Haru Japanese buffet — Restaurant in Pattaya City

First what you should know - the management of this place has zero tolerance to the customers. The place is fully packed every day, so they totally don’t care if you come back or not, or if you r satisfied or not. The food is good, good taste and quality. But the rules of the restaurant are terrible.

NEVER come with toddlers !!! NEVER If your kid is taller than 90 cm you will have to pay 50%. So let’s think the toddler higher than 90 cm can be not more than 3-4 yo. And for this money they don’t have any kids menu. I really double 3-4 yo supposed to eat raw fish and sushi. When I asked the manager “what my 3 yo daughter can eat from the menu for this price?” They said “ice cream”. Wow! Just wow! Even if you don’t mind to give ice cream to your kid, for 400-600 bath (depends on the package you choose) bet it’s too much. Technically you just pay for your kid to sit beside you!! That’s crazy!!!

The main package doesn’t include soft drinks you have to pay extra 49 bath. BUT if you DO NOT want them let’s say you want to order beer for extra payment, you still must pay for soft drinks you even won’t touch

If you book a table on exact time, your time inside will be count from this time. If you late for example 15 mins, your time inside the restaurant will be deducted on these 15 mins, you can eat for 1 hour 45 mins instead of 2 hours

And of course don’t forget to estimate the ability of your stomach, coz every piece you leave uneaten will be taken and weight and you will have to pay for all leftovers. Well, that’s make sense, but just in case the management has no tolerance at all here, so you have to finish...

4.75 Stars.

I came by foot, walking. I went home by taxi. That's a good sign !

I came alone. Around 4pm on a monday.

The food was delicious. It is a buffet however you order the food and then the chefs will freshly prepare it. All the food was good, a good third was "uhhh yeah" mouth watering good. Food presentation was also very good. Miso Soup was very good. This is in my experience always a very good sign for japanese restaurants. Ice cream is okay, not bad but not very good either. Yasmine ice tea was excellent.

The decoration is nice, it has the best made fake tree that I have ever seen. I had to look 3 times and touch it to realise that it's fake. I am still unsure to be honest. Everything is very clean. The service is very quick and efficient.

Not 5 stars because of the small details that a Swiss guy like myself noticed. In order to have the glass table perfectly flat they used folded paper... it's not very aesthetic and not matching the rest of the beautiful decoration. At least fold the paper everywhere in the same way. Or use paper with only one colour.

Also, the door to the bathroom has a window. From which you can (technically) see the man's pissoir. Besides this the bathroom are very big and clean. With a huge mirror (even for the men)

I will definitely come again, hopefully in a group of 2 or 4 people so that it is easier to share the food.

Thank...

Greatly disappointed although originally very excited to visit. We arrived with a total 6 people. The only European people in the restaurant. While some of us could speak Thai, none of the associates could speak even the slightest bit of English. As we are 6 parties you can imagine we have different tastes and ended up wanting to order 3 different buffet packages. However they would not allow us unless we moved away the tables. The first table we accepted to move out from the other two as one person doesn't eat fish and wanted the most expensive grill set. However his wife, sitting at the same table wanted to enjoy the basic 599 package with the other 3 individuals. They said she would have to move back to our set of two tables and leave her husband sit alone. While we understand their concern of someone ordering 1 expensive package and the rest simply eating from it, we absolutely disagree with how they handle the issue. It may be acceptable for locals as the restaurant was packed due to its fair prices and apparently good quality but this is incredibly unacceptable for most anyone who enjoys dining together as much as we do as foodies. We left...