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| - I came here for dinner+drinks the night before Canada Day (Tues) with a group of 10. The restaurant itself is quite big for an Izakaya; although we made reservations, we would've still had seats. The atmosphere is typical of an Izakaya, it was loud, dark, and bustling.
Food: The food here left much to be desired and did not live up to the price tag. The dishes I enjoyed were beef tataki, mayo shrimp, and torched mackerel. However with the torched mackerel, they didn't heat the plate so the fish ended up hot near the top and cold at the bottom. You only get 5 pieces of beef tataki and 5 mayo shrimps. Their portion sizes are definitely small. They had a beef teriyaki burger special, which was not great. Finally the Tokyo style hot dog upon first taste was delicious, but because of the high amounts of spicy mayo, it got salty very fast. The bun was also slightly burnt.
Drinks: For an izakaya they have a very impressive selection of sake. I'm not very knowledgable in that area but it's great that they have so many choices. They had a great special that day of $10 Sapporo pitchers. We were very happy about that. Reading some previous yelp reviews, I decided to go with the Sake Freezie Red (pomegranate-grapefruit slush style drink). It was one of the worst cocktails I've ever had. It was like drinking artificial, concentrated, candy with ice. Would not recommend. The house hot sake however was very nice and smooth.
Service: Their service was not great. The servers did not come around very often, and assumed we were going to share all the food. We understood that was the way Japanese people ate but the server only took orders from a few people (out of 10).
Overall I would not come back here just because of the price. We each forked out $40 at the end of the night and I can confidently say none of us were well fed. I know izakaya food is that way but it should at least be good quality. I would not recommend coming here to eat, but maybe for drinking sake due to their large selection.
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