The Best AYCE Sushi in Toronto

Sushi Island is the greatest thing that ever happened to me --- best roll: Fire and Ice.

sushi fun at yonge and clarke isn't bad either

Aji Sai provides good value for lunch, less so for dinner. That said, I can honestly say they provide the WORST service of any restaurant I've ever frequented. Slow, forgetful, sometimes argumentative.

If you want to have decent sushi, don't go cheap. Well trained chefs don't bargain. Personally, I think Toronto's sushi culture is so doomed ... some places even don't bother draining water from salad bowl which sits in the kitchen for a looong time, basic stuff. Saying that, I can't afford good Japanese restrants so often. My choice is to get a take-out from Sushi Marche, or Taro fish. If I am lucky enough to have a weekday off, I'd go for Ematei or Ichiriki for reasonable lunch. They are much better than buffet.

Sushi Island is horrible. My friend and I went there once on a weekday. We ordered and they 'misplaced' our order. After waiting 30 minutes and complaining twice, we finally got some food. The waiters were rude & terrible. I would never go back there again.

I must agree that every time I've been to Aji Sai though (weekday or not) it's been amazing. Regardless of how busy they've been - excellent service and always got the order right. Plus, they've checked up to see if we wanted anything else. That is service.

Sushi fun at Yonge and Clark is my staple for AYCE sushi. But the place that is by far the best place is Ten-Ichi at 4810 Sheppard Ave East. Ten-Ichi is one of the best sushi place even compared with non-AYCE place. Although you have to reserve ahead of time as it is jammed packed and there's never any empty tables for casual walk-ins.

Still waiting for an even reasonably ok experience at Sushi Island. I live in the neighbourhood and keep trying - have gone at least 6 or 7 times over the past year and sadly Sushi Island = fail every time. For cheap+cheerful AYCE sushi, we head over to Sushi D ... but would love to try some of the others on this list!

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Finally they realize that Toronto includes areas OUTSIDE of the downtown core... then again as 'Basshat' stated, they seem to avoid area surrounded by Islington, Weston, Jane, Finch, Steeles, Martingrove, etc. where there is a TON of good food.

Yang's Kitchen is a regular AYCE stop for me, I occasionally hit Aji Sai in Thornhill, and Sushi Bon in Little Italy impressed me.

aji sai sushi has the worst service i'd have to say i'm never going back there.

Sushi Island is horrible. We had lunch there recently and dropped one piece of maki on the floor. We explained to our waitress what had happened and she appeared to understand. Then we were charged for not having eaten that piece that fell on the floor. We were already entirely unimpressed by the quality of the food, not to mention the service (they were mysteriously missing some of the more expensive items on the AYCE menu: "sorry, we don't have that today" or "sorry, we're all out of that now"). I refused to back down and ended up in a shouting match with the "head" waiter for 20 minutes. In the end, they did not make us pay for the dropped maki, but what a joke!!! We still paid $40 for a lunch and left with a very very bad taste in our mouth.

VIP Sushi at Yonge and Royal Orchard in Thornhill will always be my #1....the only all-you-can-eat that's fantastic. Attentive service with excellent and fresh fish/meat/vegetables...plus it's never too busy which is always a plus...I won't even venture and try anything else...my bf tried aji sai and hated it with a passion!

Be careful with some of these places. If you don't finish the sushi brought to your table you have to pay full price for all the sushi you've eaten.

Sushi Fun is the worst AYCE I've ever had ever. Rubber fish, cold teriyaki, slow service.

Aji Sai has been reliable in the past...but my vote goes to Maison Du Japon. Definitely the freshest, most delicious and consistent AYCE I've had in the GTA

Aji Sai does have one of the worst services, I went to try it out during lunch, ordered expensive sushimi combo to go and when opened it at work realizes they gave me the cheapest kind. That's nice ! I called and said that they made a mistake and they said to come by to pick up the price difference (I got lodes of time) and when I came to pick up the moneys they said they have no clue what I was talking about. CHECK YOUR TO GO FOODS IN AJI SAi. Or even better don't go to that place, it sucks.

