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168 Sushi Asian Buffet
Categories: Restaurants Japanese Restaurants Buffets Japanese, Buffets [Edit]
1520 Steeles Ave WUnit 103
Concord, ON L4K 3B9
(905) 760-1680
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
13 reviews for 168 Sushi Asian Buffet
13 reviews in English
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Review from Isaac E.
North York, ON
4/26/2012
I didn't really research this place when I first went. I was a little disappointed at the price and I wasn't really looking forward to an all-you-can-eat sushi place again. After getting sick at Hockey Sushi, I've mostly written off all-you-can-eat sushi since that last experience.
I was blown away by this place. The service was above average and the food was above average for a sushi place as well. I like how there was a salad bar to pick what I wanted for my appetizers and dessert. They also had some unique food on the menu which was a nice touch.
Definitely can't wait to eat there again. -
Review from Ariel G.
3/30/2012 1 Check-in Here
This is a new AYCE place that is part of chain which seems to feature very good service. The food is brought to the tables quickly and is attractively displayed.
I have been there the day I 'checked in' and then again 2 days ago. My wife and I went with a couple of friends. The soups were probably the low point of this whole meal. The Tom Yum soup was just a broth devoid of anything in it. It may have been skimmed out by other dinners but the other offerings were just as bad. The Miso was particularly tasteless.
The sashimi is well presented, fresh, and fairly varied. It is tasty and well worth the trip. It is only available at supper.
We ordered spicy salmon and spicy tuna sushi and it overwhelmingly underspiced. It was not spicy.
The hot dishes are excellent. Our orders included fried beef dumplings, pork shu-mai, basil shrimp, mango shrimp, korean bbq ribs, and stir fried vegetables.
Desserts are not extensive but include commercially produced nondescript pastry squares, and 4 types of ice cream. Soft drinks are extra but include refills.
I would give this place 3.25 stars if I could. But for a quick meal with friends it will do. We have been back once and probably will be back again to try the lunch. -
Review from Alen C.
Thornhill, ON
3/18/2012
This sushi place is very good, especially in terms of price and service. They have a wide variety of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Thai foods, so you're not only limited to sushi and other Japanese appetizers (they have things like pad Thai, rice, noodles, etc). Instead of getting a big menu where you tell the waitor/waitress what you want to order, you are given sheets with all the menu items and you check off how many off each ite you want. I think this is better especially when you go as a group since it may be difficult to remember exactly how much of a certai order you were going to order.
The food comes out really really fast, like within a minute or two. That makes me questin the freshness of the food, but either way, it still tastes really good. They even have a mini salad bar where you can help your self to (of course) salad, soup, and ice cream. I'm not sure if they change it up a little during dinner since I've been there only during lunch. However, I do recommend giving this place a try :) -
Review from Marisa S.
Maple, ON
5/1/2012
Nice decor. Service started off really good then dwindled. Small salad bar with a few items was ok as a throw in. Good sushi. Hot dishes were just ok. Basil beef was good. Seafood Cantonese chow mien was really gooey , wasn't good. All the rest was pretty good. Reasonable drink prices. Staff was very nice.
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Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
After I ate at 168 Sushi Asian Buffet, I don't think I will be having sushi or Japanese food or buffet for the rest of the week..... and usually I can eat sushi everyday!
Everything is a little bit off at 168 Sushi Asian Buffet. The shari rice, the sauces they use, the fish, the snow crab legs, the funny coloured Miso soup... I just don't feel too good after I have dinner here.
The cooked food though have a good selections of both Thai, Japanese and Korean but they tasted similar.. everything is so saucy... all of them are like drowned in sauce.....
We tried quite a few things from the menu
- Sashimi: Salmon, Red Snapper, Octopus
- Sushi: Tuna (meh)
- Shrimp Tempura (cold and oily)
- Beef with enoki mushroom (quite good)
- Seafood Udon (MEH!!)
- Crab Leg (MEH!)
- Seaweed Salad (look gross)
- Various Rolls: They all just loaded with Tempura bits... every single one of them!!!
- Hand Rolls: Spicy Salomon (loaded with Tempura bits) and Eel roll (Sauce is off!)
- Kalbi (all fat!!)
- Spicy Korean Seafood (meh!)
- Deep Fried Banana (drowned in Maple Syrup)
- Ice Cream
Services is A-OK.. but the servers here are really so obsessed with clearing out our tables as fast as they can... maybe they are playing diner dash?
Luckily I didn't pay full price for our dinner since there's a dealfind special which I took advantage of that.... if not dinner is $23.95 and lunch at $13.95!
BTW, my dinner companion really enjoys the ice cream... I lost count of how many scoops she has?! 10? -
Review from Al E.
