Sakura Sushi

Sakura Sushi
394 Bloor St W

Well, if the address of Sakura sushi sounds familiar, it’s because it is occupying the space of an old favorite. Yes, sometime back J-Time sushi closed, and in it’s place Sakura opened. I decided that while nothing can take the place of the establishment where I was introduced to Salmon Pizza, I’d give it a whirl. It’s certainly going to make my google map look a little odd.

They had a reasonably priced all you can eat menu at $12.99, and since I’m on a budget I decided to go with that. There were some interesting trade offs on the AYCE menu that maximized the choices for the diner, and wouldn’t break the bank for the restauranteur. Normally with AYCE, the rolls have about 1/2″ of rice to fill you up. Not so here, the portion was just right. However, there was no Tuna on the menu. Fair enough. I guess I skip spicy tuna this time!

The salmon Pizza was really quite good, even though it took a fair while to get down to it as the rice patty was covered in a chopped mixture of salmon, tempura, onion, tobiko, and maybe even some eye of newt. Regardless, it was excellent, one of the better examples of the “hash” style as opposed to the “slab” style of Salmon. Sometimes a little is a lot. The Spicy Crab was merely crab stick mixed with spicy mayo, but a bit of tempura for texture put it a step above. Finally was the Crunchy Roll, which was a California roll replacing the crab stick with salmon and tempura. Again, very simple, but well done.

The menu was fairly varied in the simple AYCE style, and I’d go back again. The one thing that does need to be changed is the lighting, as watching your food change colour from blue, to green, to red, etc. was distracting and a little annoying.

It’s not J-Time, but I’ll be back!