Also I think however Echo Sushi changed to not so amazing after so many years, I still think for all you can eat sushi that's the only place that deserves to be here.. Trust me, I know my sushies.

Maison du Japon has been my regular destination. The menu is extensive, there is a large wait staff who don't forget your orders (no cards) and food comes reasonably quickly. I wouldn't label it the best sushi, but it's very good quality. I've got high standards and I've never been disappointed.

I've also heard that VIP sushi is excellent, but as mentioned, I usually go where I know the going's good.

PS: That was for YANGS KITCHEN by the way!

MY SUSHI at yonge and finch is amazing!

Try Akita Sushi on Highway 7 between Martingrove and Kipling. Great food! I love their sushi pizza!

A bunch of us (9) went to Masa Sushi only to be treated with the slowest, and most incomplete All You Can Eat sushi experience ever. Now the same us have gone to many of the restaurants listed above, and they all are worthy of making the list, except Masa.

First of all the restaurant was about 10% full, so any time delay cannot be blamed on how busy it was. Our orders took super long to come, that is if they actually came. The number of orders were cut down from what we ordered, and after long times of waiting, we ask the server and he tells us that your order has been complete. We know very well that half of it was not served (generally the rolls, the kitchen stuff mostly arrived). So we ordered again, and same exact problem, it took them a long while, only to serve us about half what we ordered. One of us eventually talked to the server about the terrible service, and he (the server) went and talked to sushi chefs. We thought that will solve the matter and we eventually be served our food, Nop!

Mind you, we went for the deluxe menu (the $21.99) since their other menu lacks all the rolls and the Sashimi we like. The place looks nice, but once you approach the tables and seats you will realize how miss-managed this place is, the chairs were ripped and half broken. Maybe they were just having a bad day, but that is how our experience turned out to be.

The sushi island is the worst place! None of them are good! Looks like they don't even know what is sushi!

I'm sorry but "AYCE Sushi" is an oxymoron.

I used to live across the street from Aji Sai and went there pretty frequently when it first opened about 2 years ago. It was decent quality, service was fine (except for one particular server who I'e seen spill food/drink all over customers on at least 3 different occasions), but no real complaints.

HOWEVER

After a bit of a hiatus, I went back for dinner this summer and got a completely different experience. The quality went wayyyyy down. The rice/fish ratio on the rolls swayed heavily in favour of rice, the texture and taste of the fish was extremely sub-par, and the service had degenerated into chaos with 2-3 different servers trying to manage our table but bungling almost every order. These changes for the worse seemed (to me, at least) to perfectly co-incide with Aji Sai expanding their dining room by taking over the space next door.

It was a truly miserable dining experience and really surprised me considering my previous experiences were neutral at worst.

Rose, you're completely obnoxious. BlogTO does a survey of the best AYCE sushi (along with all of the other Best Of lists), and based on those results... ta-da... we readers are provided these lists. So, to answer your question; THAT'S where they get the authority to rank these restaurants.

There might be, but those aren't really AYCE places. A place not included on this list - Sushi Friends - is probably the best AYCE option on the Danforth for those who care.

Masa @ yonge and Charles is my favourite.
The lunch/regular menu doesn't have special rolls or sashimi, but for $11 you're not going to get sashimi and special rolls, and if you do then its probably not very good (sashimi is damned expensive..), the dinner/deluxe menu is very extensive at $22. Rolls are most professionally done that I've seen, never fall apart, they're large, and have the best taste of any place I've been. They have very good tea, a must for me. And the fish is always fresh and good looking, no browning or fat on their fish like other places unprofessionally leave. I haven't been to sushi on bloor in a while but when I went 4 years ago their tea was like piss in water, the rolls were tiny, unprofessional and not tasty, and the fish wasn't fresh. Tea needs to be hot and flavorful.