Furaibo — Restaurant in Nagoya

We had visited this restaurant before in our previous trip years ago and so we thought of coming back here. Somehow I think the restaurant had undergone some renovations and now it's more modern and trendy looking with automatic doors too!

It was Saturday and there was a queue as it was dinner time. So we joined the queue and it took about 25 mins before it's our turn to enter and to our table. Unfortunately, the tables on the ground floor were all occupied and so we had to go up to the 3rd storey. Walking the narrow and winding stairs was a challenge, especially for those with weak legs.

And we reached the 3rd floor, wow, it was an open dinning concept (Japanese style) where diners had to take off their shoes and sat on the cushion on the ground. There were no chairs. While it's good to experience the unique Japanese traditional dinning experience, it caught us unexpectedly as we had our elderly over 85 years walking up the stairs and sat cross legged.

And they now have a computer tablet for you to place your orders. For non-Japanese, it was quite tedious as most were in native language and even the English translations were very brief and did not explain the type of dishes. We could not use it and so we asked the staff to take down our orders.

Having said that, service was very slow. We waited for a long time for the staff to come, taking the orders and serving our foods (probably they had to bring up from the ground floor kitchen). And all our dishes came at varying timing and imagined we finished one dish and had to wait for a good 15-20mins for the next one to come!

But must comment that the deep fried chicken and wings, tempura were really nice and yummy! Very tasty and crispy. The squids and stir fried mushrooms were yummy too. Really good and great to have the beer to go along with them.

Price wise, they have gone up and our meal was about 6000yen. A little pricy over the quantity.

It's a good experience for us to try this kind of dinning style but the service really...

The restaurant looks suspicious on the outside but when you open the doors, it actually looks quite fascinating. They have 2nd and 3rd floors with quite a plenty of seats which surprised me. The seats were spacious as well.

Orders would be made through a tablet, some dishes don’t have pictures on the menu so it might be difficult for people who can’t read the Japanese. Tebasaki dishes taste good though the waiting time was quite long. Other signature dishes such as 焼なすと魚大根きのこ煮 tasted good as well. The customer service is overall good, they quickly guided the guests to the empty seats instead of letting the customers wait...

If you like chicken wings, you might want to try Tebasaki (Nagoya's chicken wings), and probably one of the best places I found so far, is Furaibo. Is not expensive and apart from the chicken wings, you can also order other dishes, like any other Izakaya. I strongly recommend you to give it a try if you are visiting Nagoya. Keep in mind that sometimes can be crowded and you will have to wait for a table, specially during a Friday night...