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• Would Never Consider Going Back

It's too bad giving one star to vegan restaurants isn't allowed, because the trendy little half-hearted attempts at vegan food here tend to be overpriced, simplistic, and unsatisfying. This place was par for the course. I went with a friend and a couple of minutes after we sat down I knocked over a glass of water. We used up our little serviettes immediately and tried to get our waiter's attention. He ignored us thoroughly, even though he was just standing around and wandering back and forth. We tried to get anyone's attention. One of the cooks, standing less than 2 metres from us behind the counter that also housed the cooktop, made eye contact and nodded with what I thought was the universal "Yeah, I see, one sec" look, but of course that wasn't the first time such a look also turned into being thoroughly ignored here. We sat at the little table, completely covered in a puddle of water, and stared at each other awkwardly for between 5 and 10 mins. We had tried to get everyone's attention, in Japanese, politely but loudly enough for the whole café to hear (it's a small place of course) by the time our awful waiter finally came back. We say, excuse us, can we have a towel, and he acts surprised and goes and gets one of those terrible little synthetic fiber towels that's extremely thin and never dry, which he then used to clumsily sweep the table puddle right into my lap. I jumped up and yelled "Really?! That is extremely rude!" because my Japanese isn't good enough to ask how it's possible to be that dense. He went to get something else, took the menu, didn't bring it back. What he did come back with was a pile of wet wipes, which he dumped on the table before scurrying away again. The table never did get 100% dry, but the water had sat on it for so long that the cheap rubbery finish came off in the form of something like wet eraser dust. We hadn't ordered from the wet menu and waited/tried to get someone's attention another 5 mins until a different employee finally noticed. We both ordered the curry set. The expectedly tiny salad items were pretty bland. The curry sauce somehow tasted like nothing whatsoever except burnt cardamom, and the brown rice was undercooked. The thin, single slices of veg exposed the boiled potatoes for the bland filler that they were. 3 / 6 of the desserts were gone, so we both got the gf vegan chocolate cake with a spoonful of watery ice cream. 750円, smaller than a smartphone and tasted like nothing. Embarrassing, really. Updated from previous review on 2017-01-08