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The Best Aburi Sushi in Toronto

Shania & Peony Wong

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Shania & Peony Wong

The Best Aburi Sushi in Toronto

The best aburi sushi comes torched, pressed and filled with flavour. Draped with a variety of fresh fish and drizzled with spicy sauces and slick glazes and even dollops of caviar -- there are plenty of options to choose from when seeking the best aburi sushi in Toronto.

There are many types and styles of sushi out there, with aburi sushi being one. Aburi sushi consists of rice topped with a thin slice of fish partially seared on top using a blowtorch. This melt in your mouth sushi is usually served oshizushi style by compressing all the components into a rectangular mould.

Here are some of the best places for aburi sushi in Toronto.

KAKA All You Can Eat

This Japanese all you can eat restaurant offers three kinds of premium blow-torched sushi, including salmon, shrimp and their signature aburi sushi topped with salmon and scallop.

KAKA All You Can Eat

This Japanese all you can eat restaurant offers three kinds of premium blow-torched sushi, including salmon, shrimp and their signature aburi sushi topped with salmon and scallop.

EDO-ko

The nigiri sushi at this Japanese restaurant in Forest Hill is blowtorched and topped with sauces like Japanese miso mustard and a balsamic reduction.

EDO-ko

The nigiri sushi at this Japanese restaurant in Forest Hill is blowtorched and topped with sauces like Japanese miso mustard and a balsamic reduction.

Hay Sushi

Japanese

There are two options when it comes to aburi sushi at this spot in North York. Both their yuzu salmon and double shrimp are blowtorched and drizzled with yuzu oil.

Hay Sushi

There are two options when it comes to aburi sushi at this spot in North York. Both their yuzu salmon and double shrimp are blowtorched and drizzled with yuzu oil.

Japanese

Project: Fish

This sushi restaurant in Richmond Hill and North York specializes in aburi style sushi. Their pressed sushi is topped with a secret sauce made in-house.

Project: Fish

This sushi restaurant in Richmond Hill and North York specializes in aburi style sushi. Their pressed sushi is topped with a secret sauce made in-house.

Baldwin Village

49 Baldwin St

Yuugi Izakaya

You’ll find torched pressed sushi at this izakaya in Baldwin Village. Options include torched salmon with maplewood smoked shellfish and torched mackerel with a sesame shiitake mushroom filling.

Yuugi Izakaya

Baldwin Village

49 Baldwin St

You’ll find torched pressed sushi at this izakaya in Baldwin Village. Options include torched salmon with maplewood smoked shellfish and torched mackerel with a sesame shiitake mushroom filling.

Queen West

478 Queen St W

Saku Sushi

The pressed sushi at this Japanese fusion restaurant on Queen West is topped with special house-made sauces that are then seared with a blowtorch.

Saku Sushi

Queen West

478 Queen St W

The pressed sushi at this Japanese fusion restaurant on Queen West is topped with special house-made sauces that are then seared with a blowtorch.

Aburiyaki Sushi

Located in the food court at Shops on Yonge is this sushi stall with seven types of aburi sushi. There’s ebi (shrimp), unagi, tilapia, beef tenderloin, mackerel, tuna and salmon.

Aburiyaki Sushi

Located in the food court at Shops on Yonge is this sushi stall with seven types of aburi sushi. There’s ebi (shrimp), unagi, tilapia, beef tenderloin, mackerel, tuna and salmon.

Minami Toronto

Toronto's first location of Vancouver's popular Minami restaurant brings elegant decor, refined contemporary Japanese cuisine and Aburi sushi to King West.

Minami Toronto

Toronto's first location of Vancouver's popular Minami restaurant brings elegant decor, refined contemporary Japanese cuisine and Aburi sushi to King West.

JaBistro

Not only is the pressed sushi at this Kinka Family restaurant in the Entertainment District torched, but so is their signature JaBistroll maki roll.

JaBistro

Not only is the pressed sushi at this Kinka Family restaurant in the Entertainment District torched, but so is their signature JaBistroll maki roll.

Church and Wellesley

507 Church St

Torch Pressed Sushi - Church

The name of this restaurant with two locations across the city says it all. They specialize in eight types of torched sushi like BBQ unagi, marinated butterfish, zesty shrimp and spicy salmon.

Torch Pressed Sushi - Church

Church and Wellesley

507 Church St

The name of this restaurant with two locations across the city says it all. They specialize in eight types of torched sushi like BBQ unagi, marinated butterfish, zesty shrimp and spicy salmon.

Harbourfront

10 Bay St # 105

Miku Toronto

This Harbourfront restaurant is the pioneer of aburi sushi in Canada. They have three kinds of flame-seared sushi to choose from, including wild sockeye salmon, cooked prawn and house-cured mackerel.

Miku Toronto

Harbourfront

10 Bay St # 105

This Harbourfront restaurant is the pioneer of aburi sushi in Canada. They have three kinds of flame-seared sushi to choose from, including wild sockeye salmon, cooked prawn and house-cured mackerel.