We had our office holiday party at L’academie Laval Centropolis and it was a total delight! Perfect service, super friendly and professional staff. The food was delicious; soup, salad, pasta, main dishes, dessert, everything was wonderful. Will definitely be coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nick Madimenos
Great food and professional service
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Bobby Chan
I reserved a table on a Wednesday for a Saturday night at 7pm. I confirmed the reservation twice through their online reservation platform. It was somewhat disappointing and shocking that when we showed up at 6:30pm to get told that they don't have a table for us and we needed to wait. What's the point of reserving then? The boss/owner had to be called to sort things out. Not a good way to start my mom's birthday celebration.
The place was packed full and parking was next to impossible to find, even in the massive parking lot. We ended up parking on the street. Once seated, there was barely any service. Either the place was under staffed (most probably) or they were just too busy that night. The poor waiter for us had to manage the whole 2nd floor on his own and he was doing his best. Prices went up a lot since the last time we were there too, which is fine, as everything went up post-COVID. It is unfortunate the the service level shot way down though.
Once we ordered, the appetizers came after an acceptable amount of time. However, the main dish took easily an hour to show up. During that time, one person came to fill our water glasses once. That's it. When the food finally showed up, we had to wait for our waiter to be freed up from dealing with other tables on the floor (again, not his fault as he was alone), before serving us our plates. Since it was sitting there waiting a good 5-10 minutes, my dish was just lukewarm at best. Flavor was ok. We never never served any bread either.
When we were done, the boss/owner had to come up and tell people to clear our table. I'm pretty sure there's just a lack of employees or something, because it really doesn't make sense to have so little employees for the 2nd floor.
In the end, the whole experience was somewhat disappointing and I doubt I would go back. The prices are just too high for the level of quality and service.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
Matt Ballantyne
The food…awful. I had a linguini dish and my wife had duck. I’ve had better sauce out of a jar than what I was served. My wife couldn’t eat the duck as it was almost entirely fat and gristle. It was supposed to come with a raspberry sauce, but was basically smothered with Dijon. The salad was more like a soup with all the dressing the put in it. The atmosphere…it felt more like an all you can eat buffet than fine dining. It’s lit up like a grocery store and it was so loud that it made conversation almost impossible. The staff… most looked like they’d rather be walking on hot coals than here. We were lucky that our waitress was pleasant and the busboy was actually quite attentive and friendly. The bill…the food, service and atmosphere was definitely not with the price we paid. For two meals and an appetizer, almost $200 with tip. Overall, I’ve had worse, but I definitely won’t be coming here again
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Ricardo Ibarra
Very good service
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 5
Groupe Communauté positive
Remerciements au restaurant L’Académie Laval
Une soirée mémorable lors de notre souper-conférence Complicité et connexion du 8 novembre 2025
Nous tenons à exprimer notre profonde reconnaissance envers toute l’équipe du restaurant L’Académie – Laval, qui a contribué au succès de notre souper-conférence tenu le 8 novembre 2025. Dès notre première prise de contact, nous avons été chaleureusement accueillis et accompagnés à chaque étape, ce qui a grandement facilité nos préparatifs et assuré le bon déroulement de la soirée.
Un merci tout particulier à Issam, le propriétaire, pour sa disponibilité, son professionnalisme exemplaire, son sens du service et son soutien constant tout au long des préparatifs jusqu’au jour de l’événement.
Le menu était délicieux, le service attentionné et l’ambiance à la fois conviviale et élégante ont permis à tous les participants de vivre une soirée inoubliable.
Nous recommandons fortement L’Académie – Laval à tous ceux et celles qui recherchent un lieu exceptionnel pour organiser un événement ou simplement profiter d’un excellent repas. Merci encore à Issam et à toute son équipe pour leur dévouement et la qualité exceptionnelle de leur service!
Comité organisateur – Groupe Communauté Positive
Méline Nozinor
Emmanuel Brice
Vladimyr Mathieu
Fariah Brice
Tourie Célestin
Deenah DaNappy
Wadneri Dor
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
M LTH
Very noisy from our corner but food very good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Phil.
