izakaya
Good-looking staff promise to identify your good points and shower you with compliments as you unwind after a long day.
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Newly added “Angel Hour” service gets you a discount on drinks such as L.C.L. and the Ayanam Rei Soda cocktail.
This Ikebukuro izakaya just gave us an 8,000-yen discount, and they’ll happily do the same for you.
Intended penalty for bad manners backfires, prompts pub to make drastic change to its beer pricing policy.
Four other restaurants in Tokyo also start selling unprecedentedly generous unlimited-beer-and-cocktail passes.
If you know where to look, you’ll be able to try a jugful of noodles that nobody wanted the owner to create.
Shockingly generous deal even lets you go home, take a break, and come back for more booze.
With photo booths, cosplaying staff, and costume rental for diners, this is one of the most unusual food courts you’ll find in Japan.
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