旬の魚と旨い軍鶏[Maizakura]舞桜 — Restaurant in Tokyo

A high-end postured izakaya in Ginza without the high-end food or service. Ordered a 9-course matsutake 松茸 menu, but the staff rushed out each item, forcing us to eat too quickly to actually enjoy the food: Dessert (pudding) was brought out about 15 seconds after the last course, which was itself delivered before we could finish the prior one. How is that acceptable? This is not a budget chain restaurant, but I’ve had less aggressive, kinder, more delicate service at a crowded Ootoya. It didn’t matter much to us by the end as we just wanted to leave ASAP, but the staff even failed to bring the special birthday plate requested by my partner. As for the food itself, the preparation fell very flat, with the dishes mostly lacking flavor and failing to highlight the mushroom as intended. The matsutake wasn’t special, either. There are too many great restaurants at this price point in Tokyo to waste time/money...

6月27日ランチ 事前に予約をして久々に友達とランチに行きました。 開店時間に到着すると狭いエレベーターホールは、女性ばかりで待つ場所に困る程に混んでいます。 予約をしていたので一番に入店出来ました。 予約をしてからの来店をお薦めします。

【彩り弁当】これがお気に入りなので、売り切れて食べられなかった以外は、このメニューに決めてます(笑) 価格は1,300円で、料理内容からはこの金額は格安だと思います。

以前と比べてお刺身が薄くなりましたが、料理内容は殆んど変わっていません。 熱々の天ぷらや茶碗蒸し、他店ではかなり冷めている事が多いのに "舞桜"...

First thing the waiter at the entrance said to us is that menu is only in Japanese. He then waited for reaction and asked if that was okay. We had a person with us who lived in Tokyo for a long time and was a bit embarassed hearing it but we said that's not a problem. Then the waiter asked one person of the group, all in very good English by the way, if they could speak Japanese. Person said honest no to which waiter said sorry and quicly showed us all a way out. I wonder if customers also need to complete a haiku writing test or a quick etching before they are allowed to...