Spoon & Fork

I love this place. Been here about 4 times now. Service is very friendly & for the most part pretty fast. I like the sleek décor & the ambiance. I have tried a la carte & AYCE & both have their merits. Lunch time is nicer as it’s quieter & easier to get your server’s attention if you are getting AYCE. Would recommend reservations on weekends for sure & AYCE on weekends can be slow. AYCE portions are smaller and great for me so I can try a variety of things. I know that the man who accompanied me was looking for more to eat for sure… lol. I have tried the sushi, sashimi, hand rolls, salads, some of the Thai dishes and apps and I would recommend them all. I think that they could have better descriptions for the sushi as some people aren’t aware of what is inside each one. All in all, would recommend for sure. :)

My wife and I went here for my bday a couple weeks ago. The décor and ambience was nice and it was bustling with people on a Saturday night.
The service was great! It seemed like only a few minutes after we finished placing the order, it was on the table. Time and time again. Quite fast!
The food was very tasty. It was fresh and hot (when it was supposed to be). It’s pricey for sure, but with sushi, you get what you pay for. There was a lot of dishes to choose from, if we hadn’t filled up on maki and appetizers, we would’ve tried more! I guess that warrants another visit in the future.
The only reason I gave it 4 and not 5 stars, was due to the price. 25 bucks for all you can eat would’ve garunteed 5 out of 5. Regardless, it was a great meal!

The all you can eat is great for the price. I think they have a few good dishes along with decent sushi. My only complaint about this place is just slow service.

Having been to every single Spoon & Fork locations numerous times, this location is by far the most disappointing in terms of food quality, portion size, and service.
First off, let me start off by the take out service. One of the best deals you can find at Spoon & Fork is their catering menu. You can get a $ 20 or $ 30 platter and it offers incredible value. I have ordered this platter at 3 different locations so far and it has been solid.
However, at this location, they really skimp out on the sashimi portion. They cut the pieces of fish about half the size from the other locations. I decided to give them another chance and order the $ 30 (T14) platter. Since we were in a rush, we did not check the platter thoroughly. Instead of 2 containers that the T14 offers, they only gave us 1 container! So we were missing about 30 pieces.
Two weeks ago, I also dined for a friend’s birthday dinner. After ordering about 10 items, the waiter rudely cut me off and said «Let’s go with these for now». The next time we ordered, he gave us the line of «If you don’t finish your food, we will charge you for extra». The whole table found this statement odd, as every single plate at our table was completely devoured without a trace of food left. Plus we were only ordering our 2^nd round and were ordering sensible quantities of food.
The overall impression I got from this location is they don’t want you order a lot of food and they skimp out on the take out platters. The typical Asian restaurant that lowers the quality to boost profit.
I have never had any issues at JJ at Mississauga, Spoon & Fork at Vaughan, Oakville. Needless to say, I will never go back to this location again.
Service — ⁵⁄₁₀
Food — ³⁄₁₀
Quality — ³⁄₁₀

I’ve been to several Spoon & Forks, as well as AYCES restaurants, and I keep coming back to this one. I’ve been here three times now and after each visit I am immediately craving it again!
I highly recommend the lunch as it is much less busy and more affordable.
Service has always been prompt and friendly. There are no ipads to order but your server is always close to take another round.
Here’s my typical ordering plan when out with my boyfriend.
First Round:
Spring Rolls– typical rolls. Nothing really special but my boyfriend likes them so we get ‘em!
Deep Fried Wonton– I’m a sucker for any place where they serve deep fried wonton. This is always a must have.
Avocado Rolls– simple and perfect.
One other maki roll– we usually change it up and get something fun like tempura roll or crazy roll. (I wish they gave descriptions of their maki rolls because I’m always guessing to remember which one I enjoyed last time)
Peanut Sauce Chicken– THIS! This is my favourite thing on the whole menu. I crave this the second I’ve finished it. It’s a rich and spicy dish best eaten with some coconut rice!
Teriyaki Beef– Just found this tasty treasure on our last visit. Comes with sesame sauce on the side for dipping. Major win!
Second Round:
(by this point we’re usually both full but want to make the most of our trip)
Tempura– This one was a bit of a mess last time. The tempura was a bit pasty and not great.
Calamari– Yum Yum! This one might be heading to a first round pick!
Avocado Rolls– Second helping on my most favourite maki!
We don’t order the sashimi. I’ve heard it is good, we’re just not big into sashimi.
The thing I love the most about AYCES is the small portions. I get full pretty quickly but I always want to try a little bit of everything. Spoon and Fork give nice size portions so you’re not eating to just eat (which can happen at some all you can eat places and really leaves a less satisfying feeling). I get to try the items I want and really enjoy the dining experience. Also, the interior is gorgeous!
If you’re out this way for a movie, or some shopping (Winners is right across the parking lot!!), definitely stop in!
–Ashley Marie

