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| - It hurts, physically hurts, to give Mikado just two stars, when on my last visit to Montreal I gave their sister restaurant, usually not nearly as good, many more, but tonight was atrocious.
We made the trip to Mikado from Cote St. Luc because we knew that every time we've gone, the food has been superb. Ok, small issues with customer service (when they tried to convince me "usuzukuri" was a type of fish and not the preparation of it), but the food made up for it.
We arrived around 6:30, and ordered about 10 minutes later. My father's entree arrived in about 15 minutes, a decent Chicken Katsu. My mother and my appetizers arrived a few minutes later. The first was Hamachi Sashimi that was so fishy-smelling and slimy, after one piece each we returned them to the waiter. He made no comment about it, not even the basic apology we usually expect when one returns inedible food.
The green salad was nice, the salmon tartare decent but nothing to write home about.
About 50 minutes later, we received one more dish, the salmon/tuna tempura, my ABSOLUTE favourite Mikado roll, and were told our Jazz roll was "coming." This roll is lightly seared and then tempura fried - but when it got to us it was so cold it felt like it had just come out of the fridge, and the tempura was chewy. Again, we returned it unfinished, and this time he tried to convince us that the roll was fine and that we'd just misunderstood the way it was made.
Then we sat back to wait.
And wait.
At 8:25, almost two full hours after arriving, and more than an hour and a half after ordering, we canceled the Jazz roll and asked for the bill.
The only reason they got the second star in this review is because without us having to request it, they took the Sashimi, the Jazz Roll and the Salmon/Tuna tempura roll OFF the bill. We still paid $60+ tip for a meal that left most of us hungry, and heading home for a bagel to fill up, though.
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