Ginza Sushi and Thai

Went here today for lunch. The food was not terrible but it also wasn’t the best either. I’ve definitely had better. The sushi was okay, the tempura was less then average (the crispness was not there), the teriyaki was okay and the fried rice was terrible, and the edamame was undercooked and came with no salt. My usual sushi place is Akita just down the road, and I’ll just stick to that for the time being. The price was pretty cheap though, but you also get what you pay for.

Went for AYCE and a lot of food we ordered didn’t get through and we ended up having to reorder and wait. Service was also disappointing. Overpriced for this kind of quality.

Sashimi is the only thing to go for here! There rolls consist of canned tuna or canned salmon. Their spicy salmon handroll sauce is ketchup-​simply ketchup. So gross. And their other sauce for handrolls is mayo, literally. If you want all you can eat sushi, you don’t expect the best sushi of your life, but I never expected ketchup and mayo on my sushi! If you’re looking for all you can eat, I recommend Fushimi or Aji Saii which are just a few blocks away!

Made a reservation, confirmed on the phone. Arrived at the time and they didn’t honour it

I don’t know why people don’t find it very weird when totally different Asian cuisines are mashed together. Ever eaten at Michael’s Crêpes and Gefilte Fish? Didn’t think so.
Cultural Frankensteining aside, it really adds another dimension to AYCE ordering. Sometimes you just feel like cleansing your palate between bites of sashimi with a random order of fried coconut shrimp, Pad Thai, curry or Har Gow (oh yeah, Ginza throws a little Chinese dim sum in there too, while they’re at it).
My picks: seaweed salad, white tuna, salmon sushi pizza, and sure, the coconut shrimp. Bottomless lunch is $ 14. Go nuts.

Update: they still don’t bring much of your food, and their machines calculate tip AFTER tax. Beware.
Started well and ended disappointingly.
Food way better than expected; enjoyed fried tofu, grilled eggplant, green dragon roll.
Unfortunately after that initial first round of serving our order, we seemed to be missing several things we ordered and service, despite a quiet half-​filled restaurant, became enragingly slow. I don’t appreciate waiting twenty minutes for the bill I asked for and missing part of my order. After asking more than once.
Ps they seem to serve sesame balls as one half per order … This is the first time I’ve gotten half of a whole as one order anywhere. Unimpressed!
I’ll revisit with a sharp eye.

This place is pretty terrible. Tasteless/​boring rolls, average service, lame décor. The food was so forgettable I’m surprised I remembered to write this review.

Ah Ginza. You were once so fresh, so new, so completely next-​door to my office, and your lunch specials were so outrageously priced it was almost more expensive for me NOT to frequent your establishment.
When it first opened, I was there. 6 bucks for miso, salad, edamame, and a bento or sushi combo or sashimi bowl. Then it was 7. Then it was 8. Now, the lunch specials average around 11 dollars, and the lunch AYCE is 13.99 Should you pay the extra 3 dollars? Yes. The AYCE menu includes a few Dim Sum options, all the appetizers, all the sushi and sashimi. It also features a few thai selections. My advice is to either prepare yourself to eat all that you can, or go somewhere else with cheaper lunch specials (Sushi Club on Charles perhaps?)
The sushi is above average quality — not as good as Wow! (but who is?) but far better than a lot of the yorkville/​bloor station area alternatives. There are cheaper AYCE places in the neighbourhood (Natural, Aji Sai to name a couple) but Ginza’s fish is tastier, their rolls are better made, and their selection is superior. The service tends to be sparse around lunchtime, but you can still get in and out, fully satisfied in an hour.

Came here hungry after listening to a lecture at UfT. My overall experience was good but not amazing.
Service: the lady who say us wasn’t very warm. My boyfriend tried to order a cocktail and she said «we don’t have cocktail» I was confused so I asked if she meant they didn’t have a liquor license but she explained they only had beer and wine but she seemed annoyed. When I asked for another ayce sheet she said ok and never came back lol. Our actual server was a sweetheart! He seemed a bit shy but he was very attentive and his service was speedy. Drinks were always refilled and he checked on us regularly throughout the meal.
Food: came here for ayce sushi for dinner. About 25 a person which I found average. The sushi was fresh and I regret not ordering more nigiri. I was disappointed that shrimp tempura was not included in ayce only veggies. I’m also not a fan of mayonnaise and that spicy ketchup in my sushi. I could if fine without it.

