Kuni Sushi Ya

One of the cheaper AYCE sushi options, and I can see why. The service was so bad. It took them more than 20 minutes to take our order. The servers avoided eye contact and pretended they couldn’t see us asking for their help. The rainbow sushi was atrocious in presentation. It looked like they just took scraps of leftover fish and placed it on the top. Never going back.

I usually refrain from posting negative reviews of places, but the service at Kuni Sushi was so slow that I had to make an account. In fact, I’m sitting here right now writing this review, after having been here with NO FOOD for half an hour. The restaurant was so severely understaffed (2 servers for a packed restaurant) that we had to 1) seat ourselves, 2) ask for menus 3) ask for water, and 4) THEY DIDN’T EVEN GIVE US PLATES! Multiple tables that came in after us were served long before we got any food. Kuni Sushi Ya was a disappointing experience, and I will not be returning.

The sushi was bad and the service was worse. We spent about two and a half hours at Kuni Sushi Ya for the AYCE lunch, but we only ordered one round — the service took that long. They’re severely understaffed, with two servers for the whole restaurant when we came.
It took a whole half hour for us to be served even miso soup or salad. By the time the rolls arrived, I was ravenous but disgusted by the overly salty rolls which tasted of stale mayonnaise. Needless to say, I lost my appetite. This place may be inexpensive, but it’s certainly not a good deal.

Kuni Sushi Ya is a great place on Baldwin Street to have cheap all you can eat sushi for lunch. Although I haven’t tried the dinner menu, I would definitely recommend it for an all you can eat sushi lunch in Toronto, as the food is pretty good and the price is very reasonable for all you can eat, at $ 14.00 per person.
The service at the place is good and fast, and they provide both outdoors and indoor seating. In regards to the rolls themselves, I have had better spicy salmon rolls elsewhere (along with many of the fish rolls), however, they are still adequate and good for the price you are paying for all you can eat.

The food is terrible and the order they serve the food is also terrible. We got all the kitchen food before they start serving sushi and maki rolls.
Its a terrible place to go to

Great for students. Probably the best all you can eat you can get. However based on other reviews it seems that the quality can be inconsistent sometimes. So watch out for that although I personally have enjoyed it every time I was there.

Went there with my gf for All you can eat 14 $ deal!
Everything was good and I can recommend the place!
White tuna sashimi was the best of all!
Love that they charge for leftovers is left uneaten.
Good spot and will be back for lunch!
Place was slammed btw on a Friday lunch, that says smth as well!

Ordered some quick take out from here tonight. Some sashimi and a tuna roll. Arriving home to eat, I open the box and am greeted by GREEN FISH. Which, would be ok if it were CANDY, and not tuna sashimi. I was horrified. Tossed it on the trash, which is something this restaurant should have done when it went bad. I feel sorry for all the students who are getting food poisoning tonight. I narrowly escaped, unlike the poor souls dining in that restaurant tonight. Never. Again.

Not bad for AYCE lunch for $ 13.99. Too bad lunch doesn’t include sashimi which was what I was craving. However, $ 13.99 is a pretty good deal considering the chirashi don is $ 15.99.
Let’s see, what did I eat. Miso soup was a little on the salty side. Wakame salad was interesting — it had a peanut/​sesame dressing drizzled on top. Sushi was fresh except the fish slices were too thin. The rice to fish ratio is like 5:1.
Tempura was rather interesting. Having ordered both the taro tempura and salmon skin tempura, they both looked exactly the same. Small round disks. The salmon skin was wrapped around some small veggie bits (orange and green) which makes me wonder if these are prepared before hand and stored in fridge/​freezer until use. Each tempura older was 2 disks.
Dessert is your typical ice cream flavours — ginger, green tea, and mango. They also had banana tempura which was not worth ordering. You get ¼ of a banana.
Overall, it satisfies a sushi craving with ok quality.

It’s was ok. Long day of travel. Actually wanted to eat at the vegetarian spot across the street but they were closed 1 hr prior to the scheduled closing time. It’s descent Sushi. Two of us ate for $ 50. Very inexpensive

Overall not worth coming to save a few bucks, food is bad.
Pros:
— Cheaper than average
Cons:
— Food here is absolutely bad, sashimi not fresh, sushi poorly made, worst than food court
— Unlike other ayce, you have to write your order on plain white paper
— Lack of staff = extra slow service
— Half your order will be missing or wrong
— Dirty, very dirty inside and out

My boyfriend and I call this place ‘Kuni Sushi Yuck’ or ‘Kuni Sushi Yack’.
On the positive, it is a nice space to dine in. Inside, you can watch the television whilst eating. Or, if the weather is nice, the patio on Baldwin is amazing. The patio has often lured us here to try out this restaurant ‘just one more time… it couldn’t have been that bad’. They also have cheap drinks.
However, the quality of food is pretty unappetizing. The rolls are small and mainly comprised of smushed rice. To be honest, I have felt ill after having eaten here a few times… to the point of barfing. Hence, the nickname mentioned above.

