TILE

Unique experience, menu has plenty of variety, terrific flavours and textures. A series of different seafood / meat to choose from - 5 to 7 separate serves with condiments and rice. Menu is simply explained by the superb Tile team who are awesome. A must if you’re in Kanazawa.

Visited November 2025

I never leave reviews, but this experience was ridiculous. They set down some pieces of beef on the lid, but don’t replaced it on the box so I have to do that myself without spilling the sake. Then they bring the rice and seafood, and I add it together and the whole experience is over within five to... ten minutes. Then there’s a bite of ice cream and it’s over. The door to the restaurant is like a hobbit door so you have to stoop to enter. They say it’s because it’s like a teahouse, but this is not a teahouse. I got no tea. Build a normal door. I’ve been all over the world, and even in Tokyo there were some great restaurants. But his was insanely disappointing.

Visited October 2025

It was likely the best sashimi dining experience that I have had in Japan or anywhere. Our first trip to this great country, so most experience has been had in NYC, DC, Phila, & London. Still, we are already 2 weeks so far in Japan. Super fresh cubed clean seafood set into a spiced large poke bowl.... Enjoyed the red vinegar rice. The only criticism that I might give is the linear seating which, in a party of seven, made conversation either impossible or abnormally loud. Just go and enjoy it. Parking right nearby.

Visited September 2025

Outstanding service and food. Beautifully designed space. You will be kneeling on tatami floor throughout the meal. This could be a challenge to some diners

Visited September 2025

My wife and I just had a week in Kanazawa, Japan. All but one of the seven restaurants we went were excellent. The exception was Tile. The architect must have a wicked sense of humour. First off, you have to enter through a half-door that is only about 3 or 4 feet off the ground. You have to crawl ...or crouch. I don’t know how an elderly person or anyone with a bad back might manage. Upstairs, the walls were distressed concrete, the ceiling looked as if it was about collapse and there were factory windows. We sat on tatami on thin cushions. This was very uncomfortable. All the customers were foreigners. The set dish was called “mosaic bowl”. It was a large glass dish of the kind normally used for a trifle. It contained lumps of cold rice. One could choose between five and eight ‘dishes’ to put on the rice. Each of them was thimble-sized, served in what looked like tiny glass ashtrays e.g. there was a fingernail of shrimp, of salmon, of squid, of roe. A one-note mental drilling – loud, awful American ‘rap’ - did little to ease digestion. This might be a place where Snow White comes with her seven mates, but we certainly would not recommend it. We were still hungry and went back to our hotel for a sandwich!

Visited August 2025