Roppongi Meat Bar Northman
It’s been more than 10 years since I started drinking in Roppongi several times a year, but I know only one bar. That is also a karaoke snack. The restaurants in Roppongi are changing frequently. There are various restaurants, so I find a restaurant I haven’t visited yet.
I decided to drink with my acquaintance Shimada after a long time. At first, he recommended a Japanese restaurant, but I wanted to eat western food, meat too. The next restaurant Shimada presented is “Meat Bar Northman” located on the 3rd floor of the building next to Gin Dako near the Roppongi intersection. It seems that Shimada acquaintances who know everything about Roppongi said, “I’m worried, but I’ve never been there.”
If you climb the narrow stairs, you will find “Meat Azabu” on the second floor. This is also annoying, but as it is to the third floor. The fashionable interior that girls seem to like makes me feel uncomfortable for middle-aged men. Shimada came first.
Otoshi
Otoshi is a small appetizer which is part of the service charge. Homemade dressing salad. There is only a meat bar, so the only vegetable menu is cabbage steak, but in fact, you could change for a fee.
Assortment of five kinds of meat
Beef, pork, chicken, duck, horse meat. Roast beef, roast pork, chicken meat, roasted duck, and horse sashimi on top of the vegetables. For customers who are not good at raw meat, these can be baked on hot lava stones. Of course I get it raw. We can taste the difference in the taste of each meat. Of course, the taste is light as it looks.
A lady chopping the heart of a cow
Then I want to go to the next meaty place. Mascot girl Honoka-chan pushes “Yumeaji Pork Rib Roast Steak”, which is limited to 10 meals a day. I also want to drink wine. The wine cost ratio of this shop is 60%. It is an exceptional service in the food and drink industry, where the cost is basically tripled.
In this restaurant, women on the floor are called “mascot girls”. Honoka, who likes beer and rock, was in charge of us. How she was in the same high school as Shimada. I asked her when she graduated, she said “2016…”, so the middle-aged men decided not to ask any more. Even Shimada graduated in 1988.
Yumeaji Pork Rib Roast Steak
Honoka-chan carries the steak to the table and cuts it in front of us. I stab a piece in the center with a fork and carry it to my mouth. good! The fat taste is solid, but it’s not too dry and dull. The meat is tender, and when I chew, the broth oozes out and the umami spreads in my mouth. This goes for sake. Saltiness is also good. Good job.
According to Honoka-chan, the name of the restaurant was named because both the “Northman” owner and manager were from Hokkaido, and that they wanted to use ingredients from northern Japan as much as possible. The previous pork was also from Fukushima.
Roasted beef heart
I want to eat another dish. The wine is empty, so I’d like to order it. I don’t need carbohydrates. Add meat. Ask Honoka-chan for recommendations. She proposed “roasted beef hearts”. The heart of a cow. Honoka-chan cuts this hotly baked product. I try to eat it immediately… Ah, I forgot the taste because I drunk so much, or I don’t remember. I only remember that it’s different from meat.
We thus emptied two bottles of wine and were full of tummy, so we headed to the second bar.
Meat Bar Northman
Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
https://gurunavi.com/en/g953109/rst/
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