Syogun Japanese Cuisine

The food here is pretty good for an ayce, but man they must use alot of sodium because everyone was super dehydrated afterwards. They have black sesame ice cream which is something you don't find at most establishments. I would not go out of my way to eat here or make plans to return, but if someone was hosting an event here I wouldn't refuse.

AYCE quality can always be kind of iffy, but Syogun was definitely one of the more impressive ones that I've been to. I thought the quality of the food was actually very good. On the weekends, they have AYCE sweet shrimp which is always a plus. The place itself is pretty cool as they have a giant sushi bar and private rooms where you can sit on the floor (you even are asked to take off your shoes). 

We ordered quite a bit and there was a lot of choices for weekend dinner ($24.99 pp). The sashimi selection was pretty large with unique items being sweet shrimp and beef tataki. The salmon, surf clam, and buterfish tasted fresh and came served onto a giant boat. The beef tataki was wonderful as it was a perfect rare and lying in a bed of onion, cilantro and lime. The sweet shrimp was good, but rather small. They were flying off the boat though so we had to keep ordering quite a bit throughout the night. 

They have a variety of hot foods as well, but I was impressed by the grilled scallops and wasabi mussels. The grilled scallops are cooked in shell with a bit of a creamy mayo sauce layered on top. The wasabi mussels were interesting as it was a creamy wasabi mayo that had the wasabi flavor without any of the hurt. The grilled eggplant and short ribs were very good. The ribs were thick and meaty with not much fat attached so I enjoyed those. Ox Tongue was good. I was expecting some thin slices, but they were huge chunks on a stick, which turned me off of it a bit. 

Service was iffy. Every time the servers came by to take our order, they just sighed and looked as though they hated life and didn't want to be bothered by us. I hate that the ordering method is telling the server. They really need to bring a fill in paper form, because I don't think the servers want to be writing down every shouting request that our larger party had. Definitely still worth coming to though.

For lunch with the familia while visiting them over in Toronto for the Easter long weekend, we stopped off for a super inexpensive and tasty all you can eat sushi buffet at Syogun.  While the sushi and cooked items isn't outstanding, they are still pretty tasty - if you're not too picky about presentation, its pretty awesome... and you can't beat the all you can eat pricing.  And FYI, they take cash or debit only. With the all you can eat pricing, you get your choice of unlimited canned pop or green tea.  Its busy busy in here, so if your first list of orders you wanted to eat doesn't all come out (you're given a pencil and a stack of blank note paper as you peruse the menu), assume its forgotten and scribble it down on your second, third or fourth request for food to the kitchen.  We started with a round of sushi nigiri.  From top left going clockwise: tuna, salmon rose, mackeral, spicy chop chop, inari, hamachi, salmon. While the pieces are a bit on the small side, its all you can eat so just order more if you like. The seafood was fresh and the sushi rice nicely seasoned. Next out was the  Eel Avocado Maki.  Gently grilled and sauced, it was very similar to the  BBQ eel cucumber maki we also ordered - tasty! I had reservations about the wasabi  mussels - was it going to be so spicy it clears your sinuses or have the wasabi flavours overwhelm the mussels? But luckily, neither was the case - the steamed mussels were topped with a creamy almost hollandaise like sauce that had just a hint of wasabi. We needed some veggies, so we had some  Edamame, or Broiled salted soy beans. (don't eat the exterior! Just hull them like sweet peas fresh from the garden!) I was pleasantly surprised by the simplicity and tastiness of the Salmon bone soup. It had a few pieces of soft tofu in it and was a rich, savoury unami nomnomnom. Then, we had some rolls -  On left - Spicy salmon roll, on right - Shrimp tempura maki roll. Preferred the shrimp tempura roll over the heavily sauced spi

A lot of variety of hot dishes and sushi. Made with care. Great for $12.99+tax+10%tips