Top Sushi

Came for dinner recently and the quality has gone up a tad bit. A very small bit, it was around $ 11 after tax/​tip for a dinner bento box with 6 pieces of sushi (salmon and cucumber), chicken terriyaki, a miso soup and salad, orange slices, rice, tempura vegetables and gyoza. A really good deal for the price, but their food was definitely on the salty side, and still very slow service. We went from 4 to 5pm, so there was at most 1 – 2 other tables there, and yet their service was still so slow, so if you’re in a hurry, you might not want to come here!
Fun fact, there’s a discount if you pay in cash!

I went to high school next door here and would have the lunch special once a week. it’s the most worthwhile thing on the menu — a seriously large portion of food for $ 6.99 and even more if you upgrade to the 8.99 ones (iirc). The teriyaki chicken was my favorite.

I would only come here for convenience and the price.
Before going in, I didn’t expect much based on the lunch prices and appearance.
My friend ordered the chicken teriyaki special and I ordered the dynamite roll.
Both were $ 6.99 i believe.
However, they gave her the beef teriyaki instead. Since the beef was kind of covered by the lettuce and beansprouts and she was eating the «appetizers» in the bento box beforehand, she assumed it was chicken. Also, we weren’t sure whether it was just extremely marinated chicken or something.
When we told the waiter that it was the wrong dish, the manager (I think) came over and instead gave us a lecture on how we had to let him know right away because then he can’t give it to another customer. Is he really going to give a cold bento box and soggy tempura to another customer? Gross. Luckily, my friend didn’t want to cause a large scene and just said it’s fine and she’ll eat it. Fortunately, they manager repeatedly apologized every time he came to our table. I guess it was the lunch rush.
My maki rolls were okay.
Don’t have high expectations when you come here and come only if you’re really really craving sushi in the area.

«top sushi». More like «top poopi» because realistically the food here gets to me every time.
pros: Being a Uoft student, this place is really convenient in terms of getting a quick, cheap lunch. Only come here for lunch. The lunch menu is what makes this place. For 6.99 you get a choice of at least like 9 entrées. In particular, the teriyaki chicken and pork katsu are good choices.
cons: The service is pretty shoddy if you get any at all. Also, despite the name, the sushi is exactly what you come here not to get.

Doesn’t matter of the prices or qualities. The mere fact j got sick from eating it should prevent me going there any more. Anyone else?

Service is always extremely slow, and the food is mediocre at best. It’s fantastically overpriced outside of their lunch hours and even then, it’s doubtful.

Been here twice, tried tge chiraso the first time and it was okay. very small cuts and of poor quality, prices are only a buck less than a regular restaurant. Radio is too loud for the size of the place. Second visit, same issue cant hear anything over the top 40 station blasting (ke$ha isn’t really early afternoon brunch music) the Worst was the red dragon roll-​soo skimpy and too much rice, the salmon is actually cut into small squares the size of a thimble lol. Thats not good, I understand cost controls on foods but this is just driving away customers: s

It’s a cheap, dingy, dirty chinese people run sushi restaurant. It’s the cheapest sushi place on campus, so I used to go there often until I realized I was wasting my time and money. They got my order wrong too. I wouldn’t recommend this place, save your time and a bad experience.

Always fresh. Soup, salad, and tea are complimentary. 10%off if you’re paying cash. As a UofT student, i come often and i’m always pleased with the service and food.

Cheap and awful just like all the other joints on this street. Not much to say about it.

stopped here after a sudden urge for sushi.
we were a group of 3 on a sunday night. the place was basically empty.
it’s hard to expect a superior quality food from a student location restaurant. but the prices very pretty cheap (+ additional 10% discount if paid by cash)
what delighted me — they have a very decent selection of vegetarian dishes. I think they had 8 or more variants of veg makis and rolls. also not only veg bento boxes but also veg rolls sets with veg sushis and all these come in combos for under $ 10! so I say this place wins in my books for veg selection.
portions are also huge
the service was nothing to write home about but not rude or impolite.
the experience was a bit shattered after one of us went to a washroom and quickly returned with a disgusted face. one of the stalls was so dirty (someone obviously felt very sick there…) that it was impossible to get in.
we were worried that we will get sick… but seems like food was clean.

