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Over the weekend, a Japanese restaurant in Vancouver was bombarded with dozens of negative reviews, which included claims of racism and assault by staff.

However, the owner says many of the people who wrote in never actually visited the restaurant. According to Justin Ault, his restaurant, Hapa Izakaya, received about 40 one-star reviews about a day after he had an encounter with an angry customer. 

Ault explained to the Daily Hive that the customer joined a guest dining at the restaurant Saturday evening and later expressed that he had an issue with the 90-minute dining time limit. This policy is usually enforced during busy business hours, Ault claims.

According to the owner, the customer asked him, "Well, what if I don’t leave?" Are you going to throw me?" Ault said he responded, saying, "I’d rather not."

"Well, what if I don’t pay my bill?" The customer apparently responded, ‘I guess I’ll call the police,'" Ault said. 

The customer allegedly refused to pay his bill after not ordering much. He owed the restaurant $5 after telling the man, "It’s time to leave," and he refused. Ault said he counted to 10, but the man did not get up. 

"He just gave me this arrogant smirk, and I helped him out of the restaurant," he said, adding that another restaurant guest helped escort the man out "because the guy was taking swings at me and actually did punch me in the face or elbow me in the face."

After returning from the encounter, people in the restaurant congratulated Ault on his action to remove the man from the restaurant. He said Vancouver police officers responded to the scene, but he decided not to file charges against the customer, who did not pay his bill. 

The Daily Hive reached out to the VPD but was not able to confirm if officers responded to the incident.

While Ault thought the interaction was the end of it, negative reviews started to roll in about a day later.

First reviews claimed Hapa Izakaya had poor service, rude staff, and terrible food, but then evolved into people claiming they witnessed the encounter between Ault and the customer reviews claimed the incident was racially charged and the customer was physically assaulted. 

Ault says the claims that the encounter was racially motivated had him scratching his head: I’m like, racist to a white as far as I know, he’s Caucasian," the owner of Japanese and British descent said. 

After looking up the names of the people who posted reviews of the restaurant on Facebook, many of the people came up as people who live in Montreal, and it just became very apparent that it was a concerted effort."

Ault believes the customer from the previous night told his friends and family to write negative reviews for the restaurant. Hive reached out to several people who left reviews but did not receive a response. 

Ault admitted he has considered the possibility that his restaurant was targeted because it is an Asian restaurant.

Ault admits he appreciates him vocalizing his concerns with him the day he dined, but setting off in an attempt to ruin the restaurant’s reputation by "crossing line reviews" can be very damaging. We’ve been around for 20 years now, and I think our reputation as a business, our restaurant as a business, my staff, and myself are pretty solid. We’re not perfect. But I think that anyone who’s dined in our restaurant, at least 99.3% of them, has had a great experience."

Many of the reviews have since been deleted by Google, Ault confirmed. However, if it weren't for Google taking down the comments, he said, it could have been damaging to the restaurant.

"If I just opened up three months ago or six months ago, something like this, without that depth of positive reviews and love from the community, it could be disastrous and also impact other customers who would consider visiting the restaurant, Ault added. So if there are false negative reviews with serious allegations, he says they lose future business.

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Chef Nick Elmi in a deal for an Old City restaurant

Top Chef winner Nicholas Elmi has a deal with restaurateurs Stephen Simons and David Frank to open a bar-restaurant this fall at 52 S. Second St. in Old City - a long, long-in-works redo of the building that formerly housed Glam, Live Bait, and Rib-It.

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Elmi will keep his East Passyunk holdings: the chichi Laurel and its bar-next-door ITV.

Simons said Royal Boucherie would be "a fun, chef-driven bar." He and Frank also own the nearby Khyber Pass Pub,  as well as Royal Tavern, Los Caballitos, Dos Segundos, Triangle Tavern, and Royal Izakaya.

"These guys are pivoting from operating spectacular bars to spectacular restaurants," Elmi said today, referring to Simons' and Frank's collaboration with chef Jesse Ito at Royal Izakaya in Queen Village.

The partnership has been in the works for three years, Elmi said. They visited Montreal, New Orleans, and New York for inspiration - playing into Elmi's French background.

The space will have a 25-seat bar that will open into a 50-seat dining room. Upstairs will be a 30- to 40-seat private dining room and an open-air garden.

Simons says he hopes to open in mid-September. He also explained the project's slow pace: workers took off the facade brick by brick, cleaned them, and must put them back as they were.

Published: May 24, 2017 — 2:32 PM EDT | Updated: July 18, 2017 — 3:21 PM EDT

Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-insider/Chef-Nick-Elmi-Stephen-Simons-David-Frank-Old-City-restaurant.html?arc404=true

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Chef Nick Elmi in a deal for an Old City restaurant

Top Chef winner Nicholas Elmi has a deal with restaurateurs Stephen Simons and David Frank to open a bar-restaurant this fall at 52 S. Second St. in Old City - a long, long-in-works redo of the building that formerly housed Glam, Live Bait, and Rib-It.

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Elmi will keep his East Passyunk holdings: the chichi Laurel and its bar-next-door ITV.

Simons said Royal Boucherie would be "a fun, chef-driven bar." He and Frank also own the nearby Khyber Pass Pub,  as well as Royal Tavern, Los Caballitos, Dos Segundos, Triangle Tavern, and Royal Izakaya.

"These guys are pivoting from operating spectacular bars to spectacular restaurants," Elmi said today, referring to Simons' and Frank's collaboration with chef Jesse Ito at Royal Izakaya in Queen Village.