Markham, ON
3/3/2012 2 photos
I was there 4 hours ago. Almost all the tables were taken. This buffet is not "sushi only". It is mixed with Chinese, Japanese and Korean style. It is so impressive that their service is very fast. Over 8 plates had occupied my table before I finished my first soup! I was wondering how many people are working in the kitchen !
I will upload some photos if I can. -
Review from Karl R.
1/27/2012 9 photos
It's called a buffet but it's more of a tick sheet/buffet hybrid. There's a small salad/dessert bar (crab legs on some nights). But the bulk of the food is ordered via the standard AYCE tick sheet method.
Service is fast, accurate, and attentive. Decor is kind of Vegas nightclub. Parking, plentiful.
The sushi is certainly superior to Mandarin and unlike a purely Japanese AYCE place (by purely I mean "probably has Korean items on the menu"), 168 Sushi Buffet knocks out a lot of Chinese items. Those who have long dreamed of behind on the business side of a Manchu Wok steam table and mowing down, you can live the fantasy. Live it.
A nice variety of ice cream at the salad bar too. Green tea and red bean (as one would expect) plus mango, chocolate, and vanilla. One thing I loved is they didn't do the "keep the freezer near absolute zero" trick. So many of these places keep the ice cream frozen so bloody hard, it takes you about 10 minutes of digging and hacking to get even a single scoop. Meanwhile you've got a line a five year old behind you ready to clown you with his DS. The ice cream was creamy and so easy to scoop in mass quantities.
If you're in a Mandarin state of mind, looking for the pure feedbag experience, but want to take it up just a notch, 168 Sushi Asian Buffet is what it is. -
Review from Christine L.
North York, ON
4/13/2012
There was a deal for this on teambuy yesterday and I purchased two since I had driven by this place a few times and also heard good things from my brother. After buying the teambuy deal, I realized that the deal would not be available for use until 24hours after but decided to go anyway as I was craving sushi.
This sushi place is ok. The decor is pretty, decent size, and overall pleasant ambiance. The menu boasts an abundant variety of foods ranging from japan, chinese, and korean.
Overall experience was ok. Service was nice and fast. After ordering checklist style, food came out within 5-10mins. Salmon sashimi was pretty good. Other sushi was ok, not bad but not amazing. Same goes for the cooked stuff. They have a side salad bar and 1/3 of it was shared with desserts.
If i hadn't bought the teambuy, I dont think i would come back as there are many better sushi places to go to. I bought 2 so I think i will come back one more time and give the other one away. -
Review from Edwin A.
Buffets are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
168 Sushi Asian Buffet just recently opened in the area, service to the Yelp community I volunteed myself today to try it for lunch. :)
The restaurant offers Thai, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese selections. Majority of the food is orderable a from a menu except for soup/salad/dessert which is available at a stand-up bar near the front of the restaurant.
The interior is spacious, decorated in dark black and purple colours. The restaurant is located in the corner unit of the plaza with large windows bringing in sunlight from all around. There's a variety of seating arrangements available: rounded booths, table seating, and bench seating. The music playing was pop contemporary. In the back corner there's sushi chefs visible.
Experience:
On the menu, it says "all you can enjoy" :) ha-ha not all you can eat...
Ok this is what I find, depending on the party you go with, some go buck wild and order everything on the menu and your table end up with mountains of food that no one wants to eat. This isn't the way to go about with buffets in my opinion.
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From chaos, there is order. I suggest picking things that are agreeable with others you're going to share with. Order a little bit: sample appetizers, hot foods, sushi, stir-fried dishes, to get a feel. Compose a meal.
The first round my parents got their early and it was too late. A mish mash of all kinds on the table. Second round I ordered and set it straight.
In short nothing I had here was exemplary or memorable and I am taking into account that this is a buffet not a fancy shmancy gourmet restaurant.
ie. Tempura was dripping of grease, the Terriyaki Salmon was not fresh (they re-made it right after mentioning this), Terriyaki Beef was round steak and tough, Japchae noodles were so soyed, Pad Thai had no taste to it, Sui Mai tasted of the frozen variety. The sushi though was alright. Spicy Salmon roll with crunchy bits tightly packed not too much rice. Avocado Sushi Pizza, and Egg Sushi tasted good and were presented well.
Wait service was very good though; they were quick at clearing dishes, listened to feedback and did something about it, topped off our teas voluntarily. But some were a tad too chatty.
Granted for the person who doesn't eat Asian food may not know the difference of authentic foods may like it. Where it's located demographically, there isn't that much of a population of Asians to be critical to it.
I'm a believer of if you're going to do something, do it well. My suggestion would be to cut down the selections and offer up some quality not just quantity. -
Review from Kayla B.
North York, ON
1/24/2012
Went out with a friend and we decided to give this place a try. It's new in the area but a chain, there are some others elsewhere in the GTA.