I really wanted to like Ginza, but unfortunately was a bit disappointed.
I came here for dinner with some friends to try out an Asian restaurant in the area that none of us had ever been to before. We were welcomed and immediately brought complimentary green tea. I love it when restaurants do this without you having to ask for it. I also like that all of the tables had low-​sodium soy sauce so you didn’t have to ask for it. The restaurant is clean; however, the menus are looking a bit worn out. I
I ordered three smaller dishes:
1) Mango Salad ($ 5) — mango, green /​red peppers, and white /​red onion slices — this was fine, although a fair amount of the mango was not ripe enough so was a bit tough to eat.
2) Asparagus roll ($ 3.50) — basic 6 pieces of asparagus maki. I liked how the asparagus was steamed and not tempura.
3) BBQ Squid ($ 6) — this was my most disappointing dish of the night. I love good grilled squid, so this is a critical dish for me! For starters, it arrived quite a bit longer after my other dishes and my friends’ dishes — to the point that I had to ask the waitress if it was coming because I wasn’t sure if they had forgotten about it or not. Once it arrived it was way too overcooked. It was charred in many places and a lot of pieces were extremely tough, making it inedible.
I may return to Ginza in the future, although I would try different dishes. I wouldn’t rush back here as there are many other Asian restaurants in the neighbourhood where I have had better food at a similar price point.

I will give it 3.5 Star.
It is actually one of my fav sushi place in terms of the quality of the food.
Miso soup and black cod it really good.
However, compared to before, the size of the roll as well as the black cod gets smaller.
Price is slightly expensive compared to other sushi resturants.
These two are the main reasons i only gave out 3.5 stars.

Came here on my first Toronto visit with a friend and we loved it! Service was great, although we seemed to get there just before they had a crazy lunch rush.
The rolls tasted fresh, the menu had some of my favorite «girly» martinis listed which was a plus, and the prices were decent.
A nice place to come for lunch if you are waiting on checking into your room at the Delta Chelsea :)

I’ve been to this location several times and I must admit, the main reason why I eat here is because the prices are incredibly «cheap» for a Yorkville location.
My experiences at this restaurant have ranged from good to disappointing. I suppose it depends on the waiter/​waitress that you get. There was one time when the service was so slow my friend and I could have snuck out without paying (but we didn’t!), and there were other times the service was quick and efficient. Nothing really consistent with the service, but again, it all depends on who your server is.
The one thing that I can say is consistent about this place is the quality of the food which is comparable to your average take out sushi joint. Nothing great or unique about the taste or plating, pretty standard and edible. I usually order the «Ginza Favourites — Bento Box» which consists of miso soup, salad, salmon sushi, fried dumplings, shrimp sushi, california rolls, steamed rice and ice cream. For $ 12 this meal is a bargain considering the amount of food you are getting! The ice cream was freezer burnt a few times but I guess ultimately you are getting what you pay for!
Overall, if you happen to be in the Yorkville area and are not willing to fork out a lot of cash this is a good alternative for a cheap meal.

Yoicks. First, I will preface my review with the fact that pan-​Asian restaurants in Toronto are pretty darn awful — they offer everything, but don’t do any dish quite right! However, having a hankering for sushi and this being the closest place, I decided to get some takeout spicy salmon rolls.
When I picked it up, the sushi chef was yapping away on a bluetooth headset and there were hundreds of rolls being made, ready to be served, under some plastic wrap. Some looked like they had been sitting there for a few hours.
When I unwrapped my spicy salmon rolls, the fish was a strange greyish hue — now I know farmed salmon is naturally not pink and they often add dyes into the feed to make it pink — but this just looked unappetizing. The rolls were loosely rolled and all the filling was falling everywhere, and the «spicy» bit — which is usually hot sauce and kewpie mayonnaise, was very badly mixed (in fact, I think theirs was just sriracha). Nevertheless, I ate it, and it tasted okay, and I wasn’t sick afterwards. So, for a quick and desperate bite of sushi, I may come back again.

