They should rename the place Montreal Fried Sushi!
We went there yesterday and this was one of my top 10 worse restaurant experiences ever! And misleading on price, too! The website says that the price for dinner from Monday to Thursday is $21.99 but we were charged $23.99. The waitress told us that the price changed 2 years ago. 2 years ago and you can't
change your web site?
See the page in question: http://www.sushiplus.ca/Images/2.pdf
* I have news for them: a website is easy to update.
Even in the printed material inside the restaurant, the to-go menu, it is $21.99 -- the only thing we could find is a paste over outside that mentions the new price. But of course, when you already looked at the website, you just walk in...
Also:
- LOTS of fried stuff, greasy greasy greasy! The only sushi we relatively liked was the Kamikaze, but don't expect red tuna (one of the most expensive sushi fish), they put salmon instead. Two other rolls we had were fried and greasy, and saucy, almost junk food...
- Low quality choices. The only red tuna I could find was on a sashimi and of course, the rice ball was big but the fish was so the thinnest I ever saw, lol. And no matter the roll descriptions you read, it pretty much always boils down to crab-roll, tempura shrimps and salmon with some variations of the rest.
- Another disappointment is that we only inquired about what appetizers the waitress liked, inquired, yes! And she started choosing for us a bunch of greasy appetizers. Since we have to eat everything (or be charged), I protested that she was ordering too much of that stuff, but she argued that it wasn't much, so we sort of agreed, therefore we ended up with fried veggies, very-fried chicken (and there was a lot), fried tofu, fried and oily dumplings, etc. We had no choice but to eat all that junk or we would have had to pay for it. :( I am unsure if it is a misunderstanding (maybe she is used to choosing stuff for some consumers) or if it was part of a strategy to stuff us with less expensive things. Tofu is less expensive than fish, isn't it?
- Also, on a side note, there was no soap in the men's room, which I always interpret as a sign of carelessness -- and how do the chefs clean their hands before returning to work if there is no soap in the restroom?
In the end, with the surprise $23.99 price per person (instead of the advertised $21.99), the sake plus tax and tip and despite our $5 rebate (The to-go menu has a $5 coupon off per table), we still paid more than $70 for a party of two, for a disappointing experience. It's sad when you think that, for $5 to $10 more, we could have had a great sushi moment at one of the normal (not AYCE) places we usually go to.
The only positive note is that the staff was rather friendly, but all the rest was a disappointment.
Before that, I had always resisted trying all-you-can-eat sushi because I suspected that they can't make quality in an AYCE sushi concept, but we decided to try it because of others saying they liked it. It turned out the place was visited mostly by young males looking to stuff themselves... that's the whole point here, that is what this is all about: STUFFING. Don't go there if you want a good sushi experience. If I could put half a star, I would...
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