Makimono Japanese Restaurant

The renovations are excellent, the AYCE menu is generous, and the seafood quality is top notch.
Makimono has very quickly become our restaurant of choice for all you can eat sushi. Highly recommend making this yours too!

Food is usually the best for Durham. Brand new space as well really comfortable and clean and spacious.
Wait staff are very attentive and always checking on you and the food is super fast.
Personally I think the food is better if you come for early dinner or early lunch.

New location opened this week, great atmosphere and Fresh food. The menu items are the same as before but the quality of food has improved. Service is good as well, recommend this place for lunch or dinner.

This restaurant offers everything you’d want in a sushi restaurant. I’ve been to this location many times and am pleased to be a customer of their’s.
They have a friendly and helpful staff, decent dining environment, and the price is not expensive at all.
The most important is the food however! I think that they offer a fantastic selection of different foods. They use an iPad menu with great pictures/​explanations of what’s offered. The quality itself of the food– I wouldn’t say it’s superb but I’ve never been disappointed and have always been more than pleased with my food.
I’d definitely recommend this establishment to others. It will be a good experience and is very reasonably priced.

This is a small restaurant with nice décor. AYCE selection was pretty decent. Service was good.
BUT I had a terrible stomach ache right after! I think it had to do with the sashimi I ate. It wasn’t fully thawed yet so I could feel bits of ice as I was chewing. Yuck!

I have loved this place for a long time. There were the occasional mess up with items that we didn’t order delivered to our table, or other times items that we did order never arriving. We figured it was a result of the place being busy and didn’t detract from the food itself.
I would say we have been there maybe 20 times over the years but tonight will be our last visit. I ordered a new item for me, sesame chicken and when it came to the table, as soon as I quit talking with my dinner date, I saw a very large piece of wire sticking out of one of the pieces of chicken. I pulled it out, and it appeared to be a piece of a wire brush used to scrub grills. I called the waitress back, and showed it to her. She looked at it, and explained that it was part of a wire scrubber. I told her I knew what it was, but why was it in my food? She took the sesame chicken back to the kitchen but I was just done. The few items left I flipped around and closely examined from every angle before putting it in my mouth. I would have quite honestly been less worried about a hair in my food than a wire. I could have cut my mouth or damaged my teeth.
Sorry Makimono, your kitchen cleaning should not leave anything in the food. It shouldn’t leave soap residue, pieces of cleaning equipment, broken glass, or anything else that could possibly wind up in the food. There should be safeguards in food preparation, and if I’m getting a large piece of wire, clearly visible to the naked eye as soon as the plate is presented, it makes me wonder what I might have eaten on previous visits that I just didn’t see.

BEST SUSHI EVER!!! I live in toronto and will drive 50 mins just for the food. Decent price and always fresh. If you have any issues the servers are more than happy to fix it for you.

The place is ok. Didn’t like how the sashimi was still partly frozen.

The sushi wasn’t very good and a disappointment except for the golden California roll which I would recommend. However the tempura & all the teriyaki dishes were excellent. The service was fast & efficient, and the restaurant had a very nice modern atmosphere.

I am terribly disappointed. This was one of my fav local places which has steadily gone downhill and tonight’s dinner will be my last there. The place used to have a hip groove to it with dark tables and white textured leatherette chairs. Now the tables are covered with atrocious white polyester table cloths and white butcher paper. The fabric bench I sat on had food stains. The AYCE food trough mentality has become the norm.
I ordered my favourite rainbow roll ala carte. I was checking in with friends on social media while I waited and a baby screamed. The couple in the table across from me were puzzling over an iPad menu at their table, trying to identify the plate in front of them.
«Oh, that’s a rainbow roll,» I told them. «I ordered one, too.»
«Then this must be yours,» says the guy, grabbing the plate. «Let me bring it over.»
«No, no,» I say. «It’s yours now.»
The server comes by, points to the plate and asks a question, then picks up the plate from their table and brings it to me. I am aghast. I don’t even know how to refuse it. But I’m not eating it. The server clues in, asks if anything is wrong. I tell her I’d rather have my own rainbow roll than somebody else’s.
Yes, they replaced it. But it was a pale imitation of my fav. No tuna. One measly strip of salmon, a measly strip of white ‘tuna’ (ick) and lots of avocado. I just took down the luscious picture of their rainbow roll I posted about 3 years ago. It’s not the same restaurant and I wouldn’t want anyone to be tricked into believing it was.

