Japan Trip - Yakitori Isehiro

Yakitori is considered to be quick, cheap food.
However, some restaurants carefully select the ingredients to use and serve high-quality Yakitori prepared by skilled chef.

Isehiro is a Yakitori restaurant near Tokyo station, founded in 1921.

Facing on narrow street but easy to find.
They only use free-range chickens from contracted farmers and cook with Binchotan charcoal.
Their dipping sauce is as old as the restaurant itself.

We sat at the counter, in front of the grill!

The dinner course menu started with Chicken Breast.
Usually I find chicken breast dry and it's not my favorite part of chicken, but this one was sooo soft and juicy!

There were organs, too.
Again, these are not usually my favorite parts, but they had good flavors and didn't have the distinct smell, which I don't like.

They don't add anything to make Chicken meat ball hold together.
It had pure chicken flavor.

Chicken Skin. This tends to become greasy, but they made this piece soft and juicy.

Simple Chicken Soup tasted simple and gorgeous!

Each piece was bigger than usual standard and made us so full.

As for drinks, we had Sake (Garyubai, Junmai-Ginjo) and Shochu (Iwaizumi).
Both were good pairing with Yakitori.

The chef and cooks not only cooked but also served for customers so they were busy, but they were willing to answer to our numerous questions.
When they realized that we (especially JC) genuinely appreciated and were curious about what they did, they suggested what JC would be able to do to experience most of it when we would come back to Japan next time. What a kind offer!

Good food is great by itself, but when it is combined with wonderful people, priceless.