Gion Sushi Tadayasu — Restaurant in Kyoto

Horrible. Do not come here. We felt discriminated and treated negatively because we are not Japanese. Some examples:-

1. We weren’t offered a few sushis which were given to other Japanese customer such as chutoro and the maki. Does he think we do not know how to eat sushi? It is very insulting. We have eaten in 2 Michelin stars and good sushi restaurant such as Sushi Saeki, Kyoto and Sushi Wakon at Four Seasons Kyoto.

2. When my father asked for extra pickled ginger, they were very unhappy and unfriendly about it. Also we were given less pickled ginger compared to other Japanese customer. It was so obvious as they refilled much more picked ginger for other Japanese customers when they requested for it.

3. When we mentioned that we will not have blood cockle sushi, and another type of cockle sushi, Chef laughed about it with other Japanese customers. We do not understand why must he laugh about that. This is unprofessional.

4. When chef served sushi to us, he only told us about the names of the sushi for the first 4-5 types of sushi. After that, he did not bother telling the names. The rest of the sushi, he just served it without saying anything.

5. Chef did not converse with us, and he only kept talking to Japanese customers.

6. Chef has a helper. He is not friendly and we had to ask him to refill the tea for us. The helper does not bother to check on the tea whether we have finished the tea or not. We only had a refill once. Even when we asked him once for refill of tea, he gave us a very black face as though we are troubling him.

7. Just 1 chef with 11 customers to serve, the time to serve each customer was too long. We dreaded the 2 and a half hour lunch and was just hoping for time to pass so we can leave the restaurant.

Overall it was a horrible dining experience at Sushi Gion Tadayasu. Please avoid...

I visited this sushi restaurant today for an omakase experience. While the quality of the food itself was good, the way we were treated compared to other guests was very disappointing.

We noticed a clear difference in how Asian and non-Asian customers were treated. For example: • Asian guests received extra sushi pieces, while we did not. • The chef explained each course in detail to Asian customers (in English, as some were Chinese), but we had to ask what we were being served. • At dessert, I was asked to stand up and go to the counter to pay, while the other guests remained seated and were not asked to do so. • At the end, other customers were shown a paper and received an additional explanation from the chef — we were excluded from this.

On top of this, I had clearly informed them about my allergy to shrimp and oysters before the meal, yet I was served both. This is unacceptable for any restaurant, especially one serving an omakase menu.

If you are not Asian, I would advise against visiting this restaurant. The food was good, but the experience was overshadowed by discriminatory treatment and disregard for my food allergies. Check other similar low rated reviews to verift my...

As 2 total foreigners who had our first ever sushi omakase, this shop totally blew us away! An absolute value for money considering this shop got 3 year of 1 michelin star ratings! (They lost it only this year I think). All other michelin shops would at least cost twice as much.

The sushis were super fresh and tasty, we were served a total of 14 nigiris(including fugu which was a surprise!) + 3 other dishes. The chef was very friendly, he did not speak much English but they had 2 waitresses for the translation. I was a little overwhelmed at first but was settled in quickly due to the chill atmosphere.

I tried to get there early as this is our first Omakase in Japan, and the shop did not open until exactly 12pm, so pls do time your arrival right! A group of 5 other foreigners came late for about 15 mins, but the chef got them the full course anyways.

Don’t let the recent 1*(s) fool you, as you look deep enough, they all come from the same group of people, not sure what they are trying to do. Writing this review as I feel it was not fair for all the shop’s efforts to be...