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| - TL;DR - Incredible food. Oddly small portions. Insanely-high prices. No unsweet tea. Tips?
It's always a shame to me when a place with clearly stellar food gets outshined by other factors that just aren't thought out.
Futa Buto is a place with "go out of your way" food, perfect charm and a tucked-away location which make it a great place to grab some Asian comfort food any day you want to decompress.
The confusing part here is that once you taste the food (sans ramen), you're left wondering when the rest of it is coming. Tapas-size food is great, but it has to come to with tapas-size prices. Asking $10 for two pork buns the size of a credit card isn't reasonable to earn a return trip. However, if they were $6, I'd probably OD on these.
The wallet-zapping madness continues with $12 ramen bowls and $10 small plates. Somehow this place is listed as $$ but it's easily $$$ when you get a decent meal.
Then no unsweet tea (but having sweet tea) is so confusing I can't even wrap my head around it.
Finally, this is a place setup like Chipotle, but the staff is so great that they wander around and ask if you need anything, which makes the tip line on the check uncomfortably confusing. My solo lunch experiment to this wonderful eatery somehow ended up as a $32 lesson.
I wish I could say I'll be back, but I'll have to rob a trust fund first. The food is so good though, that hold on, I'll BRB.
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