Restaurant Review - Hachitarou
As any of my friends and family will tell you, I am far from being qualified to critique food. So if a restaurant is so bad that I have to rant about it, you know it’s pretty bad.
Hachitarou is a relatively new all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant, located at the NE
corner of Hwy 7 and McCowan. After seeing it being featured on a Chinese TV show, my family decided to go there last Sunday night for dinner. We made a reservation for 6:30pm for 6 people. When we arrived the restaurant was already packed, and we were offered a table that normally seats 4. Honestly even for 4 people the table was darn small. We were basically distributing the food as soon as they came so the waiter could take the empty dishes away ASAP.
None of the food is worth mentioning, which is not the worst part, as most all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurants are not that great anyway. The service was extremely poor, as one can guess from them trying to cram so many people into the restaurant At one point I had hot water (from condensed steam) drip onto my shirt as the food was being delivered. The washroom was rundown even for a normal restaurant, let alone a new one. As hand wash soap you’re given detergent - that’s definitely a new one.
All in all it was probably the worst dining experience I had in a long time - bad enough to make me take the time to blog about it. But if I can just save some of you from making the same mistake, then maybe it wasn’t a completely worthless experience 
