Sushi Sky Japanese Restaurant

I came here with my mom on Saturday for AYCE dinner. The rice was a bit too sour, and the salmon sashimi slices were super thick. They put a lot of rice into every sushi so you get full really quickly. Fried calamari and Thai chicken skewers were tasty, but everything else was below average.
The service was terrible. I asked for more tea and ordered green salad THREE TIMES but they never came till the very end when I got super mad.
Will never go back again.

Convenient location.
Great prices for lunch and dinner buffets — although there are not a lot of choices.
Quality of food is great.

Great food at a great price, my group and I got the dinner specials. Almost everything we had was good. The miso soup is absolutely incredible and I’m sad I didn’t get a big one to go. The drinks are a little weak but they’re inexpensive so that makes up for it. Our waiter was super attentive and nice, we got so much food we ended up having to take it home to enjoy later– even after we left in a semi food coma.

Amazing service! Great selection, and it’s one of the best AYCE places I’ve ever been. The sushi roll orders come in 4 or 6, which is perfect when you want to try a couple different types of rolls. Everything came very quickly, the servers were on top of reordering and drink refills, which you rarely see! And it’s right downtown at Yonge and College. I wish they had sashimi included in AYCE but everything else was spot on!

I know that people love this place but I’ve never been overly impressed. The sushi is just okay. Service is just okay usually.
However the last time I went for lunch during the week, we ended up waiting almost an hour for the meal. That’s ridiculous. It’s lunchtime downtown, people have to go back to work within a reasonable amount of time.
I won’t be back.

Went here for the first time today with my mom and my aunt. We ordered the gyoza and two age tofu orders as appetizers and three Vegetarian dinner combos.
When the age tofu orders came we saw they had bonito flakes on top and were in some sort of fishy smelling sauce, even though it made no mention of it in the menu like at other places.
My mom explained that we can’t eat the bonito flakes because fish makes us very sick and that it wasn’t labeled on the menu as containing fish. She then asked if we could have replacement orders (like other restaurants have done before).
Instead of taking the order back he very rudely denied that it was bonito flakes and was completely vegetarian, even though it obviously had bonito flakes and the fishy odour of the sauce was overpowering everything else. Come on guy, we know what bonito flakes look like.
We couldnt even pick them off because they stuck to the tofu from the sauce. Sure enough my mum and I both are barfing like crazy now.
We won’t be coming back.

This place is fast, yummy and cheap. The downside is that the service is really rushed. Despite that I’ve returned here quite a few times because I appreciate how cheap and fast it is. You can get in and out within 30 minutes, and have a huge plate of sushi with soup, salad and green tea for under $ 20 (including tip).

I like «treating» myself to lunch here. Treating in quotes, because it’s actually not that expensive at all considering their great lunch options and it would be more expensive for me to get a sandwich and a dessert at a convenience place. I always get the same lunch, lunch A, just the right amount of food, and yummy. Lunch during the week was can busy because all of the office people coming here on their lunch break but only once did I have to wait more than 2 minutes to be seated. Service is quick and the waiters, while not overly friendly, are around when you need them. It’s not the best Japanese restaurant in town but it’s convenient, cheap, and good enough for me to keep going back.

It was around $ 21 per person for AYCE plus tax and tip. Very reasonable considering it is dinner all you can eat that you’re paying for. I must say, the quality of service and food is far better than the AYCE joints I’m accustomed to uptown, in Markham or Richmond Hill, for similar prices.
The staff were very helpful and attentive, always refilling our tea, even after we had paid the bill and gotten our desserts. Food-​wise, lots of variety and I think everything we ordered actually came — which is very, very surprising for an AYCE sushi place. Some of the food was a bit out of our expectations though. The mango and avocado roll was an avocado roll with mango sauce drizzled on top white the calamari, looked more like onion rings. They have quite a lot of seats, so I wouldn’t worry too much about going in early or making a reservation too much.
Otherwise, glad to have found a nice and affordable AYCE place of quality in the downtown core!

2.5 STARS
I came here for a quick bite to eat prior meeting up with my friends. It’s a big restaurant that also does takeout. If you get seated at the front you can see the dishes being made.
I ordered the hot sake and the Crystal Maki roll (4 rolls, wrapped in rice paper, with avocados, spicy). It was definitely spicy which I’m glad b/​c most sushi places that say spicy aren’t really spicy to me. I just wanted a quick bite to tide me over for a bit as we were going out to dinner later.
I;m not sure if someone called in sick or what but there were only 2 servers and the place was busy — therefore the service was slow. It was pleasant, don’t get me wrong… but sloooooow.
The maki I had was ok — except for the spice I couldn’t really taste much of anything else. Plus the rice papers stuck to each other and it was difficult to eat… everything kept falling out.
They do also have AYCE options. It would be good for a big group since the back of the restaurant can certainly accommodate a large group. I’m sure there are better places to get sushi in the area.

I went to this sushi joint yesterday after playing a game at 401. I went in a group of ⁶⁄₇ and we opted for the AYCE. We stocked up on the sashimi since that’s what you do when you got AYCE! We got 40 pieces first and a lot of other things. The wait for the sashimi was a bit too long. I think we waited for 20 mins until it came.
The price for AYCE is 20.99 before tax + tip. It was normal price I believe. I don’t usually go for AYCE. The sashimi wasn’t bad, it was OK. It didn’t seem frozen.
The sashimi, tempura, chicken wings and dragon roll was the best tasting dishes for me. I like the crunchiness of the tempura and it was bartered quite well. Dragon roll was not bad and I would order again.
The service was decent. I would recommend to come back for AYCE. I’m accustomed to Vancouver sushi so this place ranks ⁷⁄₁₀ for my Vancouver comparisons.