The only reason Top Sushi really prospers is for the same reason many of the eating places around College and St. George prosper: students on a schedule and on a budget.
I admit I fully contribute to this and have been here several times. Just like other restaurants in the area, this isn’t the kind of place you go to for a nice dinner with friends. Their food is standard mediocre Toronto sushi restaurant quality — they’ve got your basic sushi and most of it is … all right. Their soup udon dishes are comparable to what I make at home, except the udon noodles aren’t chewy enough.
Service is similarly bland. I don’t have high expectations of these kinds of sushi restaurants in the first place, but it always irks me when paying by debit or credit card REQUIRES you to go up to the front and pay. Especially around the lunch hour when there are a lot of students ordering take-​out, it crowds the cash register area.
Good for an hour’s lunch break for a busy student, not for much else.

Went for lunch today and had the all you can eat special. Not only was the food subpar, but they didn’t even bring all of it.
Never stepping foot here again!

I really really wish Top Sushi was just a better sushi place. There are so many gems in the city (or at least in the «decent» category) that I don’t know why I continue to suffer with this place (mainly, because «location, location, location»).
This is definitely the closest sushi place to the library area /​my work at UofT — meaning it is PACKED with students on the lunch hour. They have $ 6.99 lunch specials — I always have trouble choosing, not because everything looks good, but because… nothing really does.
Their lunch specials all have a cucumber roll or a ton of California rolls in them, which really just aren’t that appealing. They have no sashimi specials, and only one with sushi — it has only 7 pieces, and you don’t even get a California roll to fill you! I have recently learned that you can make some substitutions for $ 2.50, which improves the selection slightly.
The service here is only okay — I find myself asking for water a few times, and when it’s especially busy I’ve had experiences where some of the group has to wait 20 minutes for their food.
Really, I feel pretty confident that I’m done coming here — it may be the most convenient, but with Chinatown just down the street — I might as well pay and have better sushi delivered (or earn myself a longer lunch break!)

This review is for a Delivery Order.
I was drawn to try this Sushi place because it offered quite a variety and let’s face it, why not try something new. The online order (via Just-​Eat) was very user friendly and I loved that I was able to use Interac to pay for it (although I think this is more Just eat and less about the restaurant.)
The food arrived 1 hour 10 minutes after I ordered and I don’t think the price was all that steep considering what I ordered. I got Spicy Tuna Roll, Shrimp Tempura, Spicy Sushi Combo and Stir fried veggies (not all for me!). The total with delivery was around $ 30. I think it’s a comparable rate to other Sushi joints in this city.
As for the food, it was fine. I found the Stir Fried veggies to be salty. The Spicy Tuna roll was good but not all that spicy. The side salad came with three SMALL leaves which seems like such a waste of Styrofoam! I wish they would have proved the other reviews wrong but they were just okay. I would only order it again if I didn’t have any other option, but I would eat it again (that’s saying something right?)

More like BOTTOM Sushi.
The only good thing about this place is their tempura, but that isn’t enough to make me come back.
1. The water tasted dusty.
2. The salad is gross. What is that, mayonnaise?
3. The sushi rice was hard and dry.
4. The chicken teriyaki was too sweet, in a sickening way.
5. Their fried tofu dish had huge fish flakes on it, which I have never seen in any agedashi tofu dish. Very unappetizing.
I can’t give it a zero, since 1 is the lowest I am able to do.
Do not recommend.

