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168 Sushi Japan Buffet
Categories: Restaurants Japanese Restaurants Sushi Bars Japanese, Sushi Bars [Edit]
2366 Dundas St WMississauga, ON L5K 1R7
(905) 823-8818
- Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 3 pm - 10:30 pm
Fri-Sat 3 pm - 11:30 pm
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Trendy, Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
24 reviews for 168 Sushi Japan Buffet
Review Highlights
24 reviews in English
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Review from Ninette C.
4/16/2012 1 photo
One of my favorite things to do when I come back to Toronto is hit up the AYCE sushi buffets! They don't have places like this in Seattle and this is way better than the ones I go to in Vancouver.
The sashimi was all pretty fresh- salmon, white tuna, red snapper, surf clam etc. I did notice there was no red tuna or hamachi though. We also had unagi rolls, a fruit roll, rainbow roll and some other yummy rolls. There was a great selection of about 20 different hand rolls and the cooked food selection was great! They had seaweed salad, edamame, soup noodles, phad thai, fried udon, 3 soups, beef short ribs, about 10 different tempuras and many other things I can't even remember!
For the person who said this isn't a place for foodies: well, its AYCE sushi. That's never the most quality type for $25 but for the price and format, this is good quality and a great selection!
I love fancy, nice sushi, but sometimes, a girl's just gotta stuff herself to her stomach's content! -
Review from Dan B.
3/20/2012
NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH as of March 2012. (YMMV, maybe call and make sure it stays that way)
Unexceptional, but more-than-good-enough AYCE Sushi. The restaurant looks to be a converted Ponderosa. Premium pieces are an additional $1.50, at least at Lunch (maguro and ebi are premium?) Everything was fresh for us, but presentation is a little mundane. Rolls are kappa-heavy for my taste. Not unpleasantly busy at 1pm on a Tuesday.
We were waaaaay too full for dessert. -
Review from Timea I.
Oakville, ON
3/11/2012 1 Check-in Here
One of the best AYCE sushi places around!
For $25 deluxe dinner on the weekend this really is a steal. It's always very busy with excellent service and fresh sushi. This is the only AYCE sushi place I know which serves red tuna (my absolute favorite!!!). You also have your choice of non-alcoholic beverages and dessert included in the price... how can you go wrong?!
I recommend calling before 1pm to make reservations if you decide to dine at peak hours otherwise they may stop accepting them due to capacity. -
Review from David B.
Toronto, ON
5/7/2012
This is probably the best AYCE Sushi place in Mississauga. The sashimi is fresh, cut in nice sizes and the sushi is great too since they don't pile on the rice. The specialty rolls were good too except for the black snow roll.. didn't really like the rice paper. And the spicy salmon was a bit too spicy for me but different strokes for different folks! The mississauga roll was especially good..love their cream cheese. I also liked it in the cheese wonton. The mushroom and beef roll was great. The house salad was lacklustre though. Oh well.
The best thing about this place is the service. No, they're not smiley or super-polite but it's decent enough and not very important for AYCE. What was great was that they didn't miss any orders.. a common occurrence in AYCE, and the food came out FAST... so much that we had plates covering the entirety of our table.
PS: It's easy to miss this place. Their storefront basically just says JAPAN BUFFET and looks pretty sketchy. Don't judge a book by its cover. -
Review from Tricia H.
Mississauga, ON
4/30/2012
Went with a girlfriend of mine and we both loved it. It was my first time there and I was not disappointed, we did the AYCE menu and the selection is immense. The sushi was really good and so was the service. Would go back again! My favorite dish was the Black Snow Rol.l
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Review from Rj P.
1/20/2012
My mother was visiting from out of town and we decided to go here for lunch on a Sunday afternoon. The place was very busy and we had a 5-10 minute wait for a table.
This is probably the most well-organized AYCE sushi place I have been to. I really like the idea of checking boxes on cards for what you want to eat (vs. having to write it all out, etc). The organization of the cards was also very clear which made for easy ordering for the people with certain food preferences.
Quaility of the food was very good - above average for an AYCE sushi restaurant. Everything was fresh, the sashimi size was what you would get at a regular sushi restaurant and the flavors of the cooked foods were great as well.
Service was spot on, attentive plus friendly.
If it wasn't out in Mississauga I would go more often.
Tip: Don't go up Erin Mills Parkway from the QEW - the left turn on to Dundas is a gong-show. Go to up Winston Churchill and then turn right on Dundas. The resto is on the South side of the street. -
Review from Andrea L.
