Sashimi Plate

This time I just had a quick dinner with an amazing sashimi plate. It came with kanpachi (amber jack), maguro (tuna), sake (salmon), walu (white tuna) & hamachi (yellowtail) and was just as amazing as I hoped it would be. With little time left in Miami Beach, I couldn’t stick around for dessert, but I will whenever I come back to Miami.

Sushi Guide Verdict

As expected, the atmosphere didn’t change over the few days between my visits to Toni’s Sushi Bar. The dark and cozy setting of the restaurant made me feel at home. Once again the menu offered a great selection of fish. The quality and taste of the fish was very good although I was unable to try items from the daily specials menu. They were already sold out. The drink menu offers a good variety sake options. The service team was very polite and everything smoothly.

Review date: January 10, 2016

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Operating since 1987, Toni’s Sushi Bar claims to be the first sushi restaurant in Miami Beach. High Zagat ratings underline the ongoing success of the restaurant. The menu ranges from soups and salads to large entrees such as Toni’s duck or Toni’s steak. The Sushi selection is quite good and offers various choices of both moriawase or omakase style sashimi plates. Toni’s Sushi Bar leaves nothing to be desired on terms of menu options.

Sashimi Dinner

The omakase sashimi plate was quite amazing with cobia (finfish), hamachi (yellowtail), kanpachi (amber jack), maguro (tuna) and sake (salmon). I ordered some additional aji (horse mackerel), tai (red snapper) and toro (bluefin fatty tuna belly) from the daily specials menu. All of these were amazing and if the toro hadn’t sold out, I would have ordered even more.

I finished the dinner with a sake cava temaki (grilled salmon skin handroll), an unagi (freshwater eel) nigiri and a anago (sea eel) nigiri. I never had anago before and liked it very much. Still it falls behind the unagi, one of my absolute favorites.

Sushi Guide Verdict

The atmosphere of at Toni’s Sushi Bar is cozy and familiar. It is quite dark and one feels at home even when the place is packed. Although there is no particular style to the interior design, it feels like a very original place. The sushi menu offers a great selection of fish with additional items on the daily specials menu. The quality and taste of the fish was outstanding and far better than to be expected. The drink menu offers a good variety of wine, beer and premium sake options. The service team was very polite although there were some language issues from time to time.

Review date: December 31, 2015

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The restaurant offers typical diner/grill dishes and a selection of sushi delicacies. Although not a all sushi restaurant, Kaiyo Grill & Sushi comes with high praises for sushi aficionados in Southern Florida. The menu ranges from specialty rolls such as hogfish to a decent tuna selection and offers several vegetarian dishes as well.

Sashimi Plate

Since I only stopped at Kaiyo Grill & Sushi for quick lite dinner on the way back to Miami from Key west, I opted for a 5 piece sashimi plate. I got some decent hotategai (scallop). sake (salmon), hamachi (yellow tail) and walu (white tuna a.k.a. butterfish). The hamachi definitely was amazing and was only topped by the walu, which might very well have been the first time I had white tuna of this quality. I never was into white tuna before but this time it had an amazing texture and taste.

Sushi Guide Verdict

Unfortunately it wasn’t as great as expected at Kaiyo Grill & Sushi. Also the restaurant is nicely located with views of the ocean from the terrace, it is also close to the highway and rather noisy. The decor is that of an average American restaurant with a nice and cozy touch to it. The restaurant has a small sushi bar which seems squeezed into the main dining room and doesn’t quite fit the rest of the ambience. The sushi menu is quite ok, offering a good variety of fish and vegetarian options. The quality is good as well, but far from amazing. The drink menu is of average size, quite ok for an American diner. Prices are as high as to be expected on the Florida Keys and the service seems to be accustomed to tourists rather than locals. The overal feel of the service was rather disappointing, making me wonder about all the locals that seem to like the place. All in all it was worth the stop, I might come back one day, but certainly not because of the sushi.

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Food Quality
Drink Variety
Service
Average

Review date: December 29, 2015

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