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BLRLDowntown VancouverSince August 24, 20081 Review
Average Rating
2.5 (2.3)
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  • Service3 (3)
  • Value2 (2)
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Irashai Grill1368 West Pender Street, Vancouver
Not up to expectations
Submitted Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 1:42am [Dine in]

After reading/hearing about this new opening in Coal Harbour, we were eager to go and try it out. Finally, tonight, we walked down to coal harbour (on a Saturday night) to try it out. I was a bit surprised that on a Saturday night the restaurant was pretty quiet!

The service was good however we were disappointed with the food. We ordered the chicken karrage (deconstruction of the chicken wing into a drumstick, covered in rice cracker and lightly deep fried) and it was raw inside!!

Other dishes were decent (grilled sable fish, honey salmon).

We shared the matcha creme brulee at the end, but was disappointed again. The creme brulee was like matcha soup. It was very liquidy, thou the taste of it was decent. I suspect the person who torch the brown sugar on top over did it...Hence the entire creme brulee was heated up and caused the 'liquidy' dessert.

Overall, the ingredients or creative ideas for the dishes were decent, but the techniques in creating the dishes seems to be lacking. (A good chef will know when a chicken karrage is cooked or at least did a inspection of the food before it goes out to the diners!)

Also, the pricing of the food was a bit overpriced compared to other similar restaurants around the neighbourhood. I don't think I'll be returning to this restaurant anytime soon.....

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