Sadly this place taught me something about high ratings in Osaka - they are a red flag. Why you ask? Because Japanese people tend to rate things very harshly and even a 3.0 score on their local restaurant review website Tabélog is considered very good. So a place with so many high ratings can only be mean one thing - it’s only for tourists, no locals come here. And to be honest we quickly figured out why, the prices are simply a scam. Look around town and you will see that other restaurants charge a fraction of this place’s prices and a quick look at the butcher prices at the nearby Kuromon market will confirm the egregious markup that this place charges. Of course we had a good time (it’s Japan after all) and the place was spotless, the service friendly etc. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a total tourist trap trying to get your money. The beef wasn’t even that tender.
