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Sakura Japanese Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Japanese Japanese [Edit]
109 McCaul StreetToronto, ON M5T 3K5
Neighbourhood: Downtown Core
(416) 593-1624
- Price Range:
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$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for Sakura Japanese Restaurant
4 reviews in English
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Review from Billy B.
Toronto, ON
5/18/2012
Chicken katsu is great. Generous proportions and good price; $7.00 I think?
Katsu (fried chicken cutlet) isn't that thick but not thin like paper either. Fried just about right, which is the key.
One other dish I've tried is chicken terriyaki and it was awful. At $4.50 you get what you pay for.
It was a plain stir-fried veggies and unseasoned chicken strips topped with terriyaki sauce from bottle.
Unseasoned chicken. Topped with terriyaki sauce from squeeze bottle just before it was handed to me. Enough said. -
Review from Lara P.
3/30/2012
I went here for lunch and I decided on a little sushi and soup. I had the Coconut shrimp sushi roll with mango, avocado and cucumbers and the Tofu Noodle soup. Both were good and solid foods for a cold day. I could have used more tofu in my noodle soup and more greens but overall it satisfied my hunger without making me feel bloated with sodium laden soups. The food court is chaotic especially when there are kids on a school trip but this place is good enough as my go to lunch meal when I am out of options.
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Review from Vivek S.
12/26/2010 1 photo
I wasn't blown away by Sakura -- a Japanese spot in the Village by the Grange foodcourt. Tried this place for lunch a few times, but my experience has always been the same. 1) place order with unsmiling girl, 2) wait way too long for said order, 3) "enjoy" your meal with chopsticks so cheap they break on the way out of the package. They basically crumbled like Hiroshima. (Eep. Too soon?)
My chicken teriyaki came with tonnes of rice, questionable meat, equally questionable sauce and a few small dry dumplings. A beef teriyaki I had another time wasn't much better. Everything smacked of hasty preparation.
The only saving grace are the prices, which are mercifully low. $4.99 for the lunch special? Not bad. Unless you're a stickler for taste and quality. Which I am. I would avoid.
Obligatory Title Pun: A SAKURA is born every minute.
Menu Readability: Gleefully written in chalk on their board. I dig the flower accents.
Need to mention: They have many soups that I have not tried.
What this place teaches me about myself: While I'm cheap, I'm not that cheap. -
Review from Kennedy R.
Toronto, ON
6/29/2010
When I was little I would come here with my Mom after swimming lessons. We would discuss all the things of importance to my nine year old self over chicken katsu (Japanese fried chicken with terriyaki sauce) and Japanese chicken soup. The katsu was fantastic and my little taste buds coveted that shit like a fat kid covets cake. I'm pretty sure that if I had had the chance to eat there every day, the metaphor would be half-true. The chicken soup is not your mother's chicken soup. Unless she's Japanese, then it's very possible that she would make this. In that case, is it okay if I invite myself over to your house? The setting of the Grange Mall can be a little grungy at times but that's just part of the charm. Don't bother with the dried out sushi in little styrofoam coffins.
