Soba Totto - Sequel

Recently, I went back to Soba Totto for dinner. Although my prior visit was not the best experience, the soba noodle was good so I decided to give it another try.

What I learned was that the restaurant does not take reservations for parties of less than four. I had three in my group, so the restaurant simply told me that I will have to come to the restaurant to get a table. I did not think too much at the time since it was a dinner with few of my good friends. But, I would not use the restaurant for any client dinner or dinner with important guests. Sure, if I have four or more in the party, it looks like the restaurant will take reservations. But I could not quite understand the reason there. For important dinners, I need to know that I can secure a table so that we can get seated. Next time, I may ask why. Certainly, I would not come back for any important dinner.

As for the dinner, we were asked to wait at the bar until everyone in the party was there. So we had to wait for about 10 minutes until everyone was in the restaurant. But we got seated with no further problems. There staff was friendly and did not get the order wrong this time. Everything on the memu were available this time. I was a bit surprised that the each portion size was small - small even for Japanese standard. Perhaps we did not notice this the last time since we were more focused on getting the right food to begin with. We orderd different kinds of yakitori and few other dishes. Nothing to fuss about. Ordinary yakitori.

The soba was good. But the rest of the food was so so. Luckly, Aburiya Kinnosuke is only a few minute walk away. So next time, I'm inclined to have dinner at AK, then perhaps stop at Soba Totto for a quick soba noodles to finish the evening.