Ristorante Giapponese Il Cuore In Firenze

19/05/2025: Chinese-Japanese restaurant just outside the historic center of Florence, easily accessible from Porta al Prato. Well-furnished and comfortable interior, with good taste. The best thing about the evening was the environment and the service, friendly and relaxed. We had fried prawns (three in number) and vegetables (three in number) well made but in a laughable quantity compared to the price paid. As "first courses" rice with eel and vegetables and noodles with shrimp and tuna. The noodles (soft wheat) were good, despite the small quantity and the little presence of shrimp and vegetables: the flavor was given entirely by the dried tuna. The flavor of the rice was unbalanced (abundant portion), too fatty and sweetish, without a sour/acidic note to break it all up. The eel is served with an excessively sweet sauce and the vegetables are not enough to "degrease". The presence of surimi is INEXPLICABLE, for a restaurant that wants to distinguish itself from the classic Chinese all you can eat. And beware: all the dishes are overloaded with salt. We ended with some mochi, given the scarcity of typical sweets available: particular consistency, pleasant while they are hot, too sticky when they become lukewarm or, worse, cold. Rather poor filling. Friendly service although slow, with the dishes that were brought ten minutes apart from each other, forcing us to share the dishes. Large and clean toilets. Prices clearly above average (drinks first and foremost), in relation to the quality of the food.

19/05/2025: Very good food, not so nice atmosphere, staff probably not Japanese