Yamadori — Restaurant in Barcelona

Ok, so here’s the thing. I travel excessively for work all over the world. Whichever city I am in, no matter how far from the sea, I will eat sushi about twice a week. It scratches an itch that pizza, pasta and burgers cannot even get close to. I am very used to really enjoying very average sushi. It makes me happy. What we have at Yamadori is not that. I was taken here by a good friend, a local who recommended the place as somewhere they have been many times over a long period with their family and friends. In the last 20 years of travelling and eating sushi, outside of Japan, this rates as probably the best I have ever had without having to remortgage my house. It was sublime. Thank you to the chef and his attentive, knowledgeable and flexible staff. I rate this 5 stars for discerning sushi lovers only because there are...

It's strange this restaurant has such good reviews. We really liked the traditional Japanese decoration, but the food was quite bland. Maybe we choose the wrong dishes. Here's what we had: Edamame: a small portion, and served cold. 1/10 Katsudon: the rice was a little overboiled. 6/10 Noodles with egg: overboiled pasta with almost no taste. 5/10 Mixed sushi: few pieces for the price, bland (again) rice and fish, not good in general. 4/10 Green tea: the only thing we liked, amazing tea. 10/10 It's not a pleasure to give this kind of reviews, but the experience was not good and not worth a 4.7 score.

P.S. we've eaten in a lot of Japanese restaurants in the city and the one we liked the least, even compared to...

The restaurant has a very authentic atmosphere of typical Japanese layout and presentation. I wanted to like it, but the food just wasn’t very good. The Yakisoba was overly creamy, and had almost no meat. The seafood” rice contained maybe 4 miniature shrimp and not much else. In short, it was short on protein, and with mediocre flavors, and with this considered, the price was also unreasonably high for what you get.

If you do decide to go, I recommend trying the shrimp gyoza - it...