Maki Sushi

Worst customer service at an all you can eat. The waiter did not want to give us a booth because he said he wanted to reserve for a larger party. We were the only table in the whole restaurant at this time (3:30pm) so I wasn’t sure where he was expecting a random large party walk in.
Majority of the staff stood there and gossiped. Didn’t offer tea or water. No wasabi or ginger was offered when our items came. Food was average (some were still semi-​frozen)
Overall– shitty service with average food. Rather go to sobeys and grab the sushi from their sushi bar which says a lot

As much as I love AYCE sushi places, I am not a fan of Maki Sushi.
Service is fast and the staff was friendly and helpful. We even jokes around with our server, which was a hard worker.
Clean bathrooms and clean restaurant overall. Beautifully decorated.
The downside is the food. The sashimi is dry and the fish is most def frozen. Not acceptable given that the menu advertises it as «fresh». The tempura had a great crunch to it. The desserts were alright in general and the fried banana (which was served with chocolate) was fantastic. Overall, the noodles/​appetizers and other Asian dishes were insanely bland. Please do yourself a favour and do NOT order the pad thai. Eating their pad thai is like eating water. I had to add about half a cup of sriracha in order to be able to eat it.
I gave the restaurant 2 stars due to the great service but I don’t think the food is worth 25.99 $.

FOOD:
PRO: I love the volcano roll, eel sushi, salmon belly and their other rolls which I forgot the names already probably because they’re too many to mention.
PRICE:
CON: Their All You Can Eat is good but I think too pricey.
AMBIANCE:
PRO: They have nice big couches and tables, good design inside and out. The vibe feels sophisticated, not casual.
RECOMMENDATION:
Make sure to order their Volcano Roll.

The lunch buffet is very cheap (no sashimi) but you have a lot options!
The food came shortly after we ordered. Not perfect, but for the price I paid, I was pretty satisfied. The grilled teriyaki salmon is really good with a fair amount. Crispy salmon rolls are very good, too! The service is nice. We went there during lunch time and it’s very fast and the waitresses were friendly, too. The cons: you need to remember what you order, because your order will come together with others on the table.

Very classic Asian fusion resto. Nice atmosphere and good place for what we went for (company luncheon). Very good deal for the all u can eat buffet with a lot of choices! Service was on point the entire time and handled our big group wonderfully! I would definitely go back when in the neighbourhood.

I was here with my family twice and the service was good both times and they had a lot of choices. The food was tasty and sushi we had were fresh. I would come back here again.

Not bad at all. Food is decent. Place is decent. Customer service is the best.

Just really mediocre. Rushed service though the restaurant was nearly empty and wait staff abandoned us during the meal. $ 40 for a crap meal, it felt so cheaply done. Truly such a sad little restaurant, a bit shabby. I really wanted to like this place. I hope they can get it together.

To sum up our experience: waitresses are uninterested in serving us, no knowledge of what they are selling and, slow. But very fresh sashimi otherwise — only redeeming feature. Sad.
Green tea ice cream had ice crystals in them. Mango pudding came in a tiny disposable plastic shot plastic cup. Blueberry mousse tasted like the refrigerator — not a popular dessert I guess.
When we spoke to the manager, his response was that it was very fresh it was only made on Monday (this was a Wednesday)… I do not consider 3 day old mousse Fresh. The other locations are considerably better.

I went here today for the first time with a friend of mine and was very impressed. The lunch special was all you can eat for $ 14!!! Food and service was very good. Sush and chicken fried rice was excellent and chicken pad tai was pretty good. not the best I’ve had though. Nice environment and will be returning this weekend with my boyfriend!

WORST RESTAURANT I HAVE EVER BEEN TO! Do not come here under any circumstance! I have tried this place out twice (once delivery & once at the place). I will never in a million years, even if this is the last sushi place on earth give this place my business again. I am shocked that this place is even open.
First time I ordered in. Really simple order 3 avocado sushi rolls & a seaweed salad. The food took forever to come & then the delivery guy so so rude, no smile, no hello even & then he even very rudely asked for a tip. The food was ok seaweed salad wasn’t the best & the sushi was just ok. Very very small rolls. I was not happy about the size at all.
Second time I went to the restaurant & brought company. I was so embarresed to bring someone here. To make a long story short the service was appalling, they kept messing up our order, bring us food that was not ours, the food was awful. are guest didn’t even eat the food it was so gross, they brought entrees first then appetizer to two of us, small portions again plus we had to sort out are bill because they tried to over charge us! On top of all that the table next to us had an issue as well. They brought them the wrong food then tried to charge them for it. The whole thing was just a disaster from start to finish.
You under no circumstance should come here/​order from here. It is just plain awful.

This restaurant is definitely perfect for the tepanyaki. There are not many tepanyaki restaurants around the downtown. This one is definitely worth the value. You enter and are seated around the grill. The exhaust they turn on is rather loud and cooling. But with the AYCE, the whole experience opens up. You can order tempura, you can order sashimi, as well as sushi. And we ordered all of that and shared. The spring rolls are also rather refreshing.
The next course is the reason we are here though. It’s the tepanyaki. We have ordered each pieces of what we want. There are 6 of us and we all have different preferences. Some will only eat seafood. Some only eat meat. But all of us appreciate the good natured chef. And the fresh selection of seafood (scallops, shrimp, mussels, salmon) and meat (steak, short ribs, beef, chicken). All of that and mix it with veggies and fried rice. It’s enough to satisfy 6 foodists.
Definitely worth it. They didn’t scrimp in taste nor personality.

