Old House Cafe Rengetsu — Restaurant in Tokyo

This place was recently featured on timeout Tokyo so it's been pretty busy recently. They converted an old house into a nice cafe. There's indoor table seating on the first floor, a few tables outside in the backyard garden and tatami mat floor tables on the second floor.

You grab a table first then go back to the front to put in your order. They will give you a number to call you when your food is ready.

At lunch there are only 3 real meal options, burger 🍔 with chips, steak 🥩 plate with salad 🥗 and pickles 🥒, and fish 🐟 plate with salad 🥗 and pickles 🥒 . There's also tons of drinks, ☕, dessert 🍪🎂, kakigori 🍧, premade sandwiches.

The kakigori 🍧 comes in mango 🥭, strawberry 🍓, and matcha 🍵

Tip: this might be the best burger 🍔 I've eaten in Japan, I know you won't believe me but I really think it was!

Tip 2: You need to bus/clean your own table when...

This is an old neighborhood house converted into a cafe. There's some bike parking close by but no car parks that I could see. There's a table next to the entrance which doesn't require going up a step or you can head out back to the garden.

You order and pay at the front and get a buzzer for when your food is ready to pick up. The seats downstairs are table and chairs; the upstairs part is all tatami mats. The stairs are really steep.

The decor and atmosphere is calm and peaceful. Depending on the season, the garden outside is really nice too (but mosquitoes could be a problem).

There's proper food here but I recommend just getting a drink and snack to just enjoy the place and stare...

It’s a rustic old Japanese place with a lovely menu and garden but the service is very slow, not well organized and the menu is over-priced. It’s also a place of two distinct halves: downstairs or in the garden is lovely and relaxing; or upstairs in the baby trap / playpen (complete with screams and diaper changes). You’ll have to order then collect your food/drinks and if you’re upstairs, you have to carry them up a steep wooden staircase, so beware. Guess where I got stuck,...