Sushi Rosa gives you the feeling of enjoying sushi at a real Japanese restaurant. The quality of the ingredients is excellent & the flavor is consistently good. The staff are enthusiastic, polite, & attentive. I highly recommend everyone give it a try.
Sushi Rosa is one of the best sushi restaurants I've ever been to. The fish is always fresh, beautifully presented, & the flavors are perfectly balanced. The staff are friendly & provide quick service. I will definitely be back many more times.
My visit to Sushi Rosa exceeded all expectations. The menu offered a fantastic variety of sushi, sashimi, & specialty rolls. Everything arrived beautifully plated & looked as amazing as it tasted. The quality of the ingredients was outstanding & noticeably fresh. The staff provided excellent service & were happy to answer questions about the menu. The restaurant had a warm & comfortable atmosphere that made the evening even more enjoyable. Every bite reflected great attention to detail & care. I left impressed by both the food & the hospitality. Sushi Rosa has earned a loyal customer.
With over 1,700 reviews & a 4.7-star rating, it's almost inevitable that people are misled by the Google rating.
There are simply too many fake reviews, & the genuine opinions get buried.
In fact, the one-star reviews sound far more truthful-& I completely understand their frustration.
It's really disappointing - & honestly unpleasant - to have come across another restaurant like this again in Montreal.
First, the positives:
The taste was decent, & the person who seemed to be the owner was quite pleasant & polite.
However, the rest of the experience was terrible.
The young woman serving tables was openly unfriendly - her attitude was written all over her face. She was inattentive, offered no explanation of the dishes, & made the whole experience uncomfortable.
The food itself consisted mostly of standard tempura rolls & avocado rolls - nothing special, but not bad either.
(Of course, it's not authentic sushi by any means, but it was edible.)
That said, the rolls were poorly made - the seaweed wasn't sealed properly, & everything fell apart. That's basic sushi technique.
As for sashimi & nigiri, the prices were outrageously high, so I didn't even bother ordering them.
Drinks were another problem.
They offered only warm canned beer (Sapporo, 350ml - other reviews mention $9 each) & what appeared to be a very overpriced bottle of white wine (Cloudy Bay 1L, basically a cooking wine).
There was no drink menu & no visible prices - quite questionable for a sushi restaurant.
Even at peak hours on a weekend, the restaurant was nearly empty - which says a lot about how genuine those reviews really are.
Loud, intrusive music & an excess of fake flowers completed the odd atmosphere.
The worst part was the order mistake & how they handled it.
Since portions were small, I placed a second order - but it was completely forgotten.
When I asked about it, the waitress insisted, in a condescending tone, that I hadn't ordered anything, & even looked irritated.
However, I wrote the order down on paper again & handed it over.
A while later, it seemed they finally found the paper, & she came back saying,'It'll be ready in five minutes.'
By then, more than 30 minutes had already passed. I told her not to bother anymore.
Then came the bill.
I asked for a receipt, but was told to pay at the counter near the exit - not at the table.
No itemized bill, just a total amount to pay.
When I asked again for a receipt, I was given only a vague credit card slip - no details, just the total: over $500.
I didn't complain, but the owner, perhaps feeling bad, gave me a 5% discount - though the minimum tip was still 15%.
I have no idea how much that'cooking wine' cost me.
As I was leaving, someone mechanically asked,'How was your meal?'
But in that situation, what exactly was I supposed to say? & honestly, what's the point of asking that question?
I've visited over 200 restaurants in Montreal & have found many truly wonderful ones - but it's disheartening that there are still places like this, with artificially inflated ratings that mislead customers.
