Sushi Gen

I live in the neighbourhood and I often go there to take out sushi. Take out sushi comes with miso soup and salad. It is nice. I usually order salmon and avoid rolls. I think it is cheaper than sushi in grocery stores. I have never eat inside, though. The service is usually good. When I am waiting for take out sushi, they give me a cup of tea. During the winter, they give me a hot cup tea. During the summer, they give me a cold glass of tea. It is nice.

Bad food, bad service!
We got the all you can eat special and ordered a few different rolls and chicken/​beef dishes. Not only did they not being all the food we ordered (I hear they do that often at all you can eat places) but the ones they brought were very low quality sushi.
The chicken katsu didn’t even look like it was meat. We had to keep asking them to bring the rest of our order. In the end they didn’t even bring us the ice cream we’d ordered and we waited so long that we just gave up and decided to leave!

This has been the worst sushi experience I have had so far. Came here for all you can eat sushi. Waited 30 minutes in between orders and they could not even get our orders right. The sushi was really poor quality and they don’t seem to know how to count or what sushis were ordered. After waiting for so long for our orders and following up twice, our orders would come incomplete. The rolls hardly had any meat in them. It seemed all their rolls were just rice cucumbers and seaweed wrap with a touch of fish (maybe two out of 6 rolls had them). Towards the middle of our meal I just wanted to leave. It was sad really. I hope no one else has to come here.

A large menu provides lots of choice. Nothing spectacular, a typical sushi restaurant.

Cheap, good value for the price when considering quality alone. However, for a la carte, the quality of the sushi is below normal.
3 rolls, miso soup and garden salad for $ 12.95 is competitive and one of many combos they offer. However, I found to be the rolls to be small and management very unyielding in substitutions without paying an extra $ 1. The restaurant is true to its roots and has large pieces of cucumber in its california roll, which is most definitely a disappointment when you’re eating and paying for it a la carte, and I’m not convinced that this is made up sufficiently by the cheaper price…
No AYCE on weekdays at lunch, despite the deceptive «Japanese Buffet» in their window, though they’d be happy to charge you AYCE dinner prices (and offer you AYCE dinner) if you’d like.
Service is good and they often came by to see if I needed water or any further assistance. I noted that they also speak Cantonese and Mandarin.

AYCE here is very good. LOTS of choices and the food is made well. Sushi rolls on the AYCE are small and don’t have too much rice — which is exactly as it should be for AYCE, very good! I’ve been here several times and I always notice many people from surrounding businesses grabbing takeout on their breaks and other customers seem to be regulars, which is a really good sign. Service is friendly and accommodating. The only odd thing is the beef teriyaki comes as a pile of shredded beef, which isn’t like most other places.
And free wifi!

I got takeout from here last night. I got home and found three hairs in separate dishes. Called them back, and was told I’d get a credit to the restaurant. Not even the full amount of what I’d paid but partial credit. I work in the industry. One hair is an unfortunate mistake but three hairs in different dishes is gross and unacceptable. You don’t give partial credit for that, you do a full refund.
I guess they weren’t expecting me to drive back in with said hairs, but did end up giving me my money back.
From what I did eat, the food is not the best but not the worst tasting.

Decent sushi. Nothing to special but well worth the money. Got delivery and was quick and fast. Got a discount when I used justeat.

This place is a nice sushi spot on Yonge/​St Clair but I only go here if I’m really craving sushi and it’s right in front of me because
a) The customer service downright sucks. I’ve eaten in the restaurant and had take out and the service was horrible.
b) The lunch menu is alright but the rolls are much tinier than the regular menu sushi rolls… as in significantly tinier. I wasn’t sure if I had 6 pieces or 6 crumbs.
c) They seem to run out of crab often. ??
On the plus side… the rolls are fresh.

One of the better Asian all you can eat menu I have found in Toronto, price is quite decent and you get unlimited Green tea as well although it seems a bit watered down. Service could do better, if you order 20 items from the all you can eat menu they will bring all the ordered food at once which to me does not make any sense as you have to shove all the food down quick so the rest does not get cold. Even when asked to bring out food slowly there seems to be a language barrier most of the time between the waitresses. Some other reviewers have questioned the freshness of the food but I don’t think that is an issue. Improve service and you will get 5 stars.

