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Odaki Restaurant Japonais
Category: Restaurants Japanese Japanese [Edit]
3977 Boul Saint-LaurentMontreal, QC H2W 1Y4
(514) 282-1268
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 pm - 10:30 pm
Fri 11 pm - 11 pm
Sun 12 am - 10:30 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Has TV:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
10 reviews for Odaki Restaurant Japonais
9 reviews in English
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Review from Nicolas M.
2/9/2012
I had a coupon in the mail from this place for the dinner buffet where we get 20 percent off the price. I had ordered takeout from them before and figured I'd actually go there for dinner tonight since the coupon was due to expire in 2 days. So first of all, the address of this restaurant is supposed to be 3977 Saint-Laurent. I had to ask someone where this place was because it was not located anywhere near 3976 as it would logically be. Anyways, so I finally found it and it turns out that the buffet is not a buffet that we normally think of where you get up and get your own food. I felt a little dumb asking the waitstaff "so where's the buffet?" So what you do is write in the amounts of food you would like- 3 selections per order per person. Yes, they give you a pencil and you write on the menu yourself.
So I ordered salmon teriyaki, miso soup, california rolls, and rice separetely (very surprised that the soup and rice were not included in the entree as most Japanese places offer). For $22.95, it is all you can eat and you order as much as you want so it is a decent deal considering how expensive Japanese food can be. So everything comes as it should (service is a little slow in the beginning) and then the waitress brings over a single piece of salmon for me. All I could say was -----_______------
So obviously, I pulled her aside and asked her where the rest of my entree was. Politely, she explained to me that because it is a buffet, you can keep ordering more and more. But still..one piece? And folks, I'm talking small. Just a small cut off the fish. Anyways, so I ate it in one gulp pretty much and when I ordered more, I guess she asked the kitchen to give me a little more than a mouse's portion because she brought out a good-sized appetizer portion which was satisfactory because I was filling up on sushi by then. Ice cream is included in the price, but Ha! NOW you get to get up and do something buffet-like..it is self-serve. You grab the spoon and reach down into the big ol' tub of ice cream and dish yourself out some frozen creamy goodness.
So, in conclusion, it's a nice place interior-wise; nice ambiance and atmosphere. Chances are I'll come back since the dinner buffet is not a bad bargain at all. -
Review from Emilie C.
Vancouver, BC
1/5/2012
From start to finish, the experience at Odaki was pretty awful. We were (eventually) seated at a table in the near-empty restaurant where there were freshly made soy sauce stains and the chopsticks looked as though they'd been used and placed back in the pouch thing. Now, I live in Vancouver so my standards for sushi are naturally quite high. I also failed to mention that I'm not necessarily the most seasoned of sushi-lovers yet and I generally stick to more vegetarian choices.
Though I can be adventurous with my food, I consider myself still relatively new to the whole sushi scene. When my spicy veggie roll arrived, it was covered in fish eggs. I was not down with that, and as a result immediately asked if it were possible to have the sushi remade without any of the fish eggs. That was nice, however the ingredients were not fresh and the prices were such a rip off. Luckily they didn't charge me for the extra one. However, the veggie tempura came to almost 9$ for maybe 5 pcs, which was astonishingly high-priced and low quality considering what I've tried in the past. My sister ordered pork dumplings which were served in a big puddle of not so tasty peanut sauce and they tasted strange and watery. Even my sister who is more experienced in sushi and Japanese food than I felt this place to have ripped us off tremendously. We were shocked that our bill came to almost 50$ all together and we had not ordered that much food. The miso soup was the last thing to arrive...very strange.
They were still playing Christmas music even though our visit was during the second week of January. Another big no-no.
Anyways, all-in-all, I would never return. In fact I advise anyone wandering this part of town on an empty stomach with a jonesing for some sushi to avoid Odaki at all cost. If you decide to eat here, you will leave disappointed, feeling ill in your stomach from the not-so-fresh ingredients, and several (wasted) dollars poorer. -
Review from Malaise L.
8/27/2011 4 photos
I'm glad I had not seen the other reviews before venturing into this place.
We had originally planned to go to Kazu (based on reviews) but on arriving there and seeing, not so much the lengthy wait but, the crowds of people sitting in a very confined space, pretty much on top of each other, I decided I could not eat there.
Odaki was convenient.
The place is well lit, looks and smells clean and it's pleasantly decorated.
We were offered all you can eat or the regular menu. I had an experience with all you can eat sushi before so we turned that down.
The waitress was very adept at getting us liquored up and we were willing subjects. Had a large bottle of Kirin and two types of cold Sake: an unfiltered one I've enjoyed before and another one that was new to us and quite good. We both ordered seaweed salad which was average. I had an avocado hand roll and two different vegetarian rolls one which had some spicy sauce. They were both really good and very feeling. My husband had some tuna sashimi and a dragon eye roll and both were also enjoyed.
