Makimono

iPad ordering system is efficient. Fish quality (taste, texture) poor compared to a handful of nearby sushi restaurants. Cooked food quality (taste, texture) also poor. There was a single strand of hair inside my green tea ice cream, but I think that’s from their supplier because the strand was deep inside the ice cream.

Sushi was well made, place is gorgeous inside, all the food came in a timely matter. They use the iPad system but i found that they had several options other sushi restaurants don’t usually have.
I would recommend you coming to this place if you’re in the area and are craving some sushi.

Great service, ambience and a wide variety of high quality food. Ordering through an iPad made it easier to pig out lol. I noticed Makimono had more variety in their lunch menu than a lot of other AYCE sushi places in the GTA.

What is going on Makimono??? I used to love both Ajax and Pickering locations and would go out of my way to eat here.
I was just here this past Saturday with a friend and they now have a conditional pass for the health and food inspection. We decided to eat there anyways. We didn’t get sick or anything but the food was just bad considering it’s pretty much $ 30 a person for ayce. I feel like the quality of food has gone WAY down over the years.
Needless to say I will not be back.

I am giving this restaurant a four star right away because they had salmon SASHIMI during LUNCH hours!!! I love sashimi and when you are avoiding starches sashimi is the perfect alternative to sushi! They had sufficient choices, and a variety of cooked Chinese dishes like General Tao and spicy garlic shrimp. This is nice when you go with company who may not like sushi.
The sashimi quality was good too, and the service is steady even when it is busy. Most of the stuff is comparable to all the other all you can eat places, however the salmon sashimi at lunch won me over!

I enjoyed Makimono sushi! The sushi was good and tasted fresh. I’m such a fan of the iPad service. The customer service was alright… Curtis was GREAT! The other servers looked like they hated their job.

This place is great. All the food was good for the most part. We ordered a series of courses and tons of sushi. The shrimp tempura was excellent. Most of the rolls we had were great. There a couple of things that lacked in quality to me. It was the sashimi, the salmon was not as fresh as I would have liked. The teriyaki salmon was bland and without the teriyaki sauce I wouldn’t have been able to eat it. The beef was good, the seaweed salad was good. The seafood fried rice was good but the scallops are definitely imitation, we could have done without the pink swirl design on it. Otherwise, everything was great. Oh yeah, a tall can of Sapporo is $ 9.50. Overall, for the amount of food you get, it is a value compared to the price.

Love this place! ESP since you can order through the iPad. Convenient ! Food is good and at the right price. Best part is they don’t rush u out like most places do. Buffet or a la cart available.

Great spot! While on our way to Pickering Town Centre we came across this sushi place. We dined during a weekday lunch where they offered AYCE for $ 16.99/adult.
We were seated right away to a comfortable table. Tables have white paper on them, I’m assuming for easy cleanup. Think Jack Astors minus the crayons.
You get your own iPad to order with. I love this method, as you get a clear indication of the portions– kinda.
We definitely ordered too much. The maki rolls here are HUUUUUUUGE. Unfortunately they come with 6, not 3 like Tenichi. Better make sure you only order what you really want, because we had a hard time trying to finish all of them.
One thing to note was they offered sashimi during lunch which was great. Not much variety, but it’s good if you don’t want to eat all the rice.
Other than that, tempura and teppanyaki plates were great! Really enjoyed the salmon teriyaki. There an extensive menu which offers thai, Chinese, and both udon soup or fried udon.
Would like to see if there are other items during their dinner service!

I was out in the east end last week visiting my sister-​in-​law and she suggested sushi. This given week I had already experienced a bad sushi restaurant and was feeling rather lack luster about it. I was wrong.
The décor is comfortable and clean. The technology was IPad based and easy to use. The service was top notch! I mean our server was very attentive and it seemed that as soon as I had a fleeting thought of needing something «Boom» she was there!
Now for the best part… the food! I can’t say enough about it!!! AMAZING!!! We had rolls, maki, dumplings, beef… and the list goes on.
I would make a special trip to Pickering just for Makimono and its goodness!
Gold star! Two thumbs up! Cheers!

We are regulars. Great sushi, great selection, great price, great service. What more can you ask for?

It’s a really delicious all-​u-​can-​eat sushi restaurant!!! JUST go and eat there!!! Went there several times. We have eaten at other sushi places and some downtown had given me a rash /​became very itchy… but this restaurant is honestly the best !!!
It’s worth every penny!!!

