Little Smith - Kawasaki

What a fun and expensive experience! but hey, when in japan. I was looking for a place with great cocktails and a fun atmosphere near our hotel in ginza. little smith is located in this office, which is on the basis of the cellar 2. as soon as they are down there they are still uncertain when they are at the right place. you go in and they're nice! it was shown a sign in English language, the 1500 yen 15 for cover. safe. Why not. we're already here. what we enjoyed veggie with mayo as free bar biss suppen palette purer no menu and we ordered an expresso and apfel martini tasty expert barkeeper dressed in white smokings, the quality ingredients use fun. also my hunch is the cover was only for foreigners, like all the others who came like a local! it still cost. I need to check.

I had been drinking around Tokyo but never visited this interesting bar!

Great place for cocktails. Custom made to your preference.

Mediocre and overpriced in my humble opinion. I judge bars off their old fashioned and this one was weak, with the bourbon very hard to taste. For the price and the cover charge very overrated and underwhelming. The fruity drinks were decent I guess, and when other patrons are chain smoking cigarettes it takes away from the experience. Stop in if you must , but keep expectations in check.

From the website: We ordinary receive 1500yen as cover charge per 1 person. Cover charge is Japanese bar’s or restaurant’s custom. Okay, a cover charge is not unusual, but the extortionate amount is set by the establishment, so the defensive claim of Japanese bar's custom is pretty weak tea. I understand that they need to keep the riff raff out, and I knew about the seating charge going in . . . but, in this case, it's not worth it. Little Smith is underwhelming. Like a cocktail factory, or theme park—there must have been 8 white jacketed bartenders milling around, frantically bumping into each other. If your objective is to set your money on fire, there are tons of better bars in Tokyo, or anywhere for that matter. On the plus side: the cocktails were well executed enough . . . so, there's that! The room at Little Smith looks tired, and the lighting is harsh: you're either in darkness, or under the glare of ill conceived down facing spotlights. I'm all for fresh flowers in the bathroom, but only if they're actually alive. The walls are dinged and scuffed. This place could use a 'fresh coat of paint' in general. I understand that these places where rich people go to spend money often have their own weird internal 'rich person' logic—but, with shabby Little Smith, I really don't get the appeal. I won't return . . . except maybe as the guest of someone with an expense account?