sakeria BANCO (サケリア バンコ) — Restaurant in Tokyo

We never even set foot here, yet the experience left a bad taste on my tongue. A simple phone inquiry, made in polite Japanese, was met not with welcome but with thinly veiled contempt. It was exclusion in its purest form, dressed in the thinnest layer of civility. In a country that so often prides itself on omotenashi, this was a jarring reminder that such grace is not always extended universally. Foreign visitors, take heed. Why post in English for a Japanese establishment? Well, same thing we were told - too bad, it's an...

Doesn't seem friendly to foreigners. While they had an English menu we were forced to buy a drink when we just wanted food and after telling them twice we are ordering the same dish for each person they still brought out only one so one person went hungry. Very...

Great hospitality! Hand written menu with drawings! So awesome. Service was brilliant and the chef made a wonderful vegetarian meal for me. The miso tofu was divine. Good selection of drinks too and the owner was very gracious as was...