When I go to the big city (to collect a language diploma at the university), I do things I can't do at home, and for eating that means going to Indian and Japanese restaurants. My gold standard for Japanese restaurants is that they serve shabu shabu, a dish I first met when I was working in Tokyo and have only subsequently enjoyed in Barcelona. Yurimi was fine though, but certainly adapted to students. They only offered a 16,50€ all-you-can eat menu, with drinks extra. You choose dishes from a menu on your table, tick the ones you want on an order form, then leave this at the counter. To deter people from ordering too much there's a 2€ charge for any dishes not eaten. When your order is brought to your table they take the drinks order. I was too polite, I should have ordered more !
Congratulations on the language diploma. This restaurant looks lovely. We have very little experience of dining 'à la japonais' other than when we went to Japan for the Rugby World Cup a few years back. We loved the food there, even if we did sometimes have to order 'blind' having no idea what the menu said and not finding anyone who could translate! Fun experience. :-) Today, I'd use google translate!
@jamibann I hope Google Translate does a better job than whatever they were using when I was in Tokyo in the Nineties. I remember one menu offering 'oesophagus' and another 'organs'. If you should go to Paris for the rugby then there are lots of good value Japanese restaurants in the Asiatic Quarter, essentially the 13th arrondissement.
