Ok, so the real lowdown is that this place only exists so that it can cater to the Thursday after-work Bay St banker crush. There is a patio and there are seats but the food is so crazy overpriced that if you are reading about this place for the first time in these reviews and didn't go there last Thursday with your banker co-workers and play credit card roulette for the bill with your American Express Black card just for jokes, then you should probably do what I do and just have a drink or two and eat elsewhere.
Ok sounds like I am hating on it but in reality if I want a place to go downtown to meet other financial core working friends after work on a non-Thursday, this is not a good place. You can overspend a bit and have a few martinis or sake-tinis, and because I am a closet otaku anything that sounds Japanese gets a bonus rating star just because. The decor is very nice and they use real juices for their cocktails, etc. But don't eat food here, go to Ema-tei if you want authentic, reasonable izakaya food, or if you want robatayaki and want to spend a bit more go to Nami.