Emblem Flow Dining - Hakone

Great atmosphere for a date or a family. The staff understand English, too. Good wine, rump steak was great. I highly recommend the pork tacos!!!!!!!! I was very impressed.

Had 2 vegan options and 1 other vegetarian option for dinner. Mostly small plates of international cuisine with Japanese elements.

The steak was the size of a small carrot for Y2200. Almost everything on their menu is overpriced. Y900 for toast, seriously. Also just because you don’t have a reservation you have to leave within an hour of being there and it takes 30 mins for the food to be served. Which is a ridiculous concept. Will never get dinner here again.

For Japan this is an average to below average restaurant. 3 stars at best. A 4.5 Japan restaurant will be one of the best meals of your life. This isnt it. High ratings are puzzling possibly because the clientele is mostly tourists/internationals who probably don’t know how good most Japanese food is. Pork was dry. Salmon appetizer was a slice of raw salmon with some guacamole. Paella was meh. Sea bream was decent but partially undercooked and a small portion with no sides. Bread was good but doesn’t come with butter why margarine?

Pretentious over priced micro food that was mostly tasteless. I had the 4800 yen £30 locally sourced set menu, wasn’t impressed with any of it Looked the part, and the staff were great, but over all disappointed