Fune Japanese Restaurant

Came here on a Thursday at 5:30. We were the first ones here at the sushi bar and surprisingly wasn’t too busy even when we left around 6:30.
Let’s start with the pros:
— The atmosphere was fantastic! The big draw is the sushi bar with floating boats that travel around the bar. I think this is definitely worth going to see.
— The quality of the food was also amazing! The sushi was all very fresh and of high quality, the chicken yakitori (a must try!) was moist and flavorful, and the tempura was flakey and not overly heavy.
— The service was very professional. We were greeted when we got in, promptly attended to during our stay, and everyone thanked us as we left.
A few cons:
— Very pricey. Ordering a mix of sushi rolls, appetizers, and sushi/​sashimi from the sushi bar came to over $ 50 per person. And we didn’t order an excess amount of food.
— The sushi comes with wasabi. I don’t much care for wasabi and since they give you your own dish of wasabi, I feel that they should play it safe and not put wasabi directly on the sushi.
— Each plate from the sushi bar is color-​coded with the price. It took me a little while to memorize how much each plate cost. They have a pricing guide that rotates with the sushi but you’ll have to wait for it to come back around if you want to see it.
Overall, I recommend trying this place at least once. This restaurant is very high in quality and the sushi bar boats were a lot of fun to see! However, because of the price, I don’t see myself going back unless it’s for a very special occasion.

So after getting our Blue Mountain on we decided to drop by Toronto for a spot of lunch. After a bit of research on the Internet, Unilocal,and some brainstorming, we decided to give this restaurant a go. Dropped the address on Waze and off we go.
We get in right about 40 minutes before closing time which is understandable, they close around 2 pm so the sushi chefs have already started packing up. Whatever that was left on the boats were pretty much what we’re having for lunch.
I like the artistic nature of their plates, specially the sashimi plates garnished with shizo and daikon. These guys know what they’re doing. Plus the nigiris, or whatever that was left was pretty good too. The tea was hot and the water was cold.
The host was very accommodating and attentive, so are the wait staff. We’ll come earlier next time so we can take their full arsenal of sushi plates for a spin.
Thank you Fune! I’ll see you again next time.
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I love coming here, I never have a bad experience.
If this is going to be your first visit, go there with an open mind and know it’s a little over priced. So if your watching your wallet just walk out. You’re paying for the nice environment, nice service and your experience, so just relax and check your cheapness at the door.
Each time I go the service is great. The manager makes sure you don’t wait too long for anything. I always sit at the sushi bar, I like watching the little boats pass me by as I eat. And if there is something that you want but isn’t passing by, they take orders upon request. I’m obsessed with their shrimp tempura udon noodles. Something in their broth is addictive and soooo delicious. Service can be a little too attentative but always on point.
This restaurant is a great treat once in awhile to spoil yourself and I definitely recommend for a date night or something different and fun.

Service and a la carte food was great. The sushi on the river conveyor belt can sometimes be there for hours so be wary of that.

At the current price it is not really worth it. However, I really love their sushi boat conveyor belt, it is very cool and don’t see it often in Toronto.

This is one of the first «good» sushi places I found in Toronto. It’s located underground and depending on when you arrive it can be busy or empty.
The most popular feature of the restaurant is the kaiten style conveyor belt; kids love it and often there are no spots available around the belt.
I prefer the sit down area and here waitresses are very attentive (perhaps to the extreme). There is a manager who watches to make sure the service is quick and efficient; she gives «the look» if they are not. For glutinos: they can obsess about making sure there is no gluten in your meal.
The food is pricy but good. Fresh, presented beautifully with many unique creations. I’d definitely go back.

I’ve been here a couple of times and the place is always nearly empty. Strange though, as it has some of the most delicious sushi that I’ve tried in the city. Though offering only a small selection, the sushi items are expertly crafted and very good. There’s even an old style rotating sushi belt, which, I hear, is fairly uncommon these days.

