Yakiniku is Japanese style barbecue. This restaurant is a Yakiniku chain and their seating system is quite unique. Seats are separated by individual mini-sized grills for one person and partitions to enable customers to come here alone and concentrate on their Yakiniku privately.

Introduction

This restaurant's counter has built-in grills for each person.

It is a mini-sized grill for one person.

Most of the seats are separated by individual partitions. This restaurant is nice for one person.
There is a basket under the counter. You can put your bag in it. This basket is not trash box.

Open the drawer in the picture above. There are disposable chopsticks, hand wipes and toothpicks.

Water is supplied on the counter as it would be at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant. The water is served at room-temperature (or a little bit cold) and is available for self-service. Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants use the same system to serve water, but instead they usually offer hot water for customers to make green tea by themselves.

Touch screen menu is also available for each person.
紙エプロンご利用の方はスタッフまでお申し付けください。
If you want a disposable apron free of charge, Please ask the staff or order it with the touch screen. It is good for customers who don't want their clothes to get dirty with splattering.

You can change the language of the touch screen from Japanese to English. (First, tap 日本語 to change the language.)
Short Plate Combo バラカルビセット

The most inexpensive set meal is...
Short Plate Combo
バラカルビセット (It is also named バラカルプレート)
100g (3.53oz) 530 yen (as pictured)
150g 700 yen
200g 860 yen
300g 1190 yen
(not including 10% tax)

This set meal includes beef, rice, soup and kimchi. Wakame sea vegetable is in the soup.

Choose the size of rice from large, regular or small. The prices of the set meal is not changed.

This rice is large size. They use tasty rice.


Short Plate of Beef 100g (3.53oz)
バラカルビ Bara-karubi

You need to grill the meat yourself.




Barbecue Sauce
- 生醤油だれ(あっさり)
Smooth Soy Sauce Flavor - 生醤油だれ(濃厚)
Thick Soy Sauce Flavor - 焦がし味噌だれ
Miso Sauce - レモン汁
Lemon Juice - 旨辛コチュジャン
Gochujang (Korean Red Chili Paste) - にんにくおろし
Garlic Paste

Please use tongs when you grill the meat, because the chopsticks would be rendered unsanitary by the raw meat.




端数値引
In Japan, some restaurants and bars round the bill to the nearest 10 or 100 yen above or below.
For example, this is a receipt I had at Yakiniku Like:
530 × 1.1 - 3 = 580 yen
The 10% tax is added on, and then it rounds to the nearest 10 yen below.
(But when I went to a bar in Tokyo, they rounded to the nearest 100 yen above.)
Rice Refill for Free 11:00 am - 5:00 pm


This rice is regular size.
Black Wagyu Beef 黒毛和牛

Wagyu Ribs (Black Wagyu Beef)
黒毛和牛カルビ Kuroge-wagyu-karubi
50g 680 yen
100g 1280 yen
When I went there, they offered only one kind of Japanese wagyu beef above. The other meat items on the menu were not wagyu.




This marbled meat was tender and juicy. I felt a delightful flavor.



When you finish your meal, turn off the grill yourself, the switch is easily accessible.
Special Promotion
I highly recommend you go to the restaurant on the 29th, because every 29th day of the month, they offer some kind of discount.
When I went there on May 29th, the two items below were HALF PRICE!
Wagyu Ribs (Black Wagyu Beef)
黒毛和牛カルビ Kuroge-wagyu-karubi
50g 680 yen → 340 yen
100g 1280 yen → 640 yen
*It is acceptable to order only one of the two items, and available until this wagyu is sold out. (You can order it only once.)
The details of the discount might change every month, but in the last few months, the promotion has been the same.
The information of the promotion (in Japanese)


Happy Hour
Get a discount on your first order from their selected drinks!
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm on weekdays (except Saturday, Sunday and holiday)
Only 3 kinds of drinks are discounted at happy hour. (The other drinks are normal prices.)
It is valid not only once, you can order another one at the same price.
- Draft Beer 生ビール
Mag 480 yen → 240 yen
Glass 280 yen → 140 yen - Highball ハイボール yen
350 yen → 170 yen - Oolong Tea High ウーロンハイ
350 yen → 170 yen - Lemon Sour レモンサワー
380 yen → 190 yen
Information

Restaurant Name
YAKINIKU LIKE
焼肉ライク
Website (in Japanese)

- Prices Do Not Include 10% Tax
- No Service Fee / No Cover Charge
- English Picture Menu Available
- Cash Only
- No Smoking
- Use the hand sanitizer at the entrance when you get into the restaurant.
- You can also order to go.
Several branches are located around main stations in downtown Tokyo.
Ueno 上野
Ikebukuro 池袋
Shinjuku 新宿

Shibuya 渋谷
Meguro 目黒
Shinbashi 新橋
Akihabara 秋葉原
Ochanomizu 御茶ノ水(お茶の水)
Information is as of May 2020 at Ueno 上野 branch of Yakiniku Like.
If you want to enjoy Yakiniku with a group, I recommend another Yakiniku chain below.

If you want to try many kinds of wagyu beef produced across Japan, I recommend a Yakiniku bar.

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