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| - The Japanese Student Association at my uni organized a sushi outing that my friends and I thought were a steal. 20$/each for AYCE sushi dinner. What prompted me to write this review is the fact that they are on groupon and I just want to warn everyone that eating at this sushi restaurant is simply not worth it.
Odaki St Laurent was my worst AYCE experience ever. The event was SOLD OUT. Even knowing that there would be a full house, the manager only got 2 sushi chefs working the entire night. We got there at 7:30pm until 9:45pm, we only got 1 plate of sushis (20 pieces) amongst four people. We ordered 20 pieces of sashimi and received 0. After that, we were only given the small dishes (seaweed salad, self-served ice cream ps: the matcha ice cream doesn't even taste like matcha?!, takoyaki)
Myself and another friend were able to stay later until 11:30. Only after most people had left, were we slowly receiving our sushis. At this point, it was midnight and we had already filled ourselves with the self-serve ice cream since we were so hungry and desperate while waiting for the sushi. The sushi itself was decent. Too bad it took them 3 hours to get some to us.
Now, we weren't the only table complaining. If you looked around us, basically no one had any food at all. We were all starving and the 2 chefs + waiters/waitresses were disorganized and frantic since they had to serve ~70 hungry people. Since we had paid in advance for our tickets, it wasn't like we could be refunded. We asked to speak with the manager, and the waiter gave a petty excuse saying the manager couldn't speak English. No problem, we had someone who would speak English, French, Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese in our group. However, he never showed up once.
We probably would've been better off (and full on sushi) if we had just contributed $20 each and bought a sushi platter. We would've gotten more sushi that way.
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