The Lazy (Wo)Man's Sushi (Salad)

For the cheap and/or lazy, this is pretty easy to make at home to satisfy some maki cravings. Assemble in a salad the following:

• Short grain Japanese sushi rice - white or brown.
  
• Splash on some rice wine vinegar with sugar and salt premixed. Let cool slightly.
  
• Cook some fish (salmon, or really any fish will do so long as it's not battered or fish sticks etc)
  
• Chop up red peppers, cucumbers, carrots
• Tear up some nori, toss on at the end
• Cubed avocado
• Optional - roast some butternut squash or make into veggie tempura
  

California Sandwiches

A couple weeks ago I went to the Dundas and Winston Churchill location in Mississauga with co-workers and I was pretty impressed. For about $8, I got a fresh bun loaded up with yummy eggplant and an extra $1 worth of mushrooms. Coworkers were happy with their veal and steak etc.

For the low staffing of 3 people, this place pumped out a rather amazing quantity of food in short order!

As a side note, for the single ladies out there, I would suggest you start frequenting this joint. The clientele was about 90% men!!!

Here's the web link.

Chorizo (Mississauga)

This burrito joint is ridiculously busy with the local engineering company employees happily picking up and munching on delicious cal-mex food.

With a ridiculous number of extremely efficient employees, the line keeps moving allowing the next wave of happy customers to get their burrito in a timely fashion!

My only beef about this place is their ridiculous use of Spanglish - like "Salsa Verde" is actually red etc etc. Either get it right, or stay away from the Mexican terms for things.

Spoon & Fork (Etobicoke)

For a Sunday night, this place was shockingly busy and reservations are definitely required!!! This place is one of the nicer looking joints in Etobicoke.

The format was all you can eat Japanese, including sushi, and thai.

Some stuff the table got:

• Coconut shrimp was awesome (and I'm not even a shrimp fan)
• Beef & chicken skewers - good
  
• Veggie tempura was decent
• Gyoza - so so no major complaints
• Mango salad had a weird flavor
• Edamame was meh
• My avocado-cucumber roll was meh too
  

The highlight of the night for me was a veggie/tofu golden curry and pineapple fried rice. The sauce was awesome with a great assortment of veggies. The fried rice had lots of good mystery items in there - shrimp, chicken, currents (I think).

At about $30 a person for the dinner buffet, the best plan is to come hungry!!