Vegetable club oto no ha Café — Restaurant in Tokyo

A cafe that is walking distance to the Higo hosokawa garden and is right next to a plant nursery store.

Cash and card are ok. It is a two story building with bathrooms downstairs and upstairs. Seating upstairs, downstairs, and outside (if you want to brave the cold!). It is child friendly and they have children’s high chairs if needed. They provide children’s eating utensils.

Clientele was mostly older ladies and young families but there were some single diners, too.

We were lucky enough to get the table by the front window upstairs, which had a booth seat on one side.

It wasn’t super busy, but we waited about 15-20 minutes for a table. The host is a little bit chaotic and he took the pen inside so we couldn’t write our names down the wait list.

Then a Japanese family cut me in line because they had their own pen and wrote their name down even though I said excuse me, I’m next in line. 💀The host came in and out about 3 times without saying anything just staring at the paper and at the people in line, leaving so quick we couldn’t ask for a pen. Hahaha

Anyways. The rude family got seated by the bathroom so it’s okay.

The food is good, they use local produce and you can buy vegetables, too. There were about 4 lunch sets to choose from. The buttermilk fried chicken was so good! I would come back again maybe for cafe time.

It is a little overpriced in my opinion, but you’re paying for the nice interiors I guess. The set was ¥1,700 and it included a main dish, small salad, soup, and drink. The desserts are about the same price, but they have smaller things like ice cream.

The iced coffee was just ok. It is what you would expect from a restaurant like this, not a coffee roasted. The service was great apart from the visibly hectic (for no reason) host.

Highly recommend visiting the nearby garden or plant nursery if you come...

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