Ushinohone Anaza — Restaurant in Kyoto

Food was nothing special. Cockroaches were unnecessary. 🪳

Overall the food quality itself and presentation was fine, but it was very hard to enjoy with a giant cockroach running around.

The seating area is the traditional style so your feet are in like a lower cubby area. Because of this, it's closed in and apparently cockroaches live down there. It was very hard to enjoy my meal knowing that there were probably more down there.

I'm willing to begrudgingly accept these types of things in countries where the price matches the level of hygiene and cleanliness, but for ¥8000 in Japan, in a restaurant that happily charges a mandatory service fee - in addition to a fee to sit down in the restaurant - I expect there to be no cockroaches running around in the seating area. I don't think that is an unreasonable expectation.

Respect to the waitress who had to crawl under the table to catch the cockroach though. What was somewhat concerning however was the waitstaff didn't seem very surprised but this situation, and I didn't get the impression that they were very apologetic, just a quick word and walk away.

It's unfortunate, because I did enjoy the soup, but not without the lingering thought of how many cockroaches must be in the kitchen area as well.

If you're okay with cockroaches, do yourself a favor and eat in some back alley street restaurant instead. The food quality didn't justify the overall experience and I would not recommend this restaurant to my...

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