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Our dish — the plate we'd order here first

Dango (団子)

  • Cooked overCharcoal

Dango, minced chicken with salt and hemp seeds and no binder, formed by hand to within two grams and grilled over binchōtan, hard white charcoal. The house's signature skewer, in every course.

Also on our table

  • Yakitori-don, the rice bowl, at lunch

Isehiro

Japanese · yakitori · Kyōbashi, Tokyo

1-4-9 Kyōbashi, Chūō, Tokyo 104-0031

A yakitori house in Kyōbashi grilling chicken over hard white charcoal since the 1920s, to the founders' own course. The hand-formed chicken dumpling is its signature.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the dango

Strong evidence
  • Craft

    Each one weighed by hand, nothing to hold it but the meat.

    House history ↗

  • Technique

    Grilled over ubame-gashi binchōtan, the hard white charcoal.

    Menu ↗

  • Tradition

    Part of the founders' course, kept as it was for a century.

    House history ↗

  • Local choice

    The house's own signature skewer.

    House history ↗

We'd add

Our runner-up

Negimaki (葱巻)

Negimaki, thin chicken wrapped round Senju negi, an old Tokyo leek, grilled with tare, the soy glaze. The second generation's addition, in every course too.

  • Wrapped and grilled with tare
  • Added by the second generation
  • Senju negi

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