BIG MEAL Authentic Japanese Cuisine (*****I guess due to the food quality going downhill a lot afterwards. It's closed now!!!*****)
Location: 1883 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough (Kennedy & McNicoll)
Phone: (416) 258 3333
Hours: (lunch) 11:30AM - 3:00 PM, (dinner) 5:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Price$$: (lunch) $11.99, (dinner) $20.99 weekdays // $22.99 weekends & holidays
More info: http://www.bigmeal.ca/
A friend introduced this place to me. It is just 5 minutes (or less) away from Pacific Mall.
I went there tonight & this is definitely going to be my first choice for Japanese All-You-Can-Eat.
Here are some pictures of the food:
Sashimi: I ordered salmon, red tuna, white tuna, sweet shrimp, butter fish, saba (mackerel), tai (tilapia), beef
- The sweet shrimp is fresh!! love it.
- The texture of the beef sashimi is so good!
- Didn't really like the saba (mackerel) sashimi, it taste salty & weird.
Volcano roll (spicy red tuna on top with spicy scallop, flying fish roe, crispy). It's crispy & spicy! Really good!
Big Meal roll (salmon on top with bbq eel, flying fish roe, avocado, cucumber).
This roll is baked. It's also pretty good!
Sushi: I ordered Spicy Salmon, Flying Fish Roe, Eel sushi.
The Spicy Salmon sushi is soooo good! The seaweed around it is very CRISPY! This is probably the FIRST all-you-can-eat sushi place that doesn't have soggy "chewy" seaweed.
Dessert: Japanese cake (the texture is kinda like rubber haha, taste funny)
Dessert: Mango pudding (it's alright..)
Dessert: Black sesame ice cream & Red bean ice cream (
The black sesame taste is pretty strong!! it's yummyumm!!)
Dessert: Strawberry ice cream & Mango ice cream (I like the strawberry ice cream, it taste like real strawberry. M
ango is good too!)
They have a lot of choices for dessert: fresh fruit, mango pudding, mango yogurt, Japanese cake, deep-fried cutlet banana, ice cream (black sesame, red bean, green tea, vanilla, strawberry, mango)! And thumbs up for the ice cream! They are NOT frozen HARD like some other all-you-can-eat places.
Drinks: coffee, juice, pop (coke, sprite, ice tea, Canada dry ginger ale)
Here is a picture of the bar inside the restaurant:
Summary:
- The seaweed is CRISPY!! =D- They have a huge selection for sashimi: salmon, butter fish, white tuna, saba(mackerel), tai (tilapia), ika (squid), tamago (egg), kani (crab meat), beef, sweet shrimp, hokkigal, red tuna
- SIX different flavours of ice cream!!: black sesame, red bean, green tea, vanilla, strawberry, mango
- Categories: appetizers (spicy chicken, taro tempura, steamed egg, and more...) / soup / salad / sushi / sashimi / teppanyaki / roll / hand roll / sushi pizza / udon & noodle & rice / special roll / dessert & drink
- MUST TRY!: spicy salmon sushi, Volcano roll, Big Meal roll & ICE CREAM
- The service is good. The waitress can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. And the food came pretty fast, probably because I arrived there at 6PM, there weren't a lot of people.
- Overall experience: Pretty satisfied! The food is good, the service is good, the place is nice & spacious.
Grace
Location: 330 Bay Street, Toronto, ON 
Classic Turf Caesar
Grilled Canadian AAA Striploin ($32) - The sauce is really good, not too salty or too sweet. The striploin is okay, nothing special.
Mustard roasted veal chop ($36) - This is really good!!!! I love this dish! The texture of the veal chop is very tender! The sauce is a little bit spicy with the mustard taste in it. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
