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L'Académie
Restaurant
L'Académie
Laval BYOW restaurant offering Italian & French dishes, with mussel specials & pasta.
Opens Today at 11:30 am
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Restaurant L'Académie, the specialists in Italian and French Cuisines.
L'Académie in Laval is proud to invite you to discover it's fusion of Italian and French cuisines where you can bring your own wine.
L'Académie Restaurants has established a unique reputation for value, service and ambiance since the opening of our first location in 1984. Our "raison d'être" has always been to offer fine cuisine in an elegant ambiance at reasonable prices. Our more popular dishes include duck magret, rack of lamb, generous portions of mussels and fries as well as several choices of fresh pasta and sauces.
Impress your business associates for lunch or dinner or enjoy a romantic meal with a favorite friend. Bring your own wine and savor the fine dining, graciously presented at Restaurant L'Académie.
L'Académie in Laval is proud to invite you to discover it's fusion of Italian and French cuisines where you can bring your own wine.
L'Académie Restaurants has established a unique reputation for value, service and ambiance since the opening of our first location in 1984. Our "raison d'être" has always been to offer fine cuisine in an elegant ambiance at reasonable prices. Our more popular dishes include duck magret, rack of lamb, generous portions of mussels and fries as well as several choices of fresh pasta and sauces.
Impress your business associates for lunch or dinner or enjoy a romantic meal with a favorite friend. Bring your own wine and savor the fine dining, graciously presented at Restaurant L'Académie.
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Pasta, Mussels
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5.0
Nous étions un groupe de plus de 60 mpersonnes & notre expérience a été incroyable. Ils nous ont laissé le temps de jaser sans nous presser de s'assoir & par la suite le service a été incroyable, merci à Ash notre serveur attitré qui a fait un magnifique travail.
Dec 1, 2025
on Google
3.0
I reserved a table on a Wednesday for a Saturday night at 7pm. I confirmed the reservation twice through their online reservation platform. It was somewhat disappointing & shocking that when we showed up at 6:30pm to get told that they don't have a table for us & we needed to wait. What's the point of reserving then? The boss/owner had to be called to sort things out. Not a good way to start my mom's birthday celebration.
The place was packed full & parking was next to impossible to find, even in the massive parking lot. We ended up parking on the street. Once seated, there was barely any service. Either the place was under staffed (most probably) or they were just too busy that night. The poor waiter for us had to manage the whole 2nd floor on his own & he was doing his best. Prices went up a lot since the last time we were there too, which is fine, as everything went up post-COVID. It is unfortunate the the service level shot way down though.
Once we ordered, the appetizers came after an acceptable amount of time. However, the main dish took easily an hour to show up. During that time, one person came to fill our water glasses once. That's it. When the food finally showed up, we had to wait for our waiter to be freed up from dealing with other tables on the floor (again, not his fault as he was alone), before serving us our plates. Since it was sitting there waiting a good 5-10 minutes, my dish was just lukewarm at best. Flavor was ok. We never never served any bread either.
When we were done, the boss/owner had to come up & tell people to clear our table. I'm pretty sure there's just a lack of employees or something, because it really doesn't make sense to have so little employees for the 2nd floor.
In the end, the whole experience was somewhat disappointing & I doubt I would go back. The prices are just too high for the level of quality & service.
Nov 30, 2025
on Google
2.0
The food…awful. I had a linguini dish & my wife had duck. I've had better sauce out of a jar than what I was served. My wife couldn't eat the duck as it was almost entirely fat & gristle. It was supposed to come with a raspberry sauce, but was basically smothered with Dijon. The salad was more like a soup with all the dressing the put in it.
The atmosphere…it felt more like an all you can eat buffet than fine dining. It's lit up like a grocery store & it was so loud that it made conversation almost impossible.
The staff… most looked like they'd rather be walking on hot coals than here. We were lucky that our waitress was pleasant & the busboy was actually quite attentive & friendly.
The bill…the food, service & atmosphere was definitely not with the price we paid. For two meals & an appetizer, almost $200 with tip.
