SHIROKIYANagasakiekimae

This was the most expensive meal of our trip and it was pretty well worth it. It's located near Nagasaki Station, so it's conveniently served by various forms of transportation. The atmosphere is cozy and the menu is expansive. It's hard to choose what to get next. The fried butter potatoes were esp...ecially good. We also enjoyed the complementary edamame that they kept bringing us. I'm not sure it's special enough that we'd eat there regularly if we lived in Nagasaki, though.

Visited January 2023

There are touts on the street across from the JR Station encouraging passersby to enter their izakayas. We settled on Shirokiya as a second choice - Uotami, our preference, next door was crowded and couldn’t give us a table. Shirokiya is up a flight of stairs and, once there, you may keep your s...hoes on, unlike at Uotami. We were taken way back to the very last tables in the place and we choose one - we were in a cubby with two tables next to each other, not the private table we later came to favour at other izakayas. There was a distracting display gizmo like a tablet showing us images in sequence of stuff they want us to buy - we turned it around so we looked at blackness instead, much better. We ordered grilled squid, a sort of omelet filled with bits of bacon, shredded cabbage, and brown sauce – a sort of lazy man’s okonomiyaki. We also got a salad of daikon with something like dandelion greens and whitebait, and two beers. The other table in our little cubby was taken by two young woman, one a smoker; the ventilation system was so good we scarcely smelled it. We found the food good enough, if not the greatest. Our bill came to about ¥2200. There was a ¥210 apiece cover charge - the cover charge was common there, though whilst looking for restaurants in Nagasaki we did see one place that specifically advertised no cover. At checkout, we took several of the freebie candies with the Monteroza label, a brand that seems to own this chain and one we became familiar with throughout our most trip.

Visited March 2014