Maison Sai Yan

Kelvin

3.0

Good food, decent service but it's on the pricier side. You compare the price at the menu section to their price 2 years ago & they have made really big jump in prices but I am not sure if they have mde big jumps in quality & quantity of the food.

I will say it again, it's good Chinese meal, but a plate of fried rice is 18-25$ plus tax? A steamed oyster (picture attached) is 12$!

On the plus side, they have a very wide selection of dishes & fresh seafood.

Rob

3.0

The food was good & all the dishes came out around the same time. Unlike a previous reviewer, I did not notice any over saltiness in the food. I'm giving the food rating a 4 star since the taste is more or less the same as their competitors in the area The service is where they should improve. 1) when ordering, the waiter was constantly trying to upsell us. Despite telling her we wanted some simple, she acted like she was getting a sales commission. 2) unlike their nearby competitors, the dishes were served in smaller plates or larger plates that were only 70% full. It was very noticeable & puzzling since the ingredients in our dishes were not expensive. 3) they calculate tips on top of tax. The government is clamping down on this shortly & I hope they stop soon. 4) I asked if they had complementary dessert, they said yes. Minutes later, 1/2 a small bowl of red bean dessert was served & we were all supposed to share it In summary, on the surface, this looks like a family style restaurant, you want to help to be successful. The food was on par but, the portion size could be larger. However, multiple hints of greed & cost cutting erases any nostalgic feeling one might have from eating at a smaller family restaurant.

Candice

4.0

All the dishes taste okay, but they are a bit on the salty side. The flavors are not as good as what the Google reviews suggest. Probably because there are not many great Cantonese restaurants in Montreal, this place can still survive here. However, if this restaurant were to open in Toronto or the Greater Toronto Area, I think it would struggle to stay in business due to the high competition in the Cantonese restaurant scene in Ontario. The prices here are also relatively high compared to other restaurants. The service is not very good, to be honest. The waitress was quite pushy in recommending seafood dishes, even though we had already said two or three times that we were not ready or weren't interested at the moment. She still insisted on pushing the dishes she wanted us to order. While I do see that this restaurant has quite a few customers, I personally wouldn't come back again, especially since it's quite far from downtown. If I lived nearby, maybe I would, but I wouldn't recommend it as highly as the Google reviews do.

Olivia

3.0

Staff were really nice, but the food did not meet my expectations. Our dishes tasted average & the price was expensive for the small portion size.

Foodie

6 Reviews

2.5

Went on new year special day usually service & food are okay. But that time the soup is sour & the cook did not know about it. Bad to serve food that gone bad to customers, should try all food before serving. Dishes portion are small. Have notgo backsince then.