Kyoto House Japanese Restaurant

Came here with a friend after we were running late and we had just missed the lunch special at Spring Sushi down the street. Once we arrived we were quickly seated right by the door and given our lunch «check off sheets» there wasn’t much variety which was disappointing however we decided we would make the most of it. We ordered a few items waved down our server and waited for our first wave of items to arrive. The place was very busy and I can assume it’s because their lunch special runs until 5PM which is later than usual for most AYCE places. The server dropped off our tempura vegetables and a few sushi rolls. the tempura yam was RAW. I could not even get through eating one of them. Our sushi was nothing special and we actually waved down our server because what we got didn’t look like what we had ordered, the server took back the item and 2 minutes later a very angry asian woman came back with our order form and said to us rudely «IS THIS NOT YOUR WRITING?» after that. everything went down hill. We were ignored the entire time, it took us 25 minutes to get our bill and that was after not receiving 50% of the things we had asked for.
The service at this place is the worst I have ever in my life experienced. All the servers are running around frantically dropping items at peoples tables only for them to be told they didn’t order that and then them having to bring it to another table. Not many of the servers speak english and not that, that is a big issue it’s just hard to communicate when you need your bill. I was ready to walk out of that place as soon as I had walked in. We did not feel welcome at all and we will never ever reutrn.

A stark contrast to the sushi restaurant just a few doors down.
We came here as a group for AYCE sushi dinner: $ 25/​per person including tax and tip.
The quality is definitely not great, and they are definitely not legitimately Japanese (all of their staff speak Cantonese as far as I heard), but my friends wanted all you can eat— which Japango does not offer.
This place is always packed. The sushi that they serve just tasted cheap. Nothing really stood out, the quality is not top notch but it’s not absolutely terrible. All the rolls fall apart and the cooked food arrived warm instead of hot. Instead of serving their udon in bowls, they serve them in dishes so you barely get any noodles. The chicken teriyaki is overcooked and dry, and every time we ordered beef ribs, they’d give us at least two pieces of just bone. However, I did like that they actually had Ika as an option on their sushi list, and they always gave us everything we ordered.
I don’t think I’d come back here for AYCE, but I’ve had their bento boxes and they are not bad. I would come back if I was desperate for sushi and the good places were closed. It was definitely a ‘meh’ experience.
BONUS: Their washrooms are really gross.

Here at Kyoto House, food is great, and service is on point every time! I’ve been here twice — once with a group of 10+ people, and then with a group of 6. We were seated in one of the little rooms the first time, and while it’s harder to get the server’s attention while you’re in there (there is no little call button), they checked on us fairly frequently, and made sure we were doing okay. Our food kept arriving fast, and the quality was great both times — generous cuts for the sashimi, and not too much rice on the rolls. Also, they had no problem accommodating the couple of people who went a la carte, while the rest of us ordered from the all you can eat menu. Totally recommend!

Came here before my sister’s greyhound bus home as it’s super close to the station and conveniently fast. Plus whenever I’ve walked past this place, it’s always packed so I assumed it wouldn’t be too shabby. The AYCE sushi lunch is cheap at $ 12.99 but after looking at the AYCE menu and the little selection, I opted for the salmon teriyaki bento box for $ 9.99. The AYCE menu didn’t have my favourite appetizers such as salmon teriyaki, shrimp tempura, beef short ribs, beef skewers, cheese wonton, etc which is why I didn’t get it. The selection was quite minimal in my opinion but I guess that’s what you get for that price!
The sushi teriyaki was delicious but slightly overcooked. The miso soup was yummy! Salad and california roll with the dish was good as well and the portions were generous. The reason I’m giving this place ³⁄₅ stars is because I wouldn’t come here again due to the small AYCE lunch selection.

Every time we passed by, I noticed that it was always packed. Now I know why. Everything we ordered was super fresh and delicious. They had a huge selection for their all you can eat dinner. The workers were very friendly and helpful although I was expecting Japanese workers. I would definitely return when if I’m in the area.

Soba noodles w/​chicken was just ok. Place was full of locals, so I was hopeful. Staff was friendly despite others reviews. I just think food was lacking. I wished I’d Unilocaled before I leaped.

Se você está com vontade de um rodízio japonês mas está sem dinheiro. Aqui é seu lugar.
Mas não crie muitas expectativas, a comida é boa, normal, nada demais. Mas vale a pena porque é bem barato. «All you can eat» (como eles chamam o rodízio em inglês) é por volta de 13 dólares (nov/​2015).
Se você for no almoço, chegue cedo (por volta do meio dia), pois o restaurante fica lotado e com filas de espera.
Quanto ao serviço, relaxe e respire fundo. Porque são bem desatentos e grossos com quem não é oriental.