The variety of food is good here. However sashimi order only comes in very limited quantity AND it only comes once every half hour. This delay tactic is really putting us off.

All You Can Eat (AYCE)!!!
For a regular lunch price these guys offer a lot and you wouldn’t be able to work after the lunch.
The server was decent and the food came out on a decent pace.
We ordered quite a bit… the best thing about their AYCE is they provide provide sashimi in their lunch menu. Their lunch menu is quite vast and they have a fusion of Japanese/​Thai flavours. So we had sashimi, sushi flying all over the table and we also got some fried stuff. My favorite was their fried Cheese cake from their dessert menu (extra cost), it was warm on the outside and cold on the inside.
Overall, the service, food and atmosphere was good.

My company has come to Spoon & Fork for our Christmas Party two years in a row and both evenings were very enjoyable! It’s the perfect venue for such an event because everyone can order exactly what they want and nobody leaves hungry! I like the portion sizes for the AYCE because they are small enough that you can try several things and the quality is pretty good!

I had been to this restaurant a couple of years ago and remembered it to be pretty good.
My visit a week ago was very disappointing. Overpriced for the all you can eat considering g the quality of the food. KB Sushi down the street is the same price and much much better.
The spring rolls were alarmingly bad. They tasted like they were from the Asian party pack from the freezer section at Costco. The rest of the items were mediocre at best. Only item I enjoyed were the green dragon rolls but that’s about it.
Will definitely not be retuning here, even if the price was cut in half.

My first impression of this place was that it was a hidden gem, and looked like a nice place that you would find on Bay street. The service was great, seated us right away and always someone checking to ensure we were ok.
Where I was very disappointed was the food. We did all you can eat, the quality of the sushi was bad. Small servings, poor cuts, slimy salmon. I was so disappointed. Even the chicken dishes tasted off.
I hope it was just an off night, but I doubt I will ever go back

Attended a surprise dinner at this restaurant. The food was good and there was a good selection of foods to choose from.
My only concern was that they were a bit slow in getting our table ready, even though reservations were made to ensure the party would be seated before the birthday girl. It worked out in the end, but was a bit hectic.
I would try this restaurant again because I liked the food.

