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Komiko
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 10 pm
Fri 11 am - 11 pm
Sat 5 pm - 11 pm
Sun 5 pm - 10 pm
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- No
8 reviews for Komiko
8 reviews in English
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Review from Katherine W.
Montréal, QC
12/4/2011 1 Check-in Here
This place was great. I've never had Vancouver-style sushi before, but have a friend from BC who suggested this place. After we'd been, I was actually very surprised at the ratings on yelp, largely because I had a great experience and got just what I expected. I mean, this is a $20ish all-you-can-eat experience, so I certainly wasn't expecting them to roll out the red carpet. In fact, I was impressed by what they had to offer.
The sushi was fresh, and tasty. They set this whole thing up so that you don't order a ton and waste it, and so that they can still make money. So some of the sushis are a little small, but that's ok because you can order more. They also have what amounts to an upgraded menu which you can order from for about $4 more, if I'm remembering correctly, but neither of us felt the need to do that. Instead, we spent our time consistently ordering some favorites (mmm white tuna!) and then trying some things that we were a little puzzled by. I'm not sure that all of these were quite what we were interested in, but isn't trying everything sort of the point of a place like this?
My biggest complaint (other than the puzzling decor, which seemed to have a theme of sticks and visually-assaulting paint colors) would be that the vegetable tempura was absurdly small. You order the broccoli tempura and you're going to get two bite-sized pieces. I mean... they have a fee for things you don't finish, so I felt that maybe they could have stepped it up a bit and gone for a more generous 5 broccolis. -
Review from Seb L.
Montréal, QC
Was gifted a living social deal so had no excuse not to try this place out.
The restaurant was elegant, clean, but a bit cold (need to crank the heat up).
Service was good. Our waiter was friendly and helpful. The sushi was good. Some up and downs though: one of my salmon cuts was a bit old, and the other very fresh. Same thing happened with a veggie tempura: one was crisp and clean and the other soggy and old. There was a good selection, smaller in comparison to other all you can eats, with good composition and flavors.
The one down side I would have to say was the speed of service. Compared to other all you can eats, it was rather slow. We waited approximately 20 minutes before getting our first order in.
Overall a good all you can eat experience, but if you want faster service with higher selection of sushi/food with comparable friendly staff and setting, I would highly recommend Sushi Crescent. -
Review from Marcio D.
Ville-Marie, QC
5/19/2012
Decent food and place. Nice staff and service. Great price!
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Review from eunhae k.
11/27/2011
Went there on a cold first night out in Montreal. I was debating between 3 to 4 stars on this one. It's a four if you are really hungry like I was (and all you had to eat all day was a nasty sandwich on the 12-hour amtrak train). The place was really empty for a all-you-can-eat place. They have ridiculous amount of options and all of them are pretty decent. Highlights of the night-
-My boyfriend liked the vegetable soup since it was light and flavorful.
-We are both huge salmon fans so we ordered 20+ pieces of salmon sashimi and devoured all of them.
-The beef teriyaki is really tender.
I recommend this place if you are hungry! If you are a sushi/sashimi snob you might not like this place very much. This place will cost $50+ for two with tax and tip. -
Review from Schuyler L.
8/10/2011
We shared the all you can eat $20 special. There were plenty of things to choose on the menu. We ordered several types of dumplings (stay away from the peanut (sauce) dumplings) and fresh fish slices. They had no tuna roll on the menu, but we were happy with everything else.
Just know that you'll end up paying $50 minimum for two all you can eat
specials. Come hungry. Also $1 is added to the bill for everything uneaten. This means don't order the peanut dumplings if you don't think you'll like them...
Lastly, take a trip to the bathrooms... they're themed. -
Review from Aaron E.
8/15/2011
We decided to try this place despite only 2 reviews. It was our first day in town and this place was near our hotel. We eat sushi often and were really not sure what to think of this place. We were given the AUCE menu at first and it took a bit to get the regular menu. There was only one server for the whole place but she hustled her butt off. AUCE is the deal if you are hungry for sushi but we weren't so we went with the eel bento, tempura veggies, and udon. Tempura was good but not outstanding and the udon was very good. The eel was the hit of the night and we fought over it. Yum!
We ordered a large saki that ended up being a huge saki! Thank god we only had to walk a few blocks.
Overall, food was very good, service was slow but with good reason, and she was very accommodating with our very limited French, the space is large and nicely done, and the prices are reasonable. Definitely had things on the sushi menu that we don't get in the States, but we didn't get to try them. -
Review from Chris B.
Montréal, QC
I walked into this place about 2pm for a late lunch on a rainy afternoon. The restaurant facade and decor looked well put together, but the place was completely empty.
I had the orange chicken set, while my friend ordered a shrimp bento box. The miso soup came out first and while initially savory, it quickly became apparent that it was too salty and should have been watered down a bit more. The orange chicken came up next and was not what I expected, but I was still keeping an open. Unfortunately it too had enough salt to pickle me. It tasted of burnt marmalade and was served with a watery slightly sweet sauce on the side, that I couldn't find a good use for since the chicken was already covered in a thick brown sauce.
On the other hand, my friends shrimp looked amazing and he said they were tasty. I tried a piece of his sushi roll and it was a bit small but otherwise good.
So the moral of this story is go with the sushi and go during peak hours or you'll be wondering if the place is even open. -
Review from Megh C.
Montréal, QC
10/2/2011
On the plus side, the tempura, soups, salads and sashimi were quite good and decently fresh.
The big disappointment was the sushi, which was bland to the point of being inedible. The main problem is that the chef does not use proper, seasoned sushi rice, but instead uses plain white sticky rice, which is not the same thing. The result is very dry and flavourless.
They also shove way too much cucumber in their sushi and not enough of anything else. In addition, they put out very cheap soy sauce that is watery and not very flavourful. The service was also not amazing, and we had to ask twice for wasabi (which should be served automatically with any sushi plate.)
Overall, if you can make a meal out of sashimi, tempura, and sides, this is not a terrible all-you-can-eat deal. But for the actual sushi, better to stick to Kanda.
