Update 2021-Aug-28: I Love Sushi appears closed. It is listed as Permanently Closed in Google Maps, Closed in Yelp and its phone # is out of service. It is unknown whether this is due to the pandemic or not. This seems like enough evidence that it is no longer around.I Love Sushi is located at 4944 Dundas Street West in Etobicoke, at Burnhamthorpe west of Islington Ave. Mishy and I went for weekend lunch. We both loved the wooden interior, with wooden ship models, private partition booths and muted lighting. Disposable chopsticks are unfortunately used. Soy sauce was salty and no low sodium seems to be available. A little radio device on each table is used to call for service. Pop is $1.50 per can and not AYCD. Ginger was tasty and not dyed pink.
Miso soup was very bright, with an odd flavor that Mishy described as "Javex" but strangely she adored it and no other miso so far has measured up. I thought it was merely good. Green salad had good dressing and was fresh. Mishy liked the wakame salad. Gyoza was good, including the sauce. Spring rolls were good with nice lemony sauce. The General Tao chicken didn't taste like it at all, completely missing tang. I thought it was good, but just not as expected and not General Tao, however Mishy said it had no flavor at all.
Grilled pineapple was delicious. Chicken teriyaki was excellent; Mishy loved the sauce and thought it was the best we had had in a long time. Curry chicken sauce was also delicious. Crispy salmon roll was good and fresh. Philadelphia roll I found odd for some reason but Mishy liked it. Spiced salmon sushi was both very good and very spicy, and I enjoyed it. Salmon nigiri was good and fresh. Torched butterfish nigiri was delicious; the torching adds a nice flavor. We'll have to try this at Kaka Sushi where it is a specialty. Beef green onion roll was delicious. Cheese wontons were good in the lemony sauce same as the spring rolls, but Mishy found them boring and lacking in cheese flavor. Beef udon soup was alright but needed a little more spicing and savour. Shrimp tempura was okay and had a nice interesting flavor in the dipping sauce, but was a little soggy although not with oil.
For dessert, green tea, chocolate, mango and ginger (my favourite) ice creams were all fresh and good. Fried banana was excellent. In retrospect I had thought lunch there was worse than my notes at the time described; I may have just been underwhelmed by some of the offerings. Price was $18.95 which I do think is a dollar or two over where it should have been for the offerings compared with other establishments, but Mishy insisted to not give less than 7.5 so must have been impressed; I shall acquiesce.
Rating: 7.5/10
Miso soup was very bright, with an odd flavor that Mishy described as "Javex" but strangely she adored it and no other miso so far has measured up. I thought it was merely good. Green salad had good dressing and was fresh. Mishy liked the wakame salad. Gyoza was good, including the sauce. Spring rolls were good with nice lemony sauce. The General Tao chicken didn't taste like it at all, completely missing tang. I thought it was good, but just not as expected and not General Tao, however Mishy said it had no flavor at all.
Grilled pineapple was delicious. Chicken teriyaki was excellent; Mishy loved the sauce and thought it was the best we had had in a long time. Curry chicken sauce was also delicious. Crispy salmon roll was good and fresh. Philadelphia roll I found odd for some reason but Mishy liked it. Spiced salmon sushi was both very good and very spicy, and I enjoyed it. Salmon nigiri was good and fresh. Torched butterfish nigiri was delicious; the torching adds a nice flavor. We'll have to try this at Kaka Sushi where it is a specialty. Beef green onion roll was delicious. Cheese wontons were good in the lemony sauce same as the spring rolls, but Mishy found them boring and lacking in cheese flavor. Beef udon soup was alright but needed a little more spicing and savour. Shrimp tempura was okay and had a nice interesting flavor in the dipping sauce, but was a little soggy although not with oil.
For dessert, green tea, chocolate, mango and ginger (my favourite) ice creams were all fresh and good. Fried banana was excellent. In retrospect I had thought lunch there was worse than my notes at the time described; I may have just been underwhelmed by some of the offerings. Price was $18.95 which I do think is a dollar or two over where it should have been for the offerings compared with other establishments, but Mishy insisted to not give less than 7.5 so must have been impressed; I shall acquiesce.
Rating: 7.5/10
