ACYE Japanese ... Wasabi

[TigerEROS]

Wasabi (right beside Starwalk Buffet)
668 Silver Star Boulevard,
Scarborough, ON M1V 5N1
Tel: 416-226-9988

Just been there tonight. Service was amazing. The female waitresses were amazing.

Food is in abundance.

Only one word can describe this place: AWESOME!

Never had better all you can eat sushi before. Tried many places in the GTA ... but this place is stunning!

[teknoluv]

The female waitresses were amazing.

Please elaborate in more details.

[TigerEROS]

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Cute. Dressed in tight clothing. Nice figure. etc ......

[Papagorgio]

Wasabi is better than average sushi buffet. Its definitely not as good as sushi on the 7, but it’s much better than Sushi Hut. It's not even as good as T&T supermarket sushi (which is good). Service I must say is very good.

I think its the same people who own Dynasty Tea Cafe and ICook buffet.

I hope this puts it in some sort of perspective.

[b0rk]

Wasabi is better than average sushi buffet. Its definitely not as good as sushi on the 7, but it’s much better than Sushi Hut. It's not even as good as T&T supermarket sushi (which is good). Service I must say is very good.

I think its the same people who own Dynasty Tea Cafe and ICook buffet.

I hope this puts it in some sort of perspective.

sushi on 7 isnt that great...the food is average, maybe even below par. i had lunch there last week (during reading week) and I found Yang's to be much better.

[gman]

Wasabi (right beside Starwalk Buffet)
668 Silver Star Boulevard,
Scarborough, ON M1V 5N1
Tel: 416-226-9988

Just been there tonight. Service was amazing. The female waitresses were amazing.

Food is in abundance.

Only one word can describe this place: AWESOME!

Never had better all you can eat sushi before. Tried many places in the GTA ... but this place is stunning!

I was there recently. Their service sucks.

1. they take forever to deliver the food.
2. They want to kick us out even though they have not delivered the food we ordered. It was not we did not want to get out. It was we were still hungry. We are 2 adults and 2 kids.
3. They put a 2% surcharge for using credit card without informing us until we finished and going to pay the bill. I could not find the surcharge in their menu or anywhere. We may not even walk in if they post it on the door. Visa and master sign are on the door.
4. They charge you 10% for service by default.
5. They were busy and we really need to try to get a hold of a waitress to order stuff.
6. The waitresses were rude. They did not even smile.

I will not go there again.

[coldWater]

I was there recently. Their service sucks.

1. they take forever to deliver the food.
2. They want to kick us out even though they have not delivered the food we ordered. It was not we did not want to get out. It was we were still hungry. We are 2 adults and 2 kids.
3. They put a 2% surcharge for using credit card without informing us until we finished and going to pay the bill. I could not find the surcharge in their menu or anywhere. We may not even walk in if they post it on the door. Visa and master sign are on the door.
4. They charge you 10% for service by default.
5. They were busy and we really need to try to get a hold of a waitress to order stuff.
6. The waitresses were rude. They did not even smile.

I will not go there again.

my experience sucked too, we went there during the weekend, lots ppl, take so long for an order, and when we ordered something hot, it arrived cold.......maybe that's becasue it was the weekend

[jollyeskimo]

I was there about half a year ago... the entire experience was pretty good, but nothing spectacular.



yeah I was bored....and yes I actually drank that..... and yes it was wasabi

[NDman]

I was there recently. Their service sucks.

1. they take forever to deliver the food.
2. They want to kick us out even though they have not delivered the food we ordered. It was not we did not want to get out. It was we were still hungry. We are 2 adults and 2 kids.
3. They put a 2% surcharge for using credit card without informing us until we finished and going to pay the bill. I could not find the surcharge in their menu or anywhere. We may not even walk in if they post it on the door. Visa and master sign are on the door.
4. They charge you 10% for service by default.

5. They were busy and we really need to try to get a hold of a waitress to order stuff.
6. The waitresses were rude. They did not even smile.

I will not go there again.

