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Stylish black decor and a slick-and- spotless open kitchen means you can watch as your food is prepared. Excellent drinks like Cassis Oolong and Cassis Grapefruit cocktails. Highlights: The Kabocha and Walnut Salad (Japanese pumpkin purée with a slightly sweet cream that is spread on melba toast and wolfed down, the Yaki Niku (beef with a delicious sweet yet somewhat tart daikon sauce), and a must-have is the blow-torched mackerel. Be prepared to sit with strangers – not a quiet dinner place.
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A cheap eatery that attracts an amazing cross-section of clientele from punk kids to three-piece suits. The sushi and sashimi lists are three pages long. Complete dinners – with miso soup, goma ae, tuna sashimi, tempura, rice, ice cream and tea/coffee – include a gyoza dinner for $14.25 – cheap! Feeling adventurous? Try the cream cheese rolls: red pepper with cream cheese ($2.35), or the Clubhouse special cream cheese with prawn tempura, asparagus and red pepper (eight pieces, $5.25).
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Tojo’s starts arguments: Some people say Tojo’s is the best Japanese restaurant in Vancouver. Others say it’s the best in Canada. Still others say it’s the best in North America. Some say it’s the most expensive Japanese restaurant in the city, others say it’s the cheapest five-star restaurant on the continent. However you slice it (and watching Tojo slice-and-dice is a pleasure), rest assured that the world is beating a path to Tojo’s doors with good reason: He’s that good.
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