Toronto, ON
4/25/2012
Dined at this restaurant last thursday night. Arrived around 830 and the place was packed. However, we were seated promptly and were pleased that a waitress approached us immediately for our drink orders.
I've been to numerous AUCE restaurants and I have to rank this one at the top of my list. The food came very quickly but a few items that we had ordered were forgotten. Once reminded, they quickly made our order. At times it was difficult to flag down a waiter to take our orders which was a bit frustrating
The real standouts were the dumplings, the seared salmon and tuna sashimi, the white tuna tempura roll(delicious), black snow roll, red snow roll and the tempura banana roll (that was my favourite!). I didn't order any of the cooked stirfried dishes but they looked delicious. I also liked that they took the time to ensure that the food was presented nicely instead of just plopped on a plate. Servers were also pleasant which seems to be a rarity among AUCE restaurants.
I would definitely recommend this restaurant and can't wait to return soon! -
Review from Jay E.
Markham, ON
11/22/2011
Not sure what all the raving is about. The food was just mass churned out gunk for people who really have no idea what quality Sushi is. If your a student or something, then its fine, but this is not the place for foodies. Wasnt really happy about the server picking his nose and then handing me green tea either..
Too many items on the menu, too much chinese and japanese mix, no real identity with dried up ginger, stale wasabi and not something i want to experience again. -
Review from Maheen M.
9/17/2011
This location used to the Happy Court Chinese buffet until it changed to 168 Sushi Japanese Buffet years back. I have driven by so many times and always wondering what it looks like on the inside. Finally, I went it last night with a friend for dinner! We were both surprised by the decor. It was very modern with lots of booths.
Their menu had a variety of hot and cold items. We ordered from the deluxe menu which encompassed the whole menu and then some.
We started ordering right away, 40 pieces of maki sushi, dim sum, spicy Korean tofu, seaweed salad, yakatori and salmon tekayki. The food was brought to our table in waves. We tired to make sure we ate and cleared our plates as efficiently as possible. It felt like we were in a sushi factory.
Everything tasted very good and was neatly presented.
Total for two was just under $60. Not bad considering the variety of food we ate.
168 Sushi has other locations in west end as well. I would definitely come back and bring my family and friends. -
Review from Sandra T.
Toronto, ON
3/21/2011
O.M.G.!!!!!
For $22 (5% discount if you pay in cash) you can stuff yourself silly with high quality sushi and sashimi. How does this place make money?!
The food was fantastic! Standouts were the spicy salmon chips - bits of salmon sashimi mixed with spicy mayo sauce on pringles, scallop (imitation scallop) tempura, and spicy salmon and spicy white fish rolls.
I had a fantastic time!
There is also a dessert menu. We shared a battered banana with ice cream. I had green tea (my favourite), my husband had mango, and my brother had red bean (too sweet for me but my brother loved it).
The service was exceptionally friendly! All the servers came by to say hi to my little guy :) You'd think that in a place like this all the servers would be running around looking pissed off but there were enough servers to keep things under control on a Saturday night - with time to spare to coo at my little guy! :)
LOOOOOOOVE this place!!!!!!!!!!Listed in: Buffets/ AYCE!!!
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Review from Kimberley N.
Mississauga, ON
6/15/2011 1 Check-in Here
I've been here a couple of times and I've been impressed by the sushi quality for an ayce restaurant. The best time time to go for sushi is during the lunch hours because it's only about $16 and you get to eat as much as possible!
The service was pretty good but they forgot to give us our chicken teriyaki and green tea so we had to remind them twice. Other than that the food was good and it came to our table pretty quick. Me and my friend only got to round 2 of ordering and we were stuffed! The only thing that I wish they would include in the regular price is sashimi.
Btw, the birthday music they play is very cheesy haha.
Overall, I like Sushi 168 and I wouldn't mind coming in for lunch again. -
Review from Nicole H.
Updated - 5/19/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Went in for lunch today and showed up just before noon. The place was packed! Lots of tables of people apparently on their lunch breaks.
Service was fast, food was good, and no annoying birthday music! As for the bathrooms, I chose not to check them out this time around. :)Listed in: Sushi-Monger!
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9/29/2010
Went there tonight with my friend to celebrate her new car purchase and my new condo. :)
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Review from Yumm Y.
Mississauga, ON
4/10/2011
Thoroughly surprised with how good this place turned out to be.
I'm not a fan of AYCE, since let's face it, sushi/sashimi buffets can go wrong on so many levels, as the number one concern is clearly NOT quality. But this place wasn't disappointing.
