When in Tokyo, visit the restaurant that encourages people to laugh at mistakes

You may not get what you ordered at this unique restaurant in Tokyo, but that’s alright. The servers here may mix up your orders but hey, one can always laugh it off. You will get to experience this unique and heart-warming experience at The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders. The name is sure to grab your attention.

This is a one-of-a-kind restaurant and here, all the servers are fighting dementia, a condition that leads to loss of cognitive functions like thinking, remembering and reasoning. This is not a light matter but one can make the lives of those suffering with this condition with a little laughter and a lot of compassion. And that’s exactly what this restaurant is doing.


As we all know, Japan is where you will find all sorts of unique places to eat. Some of them have robots as your servers and some will instantly fill you with curiosity and dread with prison theme. Whatever it may be, at the end of the day, it’s the quirkiness and the genius concepts that brings these restaurants visitors from all over the world. Keeping the trend alive and with the desire to do something completely different but beneficial for a certain section of the society, Shiro Oguni, in 2017, created this easy-going and cheerful establishment, called The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders.


In case you are curious, you get exactly what the name says.



The restaurant helps spread awareness about dementia and also helps people to be a bit more accepting and open-minded towards those who are suffering from this condition. This is why there are a lot of happy mistakes, laughter and understanding at this eatery.


What this restaurant is doing is changing the narrative that people living with dementia are unable to make a living, be responsible for their own livelihood and most importantly educate the society that these people don’t need to live an isolated life.


Ever since the restaurant first opened, the servers got around 37% of the orders wrong. But almost all customers said they were happy with the service.



We feel that there are two things that made this positive review possible - customers already knew what they were in for (the name!) and the fact that all the items on the menu taste incredibly delicious. So it doesn’t matter what you ordered and what you got, everything tastes good here. This, the restaurant guarantees.

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It is safe to say that the restaurant is a pretty popular one. Since its opening, they have done events and several pop-ups, even at the Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare. The restaurant often announces their pop-ups on their website and social media handles. It might be a great idea to keep an eye out for those and maybe attend a few?