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One of my family's favourite takeout options, though we've never dined in. The I always get the teriyaki chicken with extra mushrooms, and it's always…
Caroline Amanda
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We've been patrons at this restaurant for the past 8 years... great dine in service and take out.Recently change chefs (perhaps) because twice so fat …
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Had a bad experience here a while ago with a take order of California Rolls that were significantly off. Haven't been back for that reason but in fair…
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9 Reviews on “Toshi”
Had a bad experience here a while ago with a take order of California Rolls that were significantly off. Haven’t been back for that reason but in fairness I’ve heard very good things from other people who’ve never had an issue. For me, too many other places to go to bother trying again.
Never eat there again. I had lunch there yesterday with two friends from work.Their pacific roll was meager for the $11 price and now I wish I had not eaten it because my stomach is bloated.The food did not seem fresh.They had just re-opened after being closed for a few weeks so maybe it was old stock.The old lady seemed in a hurry to clean off our table, which seemed rude, considering there were plenty of empty tables.
Regular. I always crave the chicken teriyaki here, its one of my favorites!
Toshi Japanese Restaurant is amazing. I’ve been there tons of times. They serve really big portions of great tasting sushi. They can be at times slow because of the amount of people there but it’s definitely worth going. It’s great Japanese sushi and its not the dry, gross sushi you get at other restaurants and at super markets.
I usually get the large shrimp and gingered beef teriyaki meal to go. The portion is generous and more than enough for two people. I also use to visit this owners restaurant when he operated years ago in shoppers world. I have dined in once and was not overly impressed with the service and portions sizes for the sushi were very small, but costly. This is my place for teriyaki to go.
Mr. Takeuchi Goes To Brampton. E: I visited Toshi to try sushi and sashimi, which I like when done well. On a separate visit I had a bowl of ramen, which normally I am ambivalent towards, based on the waitress’ conviction and advertisement. The waitress was adamant regarding the ramen so I ordered a bowl on a separate visit. More on that later.At Toshi I started with the sashimi maguro, which was hefty and delicious. The sashimi appetizer features three thick cuts of good tuna. They do not offer sesame spinach or ohitashi (soaked) or horsenso no goma-ae (spinach with sesame sauce). The gyoza seemed fresh, crispy and consistent. It was an appetizer, but had arrived after the sashimi. What happened next portended badly for the sushi and the rest of the meal, but it didnt turn out as such. It might have been a simple mistake or a case of fatigue, but when the waitress whom I could have sworn is Japanese arrived with the main tray of a la carte sushi she got shiro maguro (white tuna) wrong and called it suzuki or sea bass. She was going over the sushi she had just delivered to table and pointed to the maguro and introduced it as suzuki. Thankfully, the sushi itself was not the product of inferior or erroneous knowledge. Later, the waitress seemed to nominally understand the difference between buri and hamachi. This was my first visit and they had uni so I tried it despite it being out of season. It was a huge uni, but had a metallic taste that lingered at the back of my mouth this uni did not pass muster. Toro Maki was not on the menu and not available. The hirame nigiri was huge. This soon became Toshis theme. The etiquette of sushi requires the nigiri to go into the mouth wholesale and down in two. The hirame constituted several chews for me. Whatever the price or the value of the sushi the size is above average at Toshi. The tobiko was extremely salty. I wondered if I was having the equivalent sodium intake of six pinches of salt. The mackerel was next. It was salty (again) and it was big (again). It almost had to be pushed to fit in ones mouth. The easel at the entrance featured aburi salmon and scallop again no tuna and having picked scallop found it merely average. Aburi should be eaten without soya sauce and the hotate was fine as such, but I guess I have been eternally spoilt by Zen and Aoyamas aburi. The rice was very good and the sushi size was characteristically big. They have a much bigger aburi maki selection that I am curious about. To test the temaki or hand rolls, which I really like when done well, I ordered a hotate (scallop) temaki and the nori (seaweed) was not as crisp as I like it to be. Nori should be neither chewy nor rubbery. It should be crisp, but not like toasted bread. Once again, the piece was big, packed with great rice and scallop. The chef had added lettuce to the hand roll. If all their temaki have such feeble noris then these are not items I would order on return visits. Incidentally, not only is their wasabi not the real thing, but also it has little taste or effect.Toshis menu features one kind of ramen: one kind and tasty. The soy sauce broth was delicious. The bowl was packed with bamboo, pork, kamaboko (fish cake) and of course a sheet of nori. There was no sign of MSG later if my tongue or throat could be used as barometers. Fish cakes usually contain MSG, but the Toshi ramen was both tasty and felt wholesome. The noodles were apparently procured at a Mississauga store! More on the service and waitstaff below, but when I asked I was told by one of the waitresses that the chef and owner of the restaurant, Toshi Takeuchi, hails from Hokkaido. She might be married