After getting rained on I decided to take shelter and have lunch at this place by myself. The hostess was very sincere and handed me a paper towel to dry myself.
I saw a lot of well dressed people and a bunch of hip young crowd at the next table.
I thought to myself I should invite my friends here next time we want to go out.
The price is very good and the philadelphia cheese/​salmon roll met high my expectations.

Large portions, good sizes. Fire Cracker Dream and Golden California Roll, both with good flavor. The prices were really good too.

I tried the Shabu Shabu, which was a new item on the menu (with a huge poster on the front door, inviting you to try it). Unfortunatley, it was a complete miss. Waiters seemed to just discover how the portable heating system was working. One of them even seemed not to know that there is a need to add water when the pot runs out of it (she looked at it smiling when the veggies started to roast instead of boiling… I was nice enough to tell her that some water should be added again). Meat was not good (frozen and bland, if not with a suspicious taste — I am still hoping not to get sick tonite…). Forget about it…
Also tried some special dragon rolls… 8 cm in diameter is too big! and most importantly, it was not really good and not tasty…
hopefully I took a Sapporo bier, which may kill the germs… and save my life.
(why 2 and not only 1… the setting is nice and staff remain nice, but a litlle bit lost somewhere in the twilight zone in the 1970s… like the background music).

Yorkville isn’t known as a destination for Sushi, or Japanese food for that matter, but if you ask me I’d say Ginza is the crème of the Yorkville sushi crop.
With a super slick post-​mod minimalist interior Ginza is an aesthetically pleasing space, not surprising as it is afterall named for the ritziest neighbourhood in Tokyo.
Food is quite good and served quickly here by black-​clad servers who are smilingly subserviant. Thumbs waaay up for the Boston Lobster Tempura roll which is drizzled in mango reduction… simply a must have and in fact every dish I’ve tasted at Ginza is pretty fab. Considering that Ginza is located in Yorkville, the pricing here is very fair and comparable to those «Sushi Alley» eateries, which serve a far lesser quality of Japanese fare.
My only caveat was the sob-​fest elevator tunes playing in the background namely the Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, Lionel Ritchie WTF did we time warp back to 1979!?!
It did nothing to help the mood as I was meeting up with a dear friend who was needless to say having relationship issues and nothing beats talking about breakups while listening to «Endless Love» and «The Way We Were» play in the background… sniff
Ginza, come for the delicious well priced food and ambiance… just not for the music.

The sushi at Ginza isn’t great, but it’s affordable.
I had dinner there last week and ordered a Sushi Combo #1 ($ 16), and substituted the Tuna for Hamachi (+$ 1), and ordered 1 Ikura ($ 2.50).
The meal was filling. The Salmon piece were decent, but the Ikura (Salmon Roe) was not good at all.
I’m giving Ginza a 3 because their prices were not a rip off. The place isn’t an authentic Japanese place though, but it doesn’t take someone Japanese to realize this.

This new Ginza location opened up last year, they have a few other locations.
The interior here at the Yorkville location is super nice. Boss took me for lunch today and we were both impressed. (Normally we go to Shogun, which tries for a more traditional Japanese style look). Ginza, on the other hand, is very modern looking.
This place is busy at lunch but the service was incredible. Fast and efficient, no messing around.
Good lunch deals too. Fancy bentos for ranging from $ 6.99 for gyoza to $ 11.99 for blackened cod. Most were $ 9.99. Bentos come with 3 pieces california roll, 3 pieces salmon, rice, salad and miso. Plus free ice cream.
Ginza gives out free edamame too. That is awesome. We were brought a big bowl of it with our tea, immediately after we sat down.
I tried a spicy chicken bento. Chicken came out lightly breaded, not greasy, and topped with a tasty spicy red sauce. Portions were not huge but definitely more than adequate for lunch.
The menu here is really impressive, loads of options. Sushi and thai food. Weird combination.
I need to go back and try some of the signature rolls, I saw some of them coming out to other tables and they looked gorgeous. Very fancy and artistic. Hopefully they taste good.
This place has 5 star potential if repeat visits continue to impress.