EDO-Ko

I love this spot. The restaurant is clean and very new looking. The servers are so friendly as well.
I wouldn’t say the food is authentic Japanese, but the portions are large and I always leave pretty full. (Example: they have the biggest handrolls I’ve ever seen!!!)
They also have sea urchin, which I’m a huge fan of. It’s always so fresh tasting, I keep coming back for more.
I do agree that it is a little over priced compared to the family sushi restaurants… But it’s in Forest Hill, I don’t know why everyone is surprised. Lol

Obscenely expensive for mediocre sushi.

Based on service alone, this place would only have received one star. The servers didn’t really acknowledge us and only came by once to re-​fill our tea. It took us an hour to get all of our food to our table. The only reason this review warrants 3 stars is that the food was pretty good. The sashimi was huge! The maki rolls were also well done — not too much rice and just the right size.

Though this restaurant has had some mixed reviews in the past, our dinner in mid-​Jan 2014 was excellent. The sashimi was fresh and the cooked dishes tasty.
Service was very friendly and prompt.

No idea as to why I would ever consider going TWICE, but sadly I did.
THE Worst, restaurant I have ever been to. It’s very unsettling to know they got a bigger place next door that they moved into.
As a Japanese person I am very upset to know that a Japanese restaurant could serve such horrible fish to anyone.
It’s the kind of fish that you would see in an all you can eat restaurant (but even worse), and your paying 4 times the price for and given so little.
The order took close to an hour, the service was horrid, we were never looked after. I had to call the waitress multiple times.
There is no effort put into making anything taste or look nice. It’s simply the worst.
I would give this location a minus 2.
If you want real fish, good sushi, PLEASE go elsewhere.

Had an overpriced mixed experience here for lunch. My daughter’s California roll was excellent. Our gyoza — filled primarily with veal — was pretty good and out of the ordinary. However: their ginger salad dressing is heavy on the miso; beef takaki was too chewy (clearly not quality meat); eggplant w/​gonzu sauce was over-miso’ed and was too salty. Our server was inattentive, particularly since there was hardly anyone there.

This is a decent sushi restaurant, which caters to neighbours and regular customers from the area. Everything is always fresh. I never had problems with sushis or sashimis. They taste great most of the time. At times they felt like they had just come out the freezer. Rolls and gyozas are delicious. But each portion is so small and it is overpriced. We don’t get appropriate amount of food for the amount we’re paying.
Service has alwaus been great. I like the ambiance too as it feels intimate but restaurant is oftentimes messy.

There’s an old joke that ends with the punchline «that’s the Church that I go to… and that’s the Church that I don’t go to». Swap out «Church» for «Sushi bar» and you’ve got my neighbourhood. Where I’ve lived for almost 8 years. There’s another Sushi place just down the road, yet Edo-​Ko is the place that I always visit.
Like most offerings on this strip, Edo-​Ko is not exactly bound by authenticity. The gyoza are stuffed with veal or veggies, and the maki likely would not pass muster on the original «iron Chef».
But patrons, the vast majority of which are early-​daters and families, don’t care. Edo-​Ko is Granny-​sushi at it’s best.
Gyoza are tender and spurting with juice. It’s veal rather than pork juice, but they still taste great. Miso soup is warm, simple comfort. Tempura a shoe and I’ll eat it. I might even eat it’s mate in a batter this light and crisp. An order of fat shrimp and thinly sliced veg disappears, except for a weirdly soggy shiso leaf.
Sushi offerings are pretty straightforward. Rolls are fun. Ever wonder how many ways you could combine salmon, tuna, fried shrimp, avocado, rice and a bit of seaweed? Come on down and find out! Squid, octopus, eel and surf clam etc. are available but c’mon. This is Forest Hill. Enough with the treif (and no, fried shrimp does not officially count as treif)!
There’s hot stuff, too, but I wouldn’t go to a steakhouse and ask for sushi, either.
Bonus points if you convince your dad to eat a whole gob of wasabi paste at once.

In my humble opinion there are two types of sushi joints. Ones that push the envelope on Japanese cuisine and those that leave the diner feeling comfortable. You know what I am talking about. That neighbourhood sushi bar around the corner that hits the spot after a long day at work. It doesn’t ask too much of you and you just ask that the fish is fresh and doesn’t kill you.
Edo-​ko is my neighbour sushi place. I have been eating at Edo-​ko since it opened in 1997 (I think it was 1997… I have killed a lot of brain cells between then and now) and has been consistently solid in both freshness and quality.
Over the years I have tried everything on the menu… except for the eggplant… I hate eggplant. Here are some of my favs.
— Miso soup… simple but delicious
— Chicken teriyaki… ask for all white meat
— Udon noodle soups… I usually get the chicken or veggie
— Spicy tuna roll
— Shrimp tempura roll
— Spicy crab roll
Oh yeah… my cousin goes to this place so often that they actually named a roll after her. Just ask for the «Sylvia» roll. I am not going to tell you what’s in it… but I think you are going to like it.
Also, try asking for your rolls to be cut into eight pieces. It cuts down on sushi related choking deaths and Edo-ko’s sushi chef will be more than happy to oblige.
As you can probably see from my list of favourites, Edo-​ko is more about consistently good sushi than broadening your palette for Japanese food. But on a Wednesday night after being abused at work, who really wants to eat raw sea urchins when a California roll is all you really want.