After work tonight, headed to dinner to meet up with Sunny, who works in Roppongi. Spotted this near the station:
Had no idea that (Iron Chef Chinese) Chen Kenichi’s restaurant, Shisen Hanten, had a branch in Roppongi. It definitely looked fairly small, but the menu they had outside showed that it’s still pretty pricey. I’ll go there one day. I seriously need to get on hitting up these Iron Chef restaurants.
does the iron chef actually work in any of those restaurants? or does he just make up the menus and inspire the food? does any one of them look like KITCHEN STADIUM?
Hey, I’ll definitely go with you, but you’ll have to shield me from the nigerians. Also, don’t be embarrassed when our food comes and I jump up and scream “Kyou no tema wa….KORE DESU!!!”
Frank – he owns a bunch of those restaurants so I assume he’s working at them, but no guarantee that he will be working in that location the day you go. I hear you can call them up beforehand to check, and they like meeting fans (especially foreigners).
Mikey – For sure, let’s do it. I want to hit up Sakai’s place La Rochelle in Shibuya at some point also. Apparently lunch is not as ridiculously expensive. And Sakai has a cheaper buffet (!?) place in Odaiba near Big Site as well.
I went to La Rochelle and spent like 12,000. Good food but yeah, pretty crazy amount of money. Dunno if I would do that again, but it’s still cool to say I ate at a restaurant of an Iron Chef. I’ve seen Chen’s place. It’s right next to Roppongi Hills. Not too many Nigerians there Mikey, but there is a really sweet kaiten sushi place in the basement of Roppongi Hills.
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