Ho Su Bistro

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. You get SO MUCH when you order from ho su. The «crazy dragon» when you look at the picture it looks small. But it’s actually huge, like 3 – 4 times the size of the picture. You pay 7.25 $ (Take out) for chicken teriyaki and tempoura, they give you a lot. And everything tastes really good. (And I’m a person that hates food cause nothing tastes good anymore lol) But this place DOES taste good. I’ve gone to ho us so many times, I live an hour from the city and every time I think of going into Toronto, I think to go to ho su.

Food is alright but they forgot to give me fork or chopsticks when I ordered takeout.
I ate with my hands.

Ho Su on Yonge is a high volume lunch destination for nearby office workers seeking quick service and low prices. Customers will eat reasonably fresh food for a near-​trivial amount of money and not feel empty in the stomach or the wallet. This is a convenient local kitchen and not a «destination» food experience.

I dined in a few times and had some mediocre, but well-​priced food, before dining in on a date which was when a spider came out of my Korean chicken and rice bowl. To avoid freaking out and making too much conversation with the date, I just pushed the food around in the bowl to make it look like I ate it… but really, a spider just came out of that.
Been back numerous times for some «meh» take out sushi against my better judgment because those take out prices agreed with my wallet. Now I have a savings account AND a stomach of steel.

No where near as good quality as their queen St location.
No banchan, which is unfortunate because I enjoyed that part when I used to go to the Queen St place.
Their sushi is decent, not mind blowing, the kampongi is still probably their best dish, and I had no complaints about their galbi.

In the context for what this place is, I think it is pretty good.
I never expected this place to be high end with chefs trained in Japan by highly-​regarded sushi masters working in Michelin-​star restaurants or having competed in the Iron Chef.
What I expect is a place with fair prices ($ 9-​$ 15), tastes like what it says it is on the menu and won’t make you sick because they get a decent turnover of customers. And that’s what I get.
I usually go there for their lunch specials and always finish my meal with my stomach fulfilled. The quality and taste aren’t going to blow away the competition but they offer their dishes at a great value in terms of price and quantity. The food is fresh and pretty good so I always feel like my money was well-​spent. In addition, their menu is quite extensive and probably offer more variety than the other sushi places nearby.
Yes, they do have Korean items on the menu but offering dishes that are non-​Japanese seem to be par for the course for mid-​range sushi restaurants in the GTA.
The service is pretty good and you won’t be waiting too long as you place your order. They are pretty efficient. So if you’re in the area, feel like sushi and not sure which one to try, you can’t go wrong here.

I used to really like Ho Su. The one on queen west has always been good for me. But this one on Yonge street has been very disappointing. We ordered the yellowtail and green onion (Niri Hagamachi I think) — it did not taste good at all. I’ve eaten this roll dozens of times before — here and at other restaurants. We told the waitress that the tuna roll did not taste «right» and she said «it’s not Tuna, it’s yellowtail.» We informed her yellowtail was a type of tuna. She said ohhhh and walked away. No offer to fix the problem, and no apology. Everything else was ok. The kimchi soup was awesome as usual. This location needs to really improve for me to return.

Great food, quick service. Yet the waitress was barely seen. They may need to get more wait staff, other then that everything was great! Definitely would go again. The setting was also nice, since I was on a date it’s nice to have a candlelit sushi dinner :)

I’ve been going to this place for about 10-​years and there’s been a definite slide in quality in the past year or so. A lot of cost-​cutting appears to be happening and the food isn’t as good as it used to be. The tempura vegetables now appear to be some kind of batter dipped concoction and the shrimps are cut in half lengthwise, so you get a just slender, half piece of shrimp and way too much tempura.
I still go here because the kampongi is pretty solid and they have great little spicy tuna maki. They’re usually quite busy which to me means fresh ingredients because nothing is sitting around for long.

Yaaaaaaaa, no. I’ve had take-​out from here before during my lunch hours and it was very mediocre but I’ve never been here for just a regular sit-​down meal until recently. I read the other reviews before coming here so I didn’t have very high expectations and pretty much just expected mediocre food, it was a little bit below that. I ordered the Spicy Beef Soup and my friend ordered the Kimchi Soup. Neither of these dishes were spicy and they didn’t come with side dishes. If you’re looking for something spicy and soupy, this is not what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for a nice sit-​down restaurant, this is probably not what you’re looking for either. There are a few better places in the area. If you’re looking for a quick and cheap bite? Yeah, Ho Su is ok. I would probably not go out of my way to eat here again but it is super cheap for the amount of food so I would probably continue to do take out.

