L'Académie, spécialiste des cuisines italienne et française.
L'Aadémie Laval est heureuse de vous inviter venir découvrir sa cuisine fusion française et italienne où vous-pouvez apporter votre vin ou votre bière.
Depuis l'ouverture de son premier restaurant en 1984, L'Académie s'est bâtie au fil des ans une personnalité unique. Notre raison d'être est d'offrir une nourriture de qualité à prix raisonnable dans un cadre amical. Parmi les mets les plus appréciés par la clientèle, notons le magret de canard, le carré d'agneau, les généreuses portions de moules frites et plusieurs choix de pâtes fraîches et de types de sauce!
Que ce soit pour un dîner entre collègues de travail, pour un souper entre amoureux ou pour toute autre occasion, L'Académie est l'endroit idéal pour venir déguster un bon repas tout en apportant son vin.
Nos Spécialités
Pasta, Moules
Commodités, services et plus
Nous acceptons: Master Card, Visa, AMEX, Interac, Paiement Mobile, Paiement sans contact
Dans l'ensemble, L'Académie offre une expérience conviviale avec une cuisine savoureuse et bien présentée, des plats frais et des portions appréciables qui plaisent autant lors d'un repas en amoureux qu'en groupe. Le service est en général attentif et professionnel, l'équipe est accueillante et l'ambiance est agréable, avec des espaces spacieux et une atmosphère adaptée à diverses occasions. Beaucoup de clients apprécient le choix varié, la qualité des pâtes et des fruits de mer, ainsi que la possibilité d'apporter son vin. Des remarques ponctuelles évoquent parfois des plats trop salés, des aliments servis tièdes ou des temps d'attente plus longs lorsque l'affluence est élevée, ainsi que des petits irritants liés au bruit ou au chauffage/climatisation. En somme, c'est une option populaire et satisfaisante pour ceux qui recherchent une expérience agréable et un service efficace, avec des moments mémorables et une attention portée aux détails qui revient souvent dans les retours.
Bravo à la nouvelle administration!
Nous étions un groupe pour un party des fêtes & ils ont dépassé nos attentes. Quelle merveilleuse équipe. Encore merci à Manal, Sam, Ash & Zach de nous avoir aussi bien accueillis. Le menu de groupe était à la hauteur & l'ambiance très festive pour les fêtes. Nous avons adoré la mezzanine avec les belles décorations de noel.
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.
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.
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
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!
15 nov. 2025
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
