I was invited to go to an oden shop with a similar name to EXILE, so I went there. No, when I think of EXILE, I think of Takahiro, not Takehiro, but I swore not to mention that.
By the way, it looks like an oden bar rather than an oden shop, and it seems that it has been trademarked. It's on the second floor of Haihai Town in Uehonmachi, and I come to Haihai Town often, but I didn't know about this store. This is because you can only enter this store from the outer corridor on the second floor. I think it's a little-known restaurant. That being said, it was almost full soon after it opened, so I guess there are a lot of people who know about it. There were some ladies who looked like high school girls hanging out in front of the store even before the store opened, so I thought they were waiting for the store to open, but that wasn't the case. Well, high school girls aren't allowed in pubs.
Well, the main store is the counter, with 20 counter seats and 12 table seats, so it doesn't seem like it's a store where a large number of people will crowd. Although it's an oden bar, I'm also happy that there are many izakaya-style menu items. Normally, when it comes to oden, I usually only guess at the izakaya menu.
This time, I tried three types of octopus, chicken, and deer, and they were all fresh and delicious. The deer was a Ruibe, but it had been a while since I had heard the word Ruibe.
For the time being, there was a tacit understanding between me and the person who invited me, and I had planned to try the izakaya-style menu to settle my stomach first, and then indulge in the oden-style menu. The menu was so delicious that I even ordered pasta, which I don't usually eat. In the end, there were four types of oden on the menu: koro, beef tendon, tofu, and wakame. (^^ゞ.
This restaurant seems to use oden soup stock for their fried rice and other dishes, which is said to be irresistibly delicious.The pasta (peperoncino & cilantro) I ate this time was also made with olive oil, garlic, and chili peppers. In addition to the taste, it had a slightly sweet mirin-like feel, so perhaps oden stock was used here as well.
I arrived as soon as it opened, and within 60 minutes it was almost full, so reservations are a must. Business hours are 17:00-23:30. It is said that there are no fixed holidays.