Having been forewarned of bad service, I thought I was mentally prepared but this was really worse than expected.
There was only 1 waiter serving our whole section of 10 tables. He was a sour faced bespectacled old man immaculately decked in smart western waiter outfit. While his English was impeccable, he was also prone to impatient outbursts especially when we clarified on credit card promotions and took too long to make our order. Water took ages to refill and we had to help ourselves in the end.
What really irked me was how attentive the other staff suddenly became from the time our food arrived right up till the time we settled the bill. They were probably eager to close and couldn't wait to shoo us out. All our food arrived in a quick succession even though I had ordered a starter (soup), main (pasta) and dessert. It was a miserable sight watching my ice cream melt and my pancake toast turn soggy as I tried to quickly gulp down my soup and pasta.
To add salt to the wound, multiple persons kept checking our order chit, repeatedly informing us that our orders had arrived.
For the record, the hoshino pasta (with bacon, soft boiled egg and shimejj mushroom) was nice but nothing to rave about. Miam miam serves an identical version, if not better.
Dessert was a hit and miss. The chocolate banana pancake toast (with vanilla softee) turned out to be disappointing with a strange bitterness within the batter.
Faring better was the French toast whose pillowy soft bread was well complemented by a dollop of whipped cream and lashings of maple syrup.
Don't recommend visiting this place unless u are into Japanese food photography and maybe, coffee.
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