The Kitchener-Waterloo Sushi Guide

Already this sounds pretty pathetic, since there are about 4 sushi places in all of Kitchener-Waterloo. But as a transplanted Montreal sushi addict, I am determined to try all of them and report my findings here.

Mr. Sushi

Mr. Sushi has now opened his own sushi restaurant next to the University Food Market (his previous location). He also supplies the Math C&D on campus.

The Math C&D sushi is goes quickly, so you can only usually get sushi there from noon to 1:30 or so. Prices are quite good, for 4.25$ you can get (8 pieces):

All of these are quite fresh and good. It has happened twice (in about 70 times of eating C&D sushi) that I've had some salmon rolls where the fish tasted not so fresh, but every other time has been quite good.

At the restaurant itself, prices are pretty reasonable. You can usually eat your fill for about 10$ or so. The spicy salmon rolls are excellent, and Mr. Sushi is super nice. Once he was sitting down to dinner when I came in, and he offered me some soup that he was having for his dinner.

Vincenzo's sushi

Vincenzo's is a gourmet grocery store, where it is quite easy to spend too much money. On the weekend, they have a sushi chef that makes simple rolls: tuna rolls, california rolls, salmon rolls and a few others. These are all delicious. I don't usually like California rolls, but I like these ones, and their spicy tuna rolls are amazing. Rolls are about 4-6$ for a tray of 12 small rolls. Definitely recommended.

Seoul Soul

Seoul Soul is a Korean/Japanese Restaurant in the University Plaza. I've only eaten there for lunch, since dinner there is quite expensive. Their lunchtime specials are small yet expensive. The sushi is good, but the portions are quite small, and I'm usually still hungry afterwards. One sushi plate is about 15$ at lunchtime, with tax and tip. Ok, but it's better to go to Mr. Sushi.

Village 1 sushi

1 word: don't. I don't care how hungry you are, and how much you want sushi, don't eat the sushi at V1. It is completely gross. The price doesn't matter, since you really don't want to eat there.

Sakura

I went there for lunch one day, and ordered their sushi special. The waitress and sushi chef were both rather gruff. I was completely disapointed with my meal: tiny nigri sushis with fish that didn't taste very fresh, boring presentation (the meal was supposed to be something like 10 pieces of sushi, but a lot of them were the same), and a 15$ or so price tag. Totally not worth it.

The moral of the story is that I really miss Montreal.