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| - I first was really excited about this restaurant because I'm a fan of ramen and I like Izakaya. They sometimes also offer wagyu beef and not a lot of places offer that in Montreal. However, some of my friends went there before me and told me Sumi Dojo is that good. They said they don't recommend it and they think Kinka has better Izakaya food. So I scratched this restaurant out of my to-go-list..
If my friend didn't pick Sumi Dojo to celebrate her birthday, I don't think I will come here. But I guess it was a good opportunity for me to taste their food instead of basing my opinion on my friends, huh? I've already eaten before coming to my friend's very late birthday dinner (9 pm) so I didn't order a lot.
They have a big selection of dishes on their menu, ranging from cold entrees (salmon tartar, tuna tataki, etc.) to grilled dishes (Miso marinated beef tongue, Hokke, etc,), from fried dishes (takoyaki, fried gobo, shrimp tempura, etc.) to hot dishes (okonomiyaki, gyoza, Miso soup, Edamame, etc.). They also offer noodles (ramen, udon), desserts (green tea mille-feuille, etc.) and cocktails (sake bomb, martini, etc.)
I recommend ordering different dishes and split the bill with your friends in order to not be broke and to be able to try different dishes. The portion is small and they are not the most wallet-friendly in terms of price.
There were many things I wanted to try like their Miso marinated beef tongue (Imadake has really good ones by the way!), takoyaki, spicy pork belly (but the word "spicy" stopped me from ordering this! If my boyfriend was there, I would force him to order this and take a bite just to taste it! He can have the rest if it is too spicy for me haha!) and soft-shell crab. I finally decided to order their Karaage and Japanese Ika (grilled squid).
I was disappointed by their Karaage and Japanese Ika. They both came with a mayonnaise dip. The karaage was well-seasoned but with salt and pepper (although it didn't taste like Taiwanese salt and pepper fried chicken/Popcorn chicken), you can really taste the pepper in it. I disliked the fact that my chicken was mixed with fat (it wasn't a little bit/slim layer of fat, it was a big chunk of fat). The taste wasn't bad but it was surely not authentic Izakaya Karaage.
My Japanese Ika was okay and beautifully grilled (not a lot of burned spots like my friend's squid), the mayonnaise didn't make it better or worse. The squid was quite small compared to other Izakaya restaurant I've had in Montreal.
I tried my friend's Cassis Sour (Cassis, Calpico, Sake, Gekkeikan Soda) and it tasted fruity and sweet. My friend's ramen was average but she liked it. It wasn't too salty (I can't recall which one she got but she said the soup was chicken broth) but I prefer a creamier and silkier soup like Tonkotsu (pork broth).
My Japanese friend ordered their pizza sushi but I don't know if she liked it or not. My other friends ordered their deep-fried goat cheese, shrimp tempura, spicy ramen (she said it is not good and too spicy), lobster roll (everyone said it was good), gyoza (my friends seemed to like it), chicken yaki udon (my friend said it was average).
My friends have different opinion on their deep-fried goat cheese, they said it didn't taste like goat cheese and it was good. One of my friends disliked it so much after one bite though.
The shrimp tempura came with ~6 shrimps BUT the shrimp size was SOOOO small that I couldn't figure out what it was at first! This dish is ridiculous in my opinion.. For this price, I would expect bigger shrimp size.
Sumi Dojo is really loud music so it is not the best place to have a romantic or quiet dinner. There were a lot of waiters and waitresses but they aren't the most attentive. I didn't get my cup of water until after my dishes came *which was an hour after I've been seated down. And throughout the night, my cup was empty because they didn't come to refill it. I had to get up and ask them to refill it, to which the waitress said another person would do it (why can't she just do it? It is not like she is not "our" waitress.. She was one of the waiters/waitresses serving our table).
In conclusion, Sumi Dojo would be a good place for a drink at the bar but food-wise, I wouldn't recommend. Like one of the Yelp reviews said, it "Did not taste like authentic japanese izakaya food. Instead, the food was chinese style fusion".
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