As an avid Hinote spicy salmon lover, I actually liked their spicy salmon rolls & hand rolls here. It was flavourful and had a nice spice (not the Sarracha sauce other Japanese restos try to pass off). Their menu is fairly large with a lot of cool items, such as the "chip spicy salmon" aka spicy salmon on a pringles chip, all different types of tempura, salmon roses, thai curry, even some Chinese dim sum items. I didn't try that as I didn't think a Japanese restaurant would do chinese food justice, but who knows, might be worth it? Also, the pringles chip was a regular salted one and after time, got tremendously salty altogether. But the first few were fun and delicious to eat.
I'll definitely go here when I'm in the mood to gorge out on sushi & kalbi goodness. I definitely suggest this place, especially for large parties where not everyone likes raw fish.
Oh. I will mention too that the soy sauce given is the really really dark one meant for COOKING, not sushi. So be weary of that. It was a turn-off for some of the sashimi lovers, like myself. -
Review from Donald P.
7/12/2010 2 photos
*** American Review ***
HOLY MOLY!!! I never imagined such a place existed.
It's your typical Japanese restaurant (at least in the states) with a regular menu...but wait....the entire thing is a MADE-TO-ORDER BUFFET!!!
Someone PLEASE bring this idea to the states. There is only one other place I know of in the USA that has AYCE made-to-order sushi...and that's in NYC. Apparently there are a few places that do this there, but I've never seen this in any other city stateside.
Anyway my good friend tells us to meet her there, and we order plate after plate of sushi and other items. This place just blows my mind. Technically speaking this is not a "buffet" as a real buffet denotes that food is pre-made and arranged on trays or tables, but a buffet usually connotes the idea of all-you-can-eat....but who cares...it's essentially all you can freaking eat from whatever is on the menu. I LOVE IT!!!!
Before the buffet-phobes and food-snobs say anything the food quality is on par with a normal restaurant. None of those usual tricks like paper-thin slices of fish, or giant sized balls of rice, etc, etc.
I only wish there was one closer. I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone, even to my skeptical cousins who believe the food here is questionable.
Only suggestion I have is to make it baby-friendly...diaper changing stations in the bathroom or something =D.
Anyone know what the 168 refers to though? Is that like 168 seats or 168 menu items available or something?
*update* apparently 168 refers to their original location. Thanks Lauren =D -
Review from Frank O.
Mississauga, ON
Updated - 7/2/2009
Come on Yelpers, would someone please write a scathing review of this place and drive the current ridiculous volume of customers elsewhere from this new restaurant. It was packed again yesterday and far too many people were lined up outside waiting for over an hour to get in. If you have to, prod a disgruntled nearby competitor into doing the deed as so often seems to happen on that R site.
Can't we enjoy just a little easy access to affordable quality dining experiences out here in the 'burbs? We simply don't have the awesome range of choices that downtown Toronto Yelpers have.
So please completely disregard my earlier review and go elsewhere.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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6/21/2009 First to Review
Yelpers, at last there's a decent AYCE Japanese restaurant in Mississauga with friendly, competent… Read more »
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Review from Erwin M.
4/5/2010
This is one of my favorite places for AYCE albeit I find Sushi on 7 higher as far as quality goes. What I love about this place is the food is good enough, parking is sufficient, place is huge, and they have the best staff of an AYCE Ive ever been in.
This is the only decent place Ive tried so far that uses the "fill in a form" system of ordering wherein you just fill-in a form specifying what you want and how much you want and just hand it to the staff and youre done.
The more common system where a waitress gets your order like in a regular resto is such a pain compared to this. You have to remember what you want, how much, while looking at the menu and this happens while she stands there writing everything up. No wonder service is never good at these things. The waitresses have to stand there waiting for a fickle customer to be through while other people are waiting in line suffering.
Also, it has AYCE tempura, soda, ice cream and lots more. This place is awesome. I believe lunch is at $14-$15 on weekends.Listed in: Best Japanese AYCE
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Review from Mozart A.
Whitby, ON
6/3/2010 2 Check-ins Here
I went there some time ago with a huge party, and I guess that should explain the "blunt" style of the waitress. However, the sushi and the sashimi was SO GOOD that it made it all worthwhile.
By the way, if you go there, for the love of God, just try something called "MISSISSAUGA ROLL". This is the only place I found that serves this kind of roll, which has salmon and cream cheese and is deep fried. It's called "hot Philadelphia" in Brazil, and it's AWESOME.
I guess if you arrive too late you will wait for a bit... the place seemed crowded after a while. -
Review from jason l.