You probably caught them on a bad day. I went once few months ago. Had decent exeperience. Food was nothing to brar about but at least the place has decent decor and comfortable for a dinner. Waitstaff was nice, but they were slow. The 10% tip is just standard anywhere you go for Chinese-run AYCE these days. It sucks.

[springroll]

Where is Trueno92 when you needed him? Trueno!! WHERE ARE YOU?!

[sky888]

wasabi food/service = excellent

been there couple of times, great service, good food, always talk to the waitress.
i know few ppl work there
my cousin n ex-gf's cousin work there

[Spiderpal93]

I tried it about 6 months ago and did not went back until yesterday for lunch.

Have to say that things have improved! Sushi actually tasted good this time around!

[gq_fuzion]

price?
same as others?

diverse menu?

[Papagorgio]

I went to Wasabi today for lunch ~11:00am, March 13, 06' (empty when we arrived, filled up as we eat).

First impression:
Nicely designed, clean restaurant. So I wondered how they can supply AYCE sushi with reasonable quality and efficiently? (Price of lunch for 2 people = $30)

With lunch, the only sashimi they offer is Salmon (no white tuna, Hokkegai, surf clam, red snapper, Tamago, crab meat) also no grilled salmon belly or head.




Sashimi:
The salmon was fantastic, fresh, and soft, like butta! (5/5)

Sushi:
Overall their sushi was good. In reference to their Nigiri Zushi (hand rolled sushi) it was excellent because it is simply a cut of meat on a ball of rice and their meats (Mackerel, white tuna, fish roe etc..) were all impeccably fresh and tasted amazing. The only problem I had here was the salmon rose which contained a flat tasteless sauce. And I ordered a bean curd pocket but I never received it. Btw, their sea eel and mackerel were really good) 4/5




Handrolls:
Their handrolls were good also, not great. A bit too much rice, delivered to warm made the sea weed paper soft too quickly thus not delivering the crunchy texture. Also, their cucumber slices were large and overpowering. However the sauces that they did use tasted great with the ingredients. I didn’t like the crunchy spicy hand roll, even though it was exactly that..crunchy and spicy. (3/5)



Sushi Pizza:
The personal tester for AYCE sushi restaurant quality for me. Wasabi's sushi pizza was reminiscent of a pre-packaged rice patty with minimal garnishing (like Sushi Hut's horrible sushi pizza) however never judge a sushi pizza by its cover?? umm.. it tasted great, probably the second best sushi pizza I have had. The outside was crunchy, inside was soft, not too much mayo; Simple and well done. (4/5)



Sushi Rolls:
Ok, this is Wasabi's weak point even though it’s what their restaurant is based on. Their sushi rolls pieces are small, like the size of a bottle cap. Their rice is a bit bland. They used small amount of ingredient with overpowering mayo based sauces that were also bland. The cucumber in the rolls were big, also overpowering the main ingredient thus, most rolls were indistinguishable from the next. *exception* their salmon skin in general was really good, tastes like it was barbequed, kind of a smoky. Also their house roll was interesting and quite tasty (in the picture, sushi surrounded by egg plant I think). (2.3/5)



Appetizers/Other items: Overall (2.5/5)
Shrimp tempura- not a lot of batter (good) overall tasty, but not as tasty as other places.
Squid tempura - looks and tastes like English fish and chips (greasy and deeeep fried)
Deep fried squid - tasted like cheese... weird?



Beverages:
Diet coke - fountain but not flat
Green tea - tasty, sloppily poured.. ouch.

Service: 3/5
I must say the service was not too good. Even when the place was empty it was slower than say, when Sushi on 7 is half full. And when it eventually got busy, the service was slow. Imagine me getting bored and drawing pictures in the empty plate with Soya sauce. On the plus side, they only forgot ONE order (bean curd pocket). Btw, the waitresses were kind and friendly.

Overall:
Wasabi is an average sushi buffet. Raw materials are excellent, good supplier. Sushi chef is amateur, amateur sushi technique and sauces. I wouldn’t go again, because there are better places to spend the same money however if I was starving and the gas prices were unusually high that week, and I was passing it by, I would eat there. - for lunch.

[tiggerpooh]

hey great review....trueno style

i see the bean curd pocket...so what do you mean they missed it??