EnYaa (Restaurant & Cave à Saké et Champagne)

We went there after I saw that Chef Samuel Lee likes this restaurant. The food was very good. The waiter explained every dish in detail. We had very good sake too. The atmosphere was so calming, the restaurant wasn’t cramped.

Nous avons choisi le menu découverte pour notre soirée à EnYaa. Un délice servi avec grâce et grand professionnalisme. Nous avons pu goûter des saké d'exception relevant les saveurs des plats.

i live in Japan for half of the year . I ate here two days in a row, because it is quite an authentic place. The decor is great. Next to the palace vendome in a super historical location probably 1800-1900 . Simple japanese decor in a parisian style. For more context kaiseki, kyoto style cuisine, is the most complex and refined cuisine in all of Japan. To take that style and complicate it even more by using french ingredients is bold and a bit heroic. I totally appreciated what the chef is doing. The food is 5 stars

while the food gets 5 stars the service gets 0 stars,,, it is atrociously bad. The first time i was there , the server argued with me for 10 minutes over why i could not replace a fish I didn’t want with a fish i did want in a 9 course menu. She utterly refused to accommodate me. Then when she asked the chef it was completely fine.

The second time i was there another server argued with my guest for five minutes over two people wanting the multi course meal and two people wanting a la carte , also saying it was not possible, until again asking the chef who said it was fine.

I asked for a beer while waiting for my guests,and wanted to have it at the bar when the restaurant was completely empty, also impossible according to the servers, so instead i just walked outside to wait because I didn’t feel like arguing with some idiot before i ate. In short the service is appalling, their favorite word is “no” and they will argue with you about it for hours. This is not very polite or Japanese culture or restaurants . Also the chef makes the servers take the food from the kitchen as soon as it is ready , then they bring it to the dining area and just leave it on a staging table in the dining area in front of the guests but not on their table and just walk away . One of our dishes sat in the middle of the dining room for five minutes while the server was doing something else…. And we were just looking at the food sitting a meter away from us. I almost just went to pick up the food and place it on our table myself. It was comically bad service. If I didn’t like the food so much i would be been quite rude to the serving staff. I’m giving a low score to this restaurant until they fix their front of house. But i will add it is really great food.

However at the prices they are charging, being rude to guests and bad service is a bit unforgivable. About 250 euros per person was our bill- includes arguing with servers that don’t have a clue how to serve, and we had to pour our own drinks because no one ever bothered to refill our glasses … so go there to eat well, and just laugh at how bad the service is .

The low score because i would like them to fix their issues with service so I can return there and enjoy their delicious food. It is a shame that all the hard work in the kitchen is ruined by incompetence in the front of the house.

A little background of us, my wife and I regularly visit Japan and had dined at Michelin star and small local restaurants in Tokyo, Kyoto, and other cities (Jiro, Saito, Amamoto, Kikunoi, Kitcho, to name a few.

We choose to dine at Enyaa based on the great reviews, and we wish to experience Japanese cuisine with quality local ingredients. We ordered the €160 omakase.

Upon ordering white wine by the glass, the waiter poured the wine so fast he spilled wine on the table, and he did not even bother to clean it. This was the first alarming sign for me.

The food was mediocre at best, seasoning was not elegant and unbalanced. The sushi rice was dry and dense. There was not a single highlight of entire tasting menu.

At the price of almost €500 for two, this is by far the most disappointing and overpriced dining experience of Japanese cuisine.

Excellent restaurant avec une ambiance simple mais reposante, épurée. La serveuse était très professionnelle et très gentille et le maître sommelier a su nous conseiller avec qualité et bienveillance. Merci au chef de nous avoir fait voyager pendant l’espace d’une soirée ! Merci à toute l’équipe pour ce moment réconfortant au plus près du Japon ????????