We had a massive craving for fresh sashimi and did not feel like driving out to Taros Fish, which is our usual pick for choose-your-own sashimi grade fish to cut and eat at home. So when I came upon Seaborn Toronto, located way closer to home, I decided to give them a try.
Located on the industrial side of the Skycity Shopping Center, this tiny, non-descript store was equipped with 4-5 deep freezers and a standing freezer with a very good variety of frozen sashimi grade fish and an assortment of other frozen items. They also carry nori, miso and other basic Japanese items but not in huge quantity or variety.
I had called the store before going in to see if they had any unfrozen product which I could pick up for dinner, but they did not. But when the very friendly lady on the phone told me that I could pick up the fish (this was around 2 p.m.) and would still be able to serve it for dinner, I was excited to give them a try.
I ended up bringing home some salmon, Hamachi, scallops, tuna, suf clam, shrimp, and squid, which ended up filling one large and one small plate with some very delicious sashimi. We didn't even get to cut into our Tuna as there was no more room on our serving plates. I also bought a pack of very nice quality nori.
The flavour and the freshness of all the fish exceeded our expectation, and we all ate till we were full (2 adults and a tween). We still had some leftover hamachi, shrimp and a whole portion of tuna, which probably would easily yield 2 chirashi bowls.
All this great fish came to $96 including tax, which was an insanely good deal for the quality and variety we got.
I have a feeling that i will be back to try their other fish very soon. read more