A note on