Had their gelato earlier this afternoon while waiting for the speedboat to Miyajima Island and it was such a delicious treat to combat the heat.

Decided to stop by the restaurant for dinner on my way back to my hotel and arrived just slightly before 8pm (they close at 10pm and last order is at 9pm).

It seemed like they weren’t taking anymore customers or it seemed like I was the last one but I asked one of the young waitress who referred me to her more senior colleague (middle-aged lady). I was asked whether I wanted to sit outside or inside, but when I told her “outside”, I was led to the interior instead. It was quite cold inside so I asked the young waitress to place me on the deck for a table of one and she found me a table on the outside patio.

I ordered the cold roast beef, soup of the day (pumpkin), seafood spaghetti, a glass of red wine and tiramisu. Everything was scrumptious except for the seafood spaghetti, which was quite salty.

The reason why I deducted some stars off was due to not only the salty spaghetti, but the strange, rude and standoffish attitude from the middle-aged lady. She treated every other table (including another table consisting of an older foreign couple) with a warm and friendly manner except for me - who knows, maybe she has a phobia of serving single diners having dinner on their own - but her younger female colleagues were much nicer, although the cutlery was just handed to me in a basket while the soup spoon was given to me by hand and placed on the table. Perhaps they were resigned that I chose to sit outside instead of inside where the cutlery was already placed on the table?

They seemed a bit frazzled during the end of the dinner service so perhaps they had other tasks to complete by the end of the night, but it was a bit disappointing.

Anyways, if I ever make it back to Hiroshima, will definitely come back for the gelato.