This post was written in 2014. Shop details and prices may have changed since then.
Near Asakusa, at Azumabashi, there is an izakaya called Yorozuya that serves an eclectic menu built on Western-style food. “Yorozu” means “everything,” so the name means a shop that has it all. True to the name, the menu covered every corner of both Western and Japanese cooking. I had wanted to visit for ages, and finally made it.
First, a glass of dark beer
It was more ordinary than I expected..
Tomato and mozzarella cheese
A pretty standard dish.
Wagyu tataki
This seems to be the house specialty, and its savory flavor goes perfectly with drinks. I think it would have been even better sliced a bit thicker.
Cucumber with miso
In Korea this would be the kind of thing you get as a freebie, but here it is a proper menu item.
Gratin
Since Western food is their specialty, they do gratin and omurice really well. It was so good I scraped the dish clean.
Soft-set omurice
An authentic omurice made with chicken rice. Really delicious. The only problem was that the portion was too big, maybe because I had ordered the gratin too, but as a single dish it was excellent. Who would have thought an izakaya could turn out such a good omurice..
Tokyo Skytree in its Christmas colors
That time of year has come around already.