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| - Came here for dinner on a Wednesday night around 7 PM. Completely walked by this place, it's so inconspicuous, located beside Shisho Tree Cafe. As others have mentioned, it is a shared space between two restaurants, Niwatei (I think) and Green Tea Lounge, so that is a little bit confusing. But the staff here are really nice, there was one main girl working, and unlike what other reviewers have mentioned, I thought her English was perfect and she was actually very helpful at answering questions.
The food is simple, Japanese comfort food. Curries, sushi, ramen, soba noodles, bentos, etc. I got tempura soba noodles because I wanted to try something different. It's nice that they ask whether you want the tempura on top or on the side, so that you don't have to have soggy tempura. You also get two inari on the side. I thought the tempura was great, very light and crispy. Inari was standard. Noodles were also pretty good, and the broth tasted light and naturally flavoured - I wanted to drink all of it at the end. Afterwards my friend and I both got some dessert to share. We tried the green tea mille crepe as well as the coffee jello with vanilla ice cream, and both of them were really good! In the end we each threw in a $20, which was a steal considering the amount of food we both ate.
The restaurant wasn't very busy, and while our server was nice, there were times when she got caught up chatting with some of the other patrons or some of her friends or something. Luckily we weren't in a rush to get anything, but I think she could have been a little more attentive or could have come to refill our water more. I would still recommend this place though for a casual meal, great value for your money!
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