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| - We had a nice meal at Kyo. All of the food was tasty, though I might avoid the incredibly chewy beef tongue next time. The good certainly outweighed the bad, but it's worth describing the entire experience. The first bad thing would be the chairs. My chair was filthy and they replaced it with a stained chair. Seriously, someone turn on the lights and look at the chairs.
But once we got past that, things improved. The wine selection is expensive, we got one that I'd never tried before and while neither of us loved it, it wasn't bad. Next time I might stick with something I knew better. The food is basically tapas so we tried different things. The beef tongue was chewy but the taste was nice. The pork belly was really good. The portions of omakase sashimi were small but the fish was very fresh. The rainbow roll was nice but there was a sauce inside that was better off hidden behind wasabi & soy. The gyoza were very good, as were the tempura. And the negihama roll was exactly what I expected but it was small. We had a good filling meal that improved as the night went on and for the two of us it was $150 plus tip.
Service was terrific. Our server Guillaume successfully managed to be both professional and warm at the same time, and I'm glad he was our server.
For me, Kyo tries a little too hard to be hip and trendy but it's probably something that works well for them. And let's face it, the young who seem to gravitate toward the kind of music played there and the dim lighting probably spend more money in restaurants than I do. But the bottom line is that we left with full stomachs and big smiles. I'd go back, I'd go when I could sit by a window before dark to have a little more light, and I'd look at those chairs before I sat in one!
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