My mom and her best friend took me out for an early birthday dinner at the newly opened Ichiban Japanese all-you-can-eat restaurant this evening and we became absolute gluttons:
Beef tataki
Assorted sashimi: Salmon, sweet shrimp, white tuna, and octopus
Assorted aburi sushi: salmon, shrimp, smoked duck, eel oshizushi, and salmon oshizushi
Assorted nigiri: Eel, white tuna, salmon, and salmon roses
Ichiban Golden Roll
Enoki beef rolls
Shrimp tempura
Fried chicken cartilage
Grilled scallop skewers
Grilled galbi
Grilled chicken skewers
Japanese-style garlic beef
There's a lot of the standard fare that you get at Asian AYCE restaurants, but they do offer some items that you'd typically only find at à la carte Japanese restaurants like aburi sushi and oshizushi. They also have self-serve sections for salad, soup, dessert, shaved ice, and ice cream that also set them apart from the typical Japanese AYCE place. (My advice is to limit yourself at the self-serves because they have so many great offerings on their regular menu.) Quality-wise, I would put it above most of the other AYCE restaurants I've been to; no freshly defrosted fish, no hard sushi rice, no maki or nigiri falling apart, no overly dry or chewy meat. Presentation is top-notch, decor is clean and modern, and service was fantastic — our server, Wendy, was attentive, efficient, and helpful. (She was on it with the water refills and clearing the table.)
The key here, however, is to make sure you get your server's attention when you're ready to put in your order — they do use tablets here, but only a server can actually submit your order (which, admittedly, negates the efficiency of a tablet) — otherwise, you'll be waiting forever for food that you thought was automatically input into their system.
Ichiban Asian All You Can Eat
4261 Highway 7, Unit C-8
Markham, ON L3R 9W6
(905) 305-8825
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