栄一 (Eiichi)

Posted on September 25, 08 by seat

(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

鳥田むら本店 (Toritamura Honten)

Posted on August 29, 08 by seat

A friend took us to this tiny yakitori place near Isetan Shinjuku. Never passed these alleys before and was surprised to see so many old but interesting-looking eateries around.

We ordered the yakitori course plus many additional orders.

Tori-sashi – raw chicken. Ume Tataki – raw chicken with sour plum.

Nikomi – Chicken giblet stew. Doesn’t smell at all, very good! Right pic is soft bone.

More yakitori. Can’t remember what they are…but all are good!

Chicken salad. Grilled vegetables.

Pickles. Tori zosui – chicken soup rice.

Food is good, price is cheap – with a few drinks it was about 4000yen per person. The chef(40 something?) and the owner(60 something?) are both very kakkoi…^^;;;
Menu(J): 1, 2.

鳥田むら本店 (Toritamura Honten)
Add: 3-11-2, Shinjuku
Tel: 03-3356-7955

伊勢廣京橋本店 (Isehiro)

Posted on July 27, 08 by seat

(May 1, 2008)
Famous yakitori place offering yakitori rice bowl at lunch time. The kitchen is partitioned with windows so the smoke(scary amount of it) won’t touch you even if you sit at the counter(though you still smell a bit afterwards).

手羽、￥６００。
Chicken broth. Side order “Teba”(chicken wing).

焼き鳥丼(５本：ささみ、皮身、もも肉、肝、団子)、￥１８００。
焼き鳥丼(４本：ささみ、皮身、もも肉、団子)、￥１５００。
My 5-skewers yakitori-don on the left: sasami(chicken breast), skin, thigh, liver, and meat ball. My friend’s 4-skewers yakitori-don doesn’t include liver. My favourites are skin and thigh!

(Oct 20, 2004)
焼き鳥丼（４本：ささみ、葱巻き、だんご、もも肉）、鶏のスープが付いて、１５００円。
Yakitori rice bowl. Delicious!

伊勢廣京橋本店(Isehiro)
Add: 1-5-4, Kyoubashi, Chuo-ku
Tel: 03-3281-5864

江戸清 (Edosei)

Posted on March 27, 08 by seat

(Jan 30, 2009)
鳥ロース焼き、￥1100。
Grilled chicken lunch set. Comes with delicious chicken soup and rice. Only one menu at lunch time.

(Nov 30, 2007)
A small but popular Japanese restaurant specialised in chicken. A friend who is a self-claimed connoisseur of chicken took me here for dinner, and I was totally satisfied by the juicy and tender meat served in this place.
Free appetizer simmered radish is so good.

Chicken sashimi, eaten with wasabi and soy sauce and scallion. The chicken is so fresh that you can eat it raw!
Yakitori.

Fried chicken. Boiled chicken. Both are simple but amazing.

Chicken meatballs and vegetables hotpot only available in winter. The very friendly madam will do everything for you.