Overall, I've had worse, but I definitely won't be coming here again
Nov 29, 2025
on Google
4.0
Excellent service de Martin, disponible & attentionné. Nourriture & choix variés. Un peu trop salé en général par contre
Nov 29, 2025
on Google
5.0
Excellent service. Bonne bouffe. Ambiance agréable. Je recommande fortement.
Nov 16, 2025
on Google
5.0
Nourriture délicieuse & fraîche comme toujours. Le veau à la dijonnaise est tendre & très goûteux. À l'Académie Laval, on ne se trompe jamais!
Nov 15, 2025
on Google
2.0
The waiters were super good & nice,, only thing, when a restaurant with that much capacity has a owner or manager to cheap to pay staff agencies to make sure they have enough staff,, its ridiculous,, better to have 2 cooks & 2 servers from an staff agency to help out than run out of staff to end up a disaster like last night. You wanna run a restaurant this size for a long time without losing clients years after years,, stop beeing cheap on staff… it showed in the food & in the service to much.. it became a runing gag at the end & we ended up laughing about it, thanks to the nice staff that was there to try & save the mess that their owners put them into in the first place.. so much potential,, use it!
Nov 15, 2025
on Google
5.0
On 2025-11-08, my girlfriend & I decided to have supper at l'academie in Laval. It had been years since I had been there. We haven't been there in many years & upon our arrival we noticed the atmosphere & decor of the restaurant had changed. It looked like a fine dining restaurant. We were greeted immediately & waited max 2 minutes for our table. Our waiter was very knowledgeable & professional, his name was Harry & I encourage anyone to ask for him if dinning there. We started off with an entree of mussels in white wine sauce, there were so good that we asked for bread to dip inside the sauce because it was that delicious. For the main meal we had the sharing plate for 2 that had: 8 lamb chops, 2 lobster tails, 4-6 giant grilled shrimps, roasted potatoes & grilled vegetables. We've had this type of sharing plate at restaurants like'rib & reef & 40West' & it was better at l'academie, also at a fraction of the price. It also came with a salad each & coffee at the end. Our waiter suggested that plate & thank god we listened to him, because it didn't disappoint at all. The plate was so big that we took some of it home. We had no more room for dessert & our waiter brought us a piece of key lime pie to take home. Also, the best part it's a bring your own wine restaurant. No need to say we will definitely bring going back.
Nov 9, 2025
on Google
3.0
Beautiful restaurant, but a few things were disappointing. When we arrived, the manager was sitting at the entrance on his phone - & he remained there on his cell for the entire evening. The atmosphere felt flat, with no real ambience. Portions were quite small, & surprisingly, the place wasn't busy at all for a Friday night.
Nov 8, 2025
on Google
5.0
I ❤? this place, always staff are nice, friendly & professional, you can bring your own 🍷
Nov 6, 2025
on Google
2.0
Went here with family for dinner … We ordered pasta plates in which were very dissapointing! The plates arrived not even half full of pasta! For a 30$ plate of pasta , the least thats expected is a decent portion! Very dissapointing!
Nov 3, 2025
on Google
4.0
Dans l'ensemble le repas était bon sauf pour la salade César qui baignait dans la vinaigrette & dans laquelle il n'y avait que 3 minuscules morceaux de bacon & aucun croûton. Le reste par contre était bon.
C'était très bruyant & difficile à s'entendre. On n'a eu qu'un seul verre d'eau & pour mes pâtes, jamais on ne m'a proposé de fromage ou de poivre comme je voyais aux autres tables.
Donc pas mal dans l'ensemble mais avec qq petits irritants.
Nov 2, 2025
on Google
5.0
Nous avons essayer le « Late night lunch » (sur réservation uniquement les vendredis & samedis à partir de 20:30)
Vraiment super! Menu exclusif 3 services à 39$: portions parfaites, excellent service de toute l'équipe, en particulier de notre serveuse Manal.
Nous reviendrons certainement!
Nov 2, 2025
on Google
3.0
Nous étions un groupe de +/- 20 personnes & on nous a imposé une table d'hôte avec 5 ou 6 choix, commençant à $ 42 + tx + service. Vraiment très décevant pour le prix.
Oct 31, 2025
on Google