The ayce lunch menu barely has any items. They dont even have vegetable or shrimp or crab tempura. Strongly not recommended.

Dinner ayce on a weekday is about $ 25/​person including tip.
AYCE dinner normally on weekdays gets pretty busy not gonna lie. The waiting time is usually 10 minutes or less I wanna say? With that said, get ready for loud ambiance, as the tables are fairly close and I find Uni students normally come here after school to socialize with colleagues.
I would give it a 5, however we didn’t receive one dish from our sheet — not a big deal, but a head’s up if it wasn’t available or still coming would’ve been ideal. Oh and another thing, when asked if we could get water and tea, for some reason she only brought one of each when it was pretty obvious there were 2 of us… so I mean it would’ve made sense to bring 2 waters and 2 tea’s… But again, minor issue.
Anyway, the other downside was they didn’t have butter fish sashimi =(but oh well, the food was alright — nothing TOO fancy or AMAZING to the point where they were epic-​picture worthy, but overall great atmosphere for my friend and I and it satisfied our bellies. One of the rolls had a bit too much rice so not very carb-​friendly if you’re on a diet.
Service was attentive, as they came around to collect dishes and asked at least once if we were okay or needed anything. Ice cream scoops were pretty huge though just fyi, so take that in, in case you were planning to order a lot. Would come again.

The staff are rude and it is not on the cheap side. Their bentos are only available for dinner and they don’t even have a vegetarian bento. When I ordered all you can eat for lunch, I got sushi that was obviously not fresh, and my order for vegetable udon came back with chicken in it.
Basically, only go here if you’re starving and everywhere else is closed.

I usually rarely review but this place needs to be shut down. When I got there after ordering sushi and the house wine I decided to hit the restroom. The bathroom was disgusting, with water everywhere and a strong smell of urine. Walking back to my seat I noticed several food violations. The sushi chief was cutting chicken on the higher counter and blood was dripping down the high counter to a lower counter with an open bottle of mayonnaise. Another chief was scratching his head under his hat and the preparing the salmon.
I explained this to the waitress but rather than any kind of assurment I was told «okay» as she walked away and continued serving other guests. I payed the bill and left… never to come back.

Their salmon sashimis are thick and yummy. Their rolls are huge and very filling. Fried calamari tempura is fresh.
A few tables of Japanese which show it is quite an authentic restaurant.

Right off the bat, I need you to know that this place does NOT offer good quality sushi or service. That being said, this is still my go-​to ayce in downtown because it is highly student-​budget friendly. Lunch is only $ 11.99 and goes until 5pm. so what can I say, it’s basically dinner.
Of course for the working class men and women then, I would probably advise ordering a bento box elsewhere.
Also note that this place is definitely not «a hidden gem» or anything close to unknown. This place is practically the go-​to for all university students in the area so you should expect that the service will be compromised. With large parties of students comes large orders of sushi and that often results in a much higher demand than supply during peak hours. I’ve found that every time I go, they ALWAYS leave out at least one order. It’s not that they don’t feed you, it’s just that they don’t give you exactly what you requested for.
All in all, the food is edible (no stomach aches yet!), decent tasting, and is a plausible place to consider when you want cheap and all you can eat sushi. Would I bring my fellow university friends here? Sure. Would I bring my relatives who are visiting Toronto? Probably not.

had a 12 hour work day and was looking for something close to the hotel for takeout.
kyoto was a block away and considering it was nearly 11pm, was quite busy. i looked at the food on the table and it looked okay.
i ordered a sashimi collection for $ 12 that was okay. just okay.
and a crazy roll.
both were okay. a little tasteless. the wasabi and ginger (which there was a decent portion of) and soy sauce helped a bit. perhaps i was way too tired to eat but i found it very bland. maybe i ordered the wrong things but i actually asked what the most popular rolls were and she said crazy roll was one of them.
also, sushi rice is usually a little sweet. this wasn’t.
given the choices in the area i would rather try a different place next time.

I came here for lunch with a large group (I did not pick the venue!). I was wary after reading the bad Unilocal reviews. A lot of reviews are old, so I was hoping this place has improved or stepped up their game. Sadly, the food was mediocre at best. I am generally not an AYCE fan because it is always about quantity over quality and it shows. It’s not their fault even. For prices that low (lunch is $ 15 including tax), it would be impossible to source good ingredients. But this place was «meh», even compared to other AYCE places. The standard roles were okay, but the other stuff (e.g. gyoza, yakiudon, chicken terriyaki) looked very sad.
Furthermore, the service was disorganized and one server spilled a cup of hot tea on my friend! We were scared to ask for more tea after that! Finally, there was a stack of those little dishes where you put the soy sauce. Half of them were not clean, they had weird bits of food or who knows what crusted onto them and we had to ask for new ones. Really?
Yes, this place is fast and cheap, but it’s really not worth it. You can do so much better for sushi in Toronto.