I’ve been to the Spoon & Fork in Vaughan once and for whatever reason it was just a nicer experience over there. I can’t put my finger on it exactly and it was a while ago but my last all you can eat experience was just about a week ago and it was just about a block away (K & B) and being that place was so fresh in my mind it’s easy to say that S&F was bench marked against that.
So it was a Friday evening for AYCE (they call it all you can «taste») and the ordering is done via a server and they just keep bringing what you order and as much of it as you ask for. It’s a little more «on the spot» compared to being able to write it down or tapping on an iPad so you have to be prepared that orders will take a little longer perhaps and considering you’re a group, everybody has a favorite they want to get in on that order.
The samples are small to tiny. When ordering I found myself saying «for the table». For instance I had asked for a chicken katsu and kalbi «for the table» for that particular request they brought 2 cutlets and 6 pieces of kalbi. Mind you we are a group of 6 MEN. I had to order more kalbi later which isn’t so bad because you can ask for as much as you want but if you’re not spacing out when to order and keeping track you can get to the point where you will run out and be waiting for a server.
Ultimately you will become full ordering food, eating it and sharing whatever comes so organization of ordering is required. Depending on the size of your party it may be difficult for one person to do all that but I found myself being the one ordering for the group and basically it was just easier to say we’ll have another order of all the sashimi we had last round etc.
This Spoon and Fork is a mix of Japanese, Korean and Thai small plates basically tapas style. It’s a lot more dishes to have to deal with but it makes sense if you’re a small table to not necessarily have a large tempura plate when you can sample so much of other dishes so it’s just something you have to keep in mind, the size of the plates and the amount of people you have if everybody is basically going to share the same things.
The quality of the food is about average. Some of the dishes like unagi nigiri to me seemed like they had way too much rice to meat ratio. I mean each sushi piece could easily have had double the meat on it because of the amount of rice it was sitting on top of…
Rolls were confusingly brought at various times. It would have been nice to have say 2 large platters of rolls instead of say 5 individual spread out orders come at different times. When you are a table of 6, one roll lasts a couple minutes perhaps.
Basically your experience is based on how fast the food comes and how busy it is as well because you can’t simply place an iPad order and it be recognized instantly. We still do have to flag down servers and if it’s a busy night as it was for us, that could be a challenge. Having to flag down a server changes the dynamics of how orders get put through if you’re having to wait to flag a server down. You may think I have to order more now because I don’t know when we can get another order in later???
I’m not saying it’s frustrating ordering directly with a server but it’s just less comfortable doing so because I’m used to writing it down (planning it out) or tapping on an iPad which is actually the easiest because everybody can take turns or pass it around.
The ordering process is basically the cornerstone of how you experience this place and what you receive is the other end. The servers are all over the place and it’s a lot of work for them to satisfy many tables but it’s harder to keep track of what you didn’t get sometimes. Another person at my table had to ask for his spider roll 3 times because multiple rounds of ordering had passed and we never received it from the first round.
The meal was just under 28 dollars pre tax and the Sapporo drafts were on special for 5 dollars each which was cool. After tax and tip it worked out to be about 50 bucks for my meal.
Not bad but not necessarily great as I can compare it to another AYCE place just down the street (K & B) which has pretty much the same ambiance but quicker and efficient service (because of the iPad ordering system) and the quality of food there in my opinion is superior.
Still, Spoon & Fork maybe a decent value for the money but to me it’s just OK and not as good as other AYCE options in the GTA both for quality and/​or bang for the buck.
Oh I almost forgot… not that I eat dessert because my version of a dessert is a salmon skin handroll (which they don’t have sadly) but the desserts are EXTRA charge and are not included with the meal.

Service was rough as this place just get slammed at lunch during the week. Reservations a must. Menu is okay. The red curry came with coconut rice which was a nice surprise. Our pad Thai was a little flat in flavour. how do you screw up pad Thai? Veggie spring rolls were under whelming but mango salad was refreshing. not the traditional green mango tho, much sweeter. Nice balance with dressing tho.

We went today to spoon and fork after reading the mixed reviews and thought of giving it a shot.
Well I can surely say that this will be the last time we go to this restaurant!
The service is beyond bad, unfriendly and slow staff. the food takes ages to come out, it’s as if they have a pattern in which they bring out the food in a very slow way so you become full and don’t order. staff is outright unfriendly, it’s as if they hate working there. drinks are not refillable despite the high price of the all u can eat menu!
The food is quite average and doesn’t entice me to visit again!

This place has been open in my neighbourhood for years but I only got the chance to visit last week. I went for dinner on Thursday evening.
I have to say that I LOVED the food. The portions are very small but that is a great thing because you can try different things. I will definitely be going back for the AYCE.

I don’t know why Vaughan restaurants have opted for the «no reservations on weekends» policy, but it makes it very hard for a party of 15+ to find a great place to eat.
I am so happy that THIS Spoon & Fork does take reservations for a Saturday night! Our girl’s night was a blast!
Now, having been to the Vaughan location beforehand, I must say that the Etobicoke location is a bit lackluster in regards to décor. Ambience was loud and felt crammed together. They were beyond packed on Saturday and the wait service had their work cut out for them.
We waited for our food longer than most A-​Y-​C-​E and although they were on the ball with bringing the right orders to us it did feel like no one wanted to come by often to take further orders.
The Drinks were all pretty great except the strawberry daiquiri, tasted really sweet and had the texture of a smoothy.
The food was good. My favourites of the night: Cream cheese stuffed Jalapeño Chicken (amazing!), Escargot, and popcorn shrimp. Also the spicy Tuna sushi is awesome. And lastly, the curry chicken with coconut rice.
Crème Brûlée every time and always worth it.
I might go back just because they take reservations on the weekend and I hate waiting around for food.

