Omma — Restaurant in Montreal

This is a very cute restaurant. Decor is lovely, and I was so hoping to be able to give it a higher score. The waitress was lovely. She was alone and had a lot to do, but she was great...except for one major error which I will get to shortly. Started with the Pajun (sea food pancake appetizer). It was fantastic. Amazing flavor and the sauce was perfect. A fantastic start. The typical starter complimentary salads were great bites, and more would have been easily welcomed. We ordered a side of their house-made Kimchi. Solid, as you'd expect, very good. We ordered the beef bibimbap. It was very bland. We only realized AFTER our meal (and my wife asked me not to complain about the lack of flavor during the meal), that other tables were getting their order with a sauce. It came with a sauce; she forgot the sauce. After the meal she apologized...but you'd think that when you render a dish that bad with a huge error, you do 'something' to make good or compensate (hell, even comp the 4$ side order of Kimchi, something). This was not done. The Dak chicken was general tao-ish. Great veggies, crisp chicken, but kind of underwhelming. Not bad, but would not order again. Luckily, we had the idea to end out meal with a second appetizer, the chicken wings. Most certainly the best for last. I'd have that again...though unlkely to go back. 2 appetizers, 2 mains, one side, 3 cocktails, tax, tip, $144.

Generally, that is an okay price for a meal in downtown Montreal, but the overal quality and size of portions....I would have expected that to be an $80-$90 meal.

Would I go back? Probably not...simple Korean done right is in abundance in our city and I'd try elsewhere. If I HAD to go back? The seafood pancake and chicken wings could be...

Cute restaurant and food was good. However horrible service. We came at 7pm and the server asked if we had a reservation, to which we said we didn't. She promptly said they were full and shoo us away without letting us know if we could wait or if there was a possibility to come back later. We had to leave but coudnt find any alternatives and I had the reflex to call the restaurant to see if there was any space for the night for later and to my surprise, the server said that there was availability in 15 minutes. We came back 15 minutes later and the restaurant was practically empty and had a ton of available space to and not as the server had eluded " all full". Until the end of our meal, the restaurant remained quite empty and this was from 7h30 - 9pm.

We got sat down, the food was tasty, but halfway through our meal, we noticed that the other tables had some side dishes that the server would bring to them before their meals which our server never brought to us. I had to inquire about it and she went back and whispered something to the other server and finally came back with the side dishes.

The meal was tasty, however the service distasteful, lacking, which dampened our dinner that could have been quite enjoyable. Please do...

I didn't actually eat there, which is the reason for the bad review. I spent a lot of time at home looking for the restaurant I wanted. I picked Omma because their on-line menu was somewhat informative (which seems to be a challenge for Montreal Restaurants) and because their posted closing time is 10:30PM.

I arrived that night (April 28, 2023) by train. A 7 hour train ride, check into my hotel and I'm at Omma's by 9:20PM. I'm told by the hostess they don't have any tables and the kitchen is closing in 15 minutes. But a couple is getting ready to leave and she asked if I could wait 10 minutes.

So I wait outside and 6 minutes later the couple leaves. I go inside and take their seat. The hostess is taking orders from four young men. When she's finished she comes to me and says "I'm sorry the kitchen is now closed."

So the kitchen closed earlier than the 15 minutes I was previously told but it's still open for the four men whose order she just finished taking 30 seconds earlier?

Don't post a 10:30 closing time and then tell me you're closed at 9:30. I ended up getting a meal I didn't really want, but I had to eat...