When this restaurants didn’t pass the health inspection in February 2013, because it wasn’t following the basic hygiene rules, we still kept patronizing it because we thought the food was good and so was the value.
But today the waitress really pushed my boundaries. I am sorry, but bringing a tray full of someone else’s dirty plates with leftovers and placing it on my table in front of me, while collecting my dirty dishes is absolutely unacceptable!
Someone needs to train the wait staff and explain to them that in Canada diners don’t like seeing other people’s leftovers and fish bones while they are eating.
It was disgusting.
Salmon sashimi was not fresh.

At Sushi Gen you get good value for your money. They have excellent lunch specials on beef/​chicken/​salmon teriyaki, udons and makis. If you’re in the area and happen to crave Japanese food, do pay Sushi Gen a visit. I think you won’t regret.

I’m surprised this place only has four stars. I really like it here! I find the service fast and friendly, the food good and the portions generous. This tends to be my go to sushi shop! Full disclosure though I am a vegetarian so I do only eat the vegetarian options ;)

This is a great place to come for AYCE lunch for $ 12.95 (on weekends ONLY). I have been coming here for over 2 years now and the quality and flavour is consistently top notch.
The service is fast and the manager and waiters are all very attentive and friendly. The fish is always fresh and although I don’t order much from the maki/​sushi selection, the hand rolls are always good and the hot food is GREAT. The Miso is standard good, the salad is amazing everything you tick off in the order sheet will be delivered as a FULL order… no short changing or jipping on the portions here. They have a flavourful Udon, the terriyaki chicken/​salmon is good, the Kalbi is delicious, as well as the grilled salmon belly.
I’m always stuffed and satisfied when walking out of here and its a solid go to spot at Yonge and St. Clair with a parking lot across the street.

Awesome place for AYCE LUNCH. I wouldn’t go for dinner because its not worth the price, but for lunch its only $ 13. Its right across the street from my apartment which is why I frequent it so often. It is not amazing sushi, but it is GOOD. Lots of sushi options as well as appetizers and hot dishes. Very friendly service.

If you are starving, you can choke down this food. It’s meant for people on the run and it’s really not awesome.
The fish didn’t taste fresh or sweet and although the service was fast, it wasn’t good food, period. The rice was hard which made me think they undercooked it (blasphemy!) and it was just ‘okay’ because I was starving and didn’t want to hunt for another place to eat at.

The quality of the sushi is OK, service is marginal, but the fact that they serve AYCE (all-​you-​can-​eat) lunch at 3 P.M. is a bonus. Price is the usual price for AYCE.
Went to Sushi Gen for at least the 3^rd time with m’lady last Sunday hoping to get AYCE although we thought we might’ve missed it as it was around 3 P.M. To our delight, we were told we could have AYCE.
The people that acted as our servers kept changing. One of the spilled water on my foot as he overfilled my cup. Another one spilled my soup as he was placing it on the table. At the end, I had to go to the counter to get my bill as no one seemed to be interested in bringing it to me, even though the female server had confirmed that we didn’t want to order anything more.
The menu I must note is a tad skimpy. For the same price, the Queen St. location of Aji Sai has quite a bit more sushi to choose from (that is comparing AYCE lunch at Aji Sai on Queen St. to AYCE lunch at Sushi Gen). The did have a fair choice of flavours of ice cream for desert, however that was the only desert they offered.
The quality of some of the sushi was not the best (looked dried out and old). Most of the rest looked pretty good.
All-​in-​all, I’d return to the place, however it’s far from my fav.

Nothing particularly bad, but not too great either. The poor staff was running around trying to keep up so service was really slow. Management should consider having one more server.
I’m almost embarrassed to say I tried the Sunday all-​you-​can-​eat menu, something I never, ever do, preferring quality to quantity. But what the heck… it was exactly what I expected, with the exception of the teriyaki salmon which was actually quite fantastic.

Review on the Run:
With all the sushi options in a 1 block radius (it’s nutty how many there are! 2 East of Yonge, 1 West of Yonge, 2 South of St. Clair, 2 North of St Clair, including Sushi Gen) this one doesn’t cut it.
I deem these places fast food sushi. It’s cheap, but you really (and sometimes don’t) get what you pay for. Service was supremely slow, and the quality say compared to Ichi Ban or Daeco is miles apart.
Conculsion: Eat Here? No.

Sushi is great but a bit inconsistent. It’s now called sushi gen and the new owners seem to have it together.
Dynamite roll is my fave. And anything with that spicy mayo on it is good.
Great bang for the buck here.