differs from the usual by adding garlic and spicy mayo. Sadly the addition of the garlic was a bad choice. It completely annihilated the flavour of any other ingredient in the roll. Though I wasn’t terribly impressed with the soft shelled crab either, as after having cleansed the palate, I pulled some out of the roll and found it to be bland and mealy. The Salmon pizza was well done though. The salmon slices themselves could have been a little more generous, the rice patty was fried to perfection and the mayo and sauce was not overdone or missing!

The waitress was a little harried with a  couple of larger groups, but the service was pretty good. I’d place this as one of the better “stop for lunch” class places. I’d visit again!