Tsukada Nojo - delicious!

We have been to 3 different branches of this awesome izakaya chain. There are about 20 Tsukada Nojo restaurants around Tokyo serving up delicious, organic delights. They have photos of the farmers and the areas from which they have sourced their ingredients. The main focus is on dishes using chickens from the Miyazaki region in southern Japan. You can get fried chicken, grilled chicken, chicken knuckles, chicken sashimi, chicken hearts....(They also have raw horse meat which I avoided).

The service is fantastic and has all the super cute touches we love about Japan. While you peruse the menu they bring out cucumber & cabbage to dip in some moromi-miso spread for your otoshi (snacks with your drinks).

The drinks arrive with smiley faces and love hearts.

The rice and sauces come out with welcome messages and cute little chickens.

And the food is so delicious! These were some of the dishes we tried: cheese covered bacon wrapped pan fried onigiri and cucumber salad

 This was some kind of tasty fish cake concoction.

And this was a light, fluffy, cheesy, omelety explosion of amazingness. (We ordered a second one).

 These foil wrapped mushrooms got eaten before I could get a picture, so this is the photo from the menu. The sauce on these suckers were to die for.

We also tried a few of the chicken dishes but again, they were eaten before I could take any photos.

These were our awesome waitresses on two of our visits. 

And another round of cuteness before you pay your bill.

And to encourage you to come back again they give you a 'business card' to use each time you visit. After you visit a few times you get upgraded to a 'manager' and then a 'director' etc and you score some more gifts and discounts and the like.

That's my name in Japanese (or so they said...) They also gave us a little tub of the tasty moromi-miso spread to take home with us. Yep their tactics definitely worked on me. I'm drooling just looking at these pictures again.....