Ristorante da Nino — Restaurant in Tokyo

This was so disappointing. I felt like I was slowly coddled into heist with a smile and a wave goodbye. The waitstaff were nice enough, although sometimes confused and a little inattentive. The food, wine and value for money is where everything fell away.

Nino's is primarily a course and degustation restaurant but I ordered a la carte and was willing to pay for the precise items my young daughter and I wanted. I started with a glass of Champagne for JPY3,300. It was a very small pour of bad Champagne. Undeterred I moved on with a white with my salmon appetiser, then a red with my lamb ragu. Nothing was abysmal, but slowly everything under-delivered on the promise of the dish/wine and certainly for the final price of JPY30,000 at the end of the meal.

The biggest slaps in the face were: tasting sized pours of bad generic wine for minimum JPY3,000/glass, pasta that was undercooked (not al dente!), it was raw enough it stuck in my teeth, lamb ragu that was a sprinkle of lamb mince in a primarily cream sauce, the speciale red wine by the glass was presented with a note of the premium price of JPY3,500/glass - but the label had NETFLIX co-branding on it! I was shocked the waitstaff was serious, and I was waiting for one of us to laugh when I queried it in disbelief.

I guess it just wasn't my night to have the dinner I was hoping for. I understand the marathon on margins for restaurants. But there seemed to be an overstretch of degustation offerings (multiple) at Nino's that has come at the cost of integrity in the dishes and wines on offer, not to mention the almost offensive mismatch of value for money and assuming customers are none the wiser. Sad to say dinner literally left a bad taste...

After 15days around Japan, we felt like some Italian food and we decided to dine at Ristorante da Nino. We were probably not dressed according with the style of the restaurant but we were not discriminated and offer a table even without reservation on a Saturday night. The food brought me back to Italy from the first dish. We ordered the Carpaccio which it was unbelievable good, also the burrata with tomato (we have been offered to add some charcuteries and truffles, we obv agreed on that) because it the representation of Italy. Both as starters with two glasses of stone cold champagne. As a main dishes we went for the swordfish and the Tagliata with rocket and Parmesan, to try either meat and fish. We had to try dessert, too. Tiramisu and Semifreddo a gli Amaretti. They were once again cooked to perfection.

Prices are a bit high, but amazing quality doesn’t come cheap. Perfect portion and stunning service. Even the timing of pouring our wine was spotless. They have private rooms, we got to dine in perfect privacy.

Stand-up about Tsuji, our waiter, very knowledgeable about wines and dishes. He also speak a very good Italian, very friendly and so much more. Thank you so...

This place is so mediocre it's indescribable. You can certainly find better Italian in Tokyo and even in this neighbourhood.

Went for lunch with colleagues and we called 2 mins before reaching to ask if there were seats. They said yes and took our name. Then we tried to order from the lunch menu we saw on our way in at the entrance and they told us that since we had called to reserve, we couldn't eat at that price. So we ordered the "reserved seat menu" which was the exact same offering at 1000yen more. It would have been courteous if they told us that the price was different for leaving a name; or if they had just waived this stupid rule based on the fact that it wasn't really a reservation.

The didn't give us wipes, they sat us at one table for 10 mins and wouldn't let us order until we were seated at another table and everything took forever to be served. Be warned: portions are tiny and the taste is average. Every sever treated us like they didn't want us there and offered totally different service to what was obviously their regular lunchtime...