Mississauga, ON
12/31/2009
I'm a big fan of quality all you can eat. Don't go here if you're looking for that. The service was slow. The food was bland and clumsy. The sushi quality was average at best. The staff couldn't describe the various sushi's and the menu didn't help much either.
Poultry quality was suspect. Beef was under marinated and very fatty.
Selection is decent, but i don't think i'll be coming back to this establishment. There are far better all you can eat in the GTA. -
Review from Ella B.
Mississauga, ON
11/1/2011
The best all you can eat sushi buffet in the city! This restaurant is huge and have everything you can ask for on the menu! The fish is fresh and the portions are large. For such a busy place there are lots of servers and the wait is not long. They do occasionally forget some items you ordered but you can just order it again on the next round. The server I got last time was very friendly and even took the time to recommend her favourite items that I just had to try. It was very busy that day but she was very attentive and visited our table often.
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Review from S L.
Coquitlam, BC
4/17/2011
Better then average ayce sushi buffet. So many variety dishes. I don't think I can try every single dish once within one meal. Sashimi, nigiri and rolls are fairly good. They also arrange ur order nicely on the plate. There are several unique rolls that's worth trying. Pops are free refill, which I like a lot.
Their service is friendly and fast. All the orders come in a short time. Couple times though, they did miss part of my order and send other people's order to our table. Not a big deal since I will just order again or eat the other people's order if I like it. gg
Over all it's a nice restaurant to try. Beware, the restaurant is pretty busy during dinner time. Come early or u might need to wait for a bit. Reservation is available. Reserve ur seat if u got a big party. -
Review from Paul Y.
Mississauga, ON
4/26/2010
This place has a pretty plain exterior, which belies a pleasant surprise inside. Keep in mind this is based on a Sunday night visit, but it was busy, but not packed to the brim. There were at least two birthday party's as well, as evidenced by the "happy birthday" rendition playing over the speakers!!
Anybody reading my previous reviews would know that I'm not a huge fan of raw fish, which kind of rules out sushi or sashimi. However, even I was wiling to try out a few pieces.
First off, the order system is self-checked, but slightly difficult to match the items with the standard fare. It took me halfway through the meal to figure out Scallop Tempura was the delectable deep-fried scallops I love to eat.
I did like the ample supply of menu cards and the provided pen, all in an easy organizer. It helped keeping track of what we ordered much easier, and also kept the menu placards out of the way. Many other places often have those plastic menu cards that you have to find a place for on an already crowded table.
Unlike some of the other reviewers, I found the service was quite fast - within 10 minutes of placing our big order, the plates started coming out and at quite a rapid pace. I particularly appreciated how the items were often grouped together onto a larger plate before arriving, which helped to save on table estate.
Throughout the meal the service staff also came by quite often to remove the finished empty plates. Of course, it helped that we vacuumed our food and were more strategic about getting rid of plates!
The cooked menus were pretty good - spicy chicken / tofu were flavorful and spicy, and the tempura was pretty decent. The deep fried tofu was nice and hot, but the crispy tofu was not as enjoyable.
I would strongly advise not getting the dumplings or spring rolls, both were not particularly good.
The specialty rolls were all nicely done, tight and not-falling apart. I'm not big on sushi but I did enjoy the playful interaction between the fruit ingredients and the other elements.
The salmon head was quite a pleasant surprise - it was meaty and well done - not too dry or burnt.
Dessert included the standard ice cream flavours - you have your red bean, vanilla, green tea, and mango. The mango was very smooth, and the green tea was decent. We also got the banana tempura - really it's deep fried banana in a batter. It was decent - I've had better, but it was a good way to cap off a good evening.
My buddy recommended the restaurant to me on a spur-of-the-moment request, and I have to say that the experience was better than the other (limited) AYCE around 'sauga, and the location was much more roomy and comfortable than most other places in Markham. I went in half-crippled on one crutch with a leg injury, so that was a bonus! -
Review from robert h.
Mississauga, ON
11/4/2009
it's probably the best sushi buffet in Missisauga. Sashimi is fresh and plate are clean.
I have been 50 different Japanese restaurant between Toronto and Vancouver. this is a place you will not forget. and visit again.
Service is good.
You better make reservation, otherwise, you will line up at least 30-45 mins. -
Review from Ali A.
Mississauga, ON
3/3/2010
Good all you can eat sushi
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Review from A K.
Gloucester, ON
5/1/2011
Love the sushi here. I love the spicy crisp rolls here. Could have them forever! Decently priced at lunch time and good fast service.