I always loved the place but it was great to go there with my whole family, my son was happy with the floating boats and being able to choose what food looked great. My Eastern European father who is a meat and potatoes guy really enjoyed the beef/​rice meal off the menu — there were intricately carved veggies into flowers, meat was well seasoned and good. I also liked pulling off the boats the delicious food :) Overall, great experience, a bit pricier but given the location, great service, décor it is worth the money because it is an experience.

ehhhh I would not order the sashimi set– it’s rather expensive and the fish is not fresh nor is it anything special, AT ALL. please see posted pic. you could get this at any mediocre sushi place for less– and it would probably taste better to be honest.
I’ve also ordered the lunch bentos and those are actually pretty decent.
I also think the rotating conveyer belt of expensive sushi/​sashimi selections in little boats is quite amusing and might come back to experience that again.
BUT, pretty bad price vs food quality is what I felt…

I had a good time, but it was because of my friends — certainly not because of the restaurant and their overpriced food.
Fune Japanese Restaurant adapts the «kaiten» sushi serving style in Japan; that is, the chiefs would place sushi on small plates and send them around a huge table with a rotating conveyor belt or moating winds. The problem about this restaurant is it’s damn expensive — a lot of the small plates (2 pieces of sushi) would cost you more than 7 dollars. Considering that the food are often not as fresh as the ones in the real sushi bars, people in Japan go for Kaiten because they want to save time & money just like how we dine in our fast food restaurants. Just imagine you pay 7 bucks for a junior chicken lol — that was exactly how I feel when I was at Fune.
Again, I wouldn’t say that they have the worst sushi in town. I just don’t like the fact that this place’s price is not based on their food, but their conveyor belt (frankly I don’t eat conveyor belts). Plus, kaiten sushi is rather mediocre and common in Asia. Fune’s price does not match with both the quality of their food and the idea behind kaiten sushi. Disappointment.
Also, I ordered a Ten-​Don on top of my sushi. It did not worth $ 20.00 (including tax) in any way. The rice, and the coating of the tempera were especially disappointing. They tasted like the bento box you would get from a typical Asian supermarket (where they sell Ten-​Don for 5 bucks). They did not use sushi rice for the donburi, and the tempera coating was soaking. Sigh*
I believe Fune made their food so expensive because they are the only kaiten sushi restaurant in Toronto. I think some competitions are required in the future, so they will learn to make real quality food with decent prices.

Average sushi (from the train), stern/​unfriendly but prompt service.
Sat down at the sushi train part of the restaurant (there is also a normal sit down section where you order from the menu). Variety of rolls and sashimi are lacking. Also a bit expensive ($ 7 for 2 pieces of what looked to be white tuna nigiri, although didn’t taste like it so I have no idea what that was?). Some of the dishes were on the train the entire time I was sitting there, so freshness may be in question (although what I got tasted okay.) Due to the lack of variety, I ordered the agedashi tofu off the menu, which was good (though hard to mess up).
Service was a bit abrupt bordering unfriendly, but efficient.

Wonderful place at a price. Food is great, atmosphere is there, but only thing missing is a view.

I came here and sat in the main portion of the restaurant so I cannot comment on the conveyor belt experience. The staff were very attentive and the food was good, though overpriced. I had the torikaraage, avacado and cucumber roll and almond cheesecake.

I OWE this place a review! I had come here by accident a little while ago whilst I was in Toronto for the weekend. My friend and I were FLOORED by how good everything was. First, we were greeted immediately. We sat at the sushi bar (we were the only ones) but there was a cute boat sushi, kind of like a conveyor belt. As soon as we walked in, there were so many new dishes coming out. I felt special that they were making all those dishes for us. Needless to say, I was almost full before my Oyako-​don came… but I ate that too and kept eating from the boats. Everything was wonderful. The staff was attentive and even spoke with us in Japanese through the whole visit. I felt like I was in Japan again. Anyway I would DEFINITELY recommend this place for anyone who wants real Japanese food. My only regret is that I couldn’t take this place back to the US with me!

The food there was awesome! Very authentic and great experience for my taste buds… Love the concept of conveyer belt sushi on floating boats, but sort of disappointed with the limited choices — not many people were there throughout our dinner, and the expensive dishes that no one wanted to take just stayed there forever, and I almost felt like taking down some dishes just for them to replace with new ones… Everything else was perfect, the environment was nice and quite, the service was good, and I’ll definitely revisit.