Top sushi is a weird kind of place. It seems to be somewhat confused as to where it falls in the classy scale.
It’s not dirt-​cheap, but it’s not really all that nice either.
They’re not all that busy either, but they seem to have some strict rules about seating. If you go at a non-​busy time as a couple, they will seat you at a tiny table with two seats (which, let’s face it, are really for individual diners), even if the rest of the larger tables go unoccupied. I don’t understand why they would trade customer satisfaction for the remote chance that you’ll be swamped. In fact, they had one of the staff sitting in a booth for 6 people alone with a laptop. I know, I know. Two diners, table for two, what’s the big deal? Well, why not a table for 4? Especially since their meals usually come with a salad, a soup, little plates, soy sauce dishes, etc, etc.
Their portions are pretty huge, and I haven’t gotten sick from eating here yet.
Verdict: good enough

The bad reviews for Top Sushi make me sad, since I think it delivers exactly what you would expect from a cheap sushi place. It probably deserves 3.5 stars, but I’m giving it 4 in solidarity.
I’m a big believer that we have to compare restaurants to others in their class and by that standard, Top Sushi is great. It’s made my lunchtime way better than it used to be when all I had on that strip was Subway. If you are familiar with the family of sushi restaurants on Bloor Street (New Generation, Sushi on Bloor, etc.), Top Sushi is almost an exact replica and does a great job of copying.
I work right around the corner from these guys and have eaten lunch there frequently. Sushi is consistently fresh. I especially like their spicy tuna rolls (with tempura bits and not-​very-​spicy mayo) and their yam tempura maki (crispy tampura batter paired with melty yam and avocado). Service is completely average, perhaps a bit better than average, and the food is cheap.
Today, I ordered a sushi platter for 7 people that I was hosting at work and they allowed me to make substitutions without additional cost and had it ready for us in 30 minutes. Plus, there was lots of variety on the platter and the food was delicious. What could I possibly complain about?
Yes, there is an elegant, higher-​end sushi restaurant on Baldwin nearby, but that’s a whole two blocks away! Who can be bothered to go that far? And they take a long time. And they don’t have yam rolls.

Went to Top Sushi with a friend on a Friday (early evening, around 6:00PM). Not that many people there, but we were accommodated fairly quickly.
The menu is fairly diverse and can be found on their website easily (
). We ordered the following:
— Pizza Salmon Sushi
— Matsu Combo 1 (1 pcs Each Of Tuna, Salmon, Hokkigai, Tai, Kani; 8 pcs Of California & Salmon Skin Handroll)
— Sashimi Combo A (3 pcs Each Of Tuna, Salmon, Tai, Hokkigai)
The atmosphere is a bit cramped, but what can you do? It’s situated in a small house that used to be a photocopying centre, so it’s not that bad.
I had asked my friends about whether Top Sushi was any good, but got mixed reviews about it. I would say that it’s good for its price. The salmon sashimi was actually very good — a bit fatty, but it «falls apart in your mouth» (as food critics say). I found the miso soup a bit too salty for my taste and the tea that they had seemed a bit sketchy (was really yellow in the cups), but overall, the food is good for the price.
In terms of service, the thing that annoyed me was that one of the waitresses came by several times to ask us if we were ready to order. We spent a good amount of time flipping through the menu because there were so many options, so having the waitress stop by every 4 minutes did bother me, but she was just doing her job.
Apart from that, the 10% discount if you pay in cash is very appealing. Especially since I’m a university student who’s looking to save some money on food every now and then.

This 2 star review is me not being too harsh with Top Sushi, I understand it caters to university students who just want very cheap sushi, and it does that sort of well? Yes it’s cheaper than some of the other sushi places close by (and by that I mean the one’s on Baldwin Village) but it’s still not dirt cheap, their lunch specials are $ 6.99 and while they do have close to 20 or so options to choose from, none really seemed that great and 4 out of the 6 in our group chose to order from their regular menu instead.
Things it has going well for it:
Great Location
The staff are friendlier than average
They have an upstairs section which is a lot roomier than the first floor.
10% off if you pay cash which is a big plus.
Some negatives
Service was fluctuated from very quick to very slow for our dishes
Not great food, my friend suggested the chicken teriyaki and I was not overly impressed my the sauce heavy dish that came my way.
The rice % I didn’t find to be too high, but it was just your normal cheap sushi.
I would not visit Top Sushi again if I can help it as for $ 1 — $ 3 more I can get superior food just a short walk away in one of the many Baldwin sushi locations close by. But with some friends that work on campus and have only short lunch hours I’m afraid I’ve not seen the last of it.