I would honestly prefer to give 2.5 stars but that's not an option. All that is gone primarily because the space is EXTREMELY loud. It is all made of brick and to add insult to injury, the bathroom which is in the middle, has a totally open door which means you can hear the hand dryer and everything. Have you ever heard of curtains? doors? sound insulation? interior design for public spaces? not to go as far as Feng Shui since that's Chinese and not Japanese but I bet the lack of bathroom door is a huge red flag. I'm also normally not too bothered by sitting on tables with strangers but the people next to us were also not helping. The food was good, especially the karaage, but the wontons had an onion garnish that was not even mentioned in the menu and was not obvious that it was onion at all. This was very alarming since I'm intolerant and I nearly accidentally ate the whole thing thinking it was pickled cabbage or inoffensive something like that. I much preferred the previous location by the canal. It was at least spacious enough to not be so loud and the bathroom was far away. I would've not even bothered to leave a review to be honest if the atmosphere wasn't so intense because the rest I could forget about or focus on the positives but they're far from enough. You really need to invest in some kind of sound absorbency if you want to keep being...
Read moreOptically speaking a pretty nice place on a great location and with a beautiful terrace to sit in. The service was also great, especially considering it was extremely crowded inside.
We had been a couple of times in their other restaurant in Mitte (has a great menu and more traditional food) and expected to receive at least similar quality. Maybe our expectations where just to high.
The food here was pretty unspectacular. We shared 3 starters: cooked spinach with sesame (great but a surprisingly small portion for 4 euros, literally 3 bites), the giozi (4, tasteless and pasted together, surely not homemade) and the shrimp wantan (3 pieces, again no taste).
We then had each a different ramen. It's not that they tasted bad, they were simply extremely boring Me tasteless.
I had the "housespecialty" with pork, pork belly and egg and received a ramen with 1 single ultrathin slice of pork and 1/3 boiled egg inside. I was pretty shocked. The miso waswok, but all in all it was the worst ramen I have ever had (also the first bad one) and it tasted like literally nothing.
We each had 2 small beers, together it was 70 euro. For that price, you can have an amazing...
Read moreI went there yesterday, I informed them multiple times that I’m allergic to sesame and if the ramen can be made without it, first they said yes and then came back and said that only a few of them can be made without it and showed me on their tablet which ones exactly. So they said that if I take the miso ramen vegetarian i will be fine. The first time they brought it, it had sesame seeds all over it so I called them and said they are sorry and they will make another one. They brought me another one and I didn’t see anything and I started eating. In my first bites I realised it had sesame in it and I also found one inside and showed it to the waitress. Food allergies are not a joke, if you can’t make something just say it. And they also asked me if I’m ‘very’ allergic to it. I couldn’t argue at that time because the only thing that mattered was to find the nearest hospital. This is unacceptable, I had to spend the night at the hospital in a different country alone. I will also make an official report and I hope the restaurant can take...
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