Haru Izakaya — Restaurant in Gatineau

Absolutely lovely dishes, delicious and fresh, EXCEPT for the ramen. Don't bother getting it as it is below subpar. Not that the ramen wasn't fresh, but once you had proper ramen at a Japanese restaurant, you understand that this is miles away from doing the legendary dish justice. Thin and disappointing broth but the noodles were awesome. Also they were out of pork :( .

Other than that, everything was really great, including the service and ambiance. Beef Dumplings were succulent, karaage were slightly crispy with a thin batter and incredibly juicy and flavorful, the kiwi sauce on the Haru is fantastic, and the pizza sushi isn't as heavy as it sounds and is a great introduction to sushi for anyone worried about dipping their toes in that universe (same thing for Haru to be honest).

Would definitely recommend to anyone who's looking for quality sushi and Japanese dishes, but as for the ramen, I'd recommend upgrading it or removing it from the...

I ordered 4 ramen soups over the phone some 20 minutes ahead of time, I showed up and had to wait another 20 minutes, my expectations was that it would be ready upon arrival, a bit dissapointed to say the least.

When I finally got home, we ate the soups it tasted decent but not exceptionally good compared to Koichi and Sensotai Ramen in Ottawa.

They lacked variety soup types and size, most soup places I'd go, the size would be about twice as much for the same price and have a lot more for my money, the soup composition was quite basic, as a big fan of Japanese Ramen, I was not impressed and 4 of those soups + tx + top tax cost ~90$.

If you like Ramen, go to Koichi and avoid this place until they improve size and variety at a better price, it's not awful but it's nothing special either.

Haru Izakaya has a lot of potential, everything else looked excellent aside from...

Very disappointed. This restaurant has been around for a while now and i've been wanting to try it and with the current pandemic, we had to get take-out of course.

There were two of us, one of us ordered a poke bowl which had a dressing that only tasted of rice wine vinegar and did not have much in it and fried dumplings which were actually delicious.

Second order was a seaweed salad which was fine, spring rolls which were very obviously frozen and tasted like the ones from thaizone and a katsu chicken with Japanese curry. For the curry, every single one of the vegetables in the dish were undercooked and the white rice that came with it, was crunchy in some parts which made me stop eating it.

Overall, very very mediocre. Maybe a better experience in person. I'd suggest to the restaurant for the katsu, to put the curry in a separate container to keep the...