Ginza Sushi
100-1255 Bay St.
647-351-0238
www.ginzasushi.ca
Rating: *** 1/2
Dinner & drinks for two: $50
White beams crosshatch around you in a small, clean space. Like a Japanese woodland forest, Ginza’s newest location in Yorkville is awash in white and blond wood.
Casual dining sushi places pepper the city like nail salons. What makes this joint so special?
For one, the menu offers up fun and unusual items like Seafood Soup in a Tea-Pot ($6), Seafood Tempura — which includes soft shell crab ($12), and a Black Pearl Roll ($15) that features snapper tempura and black caviar.
Secondly, the prices are good and the portions are abundant. Raw fish in inexpensive sushi joints can sometimes be awfully chewy. Here, it is silky and only a few sinewy pieces adorn the plate.
The Sashimi Boat ($15) has three slices of each variety — tuna, salmon, snapper, white tuna and surf clam. With the GS3 Sushi Combo ($15), you not only get miso soup and salad, but hamachi, tuna, salmon, shrimp, octopus, egg, crab, flying fish egg, cuttle fish, mackerel, surf clam, ikura & hamachi hand roll (1 pc). It is a veritable feast.
The service is fastidious until we want the bill and the appetizers arrive long after our entrees, but overall we’re pleased.
And unbelievably full.
Dining out
Tea shops abound in the city, but they don’t serve tea-infused fare as well. T Café (511 Bloor St. W.) delivers intriguing options for breakfast, lunch, snacks or brunch. Of course you’ll want a good cuppa to go with that — choose from a large variety of green, black, herbal, white, oolong, rooibos and pu-erh teas.
