This update is long overdue. The Izakaya craze seems to have mellowed out a bit and has brought in a bit of competition. One benefits from these things like for starters we were able to reserve seating even on a Friday evening which is great.
The main menu items have remained consistent which is great. Sadly same goes for the service i.e. 2 hour limit on seating. Not sure whether they should still do that as the idea of a pub IMO means you eat, you drink you talk and you enjoy the company you are in with a relaxed mode. The sound here is deafening as our group already had noise fatigue at the 2 hour long sitting here.
Also a bummer on the service part that even though we mentioned that there were two birthday's being celebrated in our group we didn't even get a birthday wish! nada! zilch!
We weren't expecting any freebies but I think this is expected from them. There was a mix up again in our order which can happen in such a noisy spot. I will remember to point to a dish on the menu next time :)
As for the food It has remained consistent so kudos for that.
3 stars.