So disappoint of the spicy beef soup… I thought it will be like Korean pork bone soup, even it is not, it shouldn’t be like left over dish. 10 small pieces of beef that cited in wrong way, makes it become so chewy. Tons of onion, a bit of egg and a few bean sprout. the body of the soup is just pepper, oil and water! Hell that’s not a soup and it cost almost 10 dollars!
Sushi is like a piece of fish on a huge rice ball. You can barely taste the fish.

It’s just ok. Took one of my interns for a lunch and the bentos are nothing spectacular. The service is ok too with a lot of quasi-​Korean and Japanese food.

Very decently sized portions for affordable prices. The rolls were big and the bentos, huge.
Though, there was something very curious with the shrimp tempura.
It was almost as if the body of the shrimp was replaced with fish paste that was rolled out and had a tail stuck on. At least, that’s what I got from the texture. Weird.
Strange tempura aside, I like this place and I’d be back.

Neighborhood Japanese restaurant that also serves some Korean dishes. The price is good and have great lunch specials and bento boxes. I had a sashimi and California roll bento box and the food is pretty good although I’m not a sushi connoisseur. Staff was pretty friendly. Good place to grab a quick bite!

Had lunch w/​my friend here. They had lots of set lunches, rolls, etc. Lunch Specials were around $ 7.00 +. The portions were huge (well to me…) and they gave you soup, salad & edamame. Lots of Korean dishes as well. But I was here purely for rolls ^^
I only had the Kamikaze Roll (avocado, tempura, spicy mayo) $ 5.99? It It was nice & it had 10 pieces. Great deal imho.
Service was great. Everything came pretty quickly !
Take out, delivery, catering available.

This place used to be better. It’s not bad, but my last few visits were extremely disappointing.
The dressing on the salad was startlingly tart and acidic, and the kampongi shrimp was sub-​standard, with the shrimp being either flavourless or having a bad kind of fishiness to it.
Very disappointed by the tempura onion rings, which were run of the mill frozen onion rings, served with ketchup.
The sushi is inconsistent and never great, prices have gone up for the take out specials, and the service seems to reflect the general unhappiness of the staff.
Not sure if there has been a change of management, but I cannot recommend in good faith.

I really like this place. It was my favourite Asian food spot when I lived locally to it and would make the effort to go back. The tempura is the best from here and I really enjoy the katsu.
We have eaten in the restaurant and used the takeout/​delivery service and both are good. Even with the delivery service it comes with complimentary soup.

Well. I used to go there a lot when I lived in the neighbourhood. Foot that time was fantastic.
My recent visit was Bad;(
First, the service was lousy. They only had one waitress working her ass off. I played half time ‘looking for the waitress’ game.
Second, we had Yonge St. sushi for lunch that day. The rice was dry and the fish was not so fresh.
Very disappointed experience, sign…

Ordered a Chicken Korean lunch box with Tempuras. The chicken is seasoned with Korean hot sauce, and the taste was just perfect! Not too salty or dry, the chicken meat was soft and amazing! Tempura was really crispy and doesn’t taste oily at all! (although it is deep fried, but…) I liked every bit of what I ordered. Definitely returning again

After reading some decent reviews, I decided to try this place considering my 2^nd office is right next to it.
I went with a co-​worker and she had a chicken dolsot bibimbap and I had the beef dolsot bibimbap. I also ordered kamikaze sushi which had tempura bits, spicy mayo, avocado and some other stuff. It was basically a veggie sushi roll.
While not authentic Korean, the food was very filling as both our bibimbap’s had a boatload of rice, meat, sliced carrots, spinach and very nicely cooked egg where the yolk will spill and ooze onto the rice. Yummy.
In addition, the meal also came with edamane, miso soup and salad. All the apps were standard and did the job.
The total for all this food was $ 30 tax in for two people. Not bad. I didn’t really need to order the sushi roll, but I wanted to try it.
So why only 3 stars?
a) This is more Japanese than Korean because there was no banchan (no kimchi, tofu, potatoes)
b) The hot sauce wasn’t Korean hot. It tasted like it was «Canadian-​ized».
Do I like this place? Yes. Would I go out of my way to visit this place? No.
Would I come back? Yes, if I’m in the area. Decent value, good food.