Sésame

380 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montréal
(514) 439-4576

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John Sarkisian

Sesame hit all the marks for food, atmosphere and service. I would not hesitate to recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mark Shymberg

Food was incredible in taste but the portion were too small. Also took > 30 minutes for food to arrive, although we were a group of 7 during lunch, still >30 mins is long.

Also disappointing to make a reservation for 7 and be seated at the bar

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Roman K

At first I want to mention that you feel like in a disco not in Asian fusion restaurant. Music so loud that’s not possible to talk or to hear what water says.
Food is average - orange beef 7 strips only with a sticky rice, plain not any Asian flavors at all.
I needed to ask soya and spicy sauce to make some taste.
I would say for price 26 cad can be more quantity and quality.
Appetizer tom yam soup - cold with 2 small shrimp and some cherry tomato and mushrooms.
Waiter who serve us was polite and pleasant.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 4

Jay Germano

What an underwhelming experience. Terrible service. Saw the food just sit there under the hot lamps for a while.
Mediocre at best. Not worth the 185$ for two. Next…

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Kayla G

Disclaimer: I think they were deeply understaffed.

We arrived around 7:50pm, and got our food at 9:15pm. It took at least 20 minutes to get water, and around an hour for our food to come out. I've been to other locations before, and it has never taken anywhere near as long.

Staff was very accommodating, helping us place our stroller out of the way, understanding when we needed to change our order from eat-in to takeout, and deeply apologetic of how long service took. Great customer service.

Food, as always, was delicious. Highly recommend the fried wonton, and butter chicken (sub tofu). Music was a little loud, but not more than is usual for restaurants in the area.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

carotte verte -_-

I don’t normally post bad reviews, but if you think of eating there, please let me warn you that you would only eat after waiting for more than an hour for your plate AND appetizer (some people on my table waited more than 1h30 💀). The management of this restaurant needs some work. They only have two cooks and a few servers (which were all very nice and sweet and trying their best) on a weekend night… The food was cold, mediocre at best (to each their taste tho) and not worth the wait in my opinion. I would not recommend this restaurant unfortunately :/

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

Cathy Tran

Restaurant is understaffed. It took more than 1h30 to be served food, which was cold and not that good. The waitress was wonderful, but the wait time was awful.
The music volume is good and the bathrooms are clean.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Chris Cicierski

Very disappointed. We were looking forward to enjoying what looked like a perfect menu, but walked out after receiving little to no service. Waited for our drinks that never arrived and a single appetizer that was MIA. The staff appeared totally overwhelmed and completely unable to service the many tables that they sat.

Laura Burdman

Food was very good. The issue was that took very long time since we ordered until food was served. That doesn’t work since I only have 1 hour break at work I can’t afford to spend 1.5 hs at the restaurant

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Dorothy Russell

Music was a bit loud, but the friendly and efficient servers made our experience memorable

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ghizlane Lotfi

I ordered salmon bowl and my friends ordered pad tai..food was great..place is nice..service was great

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Marieke

Really nice place, with a warm ambiance, lovely staff and delicious food.
We had the tasting platter from the small dishes to share and for mains we had the Spicy Mayonnaise Bao and the Salmon/tuna poke bowl. Definitely worth the visit and in a nice neighbourhood!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Joanna L

I made a reservation for lunch with a work colleague. When we arrived, we asked to be seated on the terrasse. After dropping the menus, no one came to see us for a little while. Finally, someone came to fill our water glasses (it was 30 degrees outside). The tables around us were starting to fill up. The waitress took the order of the table beside us, then left. We flagged someone down to ask if we could order. We wait. The table next to us gets their food (!). We start getting impatient and try to flag the waitress again. She comes outside and takes the order of a table that arrived long after us!! At this point, we are in disbelief and decide to leave. The staff watches us without saying a word. Clearly didn’t care.
I had made a reservation so they had my contact information - never bothered reaching out to apologize.

I work in business development and eat out in the area multiple times a week. I’ve never had such a disrespectful experience. Don’t bother coming to this restaurant - the others around like Stellina, Moishes, Graziella, Dorsia, etc. are much better!

Service: 1

Er Tr

Always very good, fresh and a lot of variety. Service is always impeccable.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

pepemcgill

Reservation for 16 people, very good experience, friendly service, tasty food reasonable prices. Everyone liked it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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