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Sophisticated modern restaurant known for artfully presented seafood dishes made to French recipes.
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Reviews — 8
It’s an ok restaurant, both the decor and menu remind me of what used to be considered fancy in the 90s. The red wines by the glass were very good. The service was nice and friendly. Food wise it’s just ok, not very inventive or modern, the beef dish was was the best. Price wise there are much better alternatives for half the money nearby. We still had a good time trying this place.
Wonderful staff, and a nice range of seafood. The food didn’t really deliver but it’s for sure nicer than eating at a normal restaurant. Personally, the space was a little small for me, but the staffs provided an amazing service
Delicious French food very friendly staff
The food was very good, and for that I give 2 stars. But of course the service matters as much as the food, and respect for an occasion, but the service was bizarrely both great and terrible.
I (white American) was with my friend, both of us women, and it was my friend's birthday celebration (the restaurant knew). At the beginning of the meal, our server made a special point of enthusiastically emphasizing the "endless bread". Whenever we finished a small bread roll, he would bring more, especially as there were often several minutes' waits between courses. My friend, who is Asian-American (not Japanese ethnicity), and I, had not yet eaten that day, so we ate more bread than usual, but not a monstrous amount, and we both ate the same amount. At some point, the waiter addressed my friend (not me) with a loud exclamation, telling her exactly how many bread rolls she had had, and that "it was a record!" We were completely aghast. I have no idea what he was thinking. Soon after, while my friend was in the restroom, the waiter asked me (in Japanese) in a conspiratorial tone where she was from (I had already told him we're both American). So I told him again that she was American. Then he asked me, "Where is she really from?" At this point, I felt he was trying to pigeonhole her by her non-Japanese Asian ethnicity as something negative, so I just said again that she was only American (we spoke only in Japanese, which I am conversational in, so this negativity was not a lost in translation kind of thing).
While the rest of the service was great, and our waiter was obviously professional in every other respect, the explicit shaming over how much my friend was eating, and the casual anti-Asian sentiment left a bad taste for both my friend and me. Especially on her birthday celebration! We bore it all pleasantly, as we didn't want to completely ruin the night, but we ended up happy to leave. I honestly don't think that the server meant to bother us, and maybe it was because he was an older gentleman with older sensibilities, but perhaps he thought that his behavior was completely appropriate. I recommend that this restaurant educate this server on how not to offend guests, especially on a special day.
I do not recommend dining here at all if you are a non-Japanese Asian. I will certainly never return.
I (white American) was with my friend, both of us women, and it was my friend's birthday celebration (the restaurant knew). At the beginning of the meal, our server made a special point of enthusiastically emphasizing the "endless bread". Whenever we finished a small bread roll, he would bring more, especially as there were often several minutes' waits between courses. My friend, who is Asian-American (not Japanese ethnicity), and I, had not yet eaten that day, so we ate more bread than usual, but not a monstrous amount, and we both ate the same amount. At some point, the waiter addressed my friend (not me) with a loud exclamation, telling her exactly how many bread rolls she had had, and that "it was a record!" We were completely aghast. I have no idea what he was thinking. Soon after, while my friend was in the restroom, the waiter asked me (in Japanese) in a conspiratorial tone where she was from (I had already told him we're both American). So I told him again that she was American. Then he asked me, "Where is she really from?" At this point, I felt he was trying to pigeonhole her by her non-Japanese Asian ethnicity as something negative, so I just said again that she was only American (we spoke only in Japanese, which I am conversational in, so this negativity was not a lost in translation kind of thing).
While the rest of the service was great, and our waiter was obviously professional in every other respect, the explicit shaming over how much my friend was eating, and the casual anti-Asian sentiment left a bad taste for both my friend and me. Especially on her birthday celebration! We bore it all pleasantly, as we didn't want to completely ruin the night, but we ended up happy to leave. I honestly don't think that the server meant to bother us, and maybe it was because he was an older gentleman with older sensibilities, but perhaps he thought that his behavior was completely appropriate. I recommend that this restaurant educate this server on how not to offend guests, especially on a special day.
I do not recommend dining here at all if you are a non-Japanese Asian. I will certainly never return.
We had a small wedding celebration dinner with our parents here and the dishes and service was great! The dishes look small and fancy like most fine dining but at the end of the course we were pleasantly full and very satisfied. Very welcoming and friendly staffs too!
Really good!
Worth to try!
Worth to try!
Beautiful & taste great