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good sashimi. cuttlefish was buttery and not tough. tako had a nice texture. the escolar was good and not overly oily. The karage was very nice and de…
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Taki Japanese Restaurant
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Came here at Christmas last year due to a Groupon offer. It was absolutely fantastic! A filling and authentic Japanese meal (with Japanese speaking st…
Tania
Taki Japanese Restaurant
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Awesome!. We had a groupon/wagjag deal so we really got a great bargain. I'm not the world's biggest fan of miso soup but their's was really good. The…
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Taki Japanese Restaurant
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10 Reviews on “Taki Japanese Restaurant”
Favorite in the Falls. This is by far my favorite restaurant in the Falls. The food is fresh and delicious. The miso soup has taste, not watered down like some places and comes out hot. The dressing on the salad is superb. The dressing is addictive (not sure what they put in it), but I usually buy a bottle or 2 to take home. The tofu agadeshi is my favorite. Sushi has nice rice/seafood ratio. The service is superb. I have never had slow service here and the servers are always pleasant. Definitely give this restaurant a try you will not be disappointed.
Best sushi in Niagara Falls hands down. Nice clean decor, but slow service. The food is worth it though.
Good Japanese Restaurant. Food & service are great! This restaurant is very clean and the staff there all are so helpful and friendly.They serve nice hot miso soup in traditional black lacquer bowl and crisp salad in cold salad bowl. Great selections in the lunch menu made with fresh ingredients and very hot tea. Grill mackerel was perfectly done served with agedashi tofu. The sushi & Green Dragon are fresh and tasty. Udon is so delicious.Definitely a fine dining experience every time we went and highly recommended.(Their ginger salad dressing is fantastic and available for take out as i had done to share with my friends!)
I got the Roll box – lunch special. It was $12.50 for this box of roll with dried rice. You can have better tasting and cheaper price at some all you can eat places in GTA. For their sushi, I will not recommended this place.
Delicious sushi and beautiful clean atmosphere.
Relatively Good Japanese Restaurant, Which Compromises. E: For Japanese food in Niagara Falls the choices are Yukiguni, Suisha Gardens or Taki Japanese Restaurant. Yukiguni is tried and true, but what about Taki?The menu is extensive. Other than ramen and skewered kushi and yakitori the restaurant offers a plethora of cooked and raw Japanese options. There are also suspect options on the menu. Chinese dumpling shu-mai sits on the menu and under the Japanese Tapas heading no less. The maki (roll) list is replete with Westernized and inauthentic uramaki inside out rolls. The appetizers on the daily specials menu are also on the regular menu, but the days specials had them listed at a cheaper price. One assumes the quantities are identical. There was a woman next to Mr Tama the owner behind the sushi counter. That didnt bode well. So how was the food? The days special was sashimi don. Ostensibly, the difference between this meal and Chirashi is that the latters rice is vinegared and the formers fish is less scattered and comprised of larger pieces. Surprisingly, the waitress noted that the sashimi dons rice is flavoured and prepared with vinegar. The size and design of the fish was the difference then.The Sashimi Dons rice was quite good. It was topped with fake, or imitation, crab or kani, salmon, which is never a favourite in these vicinities, an off-colour tamago, maguro or tuna, hotate or scallop, wakame or sea weed and shredded Daikon No Tsuma or tsuma radish. It was good for what it contained.Separately, the Unaju (eel with rice) was very good. It was topped with adequate quantity of unagi, the rice was nicely scented and garnished and the unagi sauce surprised in a superlative way. It was both tasty and light.A Tempura dish was lightly coated and fluffy. The accompanying sauce was also light and flavoursome.I ordered a Negihama Temaki. It arrived as a maki. I did not complain. I had requested the nori to be replaced by a soya wrapper (mamenori) and for an extra fifty cents they were happy to comply. The mistaken order happens, but the roll was inside-out, which is inauthentic of course. The sushi rice or Shari was average to good, but not aromatic enough perhaps. The negi or green onion was too large and not chopped enough. The sesame outside the roll was sparse. The fish itself was fine, but not chopped enough for the taste I personally prefer. It goes without saying that all food was accompanied by wasabiko instead of the real thing. The meal had started with a complimentary westernized salad. It did taste of ginger, but the grated cheese and watery mayonnaise gave it an unwelcome Canadian bent. Right after, the included Miso Soup was warm, tasty and not of the instant variety.There was enough food to fill up most hungry eaters who every time orders too much at Japanese restaurants. -A: Taki has gone to some length to create a welcoming Japanese ambiance and feeling. The large interior offers tables, joined booths and seats at the bar. There is use of wood, colour and Japanese pieces at the door and inside.The building is forty years old and it is beginning to show. At first glance it is hip, clean and well-decorated; however, look closely and find cobwebs, holes in the wall and rust.The Washroom is moderately dirty and poor.Importantly, the restaurant is located on the second floor above a Japanese gift shop I believe and strategic tables offer a moderate view of the town and attractions. Taki itself sells Japanese snacks and candy at the door.-T: Parking is always a concern in Niagara Falls, but Taki has a private lot. There is plenty of parking nearby as well since the restaurant is off Clifton Hills and the tacky glitz central. Service is fast and responsive. The waitress politely approached me three times to order and retreated every time.The food, water and bill arrived promptly even if the large restaurant had become busy.-S: The service is fine. I believe there are three waitresses on the floor. Two chefs stand behind the counter. A hostess/waitress is Japanese as is another waitress. The third waitress is Taiwanese and could muster the name of the owner tomo-san. She was in fact the nicest staff member, although everyone was polite and happy to welcome and bid customers good-bye. Asking for oshibori or a customary hot towel sent the waitress to the back. Since they didnt have any she offered a sanitizer napkin instead.The forks in the cutlery basket on the table didn’t encourage hope in the restaurant at first, but Taki offered hashioki chopstick rests. Also encouraging to see was how the utensils were Japanese imported and traditional. As mentioned, the menu is extensive with an emphasis on equivalent English words. This, and many other things mentioned, point at a restaurant that has compromised and accommodated existing in a tourist town where visitors and locals might know and care less about authentic Japanese tastes or styles. A group of friends sat two tables over and scanned the menu when one man exclaimed hamburgers, great I have been wanting one. Presumably, he went ahead to order Hamburg or Homburg (I am not sure which) which is a ketchup-ridden home-cooking hamburger/meat loaf approximation the Japanese imported from the United Kingdom some decades ago.The restaurant also offers a tapas menu. One should find this word nonsensical in this context. Tapas is a Spanish word referring to small dishes one orders several of in order to taste a variety of items and tastes. Japanese have their own word for it, namely sakana or otsumami. In as much as tapas and otsumami are not English words the latter would be the precise choice in a Japanese eatery.Taki became a sushi restaurant approximately fifteen years ago. The current owner purchased it some five years ago from another Japanese owner.
My lunch was superb! Authentic Japanese! Don’t miss the agedashi tofu!