Beef. On the barbeque

Japan has some of the world’s best beef. The Japanese do love a good yakiniku (barbequed meat) session from time to time. Basically, the net product of these two factors means that you need to get yourself down to a yakiniku eatery when in Tokyo.

I was lucky enough to be taken to Ushigoro Kan by my friend, where melt in your mouth beef on a DIY- charcoal barbeque is the name of the game. Like several restaurants on this trip, there were too many highlights to name, but my favourites were undoubtedly the beef tartare with raw egg (above, top), and the shoulder of beef which you grill, dip in soy and sesame based sauce, plunge into egg yolk, wrap around a rice ball (below, top left and right) and finally proceed to place in your mouth in anticipation of a flavour runaway reaction. And I forgot to add the beef tongue (below, bottom). 

The desserts are pretty handy here too, the yuzu sorbet (below, bottom) and green tea pudding (below, middle) were more than worthy of their place with the top quality beef consumed during this meal.

http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1303/A130302/13160330/
http://ushigoro-kan.com/
+ 8150-5872-3765
Address: 1-8-1 Ebisuminami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (1 minute from Ebisu station)
Budget: JPY 5,000-6,000
Open: 17:00-24:00（Last Orders 23:00）