A note on the words: Toyosu is Tokyo’s wholesale fish market, the successor to Tsukiji, so “Toyosu-picked” is a claim about how the fish was sourced. Iburigakko is daikon radish smoked over a fire and then pickled, a specialty of Akita; paired with cream cheese it has become a standard drinking snack. Ozaki beef is a single-farm wagyu brand from Miyazaki. Kochi, rendered as flathead, is a lean white fish. Sansho is the Japanese pepper with a citrus note and a faint numbing tingle, here used in a shochu sour. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
Morgen, Ikebukuro West Exit on AutoReserve (English) — opening hours, the Japanese address and online booking are kept up to date there, not here.
I want something good to eat today too. This is Hangover Meshi. Today the plan was to drink in Ikebukuro. I have been to a good many places in Ikebukuro, and yet there are still more. This time, Genuine Wagyu and Toyosu-Picked Fish, Morgen, Ikebukuro West Exit. I booked on the assumption that a place where you can eat both fish and meat would satisfy even the greedy. It is on the eighth floor of a multi-tenant building, one packed with restaurants and glittering with signs.
And next door is the Al-Flah Super Market, where I have been going a lot lately for halal ingredients!
I see, so it was right next to this.
The place offers various courses, but given that the point is fish and wagyu, and given that the balance you want changes from one visit to the next, we skipped the course. There was an all-you-can-drink plan you could add for 2,400 yen, though, so we took that alone and went a la carte for the rest.
Step in and the restaurant starts right where the elevator lets you out.
Stylish and bright, with a semi-open kitchen, and it looks a very comfortable place to be.
You order by QR code, and the good points keep piling up.
First a beer to toast with. In fact I arrived slightly early and ordered one outside the all-you-can-drink.
Not fresh fish and not wagyu, but once I had a beer I wanted it!
Jerk chicken fry. An American flavor — fried chicken loaded with Cajun-style spice and cheese. Good.
Living up to the fish-and-wagyu billing, the fish dishes are handled with real care.
Is this two portions? Spanish mackerel, ogodai, flathead, salmon and sea bream, I think. Try the sashimi and, yes, delicious!
Every piece fresh and very good. I am glad the flathead is there. You rarely eat it unless you fish for it yourself, and even then it is a nuisance to prepare. Light white flesh, but the savor comes through clearly.
Iburigakko from the Takahashi-san brand. I have never once had an iburigakko and cream cheese that missed.
I had not eaten any vegetables, so: the grilled vegetables. Plenty of root vegetables. The sauce that comes with them is a house-made anchovy sauce, and I could eat endlessly on the vegetables and that sauce alone.
A magnificent smoked mackerel!
They said they would mix it in, and we had a discussion — “what do we do with this? Mix it? Would it not be better left as it is?” — but in the end we broke it up and stirred it through. The smoked mackerel carries plenty of fat and is good, and the mellow potato salad wraps around it and rounds it off. Yes, delicious. Although I would rather like to order the grilled smoked mackerel on its own.
Last, we ought to have some wagyu after all, so 90g of it.
I thought that would surely be too little, but when it arrived it turned out to be quite enough!
Two slices, if you want to put it that way. Wagyu as something to savor at the end. Chew it and the flavor of the meat comes through clearly — delicious!
Wagyu and fish. Sure enough, just as the name says, both were extremely good. Or rather, the impression is that the cooking was good across the board. At the end there was a new sansho sour, not on the all-you-can-drink list, which was so good that we each had two or three. Beyond what it cost, we came away with the experience of good food in a good space, so I was satisfied.
Genuine Wagyu and Toyosu-Picked Fish, Morgen, Ikebukuro West Exit (Izakaya / Ikebukuro Station, Kanamecho Station, Kita-Ikebukuro Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.4
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
