Sukiya Nishi-Shinjuku Gochome Station — Restaurant in Tokyo

🟤 We walked past Sukiya eatery on our way back to the hotel at Nishi Shinjuku-5-chome and so decided to buy a takeaway of Unagi-don with beef slices as we were both feeling peckish.

🟨 It was very late that night, I recall, close to 11pm, and 24-hours Sukiya eatery was relatively empty, except for 2 other customers who were devouring bowls of beef rice quietly.

🟠 I took my Unagi-don laced with teriyaki sauce infused beef slices back to my hotel room to eat.

😅 The unagi was kind of a thin slice, and the beef slices were a tad fatty, but considering the affordable price it came with, this meal was considered a value-for-money dish :) It was a quick meal for filling a...

In Sukiyas, I tend to order either a bowl of the simple Gyudon beef bowl only, or, a decorated, large sized, seasonal limited meal set (still with a bowl as I alike it). So, it would either be a poor man’s simplest meal in solitude, or, a poor man’s gorgeous yet still cheap meal in solitude. That’s my pleasure of having a meal in Sukiya in my own strange but amusing way.

This place is spacious and the staff are efficient enough but probably due to some understaffed situation, the cleanness was yet to impeccable as the Japanese...

Good food for the price, They have English language menus with pictures which are helpful. I had the eel and beef bowl. The portion size was on the smaller size, but I'm also used to the bigger portions in most US restaurants. Reasonably priced as well, I'd go back to this place. I was told by my friend that this is a chain so at least if I see one somewhere, I'll know what to expect. I've learned that the promise of great food is sometimes overruled by the promise of food that...