Asahi Sushi

Best delivery sushi I’ve had in London. The woman on the other end of the phone is incredibly hard to understand though.

The owner of this restaurant changed and now it is called TenUp Sushi. They haven’t changed the décor at all but the food quality has gone downhill completely.
Ordered à la carte: miso soup, seafood salad, salmon maki, spicy tuna and avocado maki, mackeral sashimi and sashimi combo A (12 pieces including salmon, snapper, surf clam, white tuna, and crab).
Right off the bat we should’ve known to leave after the seafood salad arrived. The pieces of octopus in it were half frozen. Most of the sashimi combo pieces were half-​frozen too but the kicker was the crab pieces that oozed water when you squeezed them with your chopsticks. Everything else we ordered was not memorable.
The pickled ginger tasted like soap and the wasabi had no flavour at all.
The sushi chef doubled as our waitress. We were the only diners in the building but she spent most of her time preparing food for other take-​out orders.
The one star is for the old school R&B playing on the loudspeakers and that’s it.

Personal notes:
— Cold crab
— Wrong order (2 egg)
— Great taste small nigiri
— Eel sashimi rightly came as sushi
— Spicy salmon looked sad but tasted fine
— Generous sashimi cuts. Tasted fine.
— Roll was fine
— Ambiance sad dark dated. Felt like several diners died here. All in the 70s. What do you do with cheap wood paneling? Paint? Wallpaper? Dynamite?
Artwork or signage and definitely lighting would help immensely.
Overheard discussions between staff and what appeared to be regulars. They seemed really interested in engaging customers and are really personable folks.

Recent renovations (and new signage that says «Ten Up Sushi») made me think it’d be busier but sadly that’s not the case — both times I’ve eaten there (lunch) the place has been dead. There is a $ 12.99 «all you can eat» buffet that you have to ask for, which made me feel a bit guilty.
Fresh tasty fish, but the rice and nori is drier than I prefer.
Will go back for convenience and price! Those that live downtown/​EOA should give it a try.

Everyone was right about one thing, this place is in a pretty sketchy neighborhood. As for the rest of it… I can’t agree on a lot of it.
When you first enter, you have to get over that overwhelming smell of dirty dish rags. In fact, that smell never goes away, and it overpowers the smell of anything else.
It was also my first experience at a sushi restaurant run by Chinese people. Not that it is any better or worse, but that Chinese music they play consistently throughout your meals makes me search for Mongolian beef on the menu.
We also dropped by at 2PM on a Thursday afternoon, to find that this entire restaurant was empty. And it maintained in this empty state throughout the entirety of our meal.
My boyfriend ordered the Chicken Katsu and I got the spicy tuna crunch roll and Kani Maki. The soup they start you off with misses the wonderful little tofu squares typically found in most miso soups. If you can hear my tofu, I want you back… The miso dressing on the salad though, that was just not appetizing at all. I typically like the salads founds in most sushi spots, but this place had to have the worst dressing ever.
My food order came and it was… ok. The fish was fresh, but the rice just didn’t do it for me. As most people know, in sushi, it’s always about the rice and fish, and if one of those are bad, it throws off the entire dish. My boyfriends Katsu was good, but the tempura that came with it wasn’t very good either. I had never seen a eggplant tempura before, but I can see why now. Eggplant just absorbs all the oil, making the tempura something I didn’t want to touch ever again.
As for eating here again, I am not sure I want to trek all the way over here into this neighborhood for ok sushi. I still haven’t tried the other sushi spots yet, but if this is the best like you other Unilocalers say, then I suppose I would have no other choice…\
On a side note: their bathroom (washroom) is terrifying. You open this big heavy door, go down the stairs, into a equally creepy bathroom that wasn’t too clean and has a flickering light.

If you’re looking for sushi in London, this is the place. The price is decent (usually comes to about $ 30 for two of us), the food is good, and the selection is great.
They’ve gotten pretty good inspection reviews as well — always an important thing when you’re dealing with raw fish.
I have only gotten take out, so far — about 10 times — but the restaurant looks decent for eating in. The neighborhood is sketchy (Dundas and Adelaide) but it’s worth it.

Excellent sushi! We tried all the rest, and finally found the best.
–Price is reasonable (around $ 27 for two people)
–Fish is fresh, a widely varied menu with some trademark rolls, and some good sashimi. (Try the tempura bananas)
–Servers are great: attentive and always on top of your already-​nearly-​full glass. They giggle a lot, which is only problematic because I had childhood crush on sailor moon, and it makes me think naughty thoughts.
–Décor scares off trudes, (usually scared of the neighbourhood anyways) so you don’t have to overhear vapid conversations about what is playing this season at the Grand.

I’m a Hardcore Sushi eater and i gotta say for a restaurant like that to be at that end of town they’re awesome!
Every Weekend sunday around 4 – 7 pm I’m always there never missed a week and if i did i would still order take out me and my family we live about 45 –55 min away and yet we’re there all the time what does that tell you? Try it out ! you’ll definitely like it sometime there’s only 2 – 3 people working its worth the wait every time never the disappointment
Bloody A !

We have searched high and low for decent sushi in London. This place is cheap, and has the best fish. The neighborhood sucks, but there is usually parking in front. The décor is awesome… a classic 50’s diner that hasn’t been changed. Pie case in the front, soda fountain, water/​coffee station in the middle. Pleather seats, and plastic wood trim. Golden revolvers in a frame above your table. The service is not great (guess she doesn’t expect to be tipped, and kinda has a stick up her ass.) None-​the-​less… if you want good, cheap sushi… this place is awesome. Don’t waste your cash anywhere else in London.