They had a good steady crowd but it was not loud or annoying and the tables were comfortably set.
Not the best sushi I've had but very good.
I would call Odaki a keeper. -
Review from A b.
Montréal, QC
8/5/2010
Okadi is confusing, especially for those that are new to all you can eat sushi. If you're not new to this idea, it is a little easier, but nonetheless I think it's an intentionally confusing scheme designed to get you to pay for more than you actually eat. This scheme is not unique to Odaki though, so don't blame all the rip-off on Odaki.
However, I do blame them for their crappy food. The sushi is just not good here. The rice (the main and most important ingredient in sushi!!) is awful. The fish is fine. But I was really pissed about the rice. It should be warmish, slightly sweet, tart, and not too gummy. Theirs tasted like they just threw it in a bowl and called it done. NOT COOL at all, ODAKI.
I will echo what David said about the Dragon Eye roll being good, but only because the people I was with loved it. Fried sushi isn't really appealing to me, but it was apparently appealing to everyone else I was with.
Another fun fact! Guess how many times they filled my water glass in an hour? Seven! That's right. Wanna know why? So I would be too full to order another round of sushi. That's right, they filled my glass 7 times and made us wait to order again.
NOT COOL, Odaki. I feel cheated and angry about how you've abused me and my friends (who actually liked the place because they are both wealthier than I am and apparently don't know what good sushi is). But still, I'm angry for the future versions of my friends that will find out what good sushi is and remember how you cheated them in the past. Odaki, you need help. -
Review from Amber M.
3/22/2009
Overall, a confusing and over-priced experience.
Craving some sushi on a Saturday evening so decided to try this place with a friend of mine.
Despite an empty dining room with big chairs that took two hands to maneuver getting into and out of - we were seated next to a six-top of American girls. I've got nothing against American girls but when they are all singing along to Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' that's playing over the restaurant's sound system...
It took four trips from our server to figure out how to order. Buffet? Kitchen menu? Buffet Kitchen menu? I've done the whole thing where you mark your sushi choices on a menu sheet with a pencil but this was more complicated by '2 pieces allowed here, 3 pieces allowed here, you want another sheet for two buffets?'. Wha?
So finally I said to her quietly, 'We want to order some sushi and sashimi, can we just do that? Would that be ok?'. She brought back another menu.
Do I need to go into how the food was or have you already moved on to another idea for where to go for sushi?
Oh ok.
The food - meh. Yep, that's white tuna sashimi and that's a kamikaze roll and those are scallops on skewers with sauce and sesame seeds.
$90 for the two of us to eat just enough + small bottle unfiltered cold sake.
Our server with the Mickey Mouse necklace was really patient thus I give her two stars. Thanks friendly lady. -
Review from evan b.
3/22/2009
Enter a mixed-up alterna-world where nothing makes sense, combined with an amazing Yacht-Rock era soundtrack and you have Odaki, the passable sushi restaurant.
Remember how you used to go to the Italian Oven and your friendly server would write her name on the butcher paper-cum-tablecloth? Well here they provide the butcher paper for you to calculate the permutations on what is surely The Most Confusing Menus Ever. And I say "menus" because I think they might have had six of them. I'm not sure. I lost count.
And why, I don't know since the sushi menu was standard. Perhaps they encourage the Choose Your Own Adventureness, I don't know.
What I know is, it's too many freaking steps to sushi.
And as for the sushi, it was okay but it didn't make me well up inside with mixed emotions. The yakitori portions were over-sauced. You can't hide jerky-chicken no matter how much goop you put on it. And my dinner companion summed up the scallop yakitori nicely: Yep, it tastes like scallops. Bor-ring.
And as already pointed out, the menu is stupid expensive. This ain't New York, folks.
Still i give it two stars for service. Cause that's how I roll. Geddit? Sushi? Roll?
Meh. -
Review from Richard K.
Montréal, QC
5/17/2011
I came in expecting sushi. What I got...well, nothing worth the $20.
You know a restaurant has made a mistake when (a) you have to fill out your order and (b) need to have the mechanics explained to you. You know they have made another mistake when you visibly cannot identify the food based on your order. (Actually, even after eating a roll I couldn't determine what it was.) And finally, when you have to flag down staff twice for the bill...well, it's best to leave it at that.
The food was certainly edible (and arrived quickly!), but the rice varied greatly in consistency, the spicy tuna rolls were neither spicy nor resembling tuna, and the scallops were literally just pre-breaded freezer brand as opposed to actual grilled ones. Sushi varied in size between comically big (their idea of a "California roll") and unusually tiny (nigiri).
