Toronto Japanese Restaurants
Japanese cuisine is enjoying enormous popularity around the world and Toronto is no exception. Whether you want to watch a master chef prepare and cook your meal in front of your or you just have a craving for sushi and sake, there are plenty of fine Japanese restaurants in Toronto.
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Here are some of Toronto’s best Japanese restaurants:
KI
181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Location: Inside BCE Place on Bay Street
You can enjoy a variety of Japanese dining experiences at KI. Sit at the bar and enjoy sushi prepared right in front of you. Try a Sunomono salad with cucumber, harusame noodles and wakame seaweed or with Alaskan King Crab or Black Tiger Shrimp. Enjoy the kushiyaki which has two skewers per serving, presented with three dips: teriyaki, sesame, and chili ponzu. Try the more traditional Ki Beef Maki with teriyaki-glazed Canadian AAA striploin, scallions, sesame seeds, sweet potato tempura and asparagus.KI Restaurant has a refreshing, airy atmosphere and lovely views of Bay Street. The atmosphere is grand and modern with large paintings on the walls.
Hiro Sushi171 King St.
EastToronto, ON, M5A1J4
416-304-0550
Location: East of Jarvis. Let Chef Hiro Yoshida create the mouth watering sushi that has amazed visiting Japanese dignitaries and celebrities for you and your guests. Enjoy 5 course Japanese meals ranging from the traditional to the unconventional in sushi, sashimi, tempura, and bento box combinations.
Ematei20
St. Patrick Street Toronto ON,
M5T3A3
416-340-0472
Location: North of Queen and West of University Ave. in Downtown Toronto.
A favourite with Japanese tourists, dining at Ematei is a highly sought after experience. Try the superb shrimp tempura with giant shrimp, chunks of eggplant, yam, carrot and onion slivers along with battered and deep-fried noodles. And for something completely different, the konchi tsuboyaki with conch meat and shiitake mushrooms, decanted from a conch shell.
Akane-Ya Japan
2214 Queen St East
Toronto, ON,
416-699-0377
Location: Toronto Beaches west of Victoria Park Ave.
A small, intimate restaurant with a sushi bar where you can sit and talk to the Sushi chef. Enjoy six course dinners with freshwater eel, uni, and tempura dishes for under $40.
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