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Tapas Molecular Bar Chuo City Reviews
Exciting dining experience!
We really enjoyed this creative and experimental dining experience. Each course was inspired by traditional dishes around the world and were really cleverly presented. It was interesting and fun to watch the food being prepared. The flavours were wonderful & overall a really fantastic experience!
Great meal but service is a bit too fast
Awesome presentation and deliciously creative gastronomy type meal. Everything was well explained in both Japanese and English. My biggest complaint is pace. They need to slow it down a bit to make it more enjoyable. Two wine pairings are a bit pricey. First one is mostly domestic Japanese wine makers. The premium flight has some amazing wines on the list but the pours are 1 or 2 oz so you may not find it worth it. Probably better to order a bottle or by the glass especially considering the pace of the meal.
The best culinary experience
It wasn’t boring or slow like other high end restaurants such as 3 starred Michelin restaurants. It was entertaining and the dishes were cooked to the absolute perfection. It was entertaining as well with different creative cooking techniques such as liquid nitrogen sorbet which was delicious. I absolutely love this restaurant however you would need to book in advance since there are only eight seats. I highly recommend this restaurant to everyone for dinner. As we enjoyed it so much. Superb view and fun interaction with the chefs! Thank you
The best fake food ever
This chef turned food elements into fake eggs and buttons so real you could not differentiate a real egg from a fake one- I promise you! One of the courses was a button so delicious I wish all my clothes came with them too. Hands down a fun and experimental, conversational dinner with an excited and engaged chef. Each couple took home a book he had published with his own art that contained a story representing each bite of this delicious meal. My recommendation: do it! Go there!
Exceptional Experience!
My husband and I had dined at Tapas Molecular Bar during a trip to Japan in 2016 and enjoyed the experience so much that it was the only restaurant that we returned to on this visit. Fortunately the food and overall experience are still amazing and we had a fantastic dinner! Chef Kento is exceedingly charming, entertaining and skilled, and his creativity knows no bounds. We were fortunate to be seated adjacent to 4 delightful South Koreans and the atmosphere was relaxed and convivial, high end dining without any stuffiness. We won’t spoil any of the surprises by describing the menu, plus the menu changes, so it’s not always the same. I decided to try a pairing of Japanese wines since the menu focuses on local ingredients, and was very pleased with them, especially getting to try wines I wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to drink. Who knew that I’d enjoy a Japanese orange wine so much? I couldn’t finish all of the wine but appreciated how well they paired with the food. If you want to be less adventurous, their premium pairing features truly top notch wines, and while more expensive, the price is better than I would have expected for the quality, which is also how we felt about the cost of the meal. On top of all this the views are spectacular! We were staying at the hotel (which we also highly recommend), but if you’re staying elsewhere it’s a great opportunity to see the gorgeous public spaces on the top floor of the Mandarin Oriental. Thank you Chef Kento for another incredible evening!
Fantastic dinner
Omg - it is amazing! Super intimate with a total of 8 guests seated at the counter while molecular gastronomy occurs in front of you. We had the Greatest Hits menu - presented in a CD case! Super cool. The chowder was amazing and so innovative. Was truly an incredible experience to eat! “Donut” with caviar was divine. The Wagyu sirloin melted in my mouth. The duck foie gras was delicious. The desserts were all stellar dishes as well. Highly recommend! 38th floor of the Mandarin Oriental
Amazing food and great experience
Absolutely amazing food with a lovely ambience, the chef and his crew did everything to make this an amazing evening experience. They may have lost their star, but the quality remains.
Amazing experience
This was my second visit at the restaurant. It is an intimate experience with 8 guests and a really warm and skilled chef. He speaks American so the food is easily described to you. I am amazed with his ability to create such visual and well tasting masterpieces. A wonderful journey for a couple of hours with really high service. I would recommend this any day. The view is spectacular as well. ⭐️
WOW! Innovative & Delicious
WOW! A truly innovative, imaginative, and FUN dining experience. Every course had a beautiful story, presentation, and of course - tasted phenomenal. Chef was an exceptional story teller and each course was more inventive and delicious than the last. Wine pairings were also fabulous! Highly recommend - such a fun culinary experience!!
Awful booking practices
My partner and I dined with Tapas Molecular Bar in 2018 and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. We dined with them for our 5 year anniversary and to celebrate our engagement that day. In 2020 my partner and I planned to revisit Japan and dine here again, for my partners 30th and their dads 50th birthdays, however due to covid restrictions we had to rearrange 3 times. Finally, when Japan reopened we contacted Tapas Molecular bar in October 2022 to reserve a date in April 2023. We were told, that it was too early to reserve and that as we were not staying at the hotel, the earliest we could reserve would be 2 months prior. So, we set up an automated email to email at the exact time and on the exact date they recommended, exactly two months before the date and we were told that the restaurant was fully booked for the date we requested. The policy of keeping seats for those staying at the hotel first is a redundant one. The restaurant only seats 8 guests I believe? And there are no doubt many more guests staying in the hotel at any one time than 8, so reserving the restaurant reservations for hotel guests till 2 months in advance is a bit of a nothing. Also, given Japans service standards and the standards of a 5 star hotel, given our previous contact about dining on this particular date, I would have expected the hotel / reservations team to have contacted me in advance as soon as the restaurant was fully booked to give me as much notice as possible to make other plans, however, we only learnt that the restaurant was fully booked when we enquired a second time, when we’d been asked to, which now leaves us very little time to make alternative arrangements. I will now never dine with yourselves again, and I will never stay in a mandarin oriental hotel. Myself and my family are extremely disappointed and angry by this whole experience and I believe should have been handled much better.
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