Contemporary Topics Unit 4: Restaurants

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Restaurants in Tokyo

Are there any restaurants you like? If so, please recommend one of them to us. Tell us the name of the place, where it is, and what kind of food they serve there, the price, and your recommendations. Also give us the URL of the shop or a link to a food page with more information.

Here is an example of a place I like.

I often go to a soba shop in Ikebukuro called Bikkyo (美蕎). It is a 5-minute walk from the east exit of JR Ikebukuro station.
They serve only soba (no rice) and a la carte items like tamago-yaki and other things. During the daytime it is a regular soba-ya, and at night it becomes a soba-ya/bar I think. However, I have only been there for lunch. I usually get かけそば or 鳥ネギ南蛮 orとじそば. You can take a look at the menu and the prices here. I think the atmosphere is nice. It is not a regular soba-ya. The waiters are kind of cool and they play jazz as their BGM. The atmosphere is pretty laid back so I can feel comfortable there. The only thing I don't like is they allow people to smoke, even at lunch time. Despite that I go there quite often. The soba is high quality 十割そば. And besides it is 手打ち! The soba and the broth both taste really great.
Doesn't it look good?

Bon Appetit!

http://bikyo15.com/pc/index.html