SESAME - ATWATER — Restaurant in Montreal

Place is clean and staff was smiley, but I will never return to this restaurant. We ordered 3 different dumplings as entree and when served, just put on the table no presentation. We had to prompt the server to tell us which one was which. Taste was just ok, the accompanying sauces were fairly tasteless/one noted. The mains were disasters. My father had the General Tao, probably the "best" of our 4 meals, but 5 sad nuggets covered in mediocre sauce for 19.25? He could at least finish his. My gf had the peanut butter chicken : just a pile of goo... did not taste like anything even remotely peanut, with unseasoned almost boiled chicken. No seasoning, no refinement. Was not finished. My mother got a shrimp poke bowl which had so many giant petals of ginger in it, it was impossible to eat. She also had a whole uncut bushel of cilantro. Again no care for presentation or elegant food prep. Was not finished. I got the Pad thai, which was THE disaster of the table. I had to take my mother's bushel of cilantro because I had 2 leaves on it on mine. Tasteless but also very bitter and not pleasant tasting. After getting through the top, discovered that the egg was burnt. Tried to move it aside, but it had permeated the entire dish. Even my family could then smell the burnt scent from my dish. Absolutely NOT finished. Lastly, any restaurant that does birthdays and puts those sparklers on the desserts... the smell of these things wafts though your entire dining area. Sense of smell is directly related to taste.... you kill everyone's taste buds. Give up this practice - just put a real candle on it. This is one of the most angering restaurant experiences in recent memory. Staff seemed to not care picking up mostly unfinished plates, no regard for our experience. Responses here from the owners as well seem clueless. I could care less about your claims of how you choose your ingredients and what you might have as a business philosophy on paper. If reality is you have a staff that can't execute this vision properly, treat your "quality ingredients" with no regard, and the end result is not good but actually sub-par in almost every imaginable aspect, you could be boiling your rice in angel tears for all I care it will not make any difference. 4 for 4 upset people 175 bucks lighter in the wallet. Je veux même pas entendre rien de vous, je veux juste alerter le monde de pas vivre mon expérience ici. Vous sembler vous en fouter complètement avec vos réponse aussi générique et banale, comme votre nourriture. Un...

Ordered as a birthday dinner, turned out to be disappointing. I'm sorry, but I really did try. Despite reading other's bad reviews, I still took a chance to support local. I love pad thai so decided to try a new place to add to my list. Sesame won't be on that list tho. I paid for extra panko tofu, got none. Asked for extra spicy, got none, had to add my own, even though the description mentions ''slightly spicy'', really, where? Peanuts? Don't even dream about it. Topped with one tiny lime, barely squeezable. Oh, and the chicken, can you make it look more cooked, for others please, it almost looked microwaved. I'm not even mad, I was really hungry and the food weighing 787 g was appropriate, I'm rather quite disappointed that I had to pay 30$ for this lack of ingredients, extras and refinement. I've already cooked a few pad thai from scratch, and I start to wonder if you use fresh ingredients or a premade sauce from bottle... Anyway, I hope you guys improve, I wish you perseverance and success in your...

Expensive for Nothing

The food was terrible and very expensive for what it is. I am Asian and am used to making dishes like Pad Thai, Pad Sew, and dumplings for my family. A Pad Thai with about $1.50 worth of ingredients shouldn’t cost $16.50!—especially for one that has been so diluted with cheap noodles (a pack of rice noodles that will feed 8 people costs less than $2). You can find fantastic noodle dishes at authentic Asian restaurants for 30% to 40% less than what they’re charging.

The Hunan and Fried Wontons were also a let-down. They tasted like they were frozen and reheated. So for 3 appetizers and 3 noodles dishes for my family came out to $80 before tip... for about $8 worth of ingredients. I understand they have rent, utilities, and salaries to pay, but I really felt ripped-off.

Do yourself a favor, and don’t get trapped into this pretend high-end Asian food. Authentic high-end Asian food is well worth its price, but this is food court...