Black Wood Izakaya — Restaurant in Kowloon

Trying the Exciting New Menu at Tsim Sha Tsui Izakaya Full of Creativity and Surprises

🥗 Crispy Potato Salad I really love this creative dish. It's adorable, with a cigar-shaped egg roll filled with smooth potato puree. It's very creative and tastes amazing. Highly recommended! 🤎

🥠 Windfall Fortune Bag Tempura Not only is it visually appealing, but the crispy net rice paper wrap and the delicious meatball filling inside are a perfect combination 🧧

🍤 Strawberry Nanban Sauce with Breaded Fried Shrimp The fried shrimp is crunchy, paired with strawberry nanban sauce that's sour and sweet, making it very appetizing and matching well with the shrimp 🍓

🥩 A5 Miyazaki Wagyu Tower This wagyu fillet tower is amazing. Thin slices of A5 Miyazaki wagyu melt in my mouth, paired with the egg yolk and cheese sauce, full of beef flavor! ♥️

🐄 Flamed A5 Miyazaki Wagyu Cubes The A5 Miyazaki wagyu cubes have a rich flavor, and the ceremony of igniting them with flames before serving adds to the experience! 🔥

🥘 Soymilk Pork Bone Soup With M7 Australian Wagyu Beef Assortment Platter The highlight is the soymilk pork bone soup hot pot. The broth is rich and flavorful. The platter includes various vegetables, scallops, pork, and the best part is the M7 Australian wagyu beef. It's full of beef flavor, tender, and melts in my mouth, irresistible! 💯

I also ordered the beautiful Purple Fantasy Lemon Cucumber Soda and Peach Oolong Bear Tea 🩵💚

This izakaya has a great atmosphere. That night, there was even a live singer performing. You can tell they put a lot of thought into the menu design. The ingredients are also of high quality. We had a very happy and satisfying meal!

Next time, I definitely want to try more dishes from...

It's been a while since I had a buffet… I thought it would be better to eat something else 🥲 but! Recently, after dining at this place, I really have to share it. I suggest saving this for later!!

Overall service - The staff is very polite and friendly. They worried that you might get hungry before the dishes arrive, so they encourage you to enjoy the desserts first. They are even more particular about arranging the dishes neatly on the table.

The flounder sushi is a must to order! The beef tongue skewers are chewy, and the grilled pineapple is super sweet. For durian lovers, you’re in luck! The fruits include D24 and Musang King, plus there’s even D24 durian pizza!

Additionally, red wine, white wine, sake, and plum wine are all available for unlimited drinks!! In the cooked food area, I recommend the steamed scallops, stir-fried clams, and grouper!! The self-service bar also has fragrant and hearty coconut chicken soup, pepper fish skin, and smoked salmon 😋 There are also unique cocktail sauce tuna tartare tacos and foie gras beef tacos. Just the sashimi alone has already been ordered many times! Matsuba crab, salmon, scallops, and toro are all must-tries.

For desserts, there are Haagen-Dazs mango and raspberry, vanilla, chocolate, and very few...

Absolutely horrible experience, lunch time only 60% full, told us can only dine for 90 minutes due they are doing a crossover thing with Cinnamoroll. We order 3 meals, the first one which was a Sukiyaki hotpot, which requires no cooking at all, took 20 minutes... the other 2 meals (same thing) did not come until 50 minutes after we were seated, the two tiny pieces of teriyaki chicken in the meal was cold when served. There was another table of 4 that only ordered sukiyaki hotpot left without esting after waiting for too long for their food to arrive.

5 servers serving a 60% capacity and they still couldn't handle it properly. Keep asking everyone if they ordered this and that when they take the food out from kitchen, Lots of dishes were delivered to the wrong table. When you ask for something their attitude was that you are an annoyance to them, we had to prompt to even get cups and bowls. They all look stressed out and disorganized.

All-in-all, this was supposed to be a nice experience for the kids but it turns out to be a nightmare. I caution Sanrio to carefully screen their partners next time they do these kind of...