Dashin Soan

An experience we'd like to forget. Had a friend who speaks Japanese book a table for us for valentines day since the place looked nice and had good reviews.

What we did not know was that for some reason they thought we wanted their valentines set menu. It was on our table in Japanese when we got there. I asked for the English menu and then the problems started.

Suddenly the owner came out and there was a very insisting vibe that we ordered their fixed menu. I was polite and said well one of us is a vegetarian. Then the problems continued and they were very pressing. This felt very unpleasant and to avoid further conflict I said okay let's do that then even though we wanted to pick our own choise of foods from the English menu.

The food was to be honest not good at all. I was struggling to get it down. And I have lived in Japan. Further: they did not attend to us. Our glasses of complimentary water were empty most of the time.

We also noticed that we were the only ones in the restaurant who had that awful fixed menu everyone else got to choose from the menu:

why did we not get to do that? We are two people and they forced a menu on only us? Why? I would understand if that was the only thing they served that day. But it was not. Literally No one else had that menu. Only us.

And All we wanted was a table booking. Not a menu consisting of foods we did not like.

I guess our friend who booked for us did not care to explain he had agreed to some weird special valentines booking instead of a regular table booking. And I guess the restaurant was desperate to try to pin their fixed and overpriced menu on foreigners and our friend was an easy target.

Price was: 17.000 yen for food we did not want nor like.

And: the toilet stank so much of urine! In a place you pay 17.000 yen for very little food in Japan - the place with the best and cleanest toilets in the whole world: the toilet must be pristine. This one stank of urine! Disgusting.

Worst experience we had in Japan. For that price we would have liked to be allowed to at least pick our own food and not forced to get some awful valentines menu. All we wanted was a table! Not a menu we could not choose ourselves.

And again: with that bill in the end I truly feel the service with empty glasses of water was terrible.

Terrible experience. Only good thing was that the place looks nice and has a nice garden. Except for the dirty and smelly toilet the place is quite beautiful. But many restaurants are beautiful in Japan. So again. Can absolutely not recommend this place.