It was abit noisey
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jean-Philip Dubreuil
The waiters were super good and nice,, only thing, when a restaurant with that much capacity has a owner or manager to cheap to pay staff agencies to make sure they have enough staff,, its ridiculous,, better to have 2 cooks and 2 servers from an staff agency to help out than run out of staff to end up a disaster like last night. You wanna run a restaurant this size for a long time without losing clients years after years,, stop beeing cheap on staff… it showed in the food and in the service to much.. it became a runing gag at the end and we ended up laughing about it, thanks to the nice staff that was there to try and save the mess that their owners put them into in the first place.. so much potential,, use it!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 2
Lina
Good experience. Service, food and pricing were good
On 2025-11-08, my girlfriend and I decided to have supper at l’academie in Laval. It had been years since I had been there. We haven’t been there in many years and upon our arrival we noticed the atmosphere and decor of the restaurant had changed. It looked like a fine dining restaurant. We were greeted immediately and waited max 2 minutes for our table. Our waiter was very knowledgeable and professional, his name was Harry and I encourage anyone to ask for him if dinning there. We started off with an entree of mussels in white wine sauce, there were so good that we asked for bread to dip inside the sauce because it was that delicious. For the main meal we had the sharing plate for 2 that had: 8 lamb chops, 2 lobster tails, 4-6 giant grilled shrimps, roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables. We’ve had this type of sharing plate at restaurants like “rib & reef and 40West” and it was better at l’academie, also at a fraction of the price. It also came with a salad each and coffee at the end. Our waiter suggested that plate and thank god we listened to him, because it didn’t disappoint at all. The plate was so big that we took some of it home. We had no more room for dessert and our waiter brought us a piece of key lime pie to take home. Also, the best part it’s a bring your own wine restaurant. No need to say we will definitely bring going back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
M S
Honestly one star is generous, terrible food and terrible service. There’s nothing good about this restaurant. Don’t bring your kids the free food isn’t worth it
Anastasiya Zhmaidziak
Posting pictures - everything we tried was amazing! Staff is on point, great service. Fairly big place, reasonable pricing. Only draw back is their lighting... I feel like they should dim the lights to bring out more intimate atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gilbert Aouad
Another amazing evening.great food and friendly atmosphère.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christine Pirollo
Great service by our waiter Stephane ! I will organize more work events here. Thank you !
We had our office holiday party at L’academie Laval Centropolis and it was a total delight! Perfect service, super friendly and professional staff. The food was delicious; soup, salad, pasta, main dishes, dessert, everything was wonderful. Will definitely be coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food and professional service
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
I reserved a table on a Wednesday for a Saturday night at 7pm. I confirmed the reservation twice through their online reservation platform. It was somewhat disappointing and shocking that when we showed up at 6:30pm to get told that they don't have a table for us and we needed to wait. What's the point of reserving then? The boss/owner had to be called to sort things out. Not a good way to start my mom's birthday celebration.
The place was packed full and parking was next to impossible to find, even in the massive parking lot. We ended up parking on the street. Once seated, there was barely any service. Either the place was under staffed (most probably) or they were just too busy that night. The poor waiter for us had to manage the whole 2nd floor on his own and he was doing his best. Prices went up a lot since the last time we were there too, which is fine, as everything went up post-COVID. It is unfortunate the the service level shot way down though.
Once we ordered, the appetizers came after an acceptable amount of time. However, the main dish took easily an hour to show up. During that time, one person came to fill our water glasses once. That's it. When the food finally showed up, we had to wait for our waiter to be freed up from dealing with other tables on the floor (again, not his fault as he was alone), before serving us our plates. Since it was sitting there waiting a good 5-10 minutes, my dish was just lukewarm at best. Flavor was ok. We never never served any bread either.
When we were done, the boss/owner had to come up and tell people to clear our table. I'm pretty sure there's just a lack of employees or something, because it really doesn't make sense to have so little employees for the 2nd floor.
In the end, the whole experience was somewhat disappointing and I doubt I would go back. The prices are just too high for the level of quality and service.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
The food…awful. I had a linguini dish and my wife had duck. I’ve had better sauce out of a jar than what I was served. My wife couldn’t eat the duck as it was almost entirely fat and gristle. It was supposed to come with a raspberry sauce, but was basically smothered with Dijon. The salad was more like a soup with all the dressing the put in it.
