Daruma Restaurant — Restaurant in Odawara

No wonder there were so many bad reviews added recently. We were there for Sunday dinner. Ordered Daruma tendon set A and Tuna sashimi Jirashi. Tuna was okey but this restaurant is well known for Tendon. We were so disappointed. Shrimp was overcooked so bad and clear soup tasted awful. Other tempuras were soggy. I don’t know if the owner had been changed or what… it was just horrible experience. I was so mad because there are so many good foods in Odawara but I chose this place and wasted my 8,000 yen here. It’s very hard to make a wrong restaurant choice in Japan but I did. All the waitresses weren’t kind like typical waitresses in Japan. Oh! And the menu my daughter choose were out of order. So she decided to skip dinner. Maybe it was only good thing we did because we spent less money in...

This is an historic building, but the food and service have gone down considerably. The staff is overworked and seems to be suffering from dealing with so many tourists. The renowned tendon seemed to have been sitting for a while. The tempura was all mushy from sitting too long. The 🍆 (eggplant or nasu) was tasty, but the 🦑 (squid or ika) and 🦐 (shrimp or ebi) were both so tough I could barely bite through them and the 🐟 (whitefish or shiromizakana) was falling apart. There were empty seats, but the staff could not keep up and there were many people waiting, on a Thursday afternoon. One gentleman even got up and angrily stormed out after he seemed to have been left at his table forgotten for a while. I have been here before and it was much better. I hope they...

I visited the casual dining of this heritage restaurant on 3 May 2019 during the Golden Week holidays. I agree with reviewers, who rated this restaurant as one-star or two-star. Foods should be improved, though I had no negative impression of the service.

I hope that the owner of this restaurant will see each comment on the Google Map and try to understand why the ratings so varied among different days. There must...