Yo Sushi is located at 103 King St. W., in Kitchener, which is approx. 100km SW of Toronto. It's a 10 min. walk from the Kitchener GO station so can be considered transit-accessible. We went for weekend lunch. $2.50 canned AYCD pop. Yo has a brighter-coloured, modern interior. There were few other customers unfortunately. Reusable chopsticks are used thankfully. Soy at table was salty but flavourful and not stale. Ordering is old school, writing item numbers onto paper templates from the menu.
Miso soup was fantastic and we both loved it... Mishy indicated it was the best she’d had in a while. Wonton soup was very good with a well-seasoned subtle broth that was delicious. House salad was excellent and fresh with a very good house dressing. Mishy loved the spring rolls saying they were fresh and crispy, and I also enjoyed them. Beef and chicken teriyaki Mishy described as amazing, and I agree it was certainly delicious. Beef skewers were moist and delicious, not dried out like in many other places, and we both loved them. Chicken skewers were equally good. Cheese wontons were delicious fresh, not oily, and with enough cheese so were excellent. Beef udon not in soup was excellent, smokey, savoury and delicious with well-balanced seasoning. Pork cutlet AKA tonkatsu was very good fresh, with a tangy and delicious sauce, and even Mishy liked it and she's usually not a fan.
Philadelphia roll was excellent and fresh, with just enough cream cheese and salmon. Salmon, red snapper, spicy salmon and white tuna nigiri were all excellent and very fresh. As usual now, we bring our own real wasabi (or wasabi-based) which makes it all taste the better.
For dessert, mango ice cream was fresh and very good without freezer burn. Strawberry ice cream was delicious and unique in that it had strawberry syrup layers rather than it being a uniform pink. Chocolate cake square was fresh and good, and I think it was the same brand that makes all the little cake squares found in Toronto area AYCEs.
Everything at Yo Sushi was very good to excellent, yet its Google rating is a pathetic 3.6/5 with comments indicating the food and service is terrible, there are pests, etc. I suspect that the ratings are being bombed by a competitor or equivalent, which is sort of the reason I established this blog in the first place: to provide an independent review that was unbiased and unswayable. Or, perhaps they are valid criticisms at one time but things have improved. Whatever the case, weekend lunch was $26.99 and this is a below-average cost as well. There wasn’t one thing wrong with our meal and at a reasonable price too.
Rating: 10 / 10