The atmosphere…it felt more like an all you can eat buffet than fine dining. It’s lit up like a grocery store and it was so loud that it made conversation almost impossible.
The staff… most looked like they’d rather be walking on hot coals than here. We were lucky that our waitress was pleasant and the busboy was actually quite attentive and friendly.
The bill…the food, service and atmosphere was definitely not with the price we paid. For two meals and an appetizer, almost $200 with tip.
Overall, I’ve had worse, but I definitely won’t be coming here again
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Very good service
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 5
Remerciements au restaurant L’Académie Laval Une soirée mémorable lors de notre souper-conférence Complicité et connexion du 8 novembre 2025 Nous tenons à exprimer notre profonde reconnaissance envers toute l’équipe du restaurant L’Académie – Laval, qui a contribué au succès de notre souper-conférence tenu le 8 novembre 2025. Dès notre première prise de contact, nous avons été chaleureusement accueillis et accompagnés à chaque étape, ce qui a grandement facilité nos préparatifs et assuré le bon déroulement de la soirée. Un merci tout particulier à Issam, le propriétaire, pour sa disponibilité, son professionnalisme exemplaire, son sens du service et son soutien constant tout au long des préparatifs jusqu’au jour de l’événement. Le menu était délicieux, le service attentionné et l’ambiance à la fois conviviale et élégante ont permis à tous les participants de vivre une soirée inoubliable. Nous recommandons fortement L’Académie – Laval à tous ceux et celles qui recherchent un lieu exceptionnel pour organiser un événement ou simplement profiter d’un excellent repas. Merci encore à Issam et à toute son équipe pour leur dévouement et la qualité exceptionnelle de leur service! Comité organisateur – Groupe Communauté Positive Méline Nozinor Emmanuel Brice Vladimyr Mathieu Fariah Brice Tourie Célestin Deenah DaNappy Wadneri Dor
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very noisy from our corner but food very good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was abit noisey
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
The waiters were super good and nice,, only thing, when a restaurant with that much capacity has a owner or manager to cheap to pay staff agencies to make sure they have enough staff,, its ridiculous,, better to have 2 cooks and 2 servers from an staff agency to help out than run out of staff to end up a disaster like last night. You wanna run a restaurant this size for a long time without losing clients years after years,, stop beeing cheap on staff… it showed in the food and in the service to much.. it became a runing gag at the end and we ended up laughing about it, thanks to the nice staff that was there to try and save the mess that their owners put them into in the first place.. so much potential,, use it!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 2
Good experience. Service, food and pricing were good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
On 2025-11-08, my girlfriend and I decided to have supper at l’academie in Laval. It had been years since I had been there. We haven’t been there in many years and upon our arrival we noticed the atmosphere and decor of the restaurant had changed. It looked like a fine dining restaurant. We were greeted immediately and waited max 2 minutes for our table. Our waiter was very knowledgeable and professional, his name was Harry and I encourage anyone to ask for him if dinning there. We started off with an entree of mussels in white wine sauce, there were so good that we asked for bread to dip inside the sauce because it was that delicious. For the main meal we had the sharing plate for 2 that had: 8 lamb chops, 2 lobster tails, 4-6 giant grilled shrimps, roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables. We’ve had this type of sharing plate at restaurants like “rib & reef and 40West” and it was better at l’academie, also at a fraction of the price. It also came with a salad each and coffee at the end. Our waiter suggested that plate and thank god we listened to him, because it didn’t disappoint at all. The plate was so big that we took some of it home. We had no more room for dessert and our waiter brought us a piece of key lime pie to take home. Also, the best part it’s a bring your own wine restaurant. No need to say we will definitely bring going back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Honestly one star is generous, terrible food and terrible service. There’s nothing good about this restaurant. Don’t bring your kids the free food isn’t worth it
Posting pictures - everything we tried was amazing! Staff is on point, great service. Fairly big place, reasonable pricing. Only draw back is their lighting... I feel like they should dim the lights to bring out more intimate atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Another amazing evening.great food and friendly atmosphère.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great service by our waiter Stephane ! I will organize more work events here. Thank you !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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