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We came here on Saturday night around 7, and the wait list took about 30-45min without a reservation. The next time I come here, I'll make sure to call in beforehand since it's extremely busy on the weekends. When you walk inside, the entire restaurant greets you in typical Japanese fashion, and if it's your birthday, they do a loud song with a sign and sake bombs - making it a very public fair. Overall, I love the atmosphere, which is loud, fun and full of energy. I would definitely consider going to one of the Toronto branches for my birthday!
For drinks, we ordered the saketini, since all of the plum wine based drinks were sold out. The pitcher was $22 and was enough for 4 glasses (1 glass is $7.5, so you save about $10).
We ordered 4 small plates in total, and were really full by the end. We ordered one of their specials, the salmon sashimi in sweet soy sauce and a hint of wasabi ($7.5), which was fresh and flavorful but quite small. We also ordered Kabocha Korroke, which are deep fried pumpkin croquettes with an egg baked in the middle ($6). This is vegetarian, and probably one of my favorite dishes. The texture of the pumpkin is like sticky rice, with a crispy outside layer. It's also quite big and filling for $6. We ordered the Kinoko Bibimbap ($9.8), which comes with rice in a sizzling stone bowl, mushrooms, cheddar cheese and seaweed sauce, which they mix together when served. This was also delicious, and quite large - far more than enough for 2 people. Lastly, we ordered the Saba Oshizushi ($12.8), the most expensive dish on our list. It came with 6 pieces of saba on top of square rice blocks. It was good, but maybe not worth the $13 we paid for it, since it was quite small.
We finished with the green tea cheesecake for dessert ($6.5). It wasn't the fluffy Japanese cheescake consistency that we were expecting, but since both of us love cheesecake, we devoured it within minutes.
Overall, we each paid about $44 after tax and tip, definitely not bad for how much alcohol and food we ate, as well as how much fun we had. I would recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting Montreal! It's also very close to the Guy-Concordia Metro Station on the Green line so it's easy to get to.
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