Opiano

Opiano is an excellent choice for students like me. Along with its good food, generous portions and relaxing environment, its serving speed is relatively fast among its peers.
The price is quite reasonable. Having been here for more than 10 times, I assume a lunch for one person should cost around 9 – 13 $ on average.
Overall, this restaurant deserves a five star as a semi-​fast-​food restaurant/​café, considering its food quality, serving speed and convenient location. However, it does lack formality if that’s what you’re looking for.

Love this place!
You would never expect such a good korean restraunt in the basement of an apartment building but looks can be decieving. I’m korean so I personally know from eating lots of korean food that this is really how homemade korean food tastes like. It’s not super greasy nor is it over spiced/​salted like they do in many restaurants. I usually take their crispy chicken or spicy chicken dosirak and THEY’RE SO FILLING for just 10 – 13 bucks! The owners are super generous as well!
The place might not look as such, but it’s awesome!

I’ve been here quite a few times, and I have to say, my four-​star rating is based on an average of all the dishes I’ve tried.
Starting with the ramyun, it is nothing more than instant noodles with a few extra vegetables, so it only deserves 2.5 stars.
The dosirak pictured below is a 3.5 stars, the good side is that you get a lot of food so it is very filling, but unfortunately as with most other korean food it is really bland (I had to add quite a bit of salt to the fried chicken)
Finally, the seafood sandwich is a solid 4.5 stars, has really nice lobster and (imitation) crab, comes with a lot of fries and salad, and the salad dressing is amazing. Unfortunately, they keep bumping up the prices on the sandwiches, so it might no longer be a good deal.
No wifi :(

Ramyun was absolute rip off (~10 $ after taxes). It was literally a pack of instant noodles (powdered mix seasoning) with the addition of a couple stripes of chicken, brocoli (??) and spring onions — probably worth 2.30 $ (after taxes hehe) honestly.
I’ve been there twice, I also had the pork bone soup. The pork bone was immense, but the meat has been mostly shredded so there wasn’t much to eat. The soup was spicy but lacked in depth of flavour. At this point, I think it’s clear that they only cook with powered mix and pastes instead of real ingredients…
As for their best-​seller, the dosirak, the bugolgi beef was dry and flavourless.
If it weren’t the closest ‘asian’ restaurant around McGill, I wouldn’t know why people bother going there. Might be korean/​asian fever xD

This is a great place to have lunch/​dinner near McGill. Prices are reasonable and food is decent too. The pork bone soup was very tasty. The bento box’s portion size is kid of small and you might want to order something else to be full.
The steamed dumplings and rolls were tasteless though.

Yum so good! What a sweet little surprise hidden in the basement of this commercial building next to McGill on Sherbrooke. It’s clean and bright with big comfy chairs and while the menu offers office building eats like coffee and danishes and club sandwiches, it’s also got a Korean menu that’s killer. I ordered the lunch box with spicy pork, it comes with salad, a couple sushi, a couple tempura vegetables, miso soup, all with fresh ingredients and delicately flavoured all for like $ 11!
The amazing Arun brought me here since she’s working nearby, she has become a regular at Opiano because of the happy-​making vegetarian options, including some really nice plump dumplings. Friendly helpful service, super quick — if you’re doing a 1hr business lunch you will be fine. Highly recommended in general. Thanks to local Unilocalers for helping me find magic like this!

Opiano is the perfect lunch spot.
Situated in the Le Cartier building, the restaurant has really great comfortable seating and even at the busiest hours you’re able to find a spot to squeeze into.
They make the food to order so it’s fresh and pretty quick too!
Their menu is extensive from club sandwiches to sushi to ramen to bibimbap and all of it is just great. My personal favourite is their Vegetable Ramen and you can ask them to top it with vegetable tempura which is just amazing. Their ramen is the Korean style spicy ramen and really just good stuff.
They also play the nicest music — good classical music that’s soothing and makes it a great place to have lunch with company because you can actually talk!
Would strongly recommend Opiano — it’s a great lunch spot and you can come here and have something completely different every day of the week!