カフェ ザ パーク出雲 — Restaurant in Izumo

I came here to celebrate a friends birthday. We were a party of 6 and had called ahead earlier that day to make reservations. As it turned out, it was quite empty. There seemed to be a large party of people in a separate room, but otherwise, it was just us and two other groups of girls.

First impressions: The restaurant is located within an old building, sharing the space with some other shops. At the outset, all the shops look very trendy with that renovated industrial look. However, when you enter into the vestibule space and then up the stairs, the building basically just looks abandoned. There's a fine line between trendy and beat up, and the shared spaces in between each business feels sketchy and dingy. The restaurant itself is beautiful, but for a few moments while I was finding my way I seriously thought I was in the wrong building.

Food: The menu offers pretty typical cafe food (pasta, pizza, rice dishes, etc). For dinner it is towards the pricier side (around ¥2000) but still quite affordable, especially for special events. I got the hambagu and my boyfriend got a pizza. I also had a chance to taste most of our friends food. All in all it was good, but a bit salty. They had options to add bread to your meal, so perhaps the food was flavored to eat alongside additional bread.

Service: The service here was the one thing that slightly soured our experience. When we were just about ready to order, we called over our waitress and asked her what the daily specials were. She pointed to a blackboard that was on the other side of the restaurant, partially obscured by some hanging light bulbs. For a good minute we visibly and audibly struggled through both: sounding out the kanji and katakana, and shifting back and forth to see past the blinding light bulb. All this time she silently stood and watched us. Eventually we gave up on reading as it got awkward. When we went to pay at the end of the meal, she mumbled our total, we put down our money, but apparently my boyfriend and I had both misheard (he is fully fluent so it was not an language issue). I wouldn't usually consider this a service issue, but our other friends had the same thing happen to them. One of our friends even tried repeating back the amount to confirm (which turned out to be the wrong amt) and the waitress did not reply. We had a brief interaction with another one of the staff which was excellent in comparison. He was very courteous and polite.

All in all, I would like to come here again (if I can find out when that particular waitress is NOT working). The food here is good, and the atmosphere is excellent. If not for the service, I would have given a...

免許更新に警察署へ行ったついでにランチを。パンバイキングが目当てでした！ 出雲市でパンバイキングができるお店、今もう他にないような気がします。

平日の昼13時に1人で訪問。広く使ってもらっていいですよと言ってもらい4人がけの席を選択。そのあと結局3組くらい来店され、ちょうど満席のような感じでした。

選んだハンバーグランチは目当てのパンバイキング付き！ 「五穀米のライスがおつけできますが」「パンをたくさん食べたいんですけど余らせちゃうかな…」「量を少なめとかもできますよ」「わ！ぜひそれで！」 注文が終わってすぐにバイキングコーナーへ。 時間が時間なのでもう種類も少なく、ラスト５つくらいのうち３つ取りました。 バルミューダで温めて、席に戻って、セルフのお水といただきます。うまーーーー うま！！！沁みる……… 産休はいる前からここに来たかったんだーーー切迫早産になりそうで自宅で絶対安静いわれて来れないまま産んで、産まれたらそれはそれで忙しくてなかなかアカチャン連れて距離のあるここまで来れなかったんだーーーーーひとりの時間なんてなかなか作れないんだーーーー！！！ …などど、いろいろじんわり思いを馳せながら、あー幸せだ〜〜パンがうまい……とおかわりしてる間にメインがきました。てりやきハンバーグ！お野菜もしっかりおいしい…。 そしてパンがちょくちょく補充されるので、そのつど新しい味のを食べます。うま……しあわせ…… 頼んでいたミニパンケーキが「焼けるまで時間がかかりそうで…」と声をかけていただき、じゃあ今回は諦めてまた来ますと返事をし、たものの、すぐ返したい案件がメールで一件。席で返してる間に「もうすぐ焼けそうなんですが、よければ召し上がられますか…？」まめ！！！まめだ！！ありがとうございます！気持ちがフッと緩まります！！！ でももうパン10個食べたので今回はごちそうさま。モトとったというか…パン好きにはリーズナブルすぎるのでは…… 週替わりハンバーグのプレート、税込で1,500円くらいでした。 心も体も満た...

We came here and ordered at 15:53 and the food came 16:55... We waited for 1 hour just for a slice of cake and brownies. Is it even possible to...