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    Akira Restaurant

    3.9 (53 reviews)
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    K. R.

    Favorite sushi spot in Kingston. Yes the service can be a little slow (they have one chef making the rolls), but I don't mind because you can tell the chef cares about what he's preparing, and takes his time to craft it carefully. The presentation is always beautiful. Sometimes we begin with vegetable tempura, which is tasty. Sometimes we even get a complimentary appetizer of creamy rice soup. We order the dynamite roll and the golden california roll, and sometimes the spider roll. The rolls are heavenly. I was recently dragged to one of those "all you can eat" sushi places, and holy moly was the sushi terrible. I appreciate Akira so much more now that I've tasted cheap sushi where the chef doesn't care about quality, only quantity. Akira is all about quality, and I'm happy to keep supporting this place!

    A cozy alcove for a small group
    Gaurav K.

    Having dinner at this restaurant thanks to fellow yelpers... Found this place on my way to Ottawa from Toronto.... Nice small establishment... Good food at decent price... We ordered seafood udon noodles and sushi dinner which were presented very nicely and inviting... Sushi was really well made with healthy fish portions and not like places where you get tiny sliver of fish along with whole lot of rice.... Udon noodles came with all sorts of seafood.. Clams, crab meat, squid etc... The portion was quite sumptuous and my wife couldn't get through whole of it... Overall a very nice meal on the road...

    Spicy tuna sashimi salad
    Adrian N.

    This place was great, driving through and found this place on yelp. Service was good, the place was rather empty when we went there. Ordered: Spicy Tuna Sashimi salad, was great good taste, fair portions just wish it had REAL crab meat instead of artificial Deep fried soft shell crab roll was awesome presentation tasted great as well, yelp picture is from me! only thing I noticed was rice wasn't correct (didn't contain enough rice vinegar and sugar) seemed like plain rice BiBimBap this is actually a korean dish on their menu, served in a hot stone bowl. They only way to do it, best dish we had. I would order this again if I came back. To note: I'm from Vancouver just traveling through and was seriously surprised to find a japanese spot this authentic just off the highway.

    Stopped in to try Akira. Nothing to look at from the outside strip mall location. Inside a bit better. Kind of a loud room when there is a large group but no worse than a lot of places. Service was fast and efficient enough. A bit of a wait for the check though. Shared the "Love Boat" which was enough food for two people and came with miso soup and a salad. At $45.00 was fairly priced I suppose. Some limited substitutions available on the assortment. We enjoyed the food. Rolls were nothing special but the sashimi was good, particularly the butterfish. Would return if I was in Kingston and looking for Japanese food.

    Salad and Mixed Tempura
    Andy G.

    Absolutely magnificent sushi and great service, just see the pictures! Slightly pricey, but you are paying for the quality.

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    Loved your Bento box. Great service, great food reasonable prices. Will come again the next time we visit Kingston.

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    Burning Grill Korean Cuisine - Thick pork belly. Thin beef. Marinated pork

    Burning Grill Korean Cuisine

    3.8(10 reviews)
    1.1 km

    We had just moved back to Fort Drum, NY from living in Korea for the last 3 years. Prior to Korea,…read morewe've gone to many Korean bbq in America and have had amazing experiences. This one was one of the most depressing experience I've had in my life. The kids were even sad First the grill. It's not the built into the table ones, so no air vents above to suck up the air. They bring the table side one to your table. Second, we had to complain twice about the weak flames/grill and that it was taking over 5 minutes to cook the paper thin beef slices. Kids were starving. Second, banchan. The side dishes. If you've been to any decent Korean restaurants, you know that the free side dishes are full of color and flavor. They only have us these sad dishes. The kimchi was fine, I just wanted some green onions, spinach, bean sprouts, something. Third... no steamed eggs! I don't think I've ever seen a Korean restaurant without Gyeran-jjim. That's one of our favorite side dishes, so that was disappointing. Fourth, garlic. We love getting thin slices of garlic to cook on the grill and eating it in our lettuce wrap. They claimed they didn't have any garlic. Odd. Location, off of the main road with plenty of parking. So that was good. The servers were kind, but had a tough time with the grill to work properly. We finally had one of the male servers to swap out the grill and the meat finally started sizzling. I think this place has great potential, but if it's a portable burner and barely any side dishes, I can easily do it at home. We love going out for kbbq for the full experience of endless banchan. Our search continues...

