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Birthday cheer - GREAT
It's loud and fun when the waitresses gather to sing happy birthday.
Food - MEDIOCRE
I take several issues with the food, and that's taken into consideration this is an izakaya.
1. Small portions. The sukiyaki hotpot wasn't even 1/3 full.
2. Taste. The fried chicken karaage was very bland, while the sukiyaki tasted sweet as caramel. There seems to be no moderation.
Service - SLOW, BAD
The service was the worst among any Japanese restaurants in Toronto. Here's why:
1. Ordering. The waitress took 1 order, then left without asking what the other 4 people wanted. We waited for 5 minutes, and had to ask a different waitress to take our orders. But since it wasn't her table, she had to go find the original girl... A lot of running in circles.
2. Ready time. We kept wondering if the restaurant forgot about us, because some dishes didn't arrive for 30 minutes. One of us didn't get her udon until everyone else was finished dessert.
Ambiance - DEAFENING
if you want to hear your friends, this is not the place. The music is what's the loudest, and then the customers must also shout to hear each other, so everyone is breaking their vocal cords and ear drums.
In essence, you can only shout to the person immediately beside you. No one else at the table can hear you.
OVER-PRICED
Keeping in mind this is an izakaya, the small portion sizes do not justify the costs. Between 7 of us, $150 barely counted as snacks.
Verdict: NEVER GOING BACK
If the place had quieter music and faster service, I wouldn't even mind the price and poor cooking. But there are just too many negatives.
I do recommend you go there once just to try the environment. But once is all you really need.
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