Hakuundai Grand Front Osaka — Restaurant in Osaka

The food: The food here was mediocre at best, their complementary dishes that come with the course are actually pretty good but the wagyu that they’re “known” for was a gamble. When more than 1 person orders the same course, all serving portions of said course came together, although this makes sense from a cleaning and “space on the table” standpoint it causes many issues when there are more than 2 people, I came in w a party of 5 and we all ordered the same course, however for some types of meat we received 8 slices or sometimes even 6! Which made it so people got uneven amounts of meat, the cuts of beef we receive were of drastically differing sizes and different thicknesses, making it hard to split everything up evenly. Not only that some pieces they gave us were 90% fat 10% beef On top of that it was always a gamble when eating these pieces, sometimes they would be juicy and tender and melt in your mouth but someone with the same type of meat would have a super chewy and rough piece, near the end I felt a little nauseous from the amount of fat on the beef and the fat wasn’t even from the marbling. See photos attached. Service: Service here was amazing everyone was super kind and friendly and the waiters filled up our water as soon as we ran out or were close to running out, they were quick to take our order and bring out our food despite having a rather large party, the staff here also understand English here pretty well. The atmosphere is what you would expect from a yakinuku place wasn’t terrible but nothing...

We chose this from the places on the food floor of the mall because we were craving barbecue. We didn’t realize until we sat down that this was actually Korean bbq not Japanese bbq but it still looked good so we stayed. It is basically Korean bbq but with Japanese cuts of beef. We ordered one of the smaller sets and then one additional order of marinated meat. Unfortunately I didn’t get many good pictures of the meat we got but they all had great marbling. We also ordered a beef soup and their signature salad and a couple drinks!

Overall this was a great spot to sit for a while and get to sip on our drinks with some great food. The soup and salad were both good but not something I would seek out again. The quality of the beef was really great and tasted amazing with the dipping sauces. It was a very lively vibe at the restaurant with lots of people drinking and eating while catching up with friends. I don’t think I personally would go back just because we had limited time in Japan and would likely want to seek out more Japanese food but this is a solid spot if you’re looking for kbbq!

The service was also really great here. Everyone working here was very friendly and a lot of them spoke English which was helpful for us. Because of the oil/smoke smell that comes with bbq, they have a spray that the hostess will spray on you when you leave to deodorize any of your clothes which is...

My family of 4 went to the restaurant at 9pm and seated at 9.10pm. Placed my order by 9.15pm as my Mrs and myself were already looking at the menu as we waited for our table. My family and I walked out at 10.05pm as our orders were not served after 45mins of waiting. They only served us our drinks, 3 plates of meat after 30mins, our order of salad after another 10mins. When we enquired about the seafood pancake and the beef rib soup, the reply was will be served in 5mins but sad to say it was not and we decided to leave.

The staffs were visibly busy running and walking quickly around but frankly the restaurant was not full.

I’ll not be back and will not recommend...