You can’t get better for $ 20.99 (not including tax) for ACYE on weekends!
There used to be two locations; one on spadina and dundas and the other in Baldwin village. The one on spadina closed down. The Kuni in Baldwin village has patio sitting, which is awesome. Their domestic beers are 4 for $ 10 if you get the ACYE. A steal!
The menu selection isn’t as extensive as other ACYE, but it does the job. The rolls are pretty good. The sashimi is in line with other ACYE places. They even have spider maki for this price and a whole selection of veggie sushi and cooked foods.
The service is so so. It took awhile to get our sushi, but our hot foods came quickly. We thought they forgot our order, but it turned out that it just took very long. They give us blank papers to write our orders down. I liked this better than someone taking our order, but less than having a paper with items on it and we just check off what we like and the quantity.
Credit cards are accepted.
Overall, a good place to get a sashimi/​sushi craving satisfied at a decent price!

Came here with my boyfriend after his softball practice for AYCE dinner. He was starving so we decided to splurge here. It is $ 20.99 per person, a striking difference compared to lunch but it’s expected. We sat out in the patio which was very spacious.
FOOD: Honestly we were very disappointed by the food. The sashimi especially was definitely not fresh. It tasted like leftovers from lunch or even the day before. The tuna was weird tasting and I noticed that in the spicy tuna rolls. Their wakame salad was interesting and different, and their udon was average. After ordering only one round we decided to leave.
DRINKS: They do offer pop for $ 1, I’m assuming with refills. We didn’t order any other drinks, just water.
SERVICE: Their service was decent, nothing to complain about.
All in all, we were disappointed and a bit disgusted by the food. Leaving after only one round of AYCE is very rare for us and we both are big eaters. It was definitely not worth the money we forked out. We didn’t even have the appetite for ice cream, and opted to go to Kekou Gelato for dessert instead. Maybe this place is better and fresher for lunch but I would not recommend coming here for dinner.

Terrible service, they forgot so many of my orders for all you can eat. The servers had terrible attitudes. The food was subpar. The all you can eat rolls were noticeably worse than the pay per roll ones as were the bowls of edamame.

I used to love this place and I’ve been here about 4 times before and really liked their AYCE sushi at lunch time, $ 13.99 for the variety they have is great but they don’t offer sashimi for lunch.
I went a little late for lunch today around 2pm and it was clear the sushi was not fresh at all. They only brought half of the things we ordered and then said their kitchen was closed. i understood but would have amended my order if they had told me ahead of time. Most of the stuff we got was clearly old and heavily fried which did not set well for me.
I actually threw up on the street an hour later, and no I didn’t overdo it! The food definitely was to blame and is very disappointing considering I loved the place but needless to say i won’t be eating sushi again for a very very long time.
I’m gonna give it 2 stars just because the service was good otherwise, and the place is clean and has a nice atmosphere (I have seen the place before they did the renovations and it is a huge improvement!).

What a great place for a vegetarian who likes sushi :) (and I’m not the kind that eats seafood!)
I’ve been here a few times for the AYCE lunch. Can’t go wrong for $ 13.99. There’s lots to choose from and the ingredients used are fresh and delicious. Upon being seated we are usually served with cups of green tea. I really wish they would also serve water.
The tempura vegetables are great. Not too much batter and not too oily. The edamame is always cooked well. Not undercooked and not too mushy. And always perfectly salted. I also usually order a couple of different veggie rolls but can’t ever quite eat them all! Thank goodness for group lunches! But everyone knows, there’s always room for ice cream!!! I LOVE the ginger ice cream. Order two!
Nothing really to complain about at this place. It’s actually my favorite sushi place on Baldwin. The service is quick and efficient. The restaurant is clean and has updated furnishings. The only reason this place lost a star is because they serve the tea sporadically and unfortunately don’t serve water unless asked.
I’ll be back soon. Save me a seat!

$ 20 All You Can Eat Sushi.
This place was deliciously amazing.
It was freezing so the restaurant was empty=Exceptional service. I was with a group of 6 friends and we ate and ate and ate!
All the seafood was perfectly fresh, the sake was a little strong, but the miso soup, rolls, maki, tempura, everything was good.
Clean bathrooms, just freezing cold.
Great value, good time.

ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH. For $ 13.99 they are just begging you to do all you can eat. The other lunch specials are $ 7.99-$ 8.99 and lacking in diversity. AYCE felt like a whole new world of sushi options.
Service was not wowing but they were pretty good about getting our food out on time. Like some other people have said, things came out separately or one at a time BUT that was fine because we happily shared. We were promptly given hot green tea upon arrival.
I found the food quality to be good. It wasn’t mind blowing like what you get at a more experimental sushi restaurant but it was solid. We left happy and full and threw on green tea ice cream at the end to sweeten the deal!
The one thing I would do if I were them would be to legit create order sheets. Something about writing on post-​it note style pieces of paper just makes the whole thing seem less awesome.

AYCE Lunch sushi is $ 13.99 and they have some really good options!
The wakame salad is VERY good, tasty dressing!
Gyoza, generic but I love them…
Standard vegetable tempura.
Ordered a bunch of different types of sushi and all were quite good, especially dynamite rolls that were topped with salmon!
Everything was average and a definite cheap AYCE sushi spot when you’ve got a craving.