Restaurant Mikado Laurier

Belle ambiance: intime à Côté de la fenêtre ou plus d’actions au bar. Sushi délicieux et bon service

Meilleurs sushis que j’ai mangés! L’endroit est vraiment joli et on y trouve une belle ambiance calme, détendue et feutrée. Les plats que nous avons dégustés étaient tous meilleurs les uns que les autres, autant les salades que les sushis que les brochettes que les rouleaux. Pour une soirée où on veut se payer la traite avec des plats de grande qualité, c’est au Mikado que ça se passé!

Everything is very good. I was sad because Miyako had closed so I went there for my birthday. Their tempura is excellent. You should try the NDG and the Titanic maki, they’re the best! Though, tatamis are for 5 persons or more, and we were 3 on a monday night and we were alone. They told us on the phone that we could get a tatami if we weren’t a lot in the restaurant but they didn’t give us one in the end because it’s «too much work» for them.

We came here on a quiet, rainy Wednesday evening. The restaurant was relatively calm and yet for some reason, the food service was remarkably slow. For four men eating together, we thought that 6 rolls with two salads would be enough. Alas, it was not, and had to order 5 more. Perhaps, we would have been suggested by the waiting staff that we did not order enough. In the end, we waited a total of 2 hours, even though there weren’t that many patrons left by the end of evening.
We would have perhaps appreciated the staff checking up on us, but we rarely received any attention. In the end, they unexpectedly offered us an ice cream dessert to share for the time it took for everything to come.
In summary, slow good delivery, pretty similar tasting rolls with no special tastes, and service at a lower level than what we would have expected for this kind of restaurant. Acceptable, but there are other amazing and more deserving places at which to go eat in Montréal.

Bonne atmosphère, bon sushi.

Mikado adds an interesting and creative touch to their sushi, with various toppings and sauces that compliment its taste. The atmosphere is intimate, quiet and comfortable… BUT it’s expensive.
I recommend the ebi gyoza, sashimi (salmon is my favourite), paradise roll, mikado roll, ndg roll, and titanic roll, along with a bottle of Hakutsuru sake served cold. The lychee and green tea ice creams are a great way to end the night too!

Salty miso soup. Disappointing sushi. Likely due to the possibility that it looks like not a single Japanese person works here. The waitress had no idea what Futomaki is… sigh. Montréal… Not one good Japanese restaurant?

We choose to ring in the New Year with a January 1^st dinner at Mikado. Unfortunately our timing couldn’t have been much worse, as we found the restaurant in a state of post-​New Years chaos.
Apparently when the manager showed up in the morning, he found a burst pipe and a frozen flooded foyer. What he didn’t find was two of his chefs, who celebrated the New Year a little too hard and didn’t show up to work.
Of course, we never would have known of all the dysfunction if we hadn’t been told (in gory detail) on the phone when we made our reservation. Then again, by the restaurant manager when we arrived. And again, by the three servers who waited on us. Honestly, I don’t think I would have noticed much, if we hadn’t been told.
What we did notice was that service was slow, and everyone seemed a little on edge. The tasting menu wasn’t available, and the kitchen declined our request for anything off the menu. But regardless of the crisis management (or mismanagement), our meal went smoothly and pleasantly.
The fusion between French and Japanese cuisine as prepared at Mikado just excellent. Tuna tartar with truffle oil, and a variation on a traditional French pastry with tuna (the name of which escapes me) were both excellent. The traditional sashimi and nigiri was very good, the quality of the fish was top notch. And the maki was very impressive; I particularly enjoyed the NGD (Rice paper, Tuna Dynamite, Tempura, Avocado, Green Apple, Spicy Sauce) and the Paradise (Tara-​Sheet, Grilled Shrimps, Asparagus, Masago, Garlic & Lite Spicy Sauce).
The best treat was the desert, a painter’s palette of ice creams and sorbets. The lychee and green tea ice cream were exceptionally good. I would, however, avoid the crème brulee plate, which was as much a failure as the palette was a triumph.
All in all, I’ll give Mikado 4 stars for good food and a creative menu, and the benefit of the doubt that the restaurant runs more smoothly on a regular basis. I’ll definitely be back for the tasting menu, and to see if they can earn that 5^th star.