There is room to improve. Switch to by-the-plate pricing. Drop the chinese dishes and improve the sushi. Provide the kind of sushi commonly seen in Vancouver or Asia. But as it is it's just a very expensive buffet. -
Review from Jenn C.
1/5/2011
I don't even know how to begin describing how awful the service was. You guys should know that I love to eat anything and everything, have a pretty good insight about the difference between good and bad sushi, and will forgive poor service if the food is good, and if there is at least and attempt at providing good service. Odaki does neither.
We were a party of 9 with reservations on a recent Sunday night. My boyfriend and I were the first ones to arrive (early). It took a few minutes to get someone's attention, and when I did, he seemed confused about the reservation. He eventually pointed at a booth in the corner by the window, and we were left to go over there by ourselves. The waiter did not come by and we sat there for 10 minute without menus or water, until the rest of my family arrived. Only then did the waiter come by, and only because my dad waved him over. When we asked to get the all-you-can-eat menu, the waiter seemed confused, as we were still waiting for 2 people (who were just parking their car), but is it so strange of a request to get a menu so that we can get a head start on ordering?
Our miso soups arrived about 10 minutes later and we ordered another sheet of food. However, the next bit of food, which turned out to be maki, did not arrive for 40 minutes later! The restaurant was on the busy side with only two waiters, but we ordered a variety of things and there would definitely have been something that could have been served faster than that. And we had to ask for the wasabi/pickled ginger. Not long after that our waiter (who seemed to understand what we asked in slow-motion, and had zero personality whatsoever) came back to tell us that the kitchen had lost our second order. So we had to order again.
The whole night just went on like that. We would try and get ahead by submitting orders whenever food arrived, but the food that did end up coming to our table was sporatic and not necessarily what we had ordered. We would take into account how many pieces of maki or sashimi were supposed to be in each serving, and order accordingly, and they would always give us a strange amount. The waiter/kitchen kept forgetting orders and it would only be brought out when we enquired about it. Some things straight out did not arrive. If the kitchen is out of a specific dish, it would be really nice if they told us about it!
Because the food sometimes arrived and sometimes didn't, and because it came out in such a staggered way, it came to a point where we really didn't know if the previous order was going to be completed, or if the kitchen was going to forget about it again. It was as if every time we submitted a new order, they just threw away our old order and started over again. And contrary to other reviewers, they did not refill our water often at all! I would say maybe 5 times over the course of the 3 hours.
The food itself was ok. Not great by any means but not horrible and no one got food poisoning. The sashimi came in tiny little 1-inch cubes. The only thing thing that stood out was the grilled salmon head. But I don't think I could tell you objectively if anything else was actually good because the whole meal ended up taking 3 hours, and by that time we were all so hungry that we were just scarfing down whatever was brought to us. The other Odaki on St-Catherine St is much better (the two have the same name but are not related at all), food-wise and most definitely service-wise. This Odaki is just a mess. Partway through dinner, my dad went to speak with the manager to complain about the horrible service, and he had no reaction. No apology, and not even an excuse. And the tip was automatically added to our bill because we were a large group, but the restaurant did nothing to deserve this tip. This place does not deserve anyone's money! -
Review from David K.
8/31/2009
Guys, it's not rocket science. This is the first time my wife and I have been to a sushi buffet where it's a made-to-order type of buffet. Of course we had some initial questions but the waiter only explained it once and it was quite simple from that point on. Part of two? That means your table can order 6 pieces of this 4 pieces of that (i.e. 3 pieces or 2 pieces per person, respectively). When and only when you're done with your first ordering, you get another copy of the menu to order more. SIMPLE
We ordered the basics, nigiri and sashimi (salmon, tuna, mackerel, white tuna), and some maki (can't remember the names but they sounded like specialty rolls - one was called Odaki). The food was nothing real special except for one roll, the Dragon Eye roll. I have a taste for fried foods so I am probably being biased here but that roll was what made it worth going there. The roll wasn't exactly deep fried. It was only lightly fried and was VERY yummy! I remember it having fish eggs in it (flying fish roe?), a bit of spicy mayo, some salmon and other bits. All I remember is, I was getting to the point where I couldn't eat one more bite until I looked at the menu one last time, and decided to try the Dragon Eye roll. I ended up eating the entire thing and it was worth every second!
So I've read (from other places too) that the service here isn't great. I'd have to agree. We spent well over an hour in there, maybe close to 2 and some of it was because we spent a lot of time deciding what to get, but other times, the waiter and waitress were nowhere to be found. They didn't appear to be looking out for us. We really had to flag them down if we wanted something. I guess they did fill our water often? Oh well. I still give them four stars and the Dragon Eye roll alone gets its own star :-)
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