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| - A friend organized a group dinner at this place, which honestly... I would not have picked Yonaka for a group dinner at all. With a limited menu consisting mostly of fish, it's not exactly group friendly if anyone in your group can't eat fish (the non-fish options were easily less than 7 items on the menu, even fewer if you don't eat meat or fish).
Anyway, the decor here is quite pretty. They have these wooden walls, but it's not like paneling? I don't know what to call it, but it was quite pretty. Basically the best part of this place was looking at the wall.
We had a group of 10 and while I expect service to be somewhat slower and food to take longer with a group that size, the service was terrible. We were one of two tables in the restaurant (one guy sitting solo at the bar + our table), and somehow our server managed to not come back to take additional food/drink orders except once every 20+ minutes. It was kind of like he forgot about us. For a tapas style menu, I'd expect servers to come back more often than that. When it came time for getting the check... wooooo boy. Lemme tell you how painful that was. I could see our server making cocktails (but for who, since nobody at our table ordered one and the guy at the bar had a beer?) and chatting with coworkers while blissfully ignoring our table. Had to get up and go ask him for the check, only to then wait even longer for him to make a second cocktail.
Food wise? I ordered a wagyu beef dish that you cook yourself on a rock. It was ok, but over priced and not really a great cut of beef. The dishes other people in my group got looked beautiful and they liked some of the dishes but not most. Honestly: I left feeling hungry and had to stop to get food on the way home.
Over priced, mediocre food + terrible service = I will not be returning.
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