Tokyo Cafe (東京カフェ) — Restaurant in Santa Fe

Went around lunch time with my grandmother. We were the only people dining in. When we enter Tokyo cafe the floor was SOO STICKY!! Every little step our shoes made a sticky sound 😬. The booth we were sat at was occupied by flies. The flies would not leave us alone. We mentioned that to our waitress multiple times but she did not suggest to move us or offer to help. I recommend bringing your own fly swatter while you eat we didn't wait long for our meal, we got started off with miso soup and vegetables tempura and our food came shortly after. It was really hard to enjoy our meal because of the non-stop constant bugs of the flies trying to land on our food and it was just tiring swatting them. I don't know what the hype is about the dishes I've saw on Google about this restaurant... We had a total different experience.. Our lunch was bland. Usually don't see any salt or peppers at any japanese restaurant because flavors is on point but I felt like a lot of the components in our main dish didn't have taste. Maybe we didn't came on their good days? I would like to retry this restaurant at a different time when it's most busy. Hopefully by then, my posted review will change but for now it...

let me start by saying that the food was very good. It was my first time eating here. My partner and I waited about 20 minutes to be seated, which wasn’t a huge deal. Except for the fact that our total time at the restaurant was nearly 2 hours. After we were seated no one came to bring water or take our order. So the hostess that sat us eventually took our order. That was the last we saw of anyone for quite some time. The party ahead of us got their food, and the two groups that were behind us, Santa Fe yuppies, that had chosen to sit at the sushi bar, both got served before us. I had to flag down a server and ask if she could check on our food. Which had been sitting up on the top of the sushi bar for about 15 or 20 minutes. Everyone was really polite, but a little communication goes a long way. I will try to eat there again, possibly on a night or time when it is not so busy as a Sunday evening. After serving people all day myself it was just a little disappointing to be ignored and forgotten about like that and not offered a free dessert which would have cost them $4 to help me feel better about my bad experience. But it’s Santa Fe and no one cares about service here....

Stopped here on a weekend trying to find good Japanese food in the area, it was rather empty in the afternoon, just a few other families, we were able to sit anywhere which was nice, I ordered the spicy Kani salad , unagi don, and a spicy tuna roll , Kani salad came out quick, seemed alright, wasn't spicy though, then my miso soup that came with the entree came, it wasn't barely hot so I requested it be heated up , after I tried it , it was rather bland, then the entree came out and the spicy tuna roll, the spicy tuna roll hardly had any spicy tuna in it, and didn't have much flavors honestly, and the texture was kind of mushy, I think the rice might have been older perhaps, now onto the unagi don (eel rice bowl) , it tasted ok but I felt they hardly put any eel in my opinion and the peices they did put were very very thin , and it was somewhat underwhelming. The green tea I ordered had a nice presentation but the problem with a metal cup is it conducts heat alot so it's uncomfortable to pick up, All in all I think it was just ok, the waiter was very nice though and that was good, nothing super special- I'll have to...