Unfortunate last dinner in Japan.
After having spent 2 incredible weeks in Japan, with every single meal eaten (even random meals at small town street vendors) being a culinary experience, this has let me and my family down in all aspects.
As this was our special last night, we made sure to order multiple good cuts of the restaurants supposed high quality kobe beef. After one of us made the mistake of asking if all the meat was wagyu (because the fillet clearly had 0 marbling) the table was rewarded with dismissive laughter and a condescending remark that this is kobe which is wagyu. The ribeye and sirloin had thick fat strands with none of the high quality marbling I had gotten used to seeing in japan.
We all chose to trust the expert at this point and moved on just to be surprised at the cooking style to follow. The steak was seared for about 5 seconds on each side and 4 plastic bags with chopped veggies were chucked on the cooking surface and started bubbling.
Meanwhile we were given some wagyu sushi which was undercooked, chewy and flavourless.
When we did receive our tepanyaki grilled meat I was surprised that the meat was a mix of rare/medium-rare and not medium as we had requested (although this had not been inquired about by the chef). Me, being the introvert I am, just swallowed these pieces but my unlucky companions got snide remarks when they asked for their meat to be cooked a bit more.
Throughout the meal we were told how to eat the meat, which sauce to use, which may have been well meant but ended up feeling a bit much as I felt i couldnt use the sauces I wanted to, but had to follow the instructions from the chef on how to dip or not dip the meat.
To finish we got some soup (boiled water with small meat chunks floating) and some rice which was decent to be fair.
In all honesty the salad entre was nice, with good sauce.
This disappointment cost over 700 pounds. Miss this restaurant for the love of kobe beef.
