Kinkaku Izakaya

217 King St W, Kitchener
(519) 208-2688

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Rosetta Oliver

Horrible experience. Stressed us with time spent sitting. Stomach didn’t feel good after. Kept telling us we will pay extra for anything we didn’t finish. Took forever for the sashimi to be served after we ordered

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

the worden

We had heard good things about this place and decided to try it out. So glad we did. Food was really delicious, high quality. Our server was fantastic. We will be back!

Kid-friendliness: I was nervous about bringing kids to a nice sushi place, but they treated them so well! Special kid chopsticks (the good homemade version) and our server made us comfortable in a booth perfect for squirmy kids. Kids felt fancy dining with us.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

Olivia

Food and service was good, same as the sushi restaurant uptown.

Chuan

Good value all you can eat sushi for dinner.
The mixed drinks are too sweet for my liking.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Jadiah Adigun

I went to the restaurant today for dinner 6:30 PM reservation. Waiters were slow to come and take out orders. When they did arrive, they quickly reminded us of the 90 minute limit. With the slow service we essentially received 60 minutes. 75 minutes in waiter came to the table and advised we had 10 minutes left. We had purchased a bottle of wine which was half empty. 5 minutes later another waiter came to inform months that our time was up and we needed to vacate Our table. The food was OK Service was lacking. I will not be going back.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1

Shireen ib

I recently visited Kinkaku Izakaya and had a mixed experience. The food is super delicious, but some dishes are quite small, including the skewers. Since it’s an all you can eat restaurant and it was my first time there, they recommended starting with one or two plates and a small number of items to try. Drinks aren’t included in the offer, so you have to pay extra for those. Also, you can’t stay longer than two hours, as they’ll ask you to leave.
Be aware that you have to finish all the food you order, or you’ll be charged extra for any leftovers. There are two dining periods, with dinner hours being more expensive than lunch hours. While the idea of all you can eat is appealing, I didn’t feel like I saved money. They also put a lot of sugar in the food, which isn’t typical for some dishes I usually enjoy without sweet sauce. The pineapple juice I ordered was way too sweet to finish. Despite these issues, the ambiance is nice and clean, the service is fast, and the sushi is delicious. If you’re coming for the food, you’ll enjoy it, but be aware of the small portions, extra costs, and the need to finish everything you order.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Tempura, Salmon Sushi

ワイアットチャネル

Overpriced food, not a great place to work, sketchy buisness practices, some people are nice but the management is laughably bad. They also gave my information to a data broker without my knowlege or consent.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Flora

Too pricey for the food they are serving

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Sarah Gartung

I enjoyed the meal. Atmosphere can be waaay too loud though for anyone with sensory issues or who just wants to be able to talk and listen to their date.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

shawn regier

Best sushi in KW area hands down. Fresh to order and soo tasty

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

Brianna Loc

I love dinning in but when ordering one of my favourite ayce items the pan fried korean squid, it came super small for a high price and smelled so bad my whole house was fishy as soon as i brought it in. Not sure if it was bad. Wouldn’t recommend this item. the actual sushi and sashimi was good every time.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Priyanka Newalkar

The staff here is great! They are very friendly and polite. They treat everyone with great respect. The food is amazing. Theirs sushis, desserts, and takoyakis particularly are top notch. Would definitely recommend it to try out and will definitely visit again. :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Takoyaki Fried Octopus Balls, Calamari, All You Can Eat Sushi

Giselle Aberdeen

Definitely wayyyyyyy over priced. Food was delicious and good quality but I'm shocked at the lack of variety compared to other places like Nara Sushi. I like how quickly everything arrived and was hot and fresh, sushi good quality but mackeral is my fav fish and that automatically brought the review down a star as they do not serve it!!! Even the inferior sushi places serve it. The waiter was also pretty inattentive. Probably won't be back but at least the food was delicious.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

Justine Rocha

Great food & service! Always busy, could use more seating

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

Esther Monney

Food was pretty good. Similar to other all you can eat sushi restaurants. Only thing I would recommend is asking to be seated far from the door cause being cold and eating is not ideal lol.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: All You Can Eat Sushi

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