We had wonderful time at Kampai. The service was great and very attentive. The food was quite delicious too. The fact that we visited at 6pm on Saturday certainly helped as there were less customers and the usual line up to enter Kampai starts later. The restaurant and bar are truly occupying a huge space and managing the place must be an impressive operation.
We kept our drink interests simple and limited to pints of beer, there were nice varieties on tap. The food is of tapas style, our hostess explained all the specials and popular dishes from the menu in details. She recommended to order only few dishes at a time as to avoid clutter on the table and slowly enjoy the menu. The beef tacos were pretty good as well as the Bahia salald, but if you'd like to keep it simple just order sweet potato fries with wasabi mayo and edamame with Montreal barbecue spice, both are divine and perfect snack for drinks. Another enjoyable dish was one of the daily specials, marinated whiting, well prepared and served with toasted very thin slices of bread. I believe my friends ordered almost every dish from the menu and raved about most of them. We also ended up with two complimentary servings of papas due to misunderstanding of our order, this dish I can best describe as fried mashed potatoes with salmon or beans in the middle or whatever else the chef would like to add, frankly I was less impressed with it.
Sometimes in the middle of our dinner we were approached if everything is Ok and if we have any recommendations how to improve Kampai. My only comment is I would love to have paper table cloth or cover for the table we were seated at as the surface was a little bit scratched, but here I'm really nit-picking. In the end we collectively concluded Kampai is a place we would gladly come back.