Cafe La Boheme

Date of Visit: May 3rd 2023, first day of Golden Week.

Actually I was here many years ago when the anime came out and had fond memory of it. And I went to the Ginza location and had a very positive experience and since I live rather close by to this branch now I decided to re-visit.

First the drink, the Lemon Sour from the Ginza location was delicious, so I was gonna reorder it here. Big mistake, it came in a champagne glass (it was a full whisky glass from Ginza location), tastes terribly imbalanced, too much syrup.

The steak was 5 piece in Ginza and three small piece here.

Pasta was undercooked and the emulsion of the Shrimp pasta was underdone, lukewarm and couldn’t even melt the mascarpone properly when served (it was good in Ginza). The bolognese was also undercooked (Al Dente and it literally tasted like biting into a tooth).

Bread was chewy, wrong flour?

Multiple times the wait staff have put down dishes we did not order, and had to ask if we had ordered them. And plop down the check and then asked us to pay before the dessert had even arrived. Absolutely horrendous service.

“Apple pie” turns out to be a non-crunchy Apple fritter. Cheesecake is about 50% size of the Ginza one.

Also, all lunch options are about 500 JPY more than the Ginza location. Seems disingenuous simply because of the anime they feel it’s okay to charge more for less. As Bubble once said “Sometimes, things that are expensive, are worse.”

Conclusion: go to the Ginza branch unless you really want to see the interior of the anime (which you can check out by just entering the entrance).