Wagyu-tei 和牛亭 — Restaurant in Nozawaonsen

Second time here in the same season but they've put the prices up (understandable due to the weak yen) BY 50% (!!!) AND they now have a silly policy where everyone above 7 years old needs to order a set or pay the table charge or 1000¥. Pretty sure no 7 year old is able to finish a set, they don't have a kids menu or kid portions either so Wagyu Tei is now setting customers up for food wastage. We've been coming here two or three times a season for years now but it is unlikely we...

The premium Wagyu beef is absolutely divine. The meat melts in your mouth. However, the syabu syabu broth had NO flavouring (just a bit of seaweed in the boiling water) and not enough dipping sauces for a full meal. There were not enough staff on and we had to wait a while to order a drink, and then they forgot the noodles with our order (even though I reminded them, it still took 20 minutes after the set had come out). Overall the food was delicious but the service...

Our first meal in Nozawa was delicious. We had 3 different grades of beef and the top one was definitely most tender but all were great. Huge plate of vegetables (the most we’d eaten in Japan) and noodles as well. For 2 adults and 2 kids (9 and 11) it was probably a little too much food and we could have just done 3 serves plus the extra...