the GARDEN — Restaurant in Tokyo

Went for lunch today. Lunch course A for 1100 yen + 200 yen for the upgrade to their salmon cream penne pasta. Price is supposed to cover a soup, the pasta and focaccia.

Soup: 2/5. Taste was okay but incredibly small. It took 3 spoonfuls to finish. Pasta: 3/5. Taste was incredible (one of the best pastas I've had) but incredibly small as well. Focaccia: 0/5. We didn't receive it and when we asked for it they said they have run out (the table next to ours had had some, so they probably just ran out).

They brought parmesan to the table at the same time as the soup, but took it away when the pasta came. Little disappointed about that as I didn't want to add cheese to my soup but definitely would have done with the pasta!

Also they asked us to keep the spoon we used in the soup (tomato based) for the pasta. In this case we had penne so we didn't need it, but thought this was pretty bad service. I don't want to mix my soup and pasta which have completely different ingredients and taste profiles.

What annoyed us the most however was that there was no focaccia, and no alternative or apology offered even though it was part of the lunch set. I understand items selling out, but you should say this before we sit down or when we order the item.

Won't be coming back. 1300 JPY for a meal which required me to go out and buy more food, plus lack of service was a big disappointment.

Edit: Decided to give this place another go 1 year later. Price of the h same course went up by 100 yen, and I was charged an extra 500 yen for a cream sauce pasta. I didn't see this marked in the menu, and it wasn't said to me when ordering either. I may have missed I but 1700 yen for a pretty bland cream pasta is just not it. I did get the focaccia this time though! But absolutely nothing to rave about unfortunately.

This has to be a 100% no from me...

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