Odaki
Last night I went to an awesome sushi place. They offer all you can eat sushi for around 20 bucks...a word of warning - you will get sushi drunk...you will not stop eating until you can't bend over to put your shoes back on!
The Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Society (EEGSS) put together a HUGE gathering of grad students to go and eat for only 15 bucks! Including coffee/tea and a nice green tea ice cream dessert! A lot of sissies were present though that didn't eat much, but that didn't stop ME from continuing for more rounds :D In fact, other tables couldn't finish their sushi platters (which is a huge no-no and you will be charged extra for uneaten sushi) and so they brought their sushi's over to me. I was rediculously full afterwards! I recommend this place for the sushi lover. If only Anna was there too.
SuSHi dRUnk :Q
posted by Turok @ 12:19 PM
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This used to be our favorite Sushi restaurant but this will be our last visit.
When: August 2008
1st: The ambiance
This restaurant is quite nicely done up in the main eating area. The furniture is new in the last couple months and there are 2 nice separate seating arrangements for smaller groups. The décor is well done and Asiatic but why they feel the need to play 80’s American top 40 instead of something more ethnic is beyond me. Why go through the effort to make it look regional then play the backstreet boys?
The bathroom is atrocious. Filthy. Ring around the toilet indicates has not been cleaned in at least a month. Degree of water splashes on the mirror indicates the same. Drain cover on the floor is missing. Floor is gross. I would not expect this in a restaurant charging $27 per person.
In order to get too the bathroom you have to pass a curtain through a hallway lined with freezers. Ok, space is tight in Montréal restaurants so I will forgive them the freezers but the curtain you have to pass through is filthy. You can see the stains from thousands of hands pushing the curtain aside to pass. The same hands that are delivering my food! I don’t get it. If my curtains in my house were obviously dirty from across the room I would clean them before inviting guests over. But here the manager, owner, employees thinks nothing of it?
Finally the food.
What a disappointment. I’m from Vancouver so I know good sushi. In the beginning the sushi was good. Not quite to the level of Vancouver but not bad and certainly a good enough quality for an all-you-can-eat place.
Now the quality has really declined. Instead of raising prices, the owner has obviously decided to lower quality. In the beginning there was sashimi, real crab, baked oysters but now all gone. All that is left is the basics and even those are poorly done. The sushi rice was dry and flavorless, obviously no Japanese vinegar was used in the preparation. Each roll tasted exactly the same as the other and tasted “off”, like the day old rolls from the fast food sushi places. The rolls were also not identifiable! Who has heard of California rolls with omelet? Other rolls had ingredients that were equally screwed up. And any roll that called for tempura had a huge amount of gross tasting powdered tempura. The kitchen dishes were all very “Chinese” tasting, eg. heavy and greasy, not Japanese. We actually left before we ate “all-wecould-eat” because we were not interested in another bite.
All in all my wife and I were hugely disappointed. More so to realize that we had lost our Montreal sushi place and now need to find another.
It’s always sad to see a place that you love go downhill. I predict that unless they return to their old quality this place should be out of business in a year. There is no way it should be alive giving the fantastic options we have in Montreal.
I was so disappointed this is actually the first review I have ever written and will be posting it at the usual montreal review places to warn others.
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