Steak & Wine Nikuya Ginjiro — Restaurant in Kyoto

We went in here on a whim since we saw the prices outside. The prices are okay, maybe a bit much for the amount/quality of food you get (at least for the wagyu stuff). We ordered 2 different slices of wagyu and a small hot side dish. The first plate of wakyu came way before the rest. The second came after the first one was empty already and the small hot dish came last, I don't know if this is something normal for Japanese culture but it was not what we expected or how we would've liked it. The taste of the food itself was pretty good, same with...

Disaster of a place. Avoid. The last sentence of the rambling weirdness in the picture says it all. Don’t know if the owners have changed since the previous 4 or 5 star reviews but I struggle to give this 1. Everything was so over salted, service was a mess, half the things on the menu weren’t available and despite being called “Steak and Wine” there is only one choice of Omi steak and a choice between “box” or “bottled” wine. A joke. Don’t bother. As they say themselves: “please don’t spend a nice time in the store.”...

Stumbled upon this place as everything else was either closed or had long queues. The lunch sets, whilst fairly priced, were not of the highest meat quality. The meats were decent and great for a quick lunch filler. The staff were nice but a fight broke out between a customer and the staff (not sure what was going on since they were speaking in Japanese) but the police were called in and it was quite a scene (staff wasn’t at fault nor did they fight back though). Was quite an...