すき焼割烹日山 NISEKO — Restaurant in Kutchan

Atmosphere: minimalist restaurant that serve a lunch menu at 13,000yen (excluding taxes and services charges) the menu is simple, it's either all get sukiyaki or shabu shabu, it cannot be a mix of both.

The service: the service is relatively at the excepted level of Japan, the waiters just learned by heart what it needs to be said in English but once a question is asked to replace the rice with vegetables, it needed 3 people to understand this request. The pace is extremely slow

the food: starters that have the size of a small bites main course with 2 thin slices of beef and an ice cream yes, that what you have for 100USD, the tea is not charge per person but by cup (relatively a 25cl cup) and we ended up with 10,000yen of tea which is mind blowing.

we left the restaurant with a strong feeling of being scammed and definitely more...

They serve wagyu beef from Yamagata, which I wasn't aware of until I was told at the table. Their homepage only says they serve Kuroge wagyu. Yamagata is close to Fukushima, where the nuclear power plant tragedy happened. I'm not sure if the beef is safe. And when I was shown the vegetables, "that's it?" was the first thing I thought. Overall, the food (including all the dishes before the sukiyaki) was not that impressive for its price. The server seemed to be well trained, kind,... just great. The atmosphere...

Food was good, service was excellent, pricing was high. Unfortunately the uncontrolled children allowed to play tag in the passageway and throw the decorative rocks ruined the atmosphere and the entire experience for our group. While this isn't entirely the restaurants responsible the actions were allowed to continue for far too long. I would not recommend...