The food is delicious and the iPad ordering system is marvellous. However, that does not mean that the customer deserves to be denied service. Food comes little by little, and our party had to nibble slowly even though we spent over 200 dollars. The service is truly, terrible. They do not seem understaffed either. Yet empty plates were left on our table and no one came by until near the end, to see how we were doing. Makimono, technology doesn’t mean you don’t need to do your job!

Decent AYCE sushi restaurant, but I would place it as more of a quick lunch spot.
In my opinion, if you’ve ever been in a downtown Toronto AYCE sushi place (or actually anywhere else…) don’t come here for AYCE unless required or seriously craving the AYCE monster inside of you.
The selection is quite limited. When the restaurant tends to get busy (mainly during lunch) I found that it took much longer than usual for my dish to come out, service was slow, and many of the dishes we ordered were forgotten. I’ve been to the restaurant more than 5 times these past two months and my experience has been consistent and disappointing.
For the other times I’ve been just for the regular menu, it’s really not that bad. The sashimi is decent (if you order specifically sashimi…) and the price is a bit more than usual, but not overpriced AND lower quality like the AYCE they offer.
I would say there’s definitely room for improvement in their service, as well as their selection for AYCE (if they are going to keep the same pricing.).
Personally, I wouldn’t come here again.

Started off decently. Fairly empty, as we went around 4:00pm. We opted for a la carte, as 4:00pm apparently constitutes dinner time here…
Had:
Bento A ($ 11.50) — pork katsu, rice, 3 gyoza, 3 salmon roll, 3 cucumber roll, 5 piece veggie tempura, served with rice, miso soup and salad.
Everything save for the rolls was average. Decent sized servings, but by no means large portions. The rice in the rolls was definitely not fresh. It was hard and dry and I have a feeling these were left over from their lunch rush. Not cool.
Bento B ($ 12.50) — salmon terriyaki, fruit (two orange slices), 5 piece veggie + 2 shrimp tempura, 3 salmon roll, 3 cucumber roll, rice, miso soup and salad.
Same as above. Average stuff, save for the rolls (once again, see above), the salmon terriyaki piece (small and dry), and the oranges. Yeah. Issue there. More later.
Coconut shrimp ($ 6.99) — 6 pieces. Decent sized pieces. Shrimp were a tad chewy. Crisp coconut coating. Extremely scant on the coconut taste. Served with kewpie mayo.
Sashimi appetizer ($ 8.99) — 9 pieces. I have to hand it to them. They didn’t serve me cooked shrimp or imitation crab meat as sashimi. That’s honest of them (their description says «pieces of raw fish»). Sashimi was also average.
Spider roll ($ 8.99) — 8 pieces. This was probably the highlight of an otherwise average to sub-​par meal. The rice was not hard (I wonder why…). There was lots of soft shell crab. When a Japanese restaurant usually cuts a dynamite roll, they leave the ends of the shrimp hanging out of the ends of the rolls. They did the same with this spider roll. For those who don’t know, there is no spider in spider rolls. It’s a soft shell crab. The ends of this roll had fairly large chunks of soft shell crab hanging out of it, and I was quite pleased by that. At this price, I’d go ahead and order this one again if I ever came here again, but I don’t intend on doing so because…
…while I was enjoying my first piece of spider roll, my father was enjoying his slice of orange (see Bento B above). He suddenly spit it all out onto his place. Yeah. It wasn’t because the orange was sour. It was because the orange had a chunk of black rot in it. It was quite gross. I’ll post a picture so you guys can see. We informed the waitress, and she took the orange back into the kitchen. A few minutes later, she came back out, told us they checked the orange they had given us and told us they didn’t know because there were no indicators on the outside of the orange, then handed us three smaller slices of orange to replace the one with the rot. Um… like we wanted to take that chance again. My brother was so turned off that he stopped eating. Not cool. The three smaller slices of orange were also the extent of the restaurant’s apology to us, not that they made a formal apology or anything.
Would I consider coming here again? No. Not at all.

