If you are in Montreal and want to eat good sushi - consider yourself screwed. You cannot find good sushi in the city. It is often overpriced and simply not that good. However, Toronto has amazing sushi and every time I go there, I try to eat as much as I can. Its cheap, too! There is one place on Clarke and Young named "Gizma" I believe, where you can feed 4 people for $30 tax in. And the sushi is really good. Their Kamikaze roll and Moscow rolls are to die for. I love good sushi and eat it pretty often, and this comes from someone who tries sushi in good places (Nobu or Sushi Samba in NYC for example), and I can honestly say that Gizma, for a small shop that they are makes sushi that is second-best to Nobu (Nobu, btw, is partly owned by Robert De Niro).

So I am pissed off I cannot get good sushi like that in the city of my residence (Montreal) at affordable-Toronto prices, and I refuse to pay $3-per piece for sushi that tastes like French toast. It is embarrassing really. So I decided to perhaps learn how to make good sushi myself, depending if it is at all possible. I know we have Michael who is a Chef, and Vito, who just loves to cook to help me understand whether this is at all possible to learn. Sushi seems so different from any other cuisine, so do I really need all the skills those cuisines require (like the ones you learn in a cooking school) in order to learn how to make amazing sushi myself?

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You should be able to do it with a little practice and a book or two Art.
There are probably short courses in the city as well.

I had the advantage, when I wanted to learn Sushi, of hiring a trained Japanese chef to show me the ropes.

I was considering private lessons, but I think I will stick to book learning for now.
I found a couple of DVDs from Master Sushi Chefs I can get for visual help.

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It's limited around me too. There are a few good places though.