Kanda

Usual all you can eat sushi. Service was OK. Although the wait just to start serving us was way too longer. Off all Kanda’s I was in unfortunately this one had worst service. But food is still great.

Pretty good all you can eat sushi. They dont offer the full menu on weekdays for all you can eat which was a bit disappointing. The sashimi was good however and the waitress was very friendly.

Pretty good all you can eat sushi! Big menu, lots of variety
Tip for students: $ 9.99 all you can eat lunch coupons for Kanda, you can get outside office of McGill International Students center. My son like very much!

This place has a super sweet location, being directly across the street from my school and all. I’ve tried probably everything offered on their menu or close to it and everything is normally super yummy. But I feel like the menu has shrunk since my last visit. This makes me quite sad because the fun part about all you can eat sushi is trying out the coolest sounding sushi possible. Their maki rolls seem to all have the same ingredients in them which is also disappointing. My favourite thing here has to be the peanut butter dumplings. The staff has been pleasant every time I go there. Overall it is a good all you can eat… But they could definitely use more variety in their menu.

One of my many visits to this particular kanda, the quality has come down quite a bit. The teriaki salmon and steak were over cooked and serve luke warm. Kanda salad was wilted and decaying, should never have been served. The veggie tempura was extra oily. I guess the cost of a barrel of oil is way down so they can afford extra oil. Total disappointment. Will not come back.

I don’t know how or why, but throughout my life I’ve been to a staggering amount of sushi restaurants in Montréal. Is it a skill? A talent? An obsession? No, yes, and most likely. But out of all the places I’ve been to — and I’m very sorry to say this — this Kanda location is the one I like the least.
I’ve been to a bunch of other Kandas, and those were all fine. This one, though. The last time I went, I saw they’d hiked up their prices. Which would have been fine. It’s an all-​you-​can-​eat sushi place; you can get your money’s worth if you try hard enough. But sadly, I was left with no motivation to do so.
The food was fresh, I’ll give them that; and the waiters were fine, nothing abysmal to mention on that front. But the quality of the food was vastly different than what I’ve seen from other similar restaurants, and from other Kanda locations. The sushi was lacklustre and dry; the sashimi were cut way too tiny to qualify; and the regular food just had an overall bland taste that I can’t really describe.
In a nutshell, it wasn’t the greatest experience — even for a sushi buffet — and especially not with the price hike. I probably won’t be coming back to this Kanda.

Very bad service with low-​quality food for an unnecessary amount of money.

I used to be an avid Kanda customer back in 2006. It has been around 5 years since I had gone back. Kanda was extremely popular and had lineups going outside. I think the demand got so high that the opened up a few Kandas here and there and everything went downhill from there.
Unsanitary, not fresh, and the orders given were always wrong. When you would confront them, them would grab the correct one from the other table (even if it was already picked at) and just toss it on our table.
I got food poisoning TWICE. Never again.

This place has gotten SO dirty. At first it didn’t bother me, because customers dirty up places of business all the time. But this place is consistently dirty. The bathrooms are absolutely atrocious. I am confident in saying that they haven’t had a proper cleaning in over 6 years. (That’s how long I’ve been going to Kanda). Sometimes the sushi is fresh. Sometimes it’s really bad. The service is ALWAYS bad. The workers there are miserable and have 0 customer service. It is almost as if they are being forced to work there against their will. I much rather go to a more expensive sushi buffet than go to Kanda, just based on the cleanliness. It really does gross me out. I can just imagine what their kitchen looks like. I’m surprised it hasn’t been shut down yet by the health department.

Menu has shrunk and the price had grown since my last visit. Edamame was overcooked and grey. Nigiri and sashimi were a bit soft. Maybe not fresh? Wasabi was watery. Diluted?
Lunch menu selection of sushi is very small. There is far more choice of Chinese hot dishes. Why not just call it a Chinese resto?
Service has been so so. My wasabi was forgotten, and none of my maki arrived. Had to enquire.
Was never given a second sheet. Had to steal one. Maki was soft and too warm.
In all fairness, this place is aimed at uni students and so is a basic lunch place. But it has fallen far in the last 12 years.

