Ao Izakaya

Always delicious

Great service and food. It's been a very pleasant experience despite the fact that the discount only applies at 22:30, as the kitchen starts closing 15mn after you need to order everything including dessert in advance. It was kind of a dream for us to get a taste of what a real Japanese restaurant in Paris would be like, and we were more than pleased. Definitely recommended.

Restaurant excellent, service excellent et très convivial.

Excellent food, great space and lovely service. Highly recommend the place!

Always perfect! I’ve never been disappointed ! Thank you and keep up the amazing work ????

The food was quite good, but only worth going for with the promotional discount. Service was excellent as our server was very helpful and attentive.

Parfait excellente surprise

Very friendly and efficient staff, impressive Chef, amazing cuisine. Every dish is refine and sophisticated. Will definetely come back for more.

Perfect service and incredible food! Keep going :)

Nourriture excellente

Excellent !

Different experience from the usual Japanese restaurants you can find in Paris. Elabored flavours and high quality products in a beautiful setting. Touches of French cuisine introduced into classics Japanese. Loved it !

Delicious food and excellent service!!!

Very well attended, nice place, nice food.

Shochu au sarrasin divin ! Cuisine et service au top

Food was great. Like spectacular. But the staff seemed like they wanted us out. They weren’t friendly at all. Especially the one heavier guy. They food was good though

Excellent

High quality and authentic Japanese tastes. Glad to have outdoor seating in the summer.

Here you will find a lot outdoor seating and plenty of room inside as well. Interestingly on the main floor you can watch the chefs at work. The atmosphere is modern and inviting. The service was outstanding. Our waiter was attentive, spoke English, and was extremely pleasant. He was five stars. Now, for the real reason we went - the food. This restaurant commands top dollar for their food, so I review accordingly, meaning top dollar means top notch experience. I don’t think we started off top notch. We had the Mille-Mellow de ceviche to begin. The plate looked great but the flavor was off, really there was no flavor. A small amount of sriracha sauce added a dab of flavor, that coupled with a few jalapeños and one or two onion slices (19€). Other than that it was a bowl of finely chopped tuna, salmon, and white fish. Yes the fish was fresh, but the dish itself missed the mark for what I expect from a ceviche. Next we had a Uramaki Shake Yaki, and things started to get better. The presentation was sloppy but the roll was fantastic. The concentration of fish on the roll was very generous (for 23€ it should be), and the flavorful was profound. The uramaki California roll was next. This was not the California roll I know. I tend to find that California rolls are a mixture of crab, maybe cucumber and avocado but this one was made with salmon and avocado (13€ bargain). I enjoyed it for what it was. Again, the roll was crafted with a generous amount of fish and filling and not overwhelmingly made out of rice. The presentation was pedestrian at best. Finally we had the “selection du chef” sushi. This was 30€ and had 3 pieces of tuna, salmon, and hamachi - along with one langostino (shrimp). The fish was outstanding, fresh, and of the highest quality. However for the selection (nothing extraordinary) it was probably 10€ overpriced. We also had gyoza that were priced at 12€. I had better gyoza for 6€ earlier in the day. Also, the wine pours were a bit stingy. We did not try dessert because everything was 9€ and higher, which is at par with the rest of the pricing. So, this is good sushi, I am sure prepared by a master, but the experience does not command the price. This is NOT a good value in my opinion. They need to raise the standard in order to command this price point. I just expected more.

Enjoyed lunch (Bento) for the first time. Service, atmosphere are good and as expected. In general, foods are good quality, except that some tempura were disappointing because a portion of the ingredients is quite small/thin. Only thing I could taste was the oily skin (koromo) and not the ingredient itself..., but we would certainly try different meals another time! Thank you.