Gorichan — Restaurant in Osaka

PREPARE TO BE “Niku-BEEF SLAPPED!”

Enter the meat zone with a steep decent down to the B1 underground. A small door opens into a brightly lit world of choreographed hospitality chaos. Young men moving, talking, shouting, flowing in just 4 tables and 6 seats. The Izakaya feel of taking orders and singing out with a chorus of lusty response. Pure meat energy in the air.

The room has the aroma of bbq bovine being constantly sizzled on hot gas grills. You flip a plastic covered picture book of meat, meat and more meat. You need to be fluent in the Yakiniku language of rib meat, harami, sirloin, rib cap, heart, liver, intestines, tongue, thick cut or thin cut. Each order is just 3-4 pieces/slices of beef maybe 100-150 grams depending on cut. But be warned, each morsel packs far above its weight in beef satiation. Maybe order 2-3 selections per person. Juicy, meaty, goodness you dip in a soy tare or even better, the grated daikon radish with vinegar. Don’t forget the kizami wasabi stems or grated wasabi served on the meat dish. You will need it to punch through the fatty juice in each bite.

The star is the paper thin ribeye served with a perfectly orange egg yoke. You got to prep so beat your yoke. Your server has warned… just 10 seconds each side. Take heed this is the key to mind numbing beef nirvana. Sizzle turn, sizzle pick up, drop into egg yoke, open your mouth and accept the beef gods delight…. Taste sensations of slippery raw egg coating a soft chewy texture. Then the truffle flavor hits to light up your brain cortex. Didn’t expect that but mmmmm… what a perfect counter to the melted beef fat overcoming your senses. Chew once, twice maybe a third then swallow. Your brain has stopped. The meatgasim has come and left your brain stunned. You look at your table mate with a look of OMG. Reality returns and your only thought is to decide/fight/bribe for the remaining 3rd slice.

Booze is just a chaser here. Ice cold draft, one sake choice hot or cold, the usual hi balls are available. No plethoria of free banchans to clutter the table. But they are all available so just order the ones you like. You could order a bowl of rice but then remember, that’s not why...

Terrible service - beyond disappointing

The whole meal lasted for 25 minutes and I wished it were shorter.

They told us because we arrived later than our reservation time, we need to make it fast, so our first order will be our last order 🤡

A staff immediately chased us to order drinks right after we sat down.

And he stood right next to our table while we were just starting to look at the menu and he stayed there the whole time until we finished ordering💀 so we felt very pressured to order very quick

Yet it was still too slow for him so after we ordered 3 items, he already said “FINISH” and took the menu away 💀💀

1 minute after we finished everything on the table, the bill already showed up 💀💀💀

Though they do this “verbal welcome ritual” whenever a table of customers sit down, you can very easily sense that deep down they are very impatient and don’t welcome you at all

Not only the service was bad. The grill was dirty with seemingly fresh oil stains on it before we even used it.

The restaurant is under ground and the door and the corridor were extremely narrow. When we were standing in front of the cashier to get seated, some customers had to leave and we got squished into the the back of the door 💀

Food was also expensive as we were pretty hungry after the meal and it was ¥4055 per person.

This is the fastest meal I ever had anywhere in the world and never would I expect it to be in Japan. And I still cant believe a restaurant with this level of service can survive in Japan.

The restaurant replied to some negative comments but if you look closely, they simply copied and pasted the exact same paragraph, meaning they never actually read...

This place was recommended by a friend and my wife and I booked this place during our Osaka visit. The restaurant was highly rated and we were very excited to eat here. We booked a 6:30pm reservation for dinner. We ordered the sliced beef tongue, prime loin and the tongue with onions on top. The food was ok, beef was very chewy considering prime meat. Service was terrible. We only sat for 45 mins and server told us its our last call for more meats so we tried to order the chopped tongue but told us it was sold out. That was fast so we just ordered another round of sliced tongue. We called for the check and it took longer than expected. Waiter took my card and went away for a while and then came back and demanded my signature. I knew something was not right and asked for the receipt. He hesitated and finally gave me the receipt reluctantly. After we left the place, I checked the bill and they charged me for chopped tongue instead of sliced tongue. The chopped tongue is 1600+ yen compare to the sliced tongued 1000+ yen. Just make sure you guys check your receipt prior to making payment. I never had to check my restaurant bill but this was the first time because of how the waiter acted. Just very shady. They also demanded that we leave a google review before making payment by showing us a QR code. Now I know why this place has so many reviews. Its overrated and please double...