This was a first and a last for us, Food: very good. Price/quality: good. Hygiene: about 20 flies, flycatchers in the kitchen and please check that toilet every now and then. Had to send one chopstick back because of clinging leftovers from a previous user....No airco. Place is a mess, devoid of any form of cosiness or romance.Tables very close together, no table privacy. Stifling hot and humid. Stench of oven throughout the room. Extraction fan: a joke. You will have to wash your clothes and hair when you get home. Eight (count 'm) people behind the kitchen counter, three people serving ten tables, of which four two-seaters, with 25 adults and two children. Kitchen speed: unbelievably slow. Efficiency: nada, zilch, No focus on productivity. First course: fifty-five minutes after entrance. We are guests of a bunch of civil servants. Serving speed not helped by the fact that this place also does takeway. We have the five-course 'omekase' menu, which one has to order at least one day in advance. (WHY?) The average waiting time between dishes: 35-40 minutes. (again: 11 staff, 25 guests) After the fourth course, 2h. 45 minutes into this adventure, Mr. Noordzij, the owner, asks from a six metres distance if everything is OK. We are too polite -does he have ten minutes?- to tell him that it is not. Family business, daughters and son-in-law serving. Two times during our self-chosen ordeal a daughter (Manon?) comes to say sorry for the long wait - only we find that we have to wait even longer for the next course. Very friendly and courteous hosts, unprofessional restaurant managers. Build-up of menu: not creative, unbalanced if not boring, however sublime the quality and taste: the last two courses turn out to be five pieces of 'sushi' (that is: fish on rice) BOTH. No dessert in the 'menu'.
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Great food, however: this place could do with a lot less marketing and a lot more leadership.
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155,= Euros (including a token tip) the poorer and some very good food and a unique tribulation the wiser we leave, exactly three hours and nineteen minutes after we entered.
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It is on to the washing machine (boy, do our clothes smell...)More