The place looks like a bar not an all you can eat sushi joint. The music is really loud and the tables are really close together.
The wait service we experienced was unbelievably overbearing! You'd hardly have the last piece of sushi off a plate and the 3 spies 5 feet away would be descending on the table and reaching across your face to take the empty dish. Over the course of 5 minutes we informed 6 different wait staff to leave the "empty" bowl we were using for our edamama shells ON the table and stop trying to take it. One waitress went so far as to pull another off to the cash counter point and sneer at us - completely unacceptable. The service was genuinely annoying! Yet the servers were nowhere to be found when you actually needed something and definitely had some difficulties getting by in english (which isn't entirely uncommon for an AYCE joint, but typically you can get by)
They also made a big deal out of us asking to change tables due to some disturbing and unwelcome conversation by other patrons right next to us - tables are a little close for comfort, booths are nicely spaced.
The "buffet" salad bar was more reminiscent of Sunday morning brunch than any type of Asian establishment. Romaine salad with a variety of dressings, 4 different kinds of soup, crab legs, a bunch of different "salads" of sorts (corn, chicken, one looked like it had shrimp, another chick peas) there were about 8 or 10 all told - didn't try any of them. Soups didn't look appetizing. All we had from the buffet was the ice cream (nothing special/nothing to complain about)
The 23.95 any night of the week for an adult is a little pricey for what they offer, I can get a bigger selection, better quality, better service and a few dollars off at other AYCE joints equal distance from my house.
Deep fried or greasy food was REALLY greasy, didn't want to eat it greasy, a few unique items that were tasty. Had 4 different varieties of cuisines, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Japanese. Lemongrass beef tasted like it was teriyaki not lemongrass even though waitress insisted it was the lemongrass dish. Edemame overcooked by a long shot.
Will say that the, I think it was called "cripsy milk pudding" it's a dessert item, was pretty delicious. Asparagus bacon roll also pretty good (hard do mess up bacon!)
Definitely wouldn't go out of my way to go back -
Review from Lucy B.
Toronto, ON
3/11/2012 15 photos
I'm usually not a fan of AYCE sushi and certainly not a huge fan of buffets. But I like this place. It's located on a crappy, inconspicuous plaza on Dufferin/Steeles, right beside Value Village. The location does not look promising, but the food here is definitely worth it!
I've been 3 times - once with a friend, once with my family and another time with a group of 6 people. We've always gone at lunch, because we're cheap and don't want to pay $27 per person during dinner time. And to be honest, it's not worth $27. Lunch is only around $15 per person, and you get a rather extensive menu, so I recommend going for lunch.
There are a lot of options on the AYCE sheet - many different rolls, sushi & handrolls. (no sashimi on lunch menu). There is also an extensive menu of things like noodles, meats, fish, dumplings, etc.
The food is very fresh and tasty. The sushi is pretty good - not SPECTACULAR but what do you expect from an AYCE place? It's definitely up to par or better than other AYCE sushi places I've been to.
The salad/soup bar is pretty awesome. They have great miso soup and seaweed salad! Also, 3 types of cake and ice cream.
The service is great. Very quick and all the staff is friendly and polite. The food arrives quickly.
I'll be back for more $15 lunches :) -
Review from Jes H.
North York, ON
1/17/2012
The restaurant in general looks more like a hangout place for mid to late twenties at a bar. It may have been the dim lighting or the pink lamp things high up in the ceiling.
I went for dinner and their menu included Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Viet food.
For dinner, they have an extra ordering sheet that you fill out and they include special rolls,food and sashimi.
Their sashimi were just average,their rolls were just ok,their udon soup tasted like vegetable broth and their bbq short ribs were cut really thick (which I don't mind). Their special rolls are worth trying and they come in 2-4 pcs so why not?
It got quite cold halfway through the dinner even though we were sitting far away from the door.Weird.
At one point,the servers got our orders mixed up with another table and we ended up with ginger roll and some crunchy salmon roll.The ginger roll came just with ginger and it was unbearable.(maybe it's cuz I'm not a fan of ginger..hm)
Conclusion: The servers were nice enough,washroom was clean and plenty of parking space available in the plaza,lots of choices when it comes to food,but I don't think it was worth it for dinner. -
Review from Richard C.
Brampton, ON
11/25/2011
I loved this brand new restaurant. The interior is very modern rather than faux Japanese. The food was terrific. There is a very talented chef in the kitchen. I tried Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Korean dishes and liked everything that I tried. The servers were just getting their feet wet, so I do not know how good the service will be in the future; however, there were a lot of them, so service should be fine. They imported some of their staff from their Brampton restaurant; however, this new restaurant is better than the Brampton and Mississauga locations.
