Uoshiki Sushi

There were so many new restaurants that opened up at the northwest side of Midland and Finch Avenue that it making it hard to keep up with all of them.  One of the ones that caught my eye ever since it opened up was Uoshiki Sushi.  Having eaten at so many all you can eat Japanese sushi restaurants in the past few years, this one sure had its work cut out for them.

As usual, prior to going to the place, I placed a reservation with the restaurant.  There were the five of us including my little one and we decided to go on a Friday evening.  We got there right at 7:00 pm that evening and were given our table immediately.  The place was nicely decorated with bold black and red colors encompassing the restaurant.  Their menu was on an Ipad where one could easily click and select the foods they want.  Since it was a Friday evening, the price they charged us was about $29.99 per adult. 

Seared Scallops on Cold Tofu

With the extra price one pays for being there on the weekend, they give you a choice of four special items in which you could two of them as part of your extra value items.  All of the extra special items were available which was comforting to hear.  That evening I chose to go with their Seared Scallops on Cold Tofu and Uni Shoots.  Both the uni shoots and the scallops were an excellent choice.  The uni shoots came with a quail egg in it which made the shoot extra tasty.  The scallops were nicely decorated with a cold piece of tofu on the bottom and some red roe on top.  Appearance wise, both dishes would have easily passed as a delicate dish in a high class restaurant.

Sashimi Platter

The sashimi was satisfactory.  There was an extra "bounce" in some of the sashimi that we had order which led us to believe that the sashimi had been kept in the fridge for more than a couple of days.  The good thing was that any sashimi we had ordered was available.  The portions were decent and much of the pieces were thinly sliced. 

Uoshiki Special Sushi Rolls

One of the more interesting items that we had ordered was their signature Uoshiki Special.  A combination of barbeque eel, tempura shrimp, mango, avocado and cucumbers were wrapped with rice paper.  Then a couple of them were squirted with what I think was mango sauce and maybe a cherry sauce.  Both sauces were rather sweet.  The pieces were large and two of them came with four pieces while the other one had eight pieces each.  The rolls were decent in that they were very filling.  The sweetness of the rolls were certainly different as I certainly was not use to it.  The pieces were cold and because of the sweetness of them all, it almost tasted more of a desert than as an actual sushi roll.  The other problem with such a large filling dish was that it left little space for some of their other items.  My advice would be they should reduce the quantity to just one piece of roll per person or reduce the size of each of the pieces given. 

We tried many of their items on their menu including noodles, tempuras, sushi rolls, and vegetables .  We had three solid refills that evening and we all came out pretty full.  One of the things I really appreciated was that I think it was the first time an all you can eat restaurant had given us everything that we had ordered.  The food was decent although to be honest with you, there wasn't anything spectacular outside of their specialty extra dishes.  If you look at their menu online, they tend to use the more common fish for most of their sashimi dishes.  The staff was pretty courteous although they did at one point encourage us to finish more of our food as too much was still left on the table upon checkout.  It wouldn't have been a problem had the Uoshiki Special not be given to us as those portions were just huge and almost kept from finishing most of our other dishes.  Having said that, they really never gave one a reason to never go back, so chances are, a re-visit is probably in the offering.  Overall I give it a 3.5 out of 5. 

Uoshiki Sushi
3250 Midland Avenue
Scarborough, Ontario

http://www.cgi-solutions.net/uoshikiSushi/?page_id=7
416-901-8865