Saturday, July 13, 2019

横濱人

横濱人
〒231-0861 神奈川県横浜市中区元町1丁目31 (ie, 〒231-0861 Kanagawa-ken, Yokohama-shi, Naka-ku, Motomachi, 1-chōme−31)
tel: 045-681-5225


what was consumed: japanese bar food!


when good friends come to town, you take them someplace where they'll get a taste of the local cuisine. d took the train from tokyo to see us in yokohama; we, in turn, took him out to japanese food.

my experience with washoku, at least until this point, had been limited. there were things i knew because of my various experiences around the world, but is that really japanese food? who knows. that said, i was once told that if there are "salary men" who dine at whatever location you're at, especially during the week, that restaurant is probably a safe bet. lucky for us, when we got to 横濱人, we joined quite a few other tables of salary men.

i can't say that 横濱人 offered dishes that were incredibly out of the ordinary; it felt like a typical japanese restaurant. but that was exactly what we were looking for - a little bit of sushi, a little bit of tempura, some agadofu, and of course onigiri (which i love). they had both the more typical onigiri as well as the grilled onigiri. both of them, please!


Saturday, July 6, 2019

american house

american house
〒231-0801 横浜市中区新山下1-2-8 港山下ナナイロビル1F (〒231-0801 Yokohama City Naka Ward 1-2-8 Shinyamashita Minato Yamashita Nanairo Building 1F)
tel: 045-228-9760

what was consumed: fajita skillet, fried chicken

on a rare weekday where nanny-san was watching bebe, bjl and i head out for a little lunch date. we opted for the nearby nanairo building to check out some of the newly opened restaurants in the building. always craving american food (especially now that we're not stateside), we gave american house a try. friends had gone and said they were pleasantly surprised with their dishes. we wanted to go and see/experience for ourselves.

american house has a pretty typical "family restaurant" menu, akin to friday's or bennigan's (are there still bennigan'ses in america?), from the menu to the seats to the decor ... and even the food. and so, american house hit the spot.

one of the reviews on yelp described american house as "a cross between applebee's and a burger joint you might stop in while on a road trip back in the states" (note: same restaurant, different location). i wouldn't necessarily disagree, but when you're not in the states, sometimes what you want is somewhere that's a cross between applebee's and a road trip burger joint.