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Ark Mori Building, 1-12-33 Akasaka. & 03/5575-2100. Pizza and pasta ¥1,080-¥1,700; main dishes
¥1,780-¥2,780; set lunches ¥1,300-¥2,000. AE, DC, MC, V. Daily 11am-11pm. Station: Roppongi Itchome
(1 min.) or Tameike Sanno (3 min.). On Roppongi Dori.
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Don't forget Hayashi, on the fourth floor of the Sanno Kaikan Building, 2-14-1 Aka-
saka, described above as an expensive restaurant (p. 166). Although dinner is costly, you
can enjoy the same, cozy atmosphere for much, much less at lunch, when only one dish,
oyako donburi (rice topped with chunks of chicken and egg), is served, with pickled
vegetables, clear soup, and tea, for ¥900, with a slightly larger portion available for
¥1,000. Open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30am to 2pm. In addition,
okonomiyaki restaurant Botejyu San is on the second floor of the Taisuikan Building,
3-10-1 Akasaka ( & 03/3505-2930 ). It's open Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 3pm
and daily from 5:30 to 11pm (p. 154).
Gyu-Kaku KOREAN BARBECUE Akasaka is known for its Korean restaurants, but
this one is easier than most with an English-language menu that describes each dish in
almost encyclopedic detail. There are various kinds of meats—beef, pork, chicken—
which you grill yourself on charcoal briquettes at your table, along with side dishes rang-
ing from salad and kimchi (spicy cabbage) to roasted garlic wrapped in foil. There are also
platters for two diners beginning at ¥1,974, and on weeknights there's an all-you-can-eat
buffet for ¥2,750; note that the whole table must order it and there's a time limit of 90
minutes. This is a fun, boisterous place, popular with groups of office workers and cou-
ples unwinding and letting loose. There's a branch in Roppongi, at 5-1-2 Roppongi
( & 03/5414-5129; station: Roppongi).
3-10-10 Akasaka. & 03/5572-6129. Meat dishes ¥514-¥1,029. AE, DC, MC, V. Daily 5pm-midnight. Sta-
tion: Akasaka-mitsuke (2 min.). On Misuji Dori, on the 2nd floor above a pachinko parlor.
Pizza Salvatore Cuomo PIZZA Nestled between two glass office buildings on a
small square and with outdoor seating, this stylish pizzeria with a young staff and con-
temporary music turns out traditional Neapolitan pizza baked in a wood-fired oven.
Pasta, a fish of the day, and a few other dishes are also available, though the emphasis is
on the pizza, with two sizes available. The small size is big enough for two to share if
ordering a salad as well.
Prudential Plaza, 2-13-10 Nagata-cho. & 03/3500-5700. Small pizza ¥1,300-¥1,900; set lunches (Mon-
Fri only) ¥980-¥1,400. AE, DC, MC, V. Daily 11am-2:30pm and 5-11pm (last order). Station: Akasaka-
mitsuke (2 min.). On the east side of Sotobori Dori, to the back of a small square btw. two glass office
buildings that contain Citibank and Prudential Financial.
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D Kandagawa EEL Dining in this beautiful, old-fashioned, traditional
Japanese restaurant, famous for its eel dishes since the Edo Period, is unforgettable. A
Japanese-style wooden house, hidden behind a wooden gate, it offers seven private tatami
rooms, as well as a larger tatami dining room. The menu, in Japanese only, offers side
dishes of soup, rice, and Japanese pickles, and such main dishes as kabayaki (broiled and
basted eel), unaju (broiled eel on rice with a sweet sauce), shiroyaki (“white” eel, broiled
without soy sauce or oil), and umaki (eel wrapped in an omelet). If you've never eaten
 
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