Mazesoba Shichi — Restaurant in Tokyo

Excellent mazesoba with lots of flavour, friendly staff and quick service.

Order from the vending machine with cash. Orders in red seem to be recommended and we went with the 1,150 yen order that included the Taiwanese mince, charcoal cooked pork and soft egg. You choose your level of spiciness (LVL 0-3) when you give the ticket to the staff and take your seat. The mince already has a spice kick and there is chilli oil and pepper on the table. You can order small, medium or large noodles and they have the grams written on a piece of paper stuck to the window. Large doesn't cost anything extra.

After you receive your mazesoba there are instructions on a card at the seats but you need to translate. Essentially mix very well and eat. After eating some add a couple swirls of vinegar and pepper to your liking and keep eating. When you get to the sauce left at the bottom you can order a small scoop of rice to add to finish it off. This is included in the 1,150 set order.

Highly...

I have been going here for many times, inviting Japanese and foreign friends and colleagues alike because in terms of food quality, it is really great and I think everyone should try it.

However, the service has been getting worse and worse. Last Saturday, I took my friend and my girlfriend to the place and we were immediately told to not share food, even though she could not eat too much. Then maybe because of that, the service since that moment was so bad, as if we were constantly causing issues. The young tall staff in glasses was extremely unprofessional and it's such a shame because the food is genuinely great. We got kicked out after barely finishing our food by this staff, when there were no more than 2 people waiting outside. Absolutely horrible staff. This is all considering I speak native Japanese and have lived in Japan for over 10 years. No culture excuses, just...

Now I can see why about 95% of the patrons here are boys/young men of older teens and early twenties. Because you have a choice of 4 sizes of noodles - 120, 170, 250, 340g. As I couldn't read the Japanese menu the staff very kindly helped me with it. They don't accept credit cards or cash. Payment is with a suica card or one of the local payment cards. If you don't understand English you're going to need a translation app to work out that there are bottles of chili oil, vinegar and garlic that you can add to your soba. Free water from jugs that are kept topped up. It's a very small diner with sufficient seats for about ten people at a time. There is no dawdling here as there was a queue even at 8.30pm. Turns out that the dish I ordered was too large for me to finish. The pork was quite tasty and so was the sauce that...