‘All You Can Eat’ is both the best and worst four words when describing a restaurant. The worst is of course how you feel after your meal of 5 pounds of food and knowing you still have to get home in this state. The best is that you feel this way because you just ate FIVE POUNDS of food! This is not the way of life at Kyoto Japanese House, however.
Now, I won’t say I’ve never left with a stomach ache and have been hungry. This would be a lie. But the ongoing problem I’ve had in three visits here is that after your initial order of food, the service slows down quite noticeably. We’re talking gaps of time where you wonder if the staff up and vanished on you and you’re left sitting there playing air drums with your chop sticks. When the server does return they don’t seem too happy you’re ordering more and after the second round they just don’t show up at all. Since there’s a loose time limit of two hours they can ask you to leave after that, which is generally at the point you were thinking of leaving anyhow because you’re sick of waiting for a waiter to show up. Considering it’s $ 18.95 for dinner and by the end of it you’ve gotten around a large plate of food that would cost about ½ of that almost anywhere else, it’s a bit of a snub to say the least.
Not bad food, just bad service

Kyoto House is a typical AYCE Japanese restaurant where you can find dishes from Miso Soup to Sashimi to Maki Rolls. The price is very cheap and reasonable compared to the market price of various AYCE spots in the Toronto region.
The quality of the food was very decent as the sashimi was very fresh and sliced with precision. The sushi rolls were very tasty as each piece packed a lot of flavour in each bite, especially with the avocado providing a nice suttle smooth taste.
The quality of the restaurant interior can be varying, the design is very outdated and can use a makeover. Also, some places of the restaurant were a little dirty which was quite bothering.
The service was fairly good as the wait staff was very attentive with our orders, and they came by a lot to check with our table to see how we were doing and continued refilling our cups with water.
I would have given a higher rating if this place can get their act together with the sanitary procedures for the benefit of the diners. Overall, it was a great meal for a good price for $ 19.99.

We had dinner here while we were waiting for a movie. It is closed to Dundas cinemaplex and God for having a meal before movie. The food is tasty considering that being AYCE.
But servers need to be more friendly. However the service is very efficient.

I think I gave a good tip when I checked in on Unilocal and was eating lunch here (the 11.99 sushi special).
I’m going to have to take that back since after my lunch here I had to worst stomach ache and threw up my food. While I was eating lunch I thought the rice tasted too sour from the vinegar. The sauce on one of the sushi tasted a little off but I wasn’t expecting «awesome» for $ 11.99 all you can eat sushi… but I wasn’t expecting to throw up either.
11.99 is too high a price to pay for an evening of discomfort, skip this place if you have plans for a night out in town because you will be swapping it for a ‘soirée a la toilette’.

This sushi place is not bad, it’s okay. AYCE dinner is cheap! $ 19.99 per person, although the variety of the menu is a decent amount. Customer service is great! Very quick and active.
Things I didn’t like about this place are:
–They sometimes forget your order
–Some of the dishes are not that fresh and it tasted really mediocre
Overall, cheap AYCE dinner and great service but food is okay.

For $ 11.99 AYCE lunch on a weekend, you really can’t complain. I was hesitant trying out this restaurant because I saw some pretty unappetizing pictures on Unilocal.However, everybody has a different experience, right? Luckily for me, I didn’t see anything I shouldn’t see at this restaurant.
My boyfriend ordered the chicken teriyaki and it was a bit on the dry and tough side. We also had spicy salmon roll (I almost couldn’t handle the spiciness level), crunchy spicy salmon roll, avocado and eel roll (it was drizzled in a delicious sweet sauce) and salmon sushi. The salmon sashimi looked fresh in my opinion and we didn’t get sick after eating it. We also got Philadelphia roll which was a miss at this restaurant. I couldn’t resist getting a yam tempura, some gyoza and I got one avocado tempura to try since you don’t see it at many restaurants. I have to say that their fried dishes were done very well. They only had two types of ice cream for dessert so we both got green tea ice cream and it was very good.
If you’re looking for quality sushi, then this is not the place for you. However, if you just want to satisfy your sushi craving for cheap, then this is the stop for you.