I’m madly in love with “Korean barbecue”. To my taste, there’s no better way to have a fun/tasty/drunk night with the right people for reasonable money than going to this type of a restaurant.

Though, as a matter of fact, when I’m in such place I always feel that something is missing: either the design is horrible, or the price is beyond the limits, or the meat isn’t really good, or there’s no free flow.

We found this place while hanging out at Nishi Azabu (it’s an area full of tiny mansions; with each time I falling deeper and deeper in love with it). It was immediately all clear – this is it!

We could tell that by the stacked up bricks, which formed a “fireplace” at the entrance, and the tiny hall behind a display window, and the pots with coal on the tables, and the steampunk range hoods.

As for me, in such places the hoods should just get rid of the smoke, and that’s it: if it doesn’t smell of meat, why will you even go there?

Like many places in the neighborhood this one is open according to a very strange schedule: from 19 to 26 (some of them are open until 28 or even 30) – it’s local spécialité.

Further more.

The menu is only in Japanese. And there’s another one in English, which is touchingly hand-written and has the list of courses, the last of which includes “free flow of food” until you tell them to stop.

We had the one for 6000 ($55) that consisted of 12 dishes and we were right: it was enough.

Everything was perfect.

Starting from tartare and tongue up to wagyu steaks.

The dishes have many variations: with egg and without one, on a leaf, and of different degree of marbling.

At the end of the page with the menu in English there was a paragraph: would you like to try some kind of offal? They forgot to ask us. Though I think that night they had udder which none of us dared to order. We saw it vividly burning upon the coals.

The set consisted strictly of meat: no rice, no kimchi, no dessert. And, to my taste, it definitely should be that way – one has to focus on the main thing.

Besides, if you wish, you can always order some additives, which are really cheap.

The place is very atmospheric.

PS: The check for 5 people: 4 sets, wine, beer and a big wagyu steak aside.