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
Reviews / Ratings for L'Académie Laval
Very good service
Very noisy from our corner but food very good.
It was abit noisey
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!
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.
Beautiful restaurant, but a few things were disappointing. When we arrived, the manager was sitting at the entrance on his phone — and he remained there on his cell for the entire evening. The atmosphere felt flat, with no real ambience. Portions were quite small, and surprisingly, the place wasn’t busy at all for a Friday night.
Great night with friends and service was amazing so was the food.
I ❤️ this place, always staff are nice, friendly & professional, you can bring your own 🍷
Went here with family for dinner … We ordered pasta plates in which were very dissapointing! The plates arrived not even half full of pasta! For a 30$ plate of pasta , the least thats expected is a decent portion! Very dissapointing!
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Opening hours
- Sunday 11:30 - 22:00
- Monday 11:30 - 22:00
- Tuesday 11:30 - 22:00
- Wednesday 11:30 - 22:00
- Thursday 11:30 - 22:00
- Friday 11:30 - 22:30
- Saturday 11:30 - 22:30
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