MOTHERS Tachikawa Station South Exit — Restaurant in Tokyo

Phenomenal service! Very attentive, but the food was really not delicious and the mini shrimp wasn’t peeled or cooked well enough that my girlfriend was choking on it for about 15 mins before she finally coughed it out. The peperocino pasta was super bland/tasteless and while the tomato bacon one was better, the noodles were way over cooked. I didn’t think the quality of the food was anywhere near the cost, but the service and attention and atmosphere really made us believe that it would be a great meal. We really wish we had chosen a better spot for our anniversary, sad it ended with soft pasta and my girlfriend choking on her food. Avoid here unless you’re just eating the...

If you are going to eat at Mothers, I hope you have a Japanese friend, otherwise you will be expected to pay full price for a set and be given only an entree. The service snubbed us on refills mid-refill when we declined dessert and then ignored us for the remainder of our stay. This would be normal if not for the "pay at table" sign that signaled to wait for a check... which never arrived.

For the egregious sum we paid, we got two middling sized portions of pasta. For a scant 800 yen more is their two person meal composed of several courses. I left hungry. No offer of tea or coffee were made. Gaigen be warned, you...

This was honestly a very poor experience, especially when compared to the restaurant right next to it (which instead I highly recommend).

The pizza is cooked in an electric over and as the bread that we got served, nothing special. The pasta however was a disaster: we were told it's homemade (which is a lie, or at least I hope it is), the "carbonara" we got served had burnt bacon (not overcooked, just straight up burnt) and... onion (once again, burnt, but here that's not even the problem). If you like your carbonara, you know onion doesn't...