Japango Sushi & Noodle Restaurants

This restaurant definitely serves authentic and fresh japanese food! We ordered a variety of sushi and sashimi and the quality was excellent! Although the restaurant was very busy, small, and cramped, the taste of the food made up for all those other things.

The restaurant is extremely small. One of us had to awkwardly squeeze by adjoining tables in order to get into the bench side of our table. No place to hang coats. It is so small and crowded that one customer had to sit right beside the open side of the outside door. We were able to turn that undesirable option down, when we arrived, because there were still 2 tables available (we had reserved a table). The next customer after us wore his heavy overcoat during his dinner while sitting beside that frigid door.

Like some other writers, I'd agree that this might be an excellent place to drop by for a quick lunch e.g. when out doing errands etc. We are "young 60's" and we have eaten in many Japanese (and other ethnic) restaurants in many other countries and in Vancouver, too. We frankly expect more atmosphere and more overall comfort than this one offers. And prompter service. All of the other clientele were under 40, mostly in their 20's and 30's.

FOOD: The Japango maki was truly wonderful - although a bit too fiery. (I like hot, but this was far too hot for such intriguing and delicate flavours). The miso soup was the best ever and the sushi dinner was very good. The salad was also very good – it accompanied the set dinners and they used baby greens. A nice change from the more typical iceburg lettuce.

We both found the tempura dinner oddly greasy and too heavy with crumbs (or from grease?). The dish was very generous. We did not enjoy the rice. It had an odd flavour and it was too wet. Too much broth?

All of our dishes were served - except for the tempura plate. And then we had to wait about 30 minutes for ithe tempura to come! The cooks did not seem overly busy. More than once, we were told by a waiter that our tempura was coming “in a minute”, but we'd wait and wait, but it still did not come. The 3 waiters were very nice, but they all seemed rather disorganized, too. This could be because there was little 'passing space' for the waiters in the single aisle in this tiny place. We were disapopoinged that we were not offered tea at the end of our meal.

This is my fave place for warm rich natural japanese noodles of all sorts. We love visiting this underdog. I like to know if Toronto offers a better place for noodles made in authentic style but for now this is the end all.
Nevertheless the fish is always fresh too. I recommend this place and so does my wife.
Thanks for reading.

The fish was very fresh - presentation was excellent. Variety was good, staff was good at making recommendations based on their daily shipping and what was fresh! Was very pleased with how they provided honest opinion of fresh fish available and would not sell us fish that they didn't consider to be as good for sushi.

The sushi were awesome as in fresh, tasty, not too soft, and looks tasty already

I like how Japango is a small space restaurant that resembles the Japan feeling, and makes eating in there feeling warmer

Still hadn't had the chance to try chef's special ($70 per person?), photos of it online was too tempting alone

We went there as a group of 8 and order party plates including tempura, sushi and teriyaki for lunch. The owner? of the shop said we should order more, and I found it was a little bit pushy.

This is definately one of the best authentic Japanese restaurants in Toronto. At this price range (&15-$20) for a sushi combo, they offer the freshest sushi in town. Try some of their creative rolls. Japango maki is a must.