I’ve recently went on a binge of hitting up AYCE places in Toronto, and this was on my list of «need to try». It was definitely worth it!
First I’m going to talk about the ordering experience, then I’m going to get into the specific qualities of the food. Feel free to skip the bulk of the review and read the TL;DR at the bottom if you just want fast details!
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The ordering experience is unique to this AYCE restaurant in Toronto. In a nutshell, you order off of an iPad, which (presumably) submits the order to the chefs to prepare your dishes and have them delivered to the table, with the order status updating on the iPad from «Submitted» to «Ordered» once it has been acknowledged. While I haven’t yet seen another place take advantage of a technology-​based ordering platform, it has that cool factor, albeit with much to improve upon. For example, the iPad’s «order status» doesn’t mention «delivered», or give any kind of status update outside of «ordered» and «submitted». This means that you, the diner, don’t know what has and hasn’t been delivered, which is a huge pitfall, because then how are you supposed to know (or remember) what you still have outstanding? I’m sure the chefs know, but as the diner, you want to be informed, too!
The selection of the food itself, unfortunately, is pretty small. The pictures provided on the menu are the only things you can order, meaning that your variety is set to whatever you’re able to see and scroll through. While this definitely makes sense when it comes to availability of food, it doesn’t describe anything for the diner — the pictures and the name of the dish are all you get. You can create a «cart» and submit that «cart» to be «ordered», editing at any time before submission, but I feel as if it’s a slight to the user that you don’t really know what anything is (or looks like, really, since the pictures are really of the «ideal» product that no customer ever receives) until you receive it at your table.
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Food reviews:
The Korean Beef Short Ribs here are some of the best I’ve had at any AYCE place, ever. The reason I say this is because I’ve had short ribs at KBBQ restaurants, and while those restaurants quality either on par or better, it should be definitely noted that this place has well-​seasoned, great tasting short ribs.
The sushi/​sashimi quality and variety is fairly decent. It’s not Omakase, and shouldn’t have that expectation, however it’s also not in the realm of Kinkaku Izakaya, and shouldn’t be mistaken as such. The slices were decently proportioned and consistent with what you would expect of a sushi and sashimi slice size.
The rolls were a little overburdened with rice. I feel they tried to overcompensate the lack of actual contents in the rolls by just adding more rice around it, then trying to make it look bigger from the slice of sashimi that was laid on top (see pictures for details).
The dessert selection was much better than expected. Traditionally, you only ever see the odd deep fried dish and ice cream. This place ran out of the main strawberry blackforest cake I’d wanted, but this mocha mousse was more than enough to satiate me after a hearty meal!
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Overall:
It was an OK price for a decent meal, but I wouldn’t recommend this place to any run-​of-​the-​mill sushi lover. It’s simply not enough selection (you order off of an iPad, which submits to the main computer to deliver to you).
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TL;DR: Hole in the wall AYCE sushi place that’s worth trying out, but wouldn’t frequent, as it’s a little more costly than it’s down-​the-​street neighbour with more variety.

Consistently enjoyable. AYCE dinner menu is excellent — incredible selection of maki, sashimi, sushi, temaki handrolls, plus the theatrical Green Dragon Roll (among other special 4-​piece creations), and favourites like tepanyaki and udon varieties, yakitori (small skewers), gyoza, and yam tempura. Fresh, delicious, plentiful. Atmosphere is elegant and modern, but family friendly. If you’re in Durham — perfect. If not yet you’re craving authentic Japanese food, Makimono is worth the trip!

Good service! I love the ambience. They use iPad to take the order, it’s good and fast service. Servers are polite and friendly! We’ll come back again for sure.

If I was grading on food quality only, I would give this restaurant 4 stars. However, because this restaurant takes advantage of modern technology and has very kind and well spoken staff, they fully get a 5 out of 5.
What is also quite exceptional is the presentations of the plates. The food delivery speed is very good, and the coolest part of all of it is that you order from a customized iPad app, written exclusively for this restaurant.
It’s difficult to get a high mark in sushi becuase one is somewhat limited in the possibilities for the plates — it’s all the same everywhere. This place is cool, great for a date, decent atmosphere, and it’s not too expensive. The sushi is good quality, soft, textural, I love it. Definitely coming back. The wasabi could be hotter.

Great sushi, sashimi and beef! Come here every time I’m in the mood to have all you can eat Japanese food. Great service and not bad prices plus I’m always leaving feeling too full. Great place and recommend this to anyone wanting to eat a lot. Has been renovated a lot and looks very modern now and you use iPads now to order your food which is quite unique in this town.