Busy, busy, busy these days. Nagi-Shokudo is located in Shibuya, roughly 15 minutes' walk from the station's West Exit, and undeservedly accused of being difficult to find. No, not at all, but you need to know where you're going. The sign is clearly placed on the corner, however inconspicuous it looks. The restaurant itself is on the basement floor, down some stairs, on the side. 
The interior was very hipster, with books and CDs for sale, and random objects such as a father Christmas in metal, and a meter-high doll wearing a hat. They played smooth music and we were the only guests (although we did come just when they opened, mind).
There was both normal seating and the cosy Japanese sit-on-the-floor-until-your-knees-hurt-too-much kind, which we used.
料理!!
I can't for my life remember what it was called in Japanese, but perhaps that matters less. Here's what it was. First, a small plate with three individual dishes: enoki (mushroom) cooked in garlic, kabocha (pumpkin) cooked with some nice spice, and tsukemono (pickled cucumber) which was a bit salty and tasted like the one I used to eat back in the day when I was a young girl in Sweden! Mucho nice, in other words.
Main plate: soy meat fried in something yummy, making it soft and a bit mushy. Served with lettuce and bell pepper.
All this was served with brown rice...
...and vegan miso soup. Nom nom nom! Came to 1,000 yen (=83 kr / £7.80) which I thought was pretty decent for the amount.
The other "Today's Special" they had was a curry plate with brown rice, popadum, a piece of falafel (I think), lettuce and some mushy stuff on the side. Bit spicy, but with great flavour! This one was 1,500 yen but made a muscley Italian full enough to refuse ice cream afterwards so two thumbs up!
More to come, more to come! Also, I do do other things than eat - no, honestly I do, even if it doesn't seem like it. Posts shall come.
Jo x
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