HARBS LUMINE Yokohama — Restaurant in Yokohama

The cashier I interacted with on the afternoon of Sunday, September 3rd, was racist towards me. I am a non-Asian foreigner, but my Japanese is pretty decent. However, even though I approached her and placed my order in Japanese, she insisted on using heavily exaggerated gestures to communicate (even though I have absolutely no signs of not understanding her). When I said I wanted to order a piece of cake (カットで〇〇味１個) she repeated what I said a drew an exaggerated triangle shape in the air with her fingers. She even did an exaggerated “speak” gesture to indicate that I would be called shortly. I noticed that the rest of the Asian customers were told to wait on one side of the store, but she specifically told me to wait on a separate side. That is blatant discrimination based on race. Her way of speaking to me was patronizing. She did not do this with the other Asian customers that came before me. As a result, I left the store feeling incredibly offended and upset, which in turn left me unable to enjoy my cake.

Yokohama is a relatively diverse city with a significant non-Asian foreign population, and a sizable amount of this population can communicate in Japanese just fine. Staff like the young woman I dealt with need to be trained how to be more professional towards more diverse clientele. And if they find this impossible then just quit, because this kind of racist behavior just ruins the...

I visited Harbs for lunch and ordered the bacon spaghetti, which came with a choice of coffee and cake. The spaghetti was cooked al dente and tossed in a tomato and bacon sauce that was rich and flavorful. The cake was the highlight of the meal. I picked the marron cake, which was a layered sponge cake with chestnut. The cake was moist, light, and not too sweet. The service was friendly and attentive, and the atmosphere was cozy and elegant. I enjoyed my lunch at Harbs and would recommend it to anyone looking for a delicious and...

To be clear, I don’t like giving negative reviews on restaurants, but I’ve never met worse service attitude, though the cakes were delicious, don’t recommend if you care about the experience, might be able to ruin everything

The waitress was playing with her pen and gave a very impatient feeling. After that she spilled my coffee and didn’t clean up thoroughly, and just throw that in our table without saying a word, I understand something might happen in her daily life but that’s not the reason for her to bring that bad...