Problem: The way this dish was made reminds me of backyard cooking and where you have 5 cooks help preparing one dish and each does their assigned part a little differently. I haven't been here in a few years.... After I heard it got renovated and new management, I decided to give this place a try. They did have new flooring, tables and wall painting. The decor was a notch above the non-considerable condition of past visit. The servers there were friendly and service is minimal. I order my standard quintessential Viet dish; the pho in supersize with "everything" in it at about $7.75. The food arrived in about 5-7 minutes. It was a very large bowl. What they did right was have the proper type of garnishment; basil , bean sprouts, limes, chili, pepper , soy and hoisen sauce. The ingredients may not be the choicest selections. I notice right away that the broth was very oil likely due to the excessive amount of oily section of the beefy animal used; they could have skim it off the pot\bowl, but the taste was acceptable. The rice noodles appear it will turn soggy and fall apart soon. The meat(bacon like ) wasn't the choicest selection of the animal either; no flank, london broil or leg cross section. I should have specifically ask for a pho that had these. What they lack in quality, they made it up for in quantity. I would prefer to pay a few bucks more to get a fine-crafted quality dish in smaller portions. This Pho is not at the standard I would repeatedly consume, but it meets the mininum requirements. The decor , service and price of this place create the impression that it's ok to have Pho that is not at it's best. I can't complain too much because I did finish my meal; one intense exercise routine will get it out of my system quick. Pho is something I can have often and if cooked, there's the appreciation factor. I can't comment on the other dishes in the restaurant but Pho is a mainstay of any decent Vietnamese restaurant and it reasonates and gives me the impression how the other dishes are also made. Would I come back here again, yes definitely to try out a non-pho dish when I'm not in the mood for pho.
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Problem: Not my favorite. It was decent but I've had much better. The Fried Calamari was so greasy and underseasoned. It was really bad. We did enjoy the Saganaki and the Sangria.
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Problem: We were fooled into eating at this restaurant by a groupon deal. Being Chinese ethnicity myself, sadly most of these Japanese all you can eat restaurants are being poorly run by Chinese people who have no Japanese culinary sushi skills....sad but very true. It took almost 45 min to receive our second order of food we placed, the sushi rice was hard with no flavour, the nigiri sushi had paper thin slices that resembled smoke salmon, and the SOYA SAUCE was watered down (I don't know if this a Montreal thing but this is not the first time I've experienced that). Please STAY AWAY. I don't understand why this place is still open? Absolute garbage and a waste of time.
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Problem: Me giving one star is gracious. My roommate and I went here tonight. I have been to this restaurant when it was just the sushi room and loved it! However tonight was different. I made a reservation for 630, the hostess asked us to sit at the bar while they prepared the table,and then sat 12 other people at the table before she remembered the two of us. When we sat down we ordered, the waitress took forever to bring the soup which was Luke warm at best and tasted like soapy dish water. The salad didn't come until the chef started making our food. This was good. But as everyone was receiving their fried rice and steamed rice,my roommate and I noticed we had not gotten our steamed rice. We had to ask another waiter for rice. I had new York steak and shrimp. My roomie had chicken and filet mignon. My steak was over cooked I asked for medium rare. Her chicken as well was over cooked. Neither were seasoned barely at all. The shrimp was good tho. Unfortunately after I saw the owner ask a table full of people who were done eating and chatting if they could please move because while they appreciate their business there were people waiting. I knew my complaints would be irrelevant. Needless to say I'm disappointed in the food, the service, all of it. And will never go back for tempanyaki. They have alot of kinks to work out.
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