Lunch bento is really bad
They also removed surf clam from all you can eat dinner
Won’t be coming back now

Decent place. Went here for a AYCE dinner on a Friday evening ($ 20.99) and it was surprisingly not too busy (in comparison to sushi places along Bloor & Bathurst or Queen & Spadina).
The maki were not heavily filled with rice, and the sashimi & sushi pieces were all fresh. The fried calamari was a tad overcooked, but the shrimp tempura was flaky and yummy!
The service was good, waiter was shocked that 3 women can EAT & still have room for ice-​cream.
Reasonable price, especially where it’s located… but there are other better places downtown.

Food: ⁷⁄₁₀ — Value: ⁸⁄₁₀ — Service: ⁷⁄₁₀ — Ambiance/​Décor: ⁷⁄₁₀
Surprisingly, the sushi I had for all-​you-​can-​eat lunch was better than the a la carte sushi I ordered last time. At around $ 15 for lunch AYCE, I was pretty satisfied with what we got. The sushi rolls were surrounded by an acceptable layer of rice and there was no secret stash of rice underneath the fish this time to try to fill you up. Among the rolls, the crispy anything were my favourite. Crispy spicy salmon, butter fish.
The standout fish was definitely the satay (I think?) chicken skewers that were covered in a flavourful peanut sauce.
Service was okay. It’s a busy place and it seemed like there were only two or three people waiting on the lunch rush, so it was tough for them. There were a few dishes that were missed, but we didn’t want them anyway by the time we realized.
This place is good for what it is: reasonably priced downtown cheap sushi.

Did not have AYCE; We weren’t feeling that hungry, so we got dinner specials instead.
My partner got the Silver Box combo which includes grilled chicken, assorted veg. tempura, and a salmon & avocado roll. I got Dinner Special #2, which comes with chicken/​steak/​salmon tereyaki, tempura, and 3 pieces of california roll. I got the steak, and asked to change the california roll out with a spicy mayo salmon & avocado roll. I was told that there would be a charge for this substitution (which I was already expecting). What I was not expecting was that I would get 6 pieces and be charged $ 2, instead of the usual $ 1 for substitutions found every where else.
Both our specials came with miso and salad as appetizers and rice and fruit (half an orange) as part of the bento box. My dinner special had 2 pieces of shrimp tempura and 3 or 4 pieces of veg. tempura. I was not expecting this either. Esp since we had told our server that my partner has an allergy to shrimp/​shellfish.
I was okay to eat it, but we had to be very careful about sharing food (I wasn’t able to just give him the stuff I didn’t want to eat, or steal off his plate, I couldn’t steal his drink, etc).
I’ll likely come back someday because it seems like a place my friends go to (being in their neighbourhood). Unfortunately, I’ve found that most sushi houses in the downtown core are not quite to my liking. If it’s not the price, then it’s the service, or the quality of food, or something. With this one, it’s pretty serious that I was served shrimp without it being mentioned at all beforehand (and it’s not specified on the menu) despite my dining companion mentioning an allergy to them.

I had a craving for sushi and this place was close to my hotel. It was just okay. The staff was friendly and attentive but I wasn’t wowed by the food.

Been coming here for years. The food is still good but the service sucks. Every time I come they forget something. Last time we had all you can eat, and they forgot half our order… No big deal… We filled out another form… The next round, forgot 2 things… Then nobody came to our table for over 30mins… UNTIL I asked for the bill… Then they jumped.
Now, I’m currently sitting in the restaurant; ordered the exact same thing I always get, and NO miso soup or salad… Everyone is getting their meal before me.
I need to find a new place! I’m done with this restaurant.

Great place for a lunch time deal!
I am a big fan of salmon rose (called salmon cakes here… not sure why). To my happy surprise, found out that they provide two with the lunch special!
Came here twice now, first for the a la carte option second for the lunch ayce.
A la carte was good. Decently priced, came with a good amount of food, and had me filled.
AYCE option was not as great. Not only were their food options rather limited, they not have salmon roses on there (boo!). The food still tasted great, came out within a decent time and left me happy.
Definitely would come back again, since it’s really close to work.

So once again my craving for average priced good sushi got me feeling guilty.
I’ve walked across Sushi Sky often and seen a lot of Asian people eating there, so I just assumed its pretty decent (sorry for the generalization). I guess none of them are eating the sushi (maybe teriyaki or something).
I ordered myself a red dragon roll (8pieces) and a dynamite roll (4/​5pieces). I was a little surprised by the price of the rolls, the red dragon was 10.99 and dynamite was 5.60. The red dragon roll was nothing special, I always try my rolls without any soy sauce first because it is known that if its good sushi, you won’t find the need for it. Well this was not. It was dry and I had to dip it into soy, unfortunately I couldn’t dip it too much because their soy was too salty (at least it seemed that way when mixed with the vinegar-​y rice). The dynamite roll was even less appetizing, not only was it dry, it was like trying to shove a mammoth down my mouth.
I once again have spent $ 20 on below average sushi. And so, the hunt continues.

I was surprised when I entered this restaurant. It was nice and clean and had plenty of seats.
I was seated in a comfy booth by the back.
The service was prompt and courteous. I ordered a 37 piece sushi boat and it was delivered in a reasonable time. My, was it huge! They were very generous with the wasabi. Most places I go to are so stingy with the wasabi I always have to ask for more. Not only was there a good amount of wasabi, it was the real deal! Potent and perfect!
The fish was fresh and well cut. It was enough for the two of us.
I was impressed and more than satisfied with everything. A definite go to place for me !