Tempura Horikawa Hotel New Otani Branch — Restaurant in Tokyo

If you are a foreigner, please exercise caution in dining here. The elderly wait staff will show you the more expensive menu in English (meals priced at JPY 11,000 above) even though there's a much cheaper lunch menu in Japanese (meals priced at JPY 3,800 above). She gave me the cheaper Japanese lunch menu only after I demanded for it. Shady practice for a Japanese restaurant to limit the options of the foreigners to the more expensive meals. My bill was at JPY 16,800 for mediocre tempura I could have gotten somewhere else at 10% of the price. I visited this restaurant twice, and each time it was always empty. Now we know why. To be fair, the younger wait staff, who served the meals, was courteous...

Way too expensive for the food it serves (considering that the price is already high because it is situated in a hotel complex). We were just disappointed. For the price of 13.000 yen we were expecting something special and got something ordinary. Little variety, no premium ingredients, nothing. Also, I spilled some miso soup and got mocked by the staff. Not what you expect in such a place. If they take 10.000 yen off the price of each dish, then this become aceptable. Not good, aceptable. But as it was we felt robbed. Our worst...

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