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| - We were looking for a restaurant to celebrate the year end. There were over 20 of us, and our budget was only $400 (i.e. less than $20 per person). With this budget, all other restaurants we enquired at could only give us something really simple and unimpressive. Eg, a bento set from a Japanese restaurant or a pasta from a western restaurant. Then we found Kanbai.
Food here is good. We had two tables and ordered about 8 dishes for each table. The total bill was below $400 (excl taxes and tips). Memorable dishes included the Water-cooked Fish (a numbing-spicy dish), deep-fried garlic Shishamo fish, the Ma-Po Toufu, roasted duck, eggplant, four-seasons beans etc. There was even some food for us to doggy-bag.
Service is as you would expect in such a restaurant - pretty efficient though harried servers (and hence don't expect small talk or niceties from them). Can't complain, really.
Ambience is above average. It is new, and clean. However when it is crowded, it gets really echo-ey.... something to do with its acoustics.
My main peeve, if I have to name one, is that the floor tiles are extraordinarily slippery when wet. We came after a snow fall, and like other customers we were trailing snow into the restaurant, and slipping. Think ice. Indeed, would be hazardous for older folks. For a Montreal restaurant at street level, I should think they ought to have the common sense to choose floor tiles that afford better traction even when wet.
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