Ajisai Japanese Restaurant

Aji Sai has been one of my favorite places for the past year or so. I have come to realize the service is not the best, but a quick suggestion; it's not that the service is bad it's that you have to get their attention. Because it's not a buffet, you must rely on them to help you. I believe they don't want to intrude on a conversation so they wait for you attention. Overall the food is by far amazing, and the service is good.

Delicious stuff. Clean and efficient. I think that the over polite japanese way is what causes service to seem short. They'd rather not offend you if they you don't want them there, but if you call them they're there in a jiffy.

My husband and several friends love this place! we go every single sunday.
I disagree with some of the comments... only when its really busy is the service lacking. If you get there early you will have fast service. Most of the servers do not speak english well so if you talk a little slower or point to what you want on the menu you will never go wrong. If you want more ask for it when they clear your dishes.
We all enjoy it very much and will definatly be back on sunday.

Poor service, rude servers and terrible food.

Will not visit again!

The service is awful and the food is not worth the visit.

I would not recomend this restaurant.

If you look back to the first or second page of Aji Sai's reviews, you can see how pleased I was to have a good AYCE sushi place in Barrie.

We moved away temporarily and returned for the second time in a month this evening. Our first visit two weeks was simply average, with the normal good food and slow service.

Tonight, however, was absymal. The food ranged from very good (crab cakes, chicken wings) to average (rolls, tempura shrimp) to utterly inedible (sushi pizzas fried to the consistency of hockey pucks and topped with a bland "spicy" salmon).

Our service was -- at best -- non-existent. I don't expect much from the staff at AYCE places, but I do expect to get refills on drinks. Three times we asked for a second water for my wife, and never got one. Tea was never offered, even though I gave back the three cups we didn't need and asked for one for myself. Our soy sauce ran out and I had to go switch it for another on the table, with one of the wait staff waving me toward it.

Nearly every person we encountered on the staff was either indifferent or flat-out rude. The woman who brought the ice cream basically threw them onto the table, and when we were served the inedible sushi pizza, that was almost thrown at us.

The restaurant was not particularly busy, so that's no excuse. The bottom line is Aji Sai has fallen down from the level it had attained early in its life.

Don't waste your time or your money.

My girlfriend took me to Aji Sai for lunch for my birthday... we made our first order of 2 hand rolls, soup, salad and wontons... we waited 15 minutes after eating until having to wave down our waitress for a drink refill and another order of a hand roll and soup.. 10 minutes later we get our drinks and she tells us it's last call for lunch if we want to order... so we inform her we have already made our second order... we wait... and wait... and WAIT... finally we decide to leave (it had been 45 minutes after we made our 2nd order)... so we were both completely turned off... when we went to pay... we asked for a discount being dissatisfied with the service... as we are fairly regular patrons... after a mild argument, they agreed to give us a 10% discount on our meals of $10.99 ea.... we certainly didn't tip... and when we left the bill was over $26... so much for a discount.. and so much for valuing your customers... i'll have to think twice before going there again... the service is never great, but today was ridiculous!

We had to wait a very long time for the waitress to take our drink/food orders, but it was 5:30pm so it was understandable. Upon ordering, the food came out right away. We found the red dragon rolls too "loosely" rolled, but tasted delicious. For Barrie sushi, it was very good, however compared to Toronto restaurants, it would get about a 2. The table are extremely close together, and at times we felt clausterphobic. Other than that, it's a nice place to eat if you randomly feel like sushi but don't want to go far. I will mostly likely go back! :)

great sushi...pretty bad service since it's all you can eat (not buffet though)

Best in Class! For lunch for just over $10.00, you would pay easy 4 times that at other Sushi restaurant in town. I go here once a week. Yes, there is a communications barrier, but once you get to know what is on the menu, and what you like, ordering is a snap. The waitress will take your drink order as soon as you are seated, and when she returns with your drink (Which is almost immediately) she will take your order. Here is where the problem can occur. During my first visits to AJI SAI I was taking over an hour for lunch. If you don't order immediately, you will have to wait for the waitress to return, if you don't order all at once, you will have to wait long periods between orders. Once you know what you like, or at least enough to get you started, place your order as soon as she brings the drink. You will have your Sushi in no time. If you order in stages, you will wait much longer.