to him or a relative, but the emotion was genuine and touching nonetheless. When hearing the chef is from Hokkaido I light-heartedly wondered about his ramen skills given that islands reputation for the bowl. The waitress almost had tears in her eyes speaking of the chef and his cooking skills and ramen, as well as classic cooking including spaghetti and more. She acknowledged Hokkaidos reputation for good ramen and pointed to the ramen on the menu adding that theirs is great and unlike other restaurants ramen that buy almost everything ready-made. They do get their noodles elsewhere, but she insisted that everything else is homemade and done very well. MSG is a funny thing. Nearly everyone derides it as a bad thing, but, in my experience, the same number of people also miss the taste and complain of a bland or inauthentic broth should the ramen actually be MSG-free. As such, many might not really like the ramen at Toshi. It might or might not contain MSG, but it certainly doesnt feel MSG-potent or salty.Here are several prices for orders: gyoza is $4.95, uni $6.95, shiromi $4.95, saba $4.25, hamachi $6.25, tobiko $5.00, masago $4.25 and a three-piece maguro sashimi is $5.75.Summary: hefty and tasty ramen, average nigiri quality, above average nigiri size, impressive rice, dank nori with temaki being the major disappointment, fake wasabi, an emphasis on aburi and respectable gyoza.-A: At first, Toshi comes across as plain and unadorned, which is peculiar given how much they have done to decorate the restaurant. The spherical lantern-like lights, separators, Japanese dolls, Japanese game cards and drapery adorn the restaurants interior. The dolls alone are worth a tour on their own. Did anyone see the Japanese dolls the Japanese Consulate and Foundation had sponsored around Mississauga in 2008? Toshis easily beats the old attempt at hanging commercial beer posters in lieu of Japanese decoration. The washroom is old, but clean. There was even an attempt at decoration there. The restaurant is divided into two with a separate entrance and menu for take-out orders.Toshi does not feature a sushi bar. The kitchen is staffed by at least four people. Aside from the restaurants owner there are two female and a male chef busy at work. As an aside, the ones facing me when I walked by looked Japanese.Toshi is fairly popular. Perhaps because there is not a sushi bar solo customers or couples were not represented. They were busy for lunch, but customers looked like local work teams including Chinese groups.-T: Parking in front of the restaurant is plentiful. There is an even bigger lot behind the restaurant, but no one would ever need to go that far.Service could be slow however. Two waitresses serve the restaurant and they could fall behind. I believe counters absorb some of the pressure off waitstaff at sushi bars, but since all patrons at Toshi are table diners the ladies seem to fall behind handling the restaurant. The lag is not overwhelming however.-S: The service is fine notwithstanding the case of the mistaken sushi identity or the slight slowness. The waitress did notice the rocking table and promptly fixed it. She likely knew of the uneven legs beforehand. She came back with a folded paper, which she placed under one of the legs.This restaurant has been in place for nine years before which the chef maintained a regular Japanese eatery teriyaki in a food court type environment. Brampton is an unlikely city for a respectable or authentic Japanese restaurant. However, one cannot be too surprised. After all, Zen and Aoyama are in the wastelands of Scarborough the former’s location being a bigger offender given some of the human trash in and around that plaza. Clearly high-end sushi does not require a high-end location as far as chef/owners are concerned. In fact, judging by where Japanese open up shops (witness Kaji or Mikado, hardly in the best areas) here the leaning is to the opposite! There are so few exciting Japanese restaurants in GTA (Greater Toronto Area) with its six million population that it is almost comical that two of the genuine ones are named Toshi. This GTA is not the other GTA (Greater Tokyo Area) and we are at least privileged to have the ones we do have whatever the monickers.
One of the best in GTA West for Japanese. I’ve ordered large sushi platters a dozen times since discovering this place about 10 months ago. For GTA West, this place gives great value while still delivering tasty and quality sushi that is above par in the GTA West and GTA North. Most places give you mediocre shari (sushi rice) that is either underseasoned, sloppy, or mushy in the sushi or maki rolls. Not Toshi! It’s well suited in size where it doesn’t overwhelm the sushi, it’s nicely seasoned so it has a flavour profile (just the right amount of sweet and tart from the rice vinegar), and it’s well cooked so it has a mild chew. In the sushi platter and take out platters, you get a larger variety versus other restaurants. You have items such as sweet scallops, true ebi (sweet raw shrimp) in addition to the cooked shrimp, large succulent pieces of eels that have the perfectly roasted crisp skin (and not drowning in brown cloying sauce), and a variety of fresh (not frozen) fish. The sashimi pieces are always generous and worth every penny.I really love the care and details taken into the presentation as well. Everything is always well laid out with nice little decorative flourishes. As for the restaurant, it’s a nice open and clean zen like atmosphere that isn’t too homey like other Japanese restaurants. It’s a bit more modern than most. Service is quiet and unassuming but still very attentive. I never have to ask for a refill on the green tea. I think this is possibly one of the best Japanese restaurants in the Brampton/Mississauga/Oakville area. I highly recommend you to try it out!