Given my past experiences with all-​you-​can-​eat sushi restaurants, this one is by far the best I’ve had.
The service was simply amazing, I really liked our waitress. She knows what I wanted and brings it to me before I even ask. She refills our table’s teapot regularly, brought extra wasabi along with the tons of sushi we ordered, and was really caring but not intruding throughout the entire dinner service.
The sushis were prepared with more care and more expertise comparing to the Kanda on Sainte-​Catherine, the Maki Rolls and the Nigiri Sushis didn’t have too much rice, and the presentation of the dishes was surprisingly nice.
The Shrimp Tempura is a must-​try, and the Jumbo Garlic Shrimp was perfectly cooked — buttery, rich, and moist. The Miso Soup was really watery and tasteless, there was not enough miso and disappointing. Also, avoid any chicken dishes on their menu, especially the Lemon Chicken, they’re pretty bad.
The décor and the atmosphere were very Nippon-​like and the tables were not too close from one another, love the music in the background as well.
This is the place to be if you’re craving for sushi and ready to feast.

J’ai immédiatement été surpris par la qualité et l’élégance des makis, des sushis et des sashimis. Pour ceux qui n’aiment pas le poisson cru, on vous offre aussi une sélection de plats aux bœufs, poulet, tofu.
Restaurant de formule «buffet» à volonté pour 25,99 $ le soir (22,99 $ du dimanche au jeudi).
Les règles du jeu sont:
formule à volonté. Vous commandé ce que vous voulez du menu.
Si vous laissez des morceaux, il y a un supplément de 1 $ par morceaux (question d’éviter le gaspillage).
Tout le monde à la même table doit prendre le buffet.
Un petit conseil, lors de ma visite il n’y avait pas suffisamment de wasabi et de gingembre mariné. Il suffit de demander pour en ajouter. De plus, si vous commandent des différentes cuisines, surtout entre le cru et le chaud, les plats n’arrivent pas en même temps sur la table.
Pour le prix et la qualité, je crois que Kanda risqué de devenir ma place à sushi.

I came here with a friend who promised me sushi buffet. What an interesting concept too, you fill out your paper at your table and they bring it to you. So basically its a sit down, never get up buffet. The price on a Sunday night was $ 24, and if you can eat a lot its totally worth it.
Don’t over order and not eat it because they will charge you an amount per piece of waste, which makes sense. The service was pretty quick and everything we had was delicious and nicely presented.

Atmosphere, Service, and Food: That’s how I review.
Atmosphere: Kanda (on Bishop St.) is clean, proper, and cozy — perfect for those cold nights in Montréal. For the summer time, they have a comfy terras in front — a nice touch. You’ll enjoy being at this place.
Service: The service at this location is pleasant, but I’ve been to others where the waiters and waitresses attitude left more to be desired. The service at bishop is friendly, but not dotting — it may sometimes come a little late if the restaurant is full.
Food: The sushi is middle of the road — not haut japanese cuisine by any stretch — however it is well made, well presented, tastes great, and there’s a fair amount of selection options. The place does most of its business due to the «all you can eat» buffet option — but watch out, the price for this option varies depending on the time of day and wether you’re visiting on the weekend or during a holiday. For the price — regardless of the differences due to time etc. — I find that what is received is good value.
Hits the spot.

Meh.
One word says it all.
Given its prices, this place is really not worth your time, money, and appetite. With prices hovering around $ 25+ for a dinner, you would really expect some better quality cuisine. Not this place. The staff is unapproachable, the food was cheap, and the menu is rather limited. The quality of food was especially unimpressive. You can sense that the food was made several hours ago only to be left out at room temperature conditions until you scribbled down your command on the order sheet. In fact, Kanda has recently been identified by Resto-​Net, a food safety watchdog, as having FAILED multiple food safety inspections (see here
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At this rate, you really should just do your wallet a favor and walk across the street to the Burger King. At least you know you are paying for junk food at that joint.

My friends and I came here pretty late on a saturday night, around 9:30pm and they close at 10pm so they were pretty much for last call on the sushi. It wasn’t a problem for us as we just finished a long drive here from Boston. We ordered a ton of sushi, enough to make sure we were full and not too much where we cant finish it. The service was ridiculously fast and the service was nice. I would say if you weren’t asian, or ate at a lot of asian places, you’d think they were rude, but that’s just part of the mentality, which is high production. They were having a special, 3 beers or saki for the price of 2. So we ended up buying 3 beers and 3 sakis. The bill was pretty expensive, but I guess we ate our weight in sushi too, so I guess that evens out.