This izakaya is opened by four chefs who all own their own restaurants in the same area. Though not them but someone else is cooking in this place. The front door looks like someone’s apartment! It was a dinner party and we had the 4000yen dinner course, plus endless additional orders from the a la carte menu cos we were all pigs. Buri and radish is complimentary appetizer.
お造り(ヤリイカ、平目、メジ鮪)。塩漬けレバ刺。
Sashimi(Yari-ika, hirame, mejimaguro). Salt-pickled raw liver.
女のだし巻玉子。（男のだし巻玉子。） セロリのはちみつ味噌漬け。
Female version dashi-maki tamago(Japanese rolled omelette), which tasted the same as the male version, only sweeter.
Celery pickled in honey and miso. (Pic shows only the messy leftover ^^;;)
スモークチキンときのこのサラダ。
本鱒（ます）の石狩鍋仕立て（味噌）。
Smoked chicken and mushroom salad.
Honmasu salmon Ishikari-nabe(miso based). Very fatty salmon very good!
太刀魚の変わり揚げ。
大山地鶏の炭火焼き：もも荒塩焼（柚子胡椒）、つくねタレ焼き、ササミ焼き（わさびと梅じそ）。
Somen-coated fried Tachiuo(Scabbard fish).
Charcoal-grilled chicken: thigh with yuzu-kosho, Tsukune with sauce(comes with raw egg too), sasami-yaki(chicken breast) with wasabi and umejiso(sour plum and shiso).
白ばい貝の海女さん煮（a la carte）。
穴子と里芋の柚子あんかけ（a la carte）。
Simmered shellfish.
Anago and satoimo(taro) in Yuzu ankake(starchy) sauce.
洋風まるごとトマト煮おでん(a la carte)。
カキの天ぷら海苔あんかけ（a la carte）。
Western style whole tomato oden.
Oyster tempura in seaweed ankake sauce.
こんやまぜごはん(味噌汁付き)。
Pickles and rice. Comes with miso soup.
酒盗チャーハン(a la carte)。 本日のデザート：柚子大福、ガトーショコラ。
Fried rice with “shutou”(salted bonito guts). Dessert from the course: gateau chocolat and Yuzu Daifuku.
The food is generally good in a standard izakaya sort of way. A bit salty to keep you drinking. Maybe not a reliable reference since I went with a huge group but (a lot of) food+drink is about 8000yen.
Menu(J): 1, 2.
こんや (Konya)
Add: 2-22-10, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku
Tel: 03-5423-5820
味噌チャーシューそば（平打）。
Miso charshu soba. Slightly spicy soup, lots of vegetables, and very very nice flat noodles! There are about 5 kinds of noodles in different thickness to choose from. I always have the flat and thick fettucini-like ones, which is 100yen more expensive. You can check out the photos outside the shop showing the available types of noodles.
Last time I had tsukemen(below), which you can really enjoy the taste and texture of the noodles itself, but normal soup noodles is also tasty.
味噌角煮つけそば（平打）、１２５０円。
Miso tsuke-men with kakuni(simmered pork). I love the flat noodles!! Even though the miso soup doesn’t stick so well to flat sheet noodles but still like it. Many people ask for “soup-wari”, i.e. adding soup into the tsuke-soup(which is too strong to drink by itself) to finish it off. They have a large menu, e.g. curry ramen, chicken soup ramen, clam soup ramen etc. Want to go back to try others!
Suzuran すずらん (review)
Add: 3-7-5 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku.
Tel: 03-3499-0434
タラの白子、ゴルゴンゾーラグラタン￥１０００。
漁師の棒ギョーザ、￥７８０。
Cod soft roe, Gorgonzola gratin. Nice but the white sauce is a bit watery.
Gyoza with pork and shrimp. This is very good!
大粒あさりの老酒蒸し、￥８５０。
地魚の焚火焼、￥２３００。
Clam steamed with chinese wine.
White fish, flavored with sweet herb oil and breaded, broiled in oven.
Sakura and Ume ice-cream.
We also had plum wine, and rice. The ice-cream were free. And the bill was about 8000yen for two people. The food is good this time too, though I thought our choices last time were better(see tag for old entry). We sat at the counter and while the tobacco smoke from the couple next to us didn’t bother us so much as last time, our eyes were tearing and noses running because of the smoke from the open kitchen. We went on a weekday and it was sooooooo busy even after 9pm. The delivery was so slow that at first we just sat there for half an hour straight without any food. And they kept forgetting our orders…my friend said she loves the lively atmosphere and the friendly staff so she doesn’t mind, but I confess the environment is too tough for me…
Menu(J): 1, 2, 3, 4.
KAIKAYA
Add: 23-7 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku
Tel: 03-3770-0878
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