Iketan turned out to be my favorite restaurant in Japan, ever. The food quality and selection are incredible (the Coke beer was life changing), ordering process extremely convenient via tablet, prices reasonable, and service extraordinary: it is special even by high Japanese standards. If you have a party of two or more, you can also score a private booth, which makes the meal that much more relaxing. We had lunch and then returned for dinner the following night. The gyutan steak tastes better to me than Kobe or any wagyu A5. It's that good. Everything on the menu was exceptional, including the desserts, and we tried almost the entire menu. There is even mouthwash offered in the pristine washroom. P.S. Iketan has a notably strong Tabelog score. Japanese approved.

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Great place if you want to get a fix for gyutan. The cooks have truly diversified the methods of cooking a single ingredient. Food is great, ototoi was good, and service is stellar, recommend.

This place's speciality is beef tongue. They have a course option. Highly recommended.

GOOD

A place I'd love every beef tongue lover to visit at least once🥩✨ Even the otoshi served first was carefully made, raising my expectations for the dishes to come😊 First, the shop's recommended Iketan Salad🥗 Plenty of tender beef tongue piled on fresh vegetables, with great volume✨ The balance between the crisp vegetables and the umami of the beef tongue was great—perfect as the first dish. The beef tongue with negi ponzu: tender beef tongue, plenty of green onion, and refreshing ponzu make a perfect match✨ You can really taste the umami of the tongue, yet the aftertaste is refreshing—a dish that keeps the drinks flowing🍻 The beef tongue yukhoe I'd been looking forward to had rich egg yolk and special sauce coating the tongue nicely, with a melt-in-your-mouth texture💕 You can also enjoy the texture unique to beef tongue—so good you instinctively want another bite. The beef tongue saikyo-yaki had the refined sweetness and fragrant aroma of saikyo miso bringing out the umami of the tongue, finished very tender✨ With every bite the miso flavor spreads, and I enjoyed a taste unique to this shop. The nagaimo marinated in wasabi soy sauce, which I had as a palate cleanser, had a pleasantly crunchy texture with the refreshing heat of wasabi as an accent😊 Simple, yet I couldn't stop reaching for it—a perfect match for drinks too. To finish, the three-mushroom butter kamameshi🍄🧈 The aroma of freshly cooked rice whets the appetite, and the richness of the butter and the umami of three kinds of mushrooms soak into every grain—superb✨ With the umami of beef tongue added too, I savored luxurious deliciousness to the very end. Lastly, refreshing beef tongue cold noodles✨ The chewy noodles and clean broth are perfect after a meal—so good they slide right down even when you're full😊 The dishes were completely satisfying to the end. The appeal of this shop is that you can enjoy beef tongue in many cooking styles—grilled, yukhoe, cold dishes, kamameshi, and more🥩 Every dish was carefully made, a lineup beef tongue lovers can't resist✨ Thank you for the meal✨🌸

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