Affinity Fish

Affinity Fish The goal of Affinity Fish is to provide people in Canada with a higher quality of fish and seafood th

New à la carte menu!Will start on Thursday September 3rd (next week). We’ve decided to go with a mix of familiar favouri...
08/28/2026

New à la carte menu!

Will start on Thursday September 3rd (next week). We’ve decided to go with a mix of familiar favourites and new favourites for this months à la carte menu.

Back to the classic fried whitefish sandwich for the Sando set, the noodles will be a cold soba (pictured above) with kalamansi, ramp oil, and a side of fried whitefish. And for the rice set we have decided to keep the tekka don because it has officially become our most popular dish.

Also of note, we have decided to bring on our housemade agedashi tofu, with a thickened dashi sauce and grated radish.

This menu is looking like a greatest hits of our previous menus, so we hope to see you soon!

📸: Matt Parker Max Taylor

•Dish Dive•A new section where we highlight some of our favourite dishes on our current tasting menu:For our August tast...
08/19/2026

•Dish Dive•

A new section where we highlight some of our favourite dishes on our current tasting menu:

For our August tasting menu we knew we wanted to use Ontario corn in some capacity. For this menu we decided to pair it with the beautiful swordfish from our friends Jason Tompkins served fried in a katsu style with panko bread crumbs and cooked till still juicy and pink in the center. Ontario corn kakiage, fried ginger, and kuroshichimi: a spice blend from Kyoto with mouth numbing citrusy goodness.

This is just one of the many courses that you receive in our Cold udon menu this month. So what are you waiting for?! Link in bio to reserve.

📸: Matt Parker Max Taylor

*Link in Bio to reserve!*It always feels bittersweet announcing our final dinners for our summer months, this is a time ...
08/18/2026

*Link in Bio to reserve!*

It always feels bittersweet announcing our final dinners for our summer months, this is a time of year that we look forward to for so long and for good reason, but alas here we are:

For the month of September we are back to our Canadian omakase menu format. With our P.E.I. fishing season in full swing, we have been receiving beautiful specimens of both swordfish and bigeye tuna recently. On the west coast, the albacore tuna grounds have blessed us with an abundance of one of our favourite fish that seems to be a crowd favourite in each and every sushi menu we do. Produce is also aplenty here in Ontario as we’re sure you all have noticed: Niagara stone fruit, summer squash, first of the season carrots, and of course nightshades are all literally popping off right now. 

Diners can expect a few appetizers including house-made corn tofu with whitefish “ushio” broth and tender caraflax cabbage. A nightshade “sunomono” with heirloom tomatos, Itachi cucumbers,  and a red miso / ponzu jelly. For the sushi portion of the meal we have a mix of familiar favourites as well as some new techniques that Matt has been working on. And finally, for dessert we decided to listen to our farmers do our take on peaches and cream with our amazake whipped cream, anise hyssop, and a brown butter cake. This menu screams “Summer isn’t over yet!” come and see if you agree!

The format for this meal will be as follows:

-$150, 12 course seasonal omakase with seasonal summer appetizers, nigiri sushi, and dessert.

-20% gratuity / service fee charged per ticket on the day ($30). 

-Total ticket cost is $180.

-6 course sake pairings available ($95) pairings with the savoury courses of the menu.

-Additional dessert pairings available. 

-Full drink list available: beer, wine, Sake, mead, non-alcoholic beverages.

***Link in bio to reserve!***For one night only we will be hosting our friend and mentor Jackie Lin of Shoushin.Some of ...
08/08/2026

***Link in bio to reserve!***

For one night only we will be hosting our friend and mentor Jackie Lin of Shoushin.

Some of you may know that our very own Matt Taylor spent 4 years working under Jackie at the now Michelin starred Shoushin and was Jackie’s very first deshi (apprentice). Many of the techniques and skills that we use on a day to day basis here at Affinity can be traced back to Matt’s training at Shoushin. 

For this one night only event we have decided to use exclusively Canadian seafood to highlight how amazing our resource is here in Canada. for those of you familiar with Jackies food you’ll know that he strictly uses only wild caught fish from Japan for his menus, excluding our delicious Canadian blue fin tuna. for this menu Jackie will be adopting the Affinity fish philosophy of using only Canadian fish and seafood. Our excitement to host a true friend and mentor cannot be understated, we hope you are as excited as we are!

For this Omakase Collaboration diners can expect 6 alternating otsumami (appetizer) from both Matt and Jackie followed by 12 pieces of nigirizushi made by hand from Jackie and Matt, and finally makimono, Tamago, and a light dessert. this is shaping up to be one of the best expressions of Japanese cuisine with Canadian fish that we’ve done to date so please don’t miss it! limited 12 seats per seating so act fast!

•New À la carte Menu!•We’ve made some changes to our à la carte menu for the month of August! We always get asked if we ...
08/07/2026

•New À la carte Menu!•

We’ve made some changes to our à la carte menu for the month of August! We always get asked if we do sashimi or sushi for our à la carte menus and so far we have not…

As we are in the hight of our tuna and billfish season we decided it was a perfect opportunity to introduce one of our favourite ways to eat tuna: Tekka don.

