(Sep 2, 2008)
ささみ（塩焼）。正肉（タレ）。
From the 4500yen yakitori dinner course.
Sasami(breast). Grilled with salt. Raw inside. Very good!
Momo(thigh). Grilled with “tare” sauce.
枝豆。合鴨（塩焼）。
Edamame. What is with all that salt?!
Aigamo(duck). With salt.
もろ胡瓜。う玉（塩焼）。
Cucumber with miso. Quail egg with salt.
つくね（タレ）。ねぎ間（塩焼）。
Tsukune with tare sauce. Negima(thigh and leek) with salt.
手羽（塩焼）。しし唐。
Teba(wing) with salt. Very good!
Shishito pepper.
砂肝（塩焼）。皮。
Sunagimo(gizzard) with salt.
Instead of liver, which is included in the course but one of us can’t eat, we had chicken skin, again either with tare sauce or with salt.
The quality of chicken is good and everything is grilled perfectly. You get so much food for 4500 yen - each yakitori skewer is quite big and there are 9 of them in the course excluding the veggy. Though I really think they make everything too salty, especially for people like me who can’t drink that much. Also the course is really just yakitori after yakitori and I did get a bit tired towards the end. I wish there were some rice/noodles at the end. In retrospect, we really should’ve ordered plain rice to eat with the yakitori. Having said that I do like the food here.
Dinner menu(J) here.
(Oct 31, 2008)
Came back for lunch. Yakitori rice bowl, Y1050. It is nice too but I think for lunch, Isehiro(which is right next door to Eiichi) is better.
栄一 (Eiichi)
Add: 1-5-1, Kyoubashi, Chuo-ku
Tel: 03-3281-6578
From 5250yen lunch course. Umeshu(Sour plum wine) included in the course. Fig with goma(sesame) sauce, ginnan(ginkgo nuts), hamo no ko(roe of hamo) inside the orange leave, satoimo(taro), suzuki(eat with green sauce), anago sushi. The last three items are warm.
Hamo and atsuage. I’ve tried hamo a few times before and I never thought it was anything special, but after trying the hamo in this restaurant, I realised I just never had a good one before!
Makogarei and Maguro. Eat with either ponzu or soy sauce. The brown-ish cube is kanten jelly with seeds.
Aubergine and pumpkin takiawase. It is so simple but so delicious.
Fried ayu was great but the fried pepper, edamame and corn were truly outstanding.
Maitake mushroom takikomi gohan. Miso soup with winter melon.
Kyohou grape jelly. So nice!
The food might look ordinary and sound simple but the quality is just fantastic. At first the pace of delivery of each course was a bit too fast - we were busy chatting - but I told the staff to slow down a bit and it was fine. The lady in kimono was very friendly. Two of us shared a small bottle of nihonshu(1000yen) she recommended which was very nice. I went for lunch on a Saturday and only booked the day before but I had no problem getting a private room on the first floor. On the way to the bathroom(only on second and third floor), we saw that while the tables are only partitioned with screens, they look very comfortable with sunlight coming through the windows. Nice place to have a relaxing holiday lunch~
赤寶亭 (Sekihoutei)
Add:3-1-14, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
Tel: 03-5474-6889
Currently my no.1 favourite bakery in Tokyo! The original shop is in Mishuku(三宿) which I’ve never visited - I always buy from the branch inside Takashimaya Nihonbashi. I must mention that the bread is very expensive. After spending like thousands of yen on only a small amount of bread I always regret a little(^^;;;), but after eating it I always crave more and can’t wait to go back to buy again. Highly recommended!
Signifiant Signifie (シニフィアン・シニフィエ)
さんま刺身。海鮮ちらし丼。
Sanma sashimi. Kaisen chirashi don(seafood rice bowl). Rice and soup are refillable.
Somehow I was expecting this place to be an izakaya specialised in seafood but it turned out to be a cheap shabby eatery run by a fish shop. Most customers appear to be locals living nearby. The menu offers a variety of fish either as sashimi or grilled. You can order it alone or as a set with rice and soup. The quality of sashimi is not fantastic but I guess it is okay for the price. I forgot how much we paid but it was very cheap. The grilled fish other people ordered looked good.
魚力(Uoriki)
Add: 40-4, Kamiyamacho, Shibuya
Tel: 03-3467-6709
(Sep 22, 2008)
メンチカツセット、￥２６００。
Menchi-katsu set includes salad, soup, rice and coffee. 2600yen is so expensive…but the Menchi-katsu is really nice - juicy inside and cripsy outside, the beef used is good.
(Apr 8, 2006)
Omelette rice lunch set with salad, carrot soup and coffee, 1800yen. Very good! The fried rice with ketchup, chicken and mushroom was wrapped immaculately inside the omelette, the demi glace sauce was nice too.
厳選洋食さくらい(Yoshoku Sakurai)
Add: 7th, 3-40-7, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku (Near Okachimachi/Ueno)
Tel: 03-3836-9357
A favourite lunch spot near Tokyo Dome. Lunch includes salad, plain rice or rice with green shiso(aojiso), miso soup - all refillable. Other than the yuzu soy sauce dressing on the table, you can ask for other flavours: 1) sesame, 2) onion, 3) umejiso(sour plum shiso) and mayonnaise. Dressing menu here.
焼肉丼、￥１１００。 盛り合わせフライ定食（串・海老かつ）、￥１５００。
Yakiniku rice bowl. Pork is stir-fried with onion.
Assorted fry: Kushi-katsu(kushi means skewer) with pumpkin, shishitou pepper, onion and pork. and Ebi-katsu(prawn chopped and deep-fried).
若鶏ねぎ塩丼、￥１１００。若鶏生姜焼定食、￥１３００。
Chicken and leek rice bowl. Grilled chicken with ginger soy sauce.
豚ロース生姜焼定食、￥１３００。若鶏おろしかつ定食、￥１３００。
Grilled pork loin with ginger soy sauce. Fried chicken with grated raddish and ponzu.
柳川風かつ丼、￥１５００。元祖かつ丼、￥１０００。
Yanagigawa style katsu-don. Fried pork with tororo(grated mountain yam) in soup.
Ganso katsu-don. Fried pork with egg.
海の幸フライ定食（海老かつ、白身魚フライ）、￥１３００。 とんかつ ロース、￥２１００。
Assorted fry: Ebi-katsu and fried fish.
Tonkatsu(2100yen) from the regular menu. Hmm I think the lunch menu has better value for money. (Lunch menu for each month can be found in this page.)
This is a sister restaurant of Bodaiju(entry here) and is in the same location. The menu is quite similar but I really like the non-deep-fried menu in Katsu Kichi. At lunch time, Katsu Kichi is non-smoking which is great, despite the fact that there is this old furniture smell, probably from the wooden decor, that always takes a few mins getting used to. Service is good in both places.
かつ吉 水道橋店 (Katsu Kichi Suidoubashi)
Add: B1, 1-4-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-3812-6268
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