Excellent high-​end sushi restaurant with a well-​implemented boat system. Really good quality on all the sashimi and signature rolls. Atmosphere was quiet and upscale, and service was good. Pricing was slightly on the high side but nothing too outrageous for a sushi place in downtown.
Unfortunately, the menu pricing was hard to understand. $ 12 for «Dynamite». Does this dynamite plate come with 4 pieces of maki? 6? Jumbo or small? So it becomes very difficult to anticipate if the value is worth while. Turns out it was four jumbo pieces. And this was odd; two pieces of salmon nigiri or three large pieces of salmon sashimi. Both for $ 5.50. Clear winner there, but a little odd nonetheless.
Either way, service was great, even for a 9pm sitting. Fune is open about an hour later than most of the other sushi places nearby.

Arriving here for a late dinner with a big party, the staff was accommodating and polite. We had a seat at the sushi boat which was enjoyable. The plates are priced a bit oddly, for example the salmon sashimi plate which has 3 nice, thick pieces was the same price as the salmon nigiri which only had 2 pieces of salmon which were rather tiny.
The sushi quality is superb, and the rolls were delicious. We had a very enjoyable dinner here.

Fune is like visiting a familiar and comfy old home. Err — or maybe that’s just on account of my being here at least 1 – 3 times per week for lunch. I love watching the hypnotizing miniature wooden boats float by on the «sushi-​go-​round» moat. It somehow makes it a lot less awkward in dining alone, like staring at a TV screen with only one channel/​the fireplace channel. Aww yeaaaah, I would totally subscribe to that one.
The sushi quality is a bit higher than AYCE. Here, the glistening slabs of fish are cut a little thicker, the sashimi is served atop a shiso leaf, and pieces aren’t like a car tire of rice the way AYCE places roll them out (pun intended, oh thilly, thilly Rando). But a certain other sushi joint close by has ruined all other sushi joints in Toronto for me, and I now expect no less than to be given a piece-​by-​piece served straight from the chef’s cutting board to a plate in front of me. I mean, all the sushi sitting on one singular plate at once? What am I, a peasant?! Pfft.
Bratty kidding aside, the pricing here is reasonable for the area. For example, an order of ika sashimi is $ 10 as opposed to a much stingier portion for about $ 15 at a neighbouring sushi place. I recommend to skip the greasy, heavy-​battered tempura and try the nabeyaki udon instead. Broth sweetened by the nappa cabbage, my tip is to eat the scallop before it turns rubbery…

There might be Japanese staff at this place, but the rice is not authentically prepared sushi rice, and thus is as close to real sushi as an AYCE place, and at least at AYCE the price matches the low quality.
Fune and it’s old, run down dining room aren’t worth the prices here.
For authentic Japanese food, owned and operated by someone who is Japanese, in a beautiful modern open décor try Yutaka on Dundas, it’s the real deal and the food is as artistically presented as it is delicious.
Watch the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi and learn what the art form is really about. Fune isn’t it.

It was already past 10 by the time we arrived in the area to celebrate a friend’s birthday later that night. (We wanted to try Yuzu No Hana but sadly, they close an hour earlier than Fune on Friday nights.)
We walked by Fune and saw the conveyor belt, and we just had to try it! I’ve had conveyor belt sushi a few times in Hong Kong and have always loved it. I knew it could get a bit pricey but neither my boyfriend or I have tried it in Toronto.
We sat at the sushi bar where we could see the chefs preparing the sushi and sashimi. It was near closing so there weren’t many choices, nor were the chefs putting many new dishes out. We just picked up whatever we liked from the sushi boats. The plates usually just sit on a conveyor belt, but at Fune, the plates are placed on floating sushi boats, which is kind of neat. However, the plates are not labelled. There is a set of plates that is labelled with the prices, by the colour and pattern of the plate. But they don’t provide you with anything in hand that you can always refer to; whether it’s the name of the dish, fish or price.
Besides the conveyor belt sushi, we also ordered a chirashi sushi dinner and a tonkatsu dinner. I really enjoyed the chirashi sushi. It was nicely presented and the fish was very fresh and tasty. For this reason and this reason only, I would return to Fune! Besides that, for the price we paid for the tonkatsu dinner, we were surprised at how big the portion was (compared to the prices at Mississauga’s Korean/​Japanese restaurants). My boyfriend enjoyed it so much, he finished it before I could try another bite.
Despite being the last ones to leave, the staff was friendly throughout. The ambiance and décor was really nice. It’s a little classy and a little romantic. It was nice since we were both dressed up for our friend’s birthday celebration later that night anyway!
We will definitely be returning to Fune, and I think next time, we’ll be dining at a busy hour when they have the most items on the conveyor belt. Looking forward to it already!