Sushi Star

Sit a divided table down at Sushi Star and the argument settles itself. One person wants raw fish, another wants something fried, a third wants the novelty plate nobody can name yet — and the menu is long enough to give all three what they came for without anyone compromising. This is an all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant on King Street East in Kitchener, near Fairview Park, where breadth is the whole idea: more than three hundred items spanning cold sushi and sashimi, rolls, skewers, tempura, teriyaki, bento boxes, and sushi pizzas. Lunch and dinner each carry their own pricing, and the meal arrives round by round rather than all at once.

The rolls are where the kitchen shows its hand. The Fire Dragon Roll stacks shrimp tempura, crabmeat, avocado, and cucumber, then finishes the whole thing with salmon, flying fish egg, and a house sauce; the Super Star Hand Roll folds BBQ eel, salmon, avocado, and tobiko into a single cone. A house dragon family runs the length of the case — black under a shingle of eel, red under salmon, green under avocado — and the signature rolls keep going past it, from the mango-wrapped Angel Roll to the tempura-yam Honey Star. The raw side holds its own, with thick-cut salmon sashimi and a twenty-piece sashimi boat carrying salmon, white tuna, red snapper, surf clam, and crab.