Kinkaku Izakaya

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Silver Spoon was the previous occupant of that location. I've heard that the a la carte menu items are vastly better than the "All you can eat" menu. Rumour has it that the owners didn't want to switch to an all you can eat format, but were obliged to do so to respond to the local market.

That's been the case at a few places I believe. It's too bad most people in Waterloo Region don't appreciate good sushi enough to sway from the AYCE menu

Yes. I find it super annoying that it's hard to not get all you can eat sushi. There used to be good sushi at the place in the Seagram's Lofts, now closed. Also, as someone had previously mentioned, Tomu on Erb is good, as is Watami on King St.

We have been to Kinkaku Izakaya once, and it was good. Can't remember what we had at the moment.

There were indeed a lot of renovations from the Silver Spoon space. It feels a lot more like a rectangle now than it used to. All the brickwork is new.