    It's alright. Being the only kbbq place in Kingston you really aren't left with any choice. Also…read morenot being downtown on Princess means people don't really know about this place but it doesn't get busy since the place is pretty large inside. We got a variety of marinated beef, kalbi, and pork belly. No complaints it gets the job done. Also got an order of tteokbokki and korean pancake which were also just ok. Would've liked the tteokbokki to have some extras in there other than just the rice cake. Textbook 3 star it's just ok but a bit pricy.

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    Banchan. Side dishes. SAD

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    Sakura - Fresh ingredients I'd say!

    Sakura

    2.6(39 reviews)
    3.1 km
    $$

    My parents brought us here for lunch on a Sunday and it was a very mixed bag. First off, the…read moreinterior is nicely decorated with Chinese and Japanese elements, including a bridge over a koi pond (missing fish, but plastic lobsters and crabs were present), artistic pottery, many red lantern lights, and soft Asian music. Even the bathrooms were nicely appointed. The staff were also very friendly. For food, I ordered off the Chinese menu and my wife ordered off the Japanese menu. My parents also ordered off the Chinese menu. I picked the "Sweet Crispy Chicken" which was supposed to be crispy chicken with fried noodles on top. I assumed it would come with some fruit (pineapple or cherries) or vegetable (peppers, carrots, peas, etc.) on the side. Nope, it was literally A LOT of pre-frozen deep fried chicken pieces (like what is part of sweet and sour chicken) with what I think was straight honey poured on top. That's it. It was sweet and greasy but nothing else. When I asked about the noodles, I was told that the kitchen doesn't do that anymore. It was a one-dimensional dish and extremely disappointing. A bowl of white rice came with it, and the rice wasn't cooked properly. That is a shame for an Asian restaurant. We were not offered any hot tea or fried noodles in a bowl either when we entered. Just about every Chinese restaurant I have ever been to has noodles, and most Asian restaurants offer tea. Again disappointing. My wife seemed to enjoy her sushi, and my parents both enjoyed their dishes, so I guess I just pulled the short straw. A picture menu, or an accurate menu description, would have gone a long way to helping me avoid this in the future.

    This is a great place to go for vegetarians - most restaurants you only get like two dishes to…read morechoose from. This one has like 15 vegetarian dishes; I actually can't eat all of them in one sitting and I eat a lot. The all-you-can-eat is a great deal if you're a big eater; I have never ordered off the menu. They also have a good deal on their very tasty Shirley Temples (drinks). That said, the mixed reviews on here also make sense to me: the food sometimes varies between cooks/depending on the day, and definitely varies between dishes. Their maki (sushi) is generally not the highest quality, but their vegetable/ pineapple fried rice is probably the best I've had, and I always get their fried banana, avocado salad, and edamame, as well as their tempura (though occasionally it's too greasy). It's a bit like the Mandarin, where you just learn to avoid a few things when you go. Occasionally you get something not great (in which case, they do seem pretty lenient with you leaving only a couple bites of something on your plate...which you can also slowly divide between your other empty plates so they don't care about the leftovers if you get something bad :P ) They have a great tablet ordering system so you can order several times while eating (esp great for those with social anxiety), and staff are generally polite when you do interact with them. Cute koi pond at the entrance too. Lunch is cheaper so I always go for that. This is the restaurant I eat at the most often in Kingston since I'm a vegetarian who eats a lot - definitely recommended :)

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    Sakura - Can't leave a bite must finish

    Can't leave a bite must finish

    Sakura - They have a lot of deep fried, battered, tempura-ed rolls ‍

    They have a lot of deep fried, battered, tempura-ed rolls ‍

    Sakura - Dinner following my talk at Queen's University at the 8TH annual Placenta Workshop.

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    Dinner following my talk at Queen's University at the 8TH annual Placenta Workshop.

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