KOSANN — Restaurant in Lausanne

A very pleasant place, starting from nice, thematic vibes, polite staff and definitely good food for a good value.

Each floor has a nice floral team, on the menu there is a decent selection of cocktails and basically all mainstream Japanese beers. We went for the sushi set menu and got ordered some extra karaage and rolls. They all lives up to the expectations and the sashimis in the set menu were excellent. The desserts were not quite thing, but that was just personal taste.

The only issue was the service waiting time. Everything was way toooooooo slow. The waitress was pretty aware of that and she brought some extra wine on the house and additional seaweed portion while we were waiting. When it comes to fish quality - it was alright, but certainly the tuna could have been fresher.

I will return again to try their...

Food and drinks were good. But this is the place to be if you want to see restaurant employees use the bathroom wearing black gloves (?!) and then not wash their hands afterwards and then go back to the kitchen/etc. wearing the same gloves. I’m not sure this is how hygiene works. Ramen was dope though.

Update: I love how the restaurant tries to make this behavior sound OK because the employee doesn’t work in the kitchen. Maybe I should stop washing my hands too before doing surgeries? First time for me in Switzerland and hopefully...

This is "fusion Japanese", not "Japanese". If you are expecting conventionally-tasting takoyaki or karaage, you won't get them here. Takoyaki comes with sweet chili Thai sauce instead of, well, takoyaki sauce. Karaage is similar to the original only in being deep-fried. It's juicy, well prepared, but it’s not karaage. Sushi are equally inventive and way off traditional taste, with liberal use of the same Thai sauce. We haven't tried ramen, so can't comment on it. It’s all perfectly edible, just...