The partnership has been in the works for three years, Elmi said. They visited Montreal, New Orleans, and New York for inspiration - playing into Elmi's French background.

The space will have a 25-seat bar that will open into a 50-seat dining room. Upstairs will be a 30- to 40-seat private dining room and an open-air garden.

Simons says he hopes to open in mid-September. He also explained the project's slow pace: workers took off the facade brick by brick, cleaned them, and must put them back as they were.

Published: May 24, 2017 — 2:32 PM EDT | Updated: July 18, 2017 — 3:21 PM EDT

Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-insider/Chef-Nick-Elmi-Stephen-Simons-David-Frank-Old-City-restaurant.html?arc404=true

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Amongst my top sushi restaurants in Montreal. - Saiko Bistrot Izakaya, Montreal Traveller Reviews - TripAdvisor

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Dining to the Beat at Marusan

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Warm red lights spill out from the restaurant’s windows, inviting passersby inside a cozy Japanese Izakaya nestled into Notre-Dame St. West, in the heart of Old Montreal.

On a chilly Saturday night, the Comptoir Japonais on Notre-Dame West offers warm light, a cosy atmosphere, and awesome music.. Marusan. Photo Ocean Derouchie

Marusan Comptoir Japonaisis still a considerably…

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Why does anime food always look so yummy? There you are, innocently sitting down to a few episodes after a long day at work and before you know it your drooling on your couch and wondering who will deliver okonomiyaki… I really lover Okonomiyaki. There’s a tiny little restaurant that makes awesome ones in Montreal but they don’t deliver here.

Ok super, I’m already hungry now and I’m about to get way way hungrier. These are five shows that had me wishing I could magically get invited to dinner in an anime:

5. Dream Festival R!

Super weird choice, I know! I even agree but hear me out on this one. Dream Festival R is the second season of a fluffy idol anime show or more precisely mobile game extended commercial. It has no particular reason to feature food at all and the first season didn’t have any memorable dishes. Although there was a running gag with one of the characters serving not quite edible food, the food was always illustrated in a very mundane way.

So going into the second season, I had zero reason to be anticipating mouth watering images and then bam! Well you see the screencaps above! This isn’t a show with a lot of food but the few depictions look so delicious and are so unexpected that I couldn’t help but add it to the list. This show honestly made me see if I could post mates some ramen.

4. Yuru Camp

Unfortunately I don’t have many Yuru Camp screencaps as my viewing of this show dates back to the dark days where I wasn’t taking my own. Still I quite clearly remember just how much food there was in the series. It was almost surreal how often scenes somewhat arbitrarily ended up revolving around cooking and eating.

I’m not a big fan of camping food and I’ve been a vegetarian for years so this is not exactly the type of foods that usually get my tummy growling but just from the sheer amount of food on the screen I think it earned a spot.

3. Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits

Food was a staple in this series and was often equated with love or caring as such the dishes were always shown with a certain amount of reverence. There certainly were a lot of them and enough variety to have a little something for everyone.

Although most of the recipes seemed down to earth, the fantastic setting makes me think they had access to ingredients which I wouldn’t be able to find in my local grocery store so that knocked it down a few pegs.

2. Isekai Izakaya

Not only did this show feature the most delicious looking Izakaya food AND tell me which alcohol to pair it with – a show after my own heart I tell you – but it also had honest to goodness real life cooking segments to teach how to prepare some of those dishes at home.

I spent a lot of time trying to convert to meals shown on Isekai Izakaya to local vegetarian ingredients, to mixed results. Still this show so perfectly conveyed the unique joy of eating a late night perfectly cooked piece of comfort food after some partying at a local pub. If you know what I mean.

Honorable mention

Food wars

There is absolutely no reason that Food Wars shouldn’t be on the list proper other than the fact that it just seems to obvious a choice… An anime that launched the love of cooking in fans all over the world!

1. Rokuhōdō Yotsuiro Biyori

All of my choices featured a lot of absolutely delicious looking dishes that are sure to tease anyone’s appetite but when in comes right down to it, Yotsuiro Biyori took the top spot as a matter of personal taste. The food featured throughout the show didn’t just look super tasty, it also had a lot of dishes I would order with minimum substitutions.

I adore macha desserts and I still dream of the macha chiffon cake in that series. Chiffon cake is a pain to make and I am the only person I know who likes macha so I can’t muster up the motivation to make it for myself. Instead, I have my screencaps to drool over.

There you go, are you hungry now? Have you tried any of these foods? Do you have an anime that always leaves you wanting to grab a bite?

Also, although chiffon cake is a bit of a hassle, millecrepe is actually kind of fun to put together. I recently tried this Just One Cookbook macha millecrepe version and it was delectable!

The Top 5 Animes That Made Me Want to Order Take Out Why does anime food always look so yummy? There you are, innocently sitting down to a few episodes after a long day at work and before you know it your drooling on your couch and wondering who will deliver okonomiyaki...

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Restaurant: Ichigo Ichie Izakaya (Montreal, Quebec)

Restaurant: Ichigo Ichie Izakaya (Montreal, Quebec) #JapanesePub #Restaurant #Montreal #PlateauMontRoyal #IchigoIchie #Recap

Its been a while since I’ve shared any restaurant visits. I actually had quite a few to share but haven’t gotten around to it. We will do those if the time presents itself, however, this past weekend, I went out for a Bachelorette Party dinner at Ichigo Ichie Izakaya, which is the restaurant portion linked to Yokato Yokabai where I had previously talked about in a Weekly Adventures HERE.

Ichigo…

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