![Crosoft silverlight](https://loka.nahovitsyn.com/137.jpg)
![sushi yasu toronto sushi yasu toronto](https://lizzysfood.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/img_2195.jpg)
This twee takeout sushi counter on Roncesvalles is no bigger than a walk-in closet, but it does a brisk business turning out creative rolls and fresh slice after slice of sashimi, such as ruby-red tuna, glistening salmon, tender spot prawn and lusciously oily mackerel lightly marinated in sea salt. He takes you on a world tour: Sri Lankan tuna, Japanese striped jack, Greek sea bream, British Columbian uni, and on and on. YasuĬhef Yasuhisa Ouchi of Yasu presents glossy nigiri on cut-glass trays to 11 lucky guests seated at a marble-topped bar. The night ended in a procession of sushi, handed across the counter at the exact moment it should be eaten. On one visit, Kaji’s omakase included nori-wrapped rolls of rice and fluke, lightly deep-fried and set in a house-made soy sauce a warm block of custard-like sesame tofu sashimi dusted with yuzu zest and fanned out with a shiso leaf and steamed turnip with a briny dollop of Boston uni and a hash of lightly breaded and deep-fried scallops. The best of the 28 seats here face the open sushi prep area, where chef Mitsuhiro Kaji-the closest thing Toronto has to Tokyo’s Jiro Ono-surgically slices through glistening slabs of fish flown in that morning from Japan.
![sushi yasu toronto sushi yasu toronto](https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/CBf36Ou2eZqQIVMVdiBoFA/168s.jpg)
He ages his own soy sauce over six months, and servers grind fresh wasabi tableside. Tsuyoshi Yoshinaga, the sushi chef, builds ikebana-like displays out of petals of mackerel, hamachi, sea bream, fatty Scottish salmon and precious tuna belly.
![sushi yasu toronto sushi yasu toronto](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/best-of-the-city-2016-food-and-drink-sushi-yasu.jpg)
The kitchen flies in top-quality fish, mostly from Japanese suppliers. The latest from the Chase Hospitality Group, Yorkville’s Kasa Moto is currently the city’s swankiest izakaya (no one yells “Irasshaimase!” when you enter).
![Crosoft silverlight](https://loka.nahovitsyn.com/137.jpg)