I wanted to like this place. It’s near my house, in a nice area of town, and I thought that the proximity to affluence would make this a good –quality restaurant.
Boy, was I wrong.
Came for lunch. And yes, tried the all-​you-​can eat special. Did not feel welcome from the get-​go. The girl who sat me and took my order left me feeling like I was imposing on her and her extra-​special life. She clearly did not want to be there.
The sushi just didn’t taste right. I eat sushi regularly and have for many years in many places, and I have never before noticed an unpleasant, fishy, smell associated with any other sushi restaurant or the food I was served there. It happened here for the first time. The hand rolls were unappealing and I actually had to force them down. All the sushi tasted the same, nothing fresh or exciting about it.
Remember, I wanted badly to like this place, so it’s hard to recommend other Unilocalers avoid it. But you should. Seriously.
I am upset I spent seventeen bucks here.

Standard sushi. Nothing really stands out here. Service is there, price is right, but left wanting more. Spicy salmon to me should be a staple of a great sushi place. There is potential here. The kitchen needs to put more love in each roll. Don’t get me wrong there are some hits among the misses. Cheers.

One of my favorite resturant in Toronto. When I visit usually have all you can eat. The food is tasty and the service is good

Dined here with my bf once a few days ago. The food was average, sashimi was fresh. Wait time with certain foods on the menu was long. Opens until late, but service was pretty bad to me. Waiters were kind of rude. The price for AYCE dinner is $$$, but then again it is a high demand location. I recommend this place. Give it a try.

I went here yesterday on an impromptu birthday lunch with two friends! We were seated promptly and decided to do ayce for $ 13.99.
Ordered miso soup, seaweed salad, quite a few rolls (green dragon, spicy salmon, california, avocado roll, crispy), beef short ribs, mushroom beef and some skewers.
We got our rolls first — green dragon was the best and the rest didnt taste that great. Spicy salmon and avacado roll was okay. The rest tasted off — especially crispy roll.
The meat entrees I heard were good especially the mushroom suffed beef (?).
We didnt get our miso soup or seaweed salad and had to ask twice. Both were good.
We ended the lunch with mango ice cream for myself and mango pudding for my friends! The pudding was a joke — barely enough for one spoon. It was in a taster cup!
To end — I didnt really enjoy it that much. Bayview has a few that are better!

Bland Flavourless Crap!
The wife and I did the AYCE on a Friday night with high hopes of another decent local AYCE Japanese place aside from California Roll on Bayview. Alas, our hopes were dashed with the first disappointing taste of this place and its horrible, horrible food.
The sashimi was bland and tasteless. The sushi an even greater disappointment since we expected a good quality sushi rice to help offset their inferior fish. But its clear that the cooking staff know as little about properly preparing sushi rice as the Maki fish buyers have understanding of the meaning of the word «fresh». And really, how can you screw up sashimi? It’s just cuts of raw fish! You really, really have to suck at your job to not be able to tell whether fish is fresh or frozen. A hint for your next shopping trip: frozen fish are solid and very, very cold, so do not buy them.
Even cooked things like their Sirloin steak or various meat skewers were either very undercooked or very overcooked. This isn’t a 10 course Chinese banquet, just meat on a stick. How can you not tell that you’ve overcooked it when large sections of it are burned black?
A place this big obviously exists to generate lots of money at as cheap a cost as possible. What amazes me is that it is filled with Leaside people who should know the difference between quality and crap. I guess it just goes to show that money doesn’t buy good taste.

Ok. Decided to give Maki Sushi another try. This time we went on a Saturday around 5:30ish. Service was MUCH MUCH better. Staff was attentive even though the place was much busier.
The food seems to be a little small on the portion size, but this is typical of ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI places. I like the ability to order Brown or White rice on some rolls.
I’m holding out for a few more visits to see, but for now I give it a ‘cautious recommendation’.

I just got home from Maki Sushi. I can say it was great and I am overly full. We had amazing service. It may have been because there were 3 groups once we had entered in the restaurant and we were the last ones out. The server was funny and entertaining and the atmosphere of Maki Sushi was sensational, it was a beautiful place and the presentation of the food was quite pleasing.
We ordered Raw Beef, Surf Clam, Calamari, Egg, Mackerel, and Salmon Sashimi. The size of the slices were a nice big portion, unlike other Sushi Restaurants I usually go to. We ordered a bunch of different Dragon Rolls (Green and Red), a bunch of Tempura (Shrimp, Yam, Crab, and Onion) and other Sushi. We found that all of the mentioned were well made and very well presented. We also ordered Mushroom wrapped with Beef, and found that the beef was a little bit overcooked but it was not terrible. Other dishes include Tofu Sushi, Avocado Sushi. and others. I was extremely full after all of this but I had to eat dessert once I found out that they had Sesame Ice Cream. I had 5 scoops of that, Pumpkin Cake, Red Bean Cake, and Deep Fried Banana. At the end of it all I was rolling around uncomfortably, but it was all worth it. I would definitely come back here again.