Soul Stone Sushi Grill and Bar

The stone grill is where the name comes from. Soul Stone cooks its signature pancake rolls on hot stone, finishes them with snow crab and torched spicy mayo, and lets that single plate stand in for the whole idea behind the restaurant: Japanese sushi, Thai aromatics, and Chinese comfort cooking running off one menu on Saint Joseph Boulevard in Orléans. Two menus actually run in parallel here. À la carte is available whenever the doors are open, while the food-tasting program — the all-you-can-eat mode — keeps its own daypart windows, with separate lunch and dinner pricing that marks it as a standing part of the operation rather than a one-off promotion.

Sushi is the strongest path through that menu, and the special-roll board is where it turns specific. The Very Good Roll is the house deep-fried statement: salmon, cream cheese, crabstick, unagi sauce, and spicy mayo, fried and sauced into something closer to a small course than a side. The Madness Dragon builds on a prawn-tempura base with Tai snapper, jalapeño, and a spicy Peri-Peri finish; the Sunrise lays torched spicy salmon over the same tempura base; the Fire Dragon torches fresh salmon to close. Pressed sushi gets its own attention — the Spicy Salmon Oshi is fresh Atlantic salmon torched with spicy mayo and jalapeño — and the sushi pizza sets torched spicy salmon and avocado over a lightly breaded round of sushi rice. The Spider Roll and the Oh Canada round out a board that carries the kitchen's own names and its own hand.

What keeps all of this from being a sushi counter with a few extras is how fully the other cuisines are cooked. Pad Thai arrives with crushed almonds folded through the usual egg, bean sprouts, and sweet-spicy sauce; the Thai coconut curry runs seasonal vegetables and basil through yellow curry and coconut milk; the Thai basil udon swaps in thick Japanese noodles under a medium-spicy Thai sauce. The Chinese side carries its own weight — General Tao's chicken comes with the sauce on the side so the breading stays crisp, and the Chicken Harmony pairs those same crisp strips with a peach-and-cream sauce. Vegetarians are not an afterthought either, with a dish of eggplant and tofu in black bean sauce holding down the meatless end. None of it reads as filler.

That breadth is the practical case for eating here. A table that can't agree still finds its plates — sushi for one diner, a curry for another, General Tao's for the kid who will not be moved — and the party combinations, the maki-and-sashimi sets, and the Thai Dinner for Two are built for exactly that kind of mixed order. Soul Stone has worked this corner of Orléans Town Centre since 2015, and the service surface has grown to match how the neighbourhood actually uses it: dine-in and reservations for the sit-down crowd, pickup and delivery for the nights a table stays home. The hours tell their own story — closed Mondays, dinner through the midweek, and a noon open on Friday and Saturday when the all-you-can-eat windows do their heaviest work.

The all-you-can-eat fills the dining room, but it is not quite the reason to come; it is the format a confident kitchen can afford to run. The reason is narrower than that — a torch passing over pressed salmon, a roll that exists under one name in one place, a curry cooked like someone meant it. Order the program when the table wants the full tour. Order off the board when it already knows. Either way the stone the name points to is still hot in the back, doing the one thing it has done from the start.