Matsuri - Courbevoie

Alright place. A colleague brought me there last week and had a bento plus maki sushi. All good, nothing bad to say and the friendly guy at the counter was nice and quick. The only thing is that they are a bit expensive, i guess its the fact of being at la defense

Matsuri is a sushi bar located in Cœur Defense huge building. At lunch time atmosphere is a busy but cozy. Decor is light, simple. You can eat rapidly. There is a wide selection of Japanese specialties. I like the concept proposed by Matsuri : I pick on the large conveyor belt fresh dishes prepared in front of me. Sometimes it's a bit pricey because I'm tempted to take off the train too many plates. I prefer miso soup, avocado maki, dorado sushi, shrimp tempura, crab gunkan, salmon sashimi, veggie gyoza, rice and also green tea cake. So, in conclusion, Matsuri Cœur Défense is a convenient and pleasant diner.

Today at lunch time I decided to give this place its 3rd chance to redeem from two previous disastrous experiences and I must say, it failed completely. Every time I go there by myself they seat me in the most hideous and uncomfortable place possible. I usually complain about it and they change me but today I was way too exhausted to do so. They sate me between two big guys. The space left for me was so narrow that even being very small as I am I couldn 't move my arms! It was worst than an Easy-Jet flight, believe me. The Matsuri people have packed the place putting seats so close one from the other that it is really painful and cramped to be there. The food was average but as I was super-hungry I made all kinds of contortions in order to try to eat. At the end, it was so uncomfortable that I gave up. I mentioned this situation to the maitre/cashier and his answer was (typically) that it was my fault because I hadn 't complain and asked to be changed of place. Not analogy, not a sympathetic I see . Just the typical obnoxious and arrogant dismissive I-do-not-care-about-customers response. I had a miso soup (not bad), 4 wet maki and 2 small sushi salmon plus edamame and green tea and paid 17 euros. So, you see, not cheap either. In a nutshell, I do not recommend it unless you are really desperate for mediocre sushi.

Great fan of sushi I've had a lot of experience with this matsuri franchisee.Ras at the fresh and quality level but the concept at vielli in front of competition not too much creativity and a salty addiction if we take products other than basics

I think there's another Japanese that deserves a much more detour to the defense. The dishes are cold and stay on the treadmill throughout the lunch. I don't think I'm going back.