I absolutely love their golden curry especially combined with the coconut sticky rice! and really enjoyed the addition of escargot to the menu! Their spicy salmon roll used to be a lot better, however it’s still pretty yummy… So long as the crunchy parts are still crunchy rather than soggy.
The coconut shrimp was pretty good too and their wontons are still yummy. Only thing I noticed is that the meat in the wontons seem to have shrunk… That or they’re just using bigger wrappers.
Calamari was good. Clearly I have a thing for their appetizers.
I do appreciate the fact that it’s one of the places that serve sashimi as part of their lunch menu though that gets a slight bit negated by the fact dessert is an additional cost (even those typical ice creams all other places seem to include)
Overall, oddly enough I tend to visit here more for their Thai/​Chinese food vs the sushi and sashimi selection
For the money? Go for the lunch as there’s nothing extremely special about dinner and it costs more

3.5
OK but nothing to commend much neither. Sushis are too bland. Rolls are much better elsewhere. Noddles and especially Bangkok pad thai and curry items are good. Katsus can be forgotten, as salads.
Service is a hit and miss, depending on the hour and the waiter you get (I got a good one, so was good).
Price is descent, not much a problem. You’ll leave full for sure and for that price, that is a plus.

Coming here on a Saturday night without reservations, was probably the worst eating decision we’ve ever made. Definitely book ahead of time!
Arriving at 8:10, we were told wait would be up to 45 minutes wait. Twice we followed up, it was the classic «just a couple minutes»…great. Finally by 9:20 we were seated.
The restaurant was packed, and still with 10 – 15 people waiting at the door.
For a Saturday night, they were incredibly understaffed. The sushi chefs had plates of sushi and sashimi waiting to be picked up by the wait staff. Staff was not attentive. We had a pile of dirty dishes on our puny two-​person table, for most of the night.
Food quality was great for AYCE. Escargot on the menu for apparently — that’s different! But yum, none the less. Sushi & sashimi was fresh. Many different types of tataki was available — beef, salmon, white tuna, butter fish tataki. They serve spider rolls here, that’s always a plus!
Don’t get the scallop Rockefeller. You’ll be digging through plenty of mashed potato, mayo & cheese, before you actually fund the overcooked piece of scallop.
No dessert included! Waaaaaah.

Came here for dinner on Friday night and the place was packed! You should definitely made resos if you are planning to eat here on a weekend. Had to wait about 45 mins but we didn’t mind because we could grab a couple drinks at the bar. The bar was great — Sapporo pints were on sale for $ 4.99 and they had delicious and generous sized blended drinks (virgin) for $ 3, which was great for my pregnant friend.
On to the food — AYCE on weekend came to about $ 30 each. We actually had no idea it was AYCE, so when I found out I was a little worried because anyone who has had AYCE will know that it is best to go with a larger group so you can try a little bit of everything without wasting food. The great thing about this place is that they give you small portions so you don’t have to hold back (this is probably the only time you will appreciate a restaurant that serves small portions!). The food was delicious! The lemongrass soup was amazing. Try the escargot if you are feeling adventurous — it is cooked in a tasty garlic butter. All of the sushi and rolls were decent, love the Dragon roll.
Décor — very cool, modern and trendy. Huge, high ceilings, interesting details like light fixtures made of spoons and forks. A nice place to have a girls’ night out — in fact, there was a bachelorette group there that night.
I only have two complaints 1) the sashimi was not consistent — the first batch of salmon I ordered was fresh and delicious but the second tasted a little old and mushy. 2) I had to ask 3 servers for some hot sauce and then waited about 20 mins before any was brought to me.
Overall impressed. I’m usually not a huge buffet/​AYCE fan, but this is definitely an exception. Will go back for sure.
P. S. Was anyone else curious why it is called «Spoon & Fork»? We Asians like our chopsticks!
P. P. S. Hot sauce here is sriracha — I’m ok with it, but I know some people find the taste overpowers their food