Japoyaki — Restaurant in Toulouse

Over-rated, this place..It was full during lunch service. I come from Japan, and I will tell you, this was bad yakitori. Legit bad. Dry, was so dry. The beauty of yakitori is that they cut it small and put on skewer that it will be undeniably juicy. And Japoyaki served very small pieces of meat in the stick and yet they were so dry. I don’t understand how you can eff up yakitori. Don’t they know brine? And the meat, it’s bbq..Just that, so use good beef. The sauce was not good either. And the size, oh the size, I have been to other Japanese restaurants in Toulouse and while this place and all the other restaurants have had unsatisfactory sushi, I had way better yakitori at least at other places as they served them bigger portion. Oh and not dry, I will not shut up about the lack of juicyness. Déso pas déso. I was super craving for yakitori when I came here, and the let down was big. Even the rice was not satisfactory. We put more seaweed than mushroom in miso soup but I guess they altered the miso soup to the likeness of how French would love it, that’s okay. But..The sushi to rice ratio was so poor and they serve it with no shame, France had made it normal to serve thin sliced sashimi on top of a three-finger size roll of rice that we call sushi. This is unforgivable in Japan. Not even the cheap sushi restaurants do it there, so why spit on the art of sushi like that? Also, while I appreciate that they kind of pretend they are Japanese by doing the costume and having “Hachimaki”(headband tied showing courage, effort or bravery in Japan) for a full Japanese dining experience..Well if the food is at least even okay then all good to put on a costume but when they serve Japanese food as bad as they do and put on a Hachimaki while they obviously look like Vietnamese immigrants, I’m cringing.

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We liked the food of this restaurant, but we got in love with the people who manage this place 💖. At first we were worried about finding a place where we could take our dinner with my little dog, and they let us entering with a friendly smile😊 . That day was my birthday, so talking with the bar tender girl I told it to her, and sorprisingly she gave me a dessert with a little candle 🧁🥰 . To finish, this girl, so politely told us many places to go sightsitting, to take a drink and to go shopping. She gave us a paper with many things alredy writted👌 We went from the restaurant with a certain sadness because we hadn´t coins to give they a tip, but clearly we are going to come again in the next travel...

Notre restaurant japonais préféré étant fermé, nous avions décidé d'essayer le restaurant Japoyak. D'après les avis, il n'avait pas l'air trop mal. Je ferai court. Nous avions commandé un menu à 27,90euros comprenant une soupe miso, une salade fruits de mer , 8 brochettes (terre et mer) et un dessert (salade de fuit ou moshi). Lorsque je vis la salade chou fruits de mer arriver, il y avait deux fine lamelles de surimi sur la salade de chou. Ma fille avait prix un menu à 14,90euros avec entree, mix sushi et maki. Sa salade était exactement la même sans lamelle de surimi. Bref, apparemment il y a une salade fruit de mer améliorée avec 1 crevette au milieu me dit le serveur (si c'est pas prendre les clients pour des ....) Passons au plat de resistance. Ma grosse erreur fut de ne pas avoir pris de photo. Les brochettes mer (saumon, poulpe et grosse crevette) . Le peuple avait le goût du crâmé. Le reste passait encore. Passons aux brochettes terre: très sec, très salé, visuellement et gustativement clairement décevant. Le dessert, pourtant on a l habitude de commander des moshis , il aura suffit d'une bouchée pour reposer le tout dans l'assiette. La serveuse nous demanda si ça s'était bien passé et en tant que connaisseurs, on a heureusement de bonnes adresses, on a répondu de façon constructive mais au vu de la réaction de la serveuse, peu important notre expérience. Après cela, nous étions assoiffés (nous avions bu pendant le repas pourtant), la bouche pâteuse et la personne qui avait commandé le poisson cru a eu des crampes d'estomac. Les restaurants Sushi sont très à la mode, d'où l'engouement et le flux de clients d'où la qualité des produits qui s'appauvrit malheureusement et manque de conscience professionnelle. J'aurai dû retourner le plat dès la première bouchée. Cette expérience m'aura servie de leçon. Je ne me ferai pas avoir une deuxième fois. Les restaurateurs ont des devoirs auprès des...