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Went to an AYCE buffet in Ottawa: great service, great selection, but some sashimi (surf clam) were literally frozen when served. Is it normal? Also, thank you for y’all strategy advice; did 3 very satisfying rounds!
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Wow, did it taste like $40?
Expensive
Looks great but that’s expensive.
Where in Ottawa is this?
I get that plus soup and salad and a drink for 18 at lunch near me
I love living in Alaska, but I do miss cheap&good sushi. This would be about $50 for me.
Don’t want to be mean but looks unremarkable. It looks like what I’d get at my nondescript suburban strip mall outside of Philadelphia for about $30. Vancouver has great sushi 🍣 all over but in Toronto you have to go very high end for the good stuff.
Glad I live in Vancouver
Spot on. Although we throw on a Cali roll too.
$40 and no wasabi?
That tuna looks frozen . The color doesn’t look like fresh tuna. Over priced but if there’s no sushi places around sounds about right.
Kinda of pricey over all 7 out of 10
Where in Ottawa?
What is the top brown one with the sauce on it?
Looks good to me. To hell with the price.
Sushi queen in Buffalo is so good my dude.
Next time just go for sashimi. $40 is about right.
So this is 29 USD. Not worth it to me. For that price I can go to an AYCE place near me that from looks alone has similar quality sushi plus the tons of other stuff they serve.
It’s looks kinda dry
Sounds a tad pricey but looks totally delicious.
That tuna looks like garbage
Where in Ottawa?
It needs to be reminded but the price of everything has gone up so it’s really hard to gauge worth.
Former sushi chef here. That tuna looks like frozen saku block.
More sauce/broil for the unagi, also I live in portland and feel this is a good for the price.
Not bad but the whitish topping isn’t escolar, is it?
Ottawa native.
The only way I can see this as $40 and you weren’t ripped off is you went to an AYCE. Ottawa doesn’t have the greatest Asian food scene relative to many other Canadian cities, but there isn’t a very strong Japanese scene in that city. The Chinese scene pales compared to Toronto or Vancouver but it is stronger than many American cities.
In Canada, for sushi, for $20, you cannot beat the value you get in Vancouver. But in theory, if a prized Bluefin, caught off the coast of Massachusetts, flown to Japan to be sold in Toyosu to a New York restaurant. That transaction can be completed in 48 hours. In that sense, a lot of cities can get very good high-end sushi.
You paid $2.50 per bite definitely over priced
$40?? That’s what I spend on AYCE…
Looks a bit overpriced at $40 CAD but I’m not super familiar with food pricing out on Ottawa
In Texas that might be slightly on the pricey side, but not terribly. Usually a combination like that one near me (northern suburbs or Dallas) will run about $13 to $20 USD depending on the location (strip mall or urban arts district?) and quality. You might see a higher price in a place with a known chef’s name attached.
But we’re also closer to the Gulf Coast, so that probably brings prices down on at least some of the seafood.
By the looks of the fish you where over charged
They over charged you by $2
Tuna, shiromi and the salmon looks frozen 😮 ebi and unagi frozen, and that looks like white tuna which I wouldn’t eat lol
Where’s the other salmon nigiri? Odd numbers!
From Toronto, you got ripped.
Looks delicious, expensive but delicious 🤤
You should go to Sapporo Sushi by the Carling exit
That’s pretty hard to tell from a picture. The taste is most important here. If you’re at Jiro (I know you’re not), it would be a different story than a random all you can eat place.
for 40CAD in Spain you can go to a luxury all you can eat sushi buffet, but it looks good and tasty!
It looks good but wow, I get all you can eat sushi for $40
Steep
lol dude, go to Gourmet Sushi or C’est Japon while its still open. Much better deals in Ottawa, this basically looks AYCE quality but you don’t have to put yourself through that. Even Sushi Fresh would be better
Can you return it?
40$ is def a scam for that. In Richmond hill that shit is 25$
Before Covid I used to pay $25 for a sashimi plate like that but since then it’s repriced at $35, and the pieces are half-sized. :-/
Considering one piece of sashimi in SF or NY is easily $6, I think you made out like a bandit. As long as the quality was good!