O-An

This joint is on my jogging route. I had been curious about this place. Black wall with wooden panels, this style of exterior is often seen for posh high grade sushi or pork shabu shabu joint. But there is a big sign said «Curry Udon». I was already sold. And one Saturday night, I made a visit.
The nearest station is Shirokane Takanawa on Namboku/​Mita line. I think it’d take little less than 10min walk to get to this place. Direction is pretty simple — Get off from Exit 4, come out on big street (called Dai-​Ni-​Keihin), walk towards Azabujuban, Take left at the 1^st signal and within a minute, you’ll see this joint on the left. There are no other eatery on this side of the street, so it sticks out in the night because this place is the only place lit brightly.
Interior is just like exterior. It reminds me of posh sushi/​shabu-​shabu restaurant. Very clean, very elegant but not intimidating. You can show up here with t-​shirt/​shorts/​flip flops.
Their main dish is only curry udon with 2 types — beef & pork. Don’t come here if you’re a vegetarian. Also there are many other side dishes like Tofu, pickled ginger, poached egg, fruit tomatoes.
What I ordered was «Hida» beef curry udon. I have to admit, I don’t have good palette for beef so I couldn’t authenticate the quality of beef other than «it was delicious». But 1100 yen for it, definitely won’t make you feel ripped off because everything else is so good. Like texture and flavor of udon noodle. I love udon noodle with chewy texture.
Curry roux is also something I cannot authenticate the quality other than «delicious» but there was another set of roux I ordered (additional 400yen comes with a bowl of brown rice which is refill free). This was absolutely unique and gorgeous. Texture is not too refined. It was almost pureed vegetable and I could taste hint of apple. But it’s curry. It was very nice mixture. It also comes with half boiled egg. And I stirred it up and it made it more gorgeous.
So I highly recommend to order curry udon + «Brown rice & original ‘Umami’ roux set» and stir up with egg!
Staffs are very attentive and needles to say, polite (this is pretty much given, because we are in Japan).
You won’t be disappointed.