Worst sushi experience to date. I avoid all you can eat and prefer omakase. This place was not for me. If you like fresh fish. Well prepared and presented sushi and good service. This is not your place. If you want quantity and a low price point this place has it. The rolls were descent. The fish was low quality and not well cut. A
It is open late. So that is a plus. avoid sashimi or nigiri. Will not return. I’d rather eat McDonald’s.

Good sushi Apple is a great waitress very friendly never had a bad experience there quite busy at times you may get turned away, but overall a nice place good food, clean, parking is decent certainly worth checking out

Food was good — pretty average for an AYCE restaurant. Service was not all that great.

Love the Place, I live in the the GTA, and I drive all the way to here just for the Sushi,
Love all their menu,
I would recommend you to go only on Sat, Sun or Wen. the rest of the days, you can tell almost everything you eat is not fresh!

Great family restaurant! Efficient service but not overly warm. Food was AWSOME and fresh… especially the handrolls, sushi & sashimi. With AYCE… we tried so many different dishes and all were delicious. The food quality is far better than the Pickering location. Will definitely be back!

Quick service. Good rolls. Small restaurant. Modern décor.
I met up with an old time friend. We had a lot of catching up to do, so we spent a while there. But not for any other reason regarding eating more food. Our waitress was not friendly. Took our paper and left. Took our paper and left. No communication really. At one point she came to our table and started to clean up as if we were done. We weren’t lol. So another waitress came, embarassed by her co-​worker and placed more plates etc. on our table. Overall, I would continue going to Edamame in Pickering, if I’m going to AYCE Sushi close to home, regardless that my home is in Ajax.

Terrible experience. Honestly everything was bad. You walk in and there’s like 10 tables and it looks crowded and messy.
The girl takes one look at us, points at a table and walks away. Ooook? So we sit down.
The tables are sticky. That is so gross to me!
Then she slaps down a menu and the list to choose from and walks away. Eventually she comes back and asks about drinks. We get our drinks and our food quickly.
All the rolls taste exactly the same. They all look like a California roll. This was really disappointing coming from markham where they are really creative and skilled with their sushi.
They never came back to ask us how we were or if we wanted more until we asked for the bill.
I’ll never go back.

At first glance it looked great !
Once we sat down after waiting 20 mins after being told 2 minutes
We ordered our drinks but was missing a coke. We reminded 3 waiters for this. Waited ½ hr before receiving it.
Cooked food came quickly still waiting on sushi.
Service is not the greatest. Waitress is very abrupt.
Food was not bad — nothing memorable or impressive
No debit is available Only cash or credit at this location. ATM at front door.

I’ve been to the Pickering location a number of times (and just wrote a review on it) but I came to the Ajax location about a month ago expecting a similarly good experience and ended up a bit disappointed.
This location is a fraction of the size of the Pickering location; there’s probably about 10 tables in the entire place. The upside of this is that your food tends to come out at a good pace. However, it seems the servers in this particular location haven’t quite grasped good service, and considering how small the restaurant is, it shouldn’t be that difficult.
We always get the AYCE at Makimono, I have no idea why you wouldn’t because its quite good value for your money. I was generally disappointed with the rolls at this location; haphazardly put together, not very tight and some rolls were a completely different size than at the other location! Some weren’t even made the same! We can usually pound back about 12 spicy butterfish rolls but here, they were significantly larger and we had a very difficult time finishing them. I don’t know if they get their fish from the same supplier but it just wasn’t up to snuff. The sashimi was good, but some of the ingredients in the rolls just weren’t as fresh and didn’t taste as bright.
Again, the service left something to be desired and service is very important to me. Our server seemed to not care if we wanted to order more and while there were like three servers covering the whole restaurant, they seemed rather detached and working on autopilot. I noticed people walking in and the staff would tell them to sit wherever and then no one would approach the table. One table had to get up 5 minutes afterwards and ask for menus — the place is so small, they could have simply called it across the restaurant but you shouldn’t have to do that regardless.
Overall, while there’s not a hell of a lot of difference between the locations, I’d travel the extra 15 minutes to the Pickering location to eat there rather than coming to this location. Better quality rolls, faster service and better (albeit not much better) service.

Why would anyone order Teriyaki Beef when you can have Black Pepper Beef?!
Their All-​You-​Can-​Eat buffet has an incredible selection as does their regular menu. There are a few Makimono locations but this one, by far, is my favourite.
The service is excellent, the sashimi is fresh and the atmosphere is pleasant.