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| - Montreal is going through a Japanese craze - in less than a year, plenty of Japanese joints have been popping everywhere and I'm not complaining. What distinguishes this one, is that this is a Yakitori, think of a Japanese grill restaurant cooking with charcoal.
As soon as you step in, there's a retro feel and look with wood and brick walls. This reminded me of a Japanese pub. Kudos on the decoration.
Let me just start with saying that among our group of three, two are cooks (so they know their food!) and general consensus was that it's GOOOOD!
To start, we had the Otto salad, it was good but nothing to rave about. We then had the bibimbap (very tasty - different than your typical Korean bibimbap but really worth it). Obviously, we had to had the skewers, it's their staple! We had the gizzards (my fiends love it - I like it but that's just me not being a fan of this type of meat), beef tongue (DELISHHHH) and bacon (it comes with an egg dressing and you dip the bacon in there before eating it - DECADENT). We also had the truffle kaarage (my only complaint was that there bit a little too big but really goood nonetheless with little balls of sweet potato and a hint of curry. Couldn't really taste the truffle though.)
Overall, it's a great place to go to to try something new. We went on a Monday night and the place was half full - no reservations required. Service is good, prices are somewhat affordable and booze is cheap - what's not too like?
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