Sésame offers a concept unique in its kind: an out of the ordinary variety of high quality Asian dishes to enjoy in a warm atmosphere.
From the Pad Thai to the General Tao poutine, or one of the various wok sautées, you can eat your meal on site or take it to go.
Additionally, Sésame offers a wide selection of loose teas, several privately imported wines, beers on tap, a wide selection of sake, but especially, a menu of exclusive Sésame cocktails.
Sésame offers a stylish and inviting atmosphere that is widely appreciated for its Asian fusion menu, including popular dishes like the General Tao chicken and salmon poke. Many guests enjoy the warm ambiance and beautiful decor, making it a suitable destination for both business lunches and social gatherings. While service experiences can vary, many diners report receiving attentive, friendly, and professional care from the staff, often highlighting specific servers who enhance the overall meal. The restaurant is frequently praised for its fresh, flavorful food and well-crafted cocktails, providing a pleasant dining experience for those who visit.
Busy busy location. We were immediately asked if we had a reservation. No we didn't. Many tables empty & looked available? Short wait for a table. Just 2 of us. Quickly served. Seemed rather impersonal. Food arrived quickly. (Photos attached) Felt it was expensive. Barely any salmon on the salad that cost $30!!! Teriyaki meal was good. Both tasty. But wouldn't order or go there again. Looked like staff was overworked, running around serving meals & drink. Aside from the kitchen only 3 workers on the floor. Get more staff!
Nice cocktails, food is nice. Service is ok depending on who is serving. We had drinks here few times in the afternoon & were helped by a very nice guy.
Party of 8 that made a 745 reservation. Restaurant wasn't busy, but took a while to get all our drink & food orders taken. While the drinks were no problem, the food order, which to be fair was quite complicated failed to be taken by the machine - a glitch. So we reordered & when it came some thing we're incorrect - an inevitability. A wonton soup came that wasn't ordered, a sesame salad that came with chicken meant to be tofu.
The staff handled it all with as much grace as they could muster given the restaurant was closing. In the end we got 90% of our original order & it tasted ok. Not sure I would come back, but others should try. Just perhaps not close to closing & not with a large group.
Andrea gracefully stayed past closing time so we could enjoy the 5 course 4 person menu. Nagano tonic is to die for if you like gin drinks & the music set a cool vibe. Pad Thai was delicious.
I'm usually very easy to please, but my experience at Sesame was not the best. The good: the drinks were great & the restaurant had a good vibe, however, when it came time to pay, the waitress was super rude. She refused to split the bill. We asked her if we could pay cash one part & the other with cards, but they couldn't accommodate this request. This has never been an issue for me in a restaurant before & if this is their policy for larger tables, she should have mentioned this from the beginning.
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It took a while to seat us even though the restaurant wasn't busy. The hostess & waitress were just standing far away, & there weren't many people at all.
The seating we got was not ideal, right in the middle, on chairs with no backs, directly under a bright light. The ambience would have been better if the lights were dimmer, though the décor itself was nice.
Our waitress ignored us. When one of my friends asked for cups, she brushed it off. When we asked again, she acted rude, dismissive, & made it seem like a chore to get them. We had to ask twice before they finally brought us cups.
We waited quite a while to order. By the time someone came, we already knew what we wanted, so we ordered drinks, appetizers, & mains all together. Water came in just 2 glass bottles, & they never once brought more, even though there were 6 of us.
The service overall was just not good. We felt ignored the entire time. They didn't check in once or ask how the meal was, even though there were barely any tables to serve.
Food:
General Tao rice - Solid 7.5. It had furikake on top & was good, but the chicken tasted more like sweet & sour than General Tao. The veggies were boring-lots of peppers, cabbage, onion, a couple pieces of celery, & only one piece of zucchini. I really wish it had some broccoli.
Chicken Pad Thai - 7.2. Spicy & tasty, but the heat kind of overpowered the other flavors. Not really impressive.
Shrimp Pad Thai - 8. Best flavor out of everything we tried. It was spicy in a good way, but the noodles were slimy & too short, almost like they'd been cut. Vegetables were boring here too. The shrimp, though, was good & not fishy.
Teriyaki - 5. Really disappointing. Almost flavorless, but somehow still had a weird off-taste.
Salmon poke - 6.6. Decent but average. It lacked sauce, & the edamame was a little hard. I've had way better poke bowls at Poke Station.
Fried wontons - 8. Tasty, crunchy, nice sauce. The filling tasted like Costco wontons, but still good overall.
Edamame - 9. Hard to mess up edamame, & they were salty & delicious. Drinks:
Passion fruit mojito - 7. Good, refreshing, but didn't have enough passion fruit flavor.
Hibiscus litchi (no egg white) - 2. This was terrible. I asked for no egg whites, & they gave me egg whites anyway. The two sips I had tasted like absolutely nothing. If I had an allergy, this could've been dangerous. Just a bad drink.
Margarita appeal - 4.7. Tasted like straight alcohol, with no flavor behind it.
Negroni - 7.5. Fresh, gingery, & enjoyable.
Passionfruit Tropic - 9. Amazing, full passionfruit flavor, delicious. This is the only thing I'd truly recommend from here.
Other notes:
Appetizers came out before our drinks, which usually isn't a good sign.
I specifically said no egg whites in my drink , & they still gave me egg whites.
No one checked on us during the meal.
They refused to give us a table, claiming it was reserved for 10 people but no one ever came to it.
They didn't ask how we wanted to split the bill.
We had to ask twice just to get the bill.
Only positive: when they messed up my drink with the egg whites, the waitress offered me another drink & only charged me for the cheaper one.
All in all, very mid restaurant. I wouldn't go back. I've heard this location is average compared to others, so maybe that's the issue, but overall I was underwhelmed & disappointed.
This place has a really nice vibe inside- beautiful decor & lighting. The food was ok, we had tempura shrimp, edamame & dumplings sampler for appetizers which were all great. For mains we had general Tao chicken & the pad sew which were pretty basic & like you would get at Thai express or something. The pad sew was full of mainly bean sprouts & hardly any noodles & these mini shrimps.
I think the part that really wasn't great for us was the attitude of the hostess, server & the actual service. We were greeted & the woman at the front wasn't pleasant at all, took us to our seat dropped the menus off & just left. No smile, no hi how are you. The server came & asked what we wanted to drink, we had to call her over to order our food. We wanted more water & she said no problem & proceeded to walk back to the bar & roll cutlery. We waited 15 minutes before I just got up & asked for the bottle of water myself. Needless to say we won't be back.
The ambience is nice & the decor is pretty, although the music was too loud, there was so much noise I could barely hear the people I was eating with.
The service took a really long time, from coming to take our order, to bringing us our drinks (15-20 minutes) & brining us our diner (40min), we waited quite a lot. We believe the servers might have forgotten our food, since we saw the chef serve some tables, & the corner with heating lamps was entirely full.
It is important to add that the restaurant did?t have a lot of customers when we went, there were like 6 other tables.
When we finally got our food, mine was tepid, the plate was hot but not the food. The rice was slightly crusted over, like it was left too long under the heating lamp.
Otherwise the food was really good, I hade the peanut with tofu & it was really good.
Although I don't think I would come back, it was not really enjoyable with the music & the service took too long.
