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I like to eat a delicious hamburger from time-to-time. One day, while I was walking around in Ashiya, I got a sudden craving to eat a hamburger. So I decided to drop in at Freshness Burger or better known as Freshness. This fast food restaurant was founded in 1992, and sells sandwiches, salads, hamburgers, vegetarian food, and assorted drinks. In Japan, their are over 189 restaurants. Freshness has four slogans: ...

The BLA Diner is located on the 8th Floor of the Yodobashi Camera building in Osaka. This restaurant serves a brand of beef called Kuroge Wagyu. Kuroge Wagyu is a very delicious meat which has a lot of intramuscular fat or marbling which gives the Wagyu beef a rich, buttery flavor, and makes the meat very tender. BLA serves steak, hamburg, and hamburgers. Their is also an all you can ...

Ali's kitchen opened in 2012 in Osaka. This restaurant has been going strong ever since due to the high quality of the food and service. Ali's Kitchen serves traditional Pakistani and Arabic food such as Biryani, Masala, Arabic Kebab, and vegetarian dishes. The restaurant is rather small, but very cozy and relaxed. I strongly recommend making a reservation because the restaurant is very crowded during lunch time. The menu consists ...

  Down on the B-2 Floor of the Lucua Building near Yodobashi Camera is an oasis of food beyond ones imagination. That's right: An oasis of delicious food! This place is a food and wine lovers paradise where anyone can sit down at any one of a number of seats and have a nice glass of cold beer or wine, and eat something purchased from one of the many food ...

  Japan is very well known for seafood. Isomaru Suisan sets the high bar when it comes to fresh seafood at an excellent value. This restaurant is an izakaya or Japanese style bar. There are over 150 branches in Japan, and are open 24 hours a day seven days a week. The atmosphere is lively, colorful, and very casual. The interior looks like a beachfront house with signs, Japanese style ...

Good Good Meat Restaurant is located near the Hankyu Kurakuenguchi Station. I had come to the area to enjoy the Cherry Blossoms along with hundreds of other people. I wanted to find a nearby restaurant to eat lunch when I spotted Good Good Meat. This restaurant uses the motto "grazing beef" and "grazing pig" because they believe that the quality of the meat is far superior. Luckily, I was able ...

I enjoy drinking tea as much as coffee. One day, I was walking in Motomachi when I saw this tea restaurant on the second floor of the BAL Building. I decided to take a look, and was very surprised to find a very large tea room. I had actually stumbled upon one of the oldest tea companies in the world called Mariage Freres. Mariage Freres was founded in 1854, and ...

The Bairan Chinese Restaurant is located on the B2 Floor near the Hankyu Train Station. Bairan serves a wide variety of authentic Chinese food including a weekly lunch menu. The atmosphere is very cozy and warm. Their are several different types of seating arrangements from dugout seats, sofa type seats, and round table for large parties. Bairan's specialty is the original Mei Ran Yakisoba (fried noodles) which comes in three ...

  The craft beer market in Japan is a booming business. One evening, after shopping at Yodobashi Camera in Osaka, I began searching for a place to eat in Lucua. Their are dozens of restaurants in the B2 Floor from which to choose from. But I was really in the mood to drink beer: That is; craft beer. As I was walking around the Lucua area, I saw the Craft ...

Snoopy! Who can forget this iconic character which has graced newspapers and books for generations! Barabara Goods Sweet Table is located inside Nishinomiya Gardens near the entrance. The main theme is of course: Snoopy and all the characters in the comic strip embedded in the food items. The line is often long and waiting times can vary from 15 minutes to half-an-hour. The menu consists of a variety of pasta ...

Ching Ming Restaurant is located on the 14th Floor of the Daimaru store in Osaka. This restaurant has been in business for more than 50 years. The food items on the menu are mostly a la carte, and come in a variety of sets. Their specialty is shark fin dishes, and dim sum. The table settings were very nicely done. The restaurant is very clean and the service was excellent. ...

  I love the food shopping areas in the department stores. The hustle and bustle of shoppers and vendors is truly awesome. The hundreds of varieties of food dishes is truly a marvel to behold. The gourmet section alone is worth the effort to check out. And they look very appetizing. If you are a tired traveler and you want to try Japanese food, then I recommend stopping by one ...

In Sannomiya there is a unique coffee shop on the B-1 Floor called Kobe Coffee Story. This coffee shop opened in 1975, and has flourished due to its high quality coffee. The B-1 floor is better known as the Santica Shopping Mall. It is a large underground shopping area which has many different shops catering to everyone. This particular coffee shop is very popular among the locals, and their is ...

Granny Smith Apple Pie has seven shops in Japan. Their apple pies are based on North American pie recipes, and are based on the concept of "grandma's taste." Granny Smith specializes in four varieties of apple pies: Classic Rum Raisin, England Custard, French D'Mandes, and Dutch Crumble. I have very vivid memories of homemade apple pies going back to my childhood. So, when I went to Nishinomiya Gardens in Nishinomiya ...

Tully's coffee was founded by Tom "Tully" O'Keeffe in 1992 in Washington State. Tully's opened its first store in Japan in 1997. They have well over 650 store throughout Japan. I have been to the Tully's Coffee Shop in Okamoto several times as well as in Osaka. I was very happy because each time I was tired and needed a place to relax and enjoy a good cup of coffee. ...