This delicious dish has its roots all the way back in the gambling rooms of old Edo (Tokyo) and it usually consists of raw tuna sashimi served atop a bowl of rice. Ours will be served with our Big eye tuna from Jason Tompkins in Prince Edward Island, house made takuan, wasabi, and cured egg yolk, and Nori.

We also have the returning favourite of our GoodFish Seafood Co. Ltd. Haida Gwaii Albacore tuna melt, and weve added a cold dashi udon with poached egg and pickled pimento peppers.

We are super excited about this lunch menu and we hope you will be too!

📸: Matt Parker Max Taylor

Due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to cancel our collaboration dinner this weekend…We have decided to do a fresh ...
07/30/2026

Due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to cancel our collaboration dinner this weekend…

We have decided to do a fresh new à la carte menu for just this last weekend! (July 31st & Aug. 1). We will be open for extended hours: 12 - 9pm as well. We’ve made some tweaks to our existing lunch menu but we’ve added some crowd favourites as well as some sushi and sashimi, something we are always asked if we can do for à la carte but haven’t done yet. This menu will be available for walk in only, no reservations.

So if you’re in town for the long weekend and want to have a nice meal with delicious fish and sake, come by and we’ll take care of you!



📸: Matt Parker Max Taylor

Last week we celebrated our 4th year of operations at 1581 Dundas street west!Jon and I are so proud of how much our lit...
07/21/2026

Last week we celebrated our 4th year of operations at 1581 Dundas street west!

Jon and I are so proud of how much our little fish shop has grown over this last year with adding 2 new integral parts to our team and and congratulating our sous chef on his new role.

We are so grateful for the recognition in publications like and we are proud to be among amazing peers in the list.

We want to say a huge thank you to our purveyors / suppliers and fisherfolk that we work with on a day to day basis to bring the best quality fish to Toronto.

But most of all we want to thank YOU, yes you the one reading this for the support of our small business wether it’s large or small. If you’ve joined us for lunch, dinner, or stopped by to grab some fish for your dinner we just want to thank you for trusting us and allowing us to do what we believe in every day.

We hope to see you again soon!

•Product Highlight•We are proud to finally be carrying salts from  We visited Bonavista Bay years ago in the off season ...
07/18/2026

•Product Highlight•

We are proud to finally be carrying salts from

We visited Bonavista Bay years ago in the off season when their shop was closed during a business trip to meet with as we’ve been wanting to feature their products ever since. We will definitely be using these in our cooking for our restaurant going forward as well.

We opted for their classic sea salt and their green alder sea salt for our retail shop. Available in store now!

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The heat is here in a big way and we are trying to find ways to cool down, what better than cold noodles? last tasting m...
07/17/2026

The heat is here in a big way and we are trying to find ways to cool down, what better than cold noodles? 

last tasting menu we offered soba, so this menu we’ve decided to make udon the focus. Diners can expect 8 courses of seasonal refreshing dishes including our house-made silken tofu with shelling peas, land locked salmon ikura, and saikyo miso. A clear soup course featuring morel mushrooms stuffed with pickerel cheek shinjo and summer squash. Panko fried Nova Scotia swordfish with Ontario corn fritters. And the main course will be a cold citrus dashi broth with premium Japanese Udon noodles and a side plate of duck fat seared whitefish. We will be offering our supplemental “chinmi” plate before the main course with a paired sake to go with, this course will feature a grilled mochi with our pickerel karasumi. 

This menu is sure to cool you down all August long! We hope to see you there!

The format for this meal will be as follows:
-$150, 8 course seasonal tasting menu with grilled fish, house made tofu, cold udon and dessert.
-20% gratuity / service fee charged per ticket on the day ($30). 
-Total ticket cost is $180.
-6 course sake pairings available ($95) pairings with the savoury courses of the menu.
-supplemental “Chinmi” course available with sake pairing.
-Additional dessert pairings available. 
-Full drink list available: beer, wine, Sake, mead, non-alcoholic beverages.

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•Kaja’s Picks•“I was introduced to this sake once upon a time when Jason from  had gifted it to me. It was a sake that c...
07/07/2026

•Kaja’s Picks•

“I was introduced to this sake once upon a time when Jason from had gifted it to me. It was a sake that completely wowed me for its freshness and vibrant fruity aromatics! I’ve been a big fan of it ever since!

It’s an Origarami so it has a light creaminess and it hasn’t gone through any heat treatment at all making it a nama which is not very common to see in Ontario! If you haven’t had the opportunity to enjoy an unpasteurized sake before, these sakes are fresh, juicy and totally crushable! When I’m in Japan, I try to enjoy as many namas as I can since we don’t have the same availability here!

We’re very excited to be able to share this delicious bottle with you at Affinity Fish and I hope that you will enjoy it as much as we do on a hot summer’s day like today! It’s currently available by the bottle for dine in and in our bottle shop while supply lasts!”

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Address

1581 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
M6K1T9

Opening Hours

Tuesday 12pm - 7pm
Wednesday 12pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 7pm
Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Sunday 12pm - 7pm

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+14165168221

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