お隆さん。
I haven't been out to eat with my wife for a long time, and she kept complaining that I was eating good food alone, so I decided to take her to the yakiniku restaurant I had been wanting to go to for a while. It's called "Itchou" in Kyobashi, along Route 1. We had made a reservation for lunch, which turned out to be a good idea. When we arrived at 6:30 PM, there was a waiting list even though the restaurant had over 100 seats. It was a Saturday, so making a reservation was definitely the right choice. We took off our shoes before entering the tatami room. In the hallway, there were three jars of shochu lined up. Now, what should we eat? The usual pattern for me is salted tongue → harami (skirt steak) → kalbi (short rib) hormone, so we ordered the 4 kinds of assorted meats for 1900 yen. The side dishes were bean sprout namul and Chinese cabbage kimchi, which are the same everywhere. They also had a nice selection of wines. The sauce seemed to have been renewed, but since it was my first time there, I couldn't tell. They had quite a variety of salts available. Japanese (sea salt), Bolivia (rock salt), Mongolia (lake salt), Italy (rock salt), Indonesia (sea salt). Personally, I liked the pink Bolivia salt the best. The salted tongue arrived, which cost 1458 yen (tax included), which was not too expensive or too cheap. It was delicious. We also ordered chisha cabbage. The hormone seemed a bit expensive. When the kalbi and harami arrived, we ordered white rice. The rice was a bit moist, but tasty. We had some leftover chisha cabbage, so we ordered more meat. Of course, we finished with cold noodles. The noodles were delicious, but the soup seemed a bit thin. It was my first time having yakiniku in a clean restaurant in a while. Spending 15,000 yen for two people seemed a bit high considering we didn't drink much. The website said the budget was 3,000 to 3,999 yen for dinner, but that didn't seem accurate at all, as I grumbled to myself.