Obubu — Restaurant in Kyoto

Our worst experience in Japan. The employees were impolite to us. Let me go into details: When we entered, they asked us whether we have a reservation in Japanese. We didn't understand and she kept asking the same thing until we understood what she meant. That already felt odd. Then they gave us only 1 menu, although there were 3 of us. We managed to order (although the menus are only in Japanese). Then things started to go south here as I wanted to order water. Which I wasn't allowed to because I needed to order a drink (it was mandatory). They could have just asked money for water, not sure what was that. They brought some food for my wife pretty quickly. However, everyone else waited for an hour. After an hour, I tried to ask when can we expect the food. Without replying, they said wait! . It was rather rude. At that point, we had enough, we paid for the food and left. This is the first time in my life when I did such a thing.

Overall, I feel like they disliked us from the start. Not sure what happened and why, the whole experience was simply bad. Maybe because we were tourists?

I rated the food as 1 as well because I simply...

The food at this local restaurant is unparalleled to even the best chains in Japan, like yayoiken and ootoya. My son and I ordered the mustard chicken set meal for only 1200 yen. The set meal included a scrumptious steamed egg with okra in dashi sauce, pickles, carrots mixed with tuna, as well as two different kinds of tea. I would TOTALLY recommend eating here,...

The food I ordered was very good BUT it was a long wait. Also, my friends didn’t receive the food for 1.5 hours. The service was impolite and I do not recommend this place. Maybe the attitude was awful because we were foreigners. They didn’t allow you to order water because you needed to order some drinks from the menu. That...