I went to a supposed Japanese restaurant in Waterloo street Clifton and had one of the worst meals I'd had, I was about to say ages but no, worst meals.

Starters were £6 for small standard Fried Squid and over cooked dumplings.

The staggering element was a soft shell salad going for £9 which consisted of about 20p worth of basic salad and one crab heavily saturated in fat possessing no flavour or meat within it.

A friend ordred a pork loin (spelt Lion on menu) costing £6 deviod of flavour, basically just a Schnitzel cut into strips with a heavy packet sauce on the side, no rice, no attention to detail.

Maybe as part of a large menu wita variety of options yes I'd understand and yes these dishes exist on any Japanses menue but bnot a main dishes at these prices.

Japanese should be simple quick, fresh and full of variety cooked accurately. To accompany I had a tasteless side dish of spinach soaked in sesame oil.

Tell a lie it tasted of old fake leather. School satchelesque.The quality of the cooking was poor and the service, although very polite, was patchy and they kept forgetting basics like the water.

Cardiff used to have a superb Japanese restaurant in the bay quarter and an even better Korean on Penarth Road, both now closed so to pass these dishes off at these prices in this credit climate is astounding to me.

Maybe Cliftonites don’t get out of town much? They’ll be closed in two months if they don’t sort the kitchen out. Intriguingly we saw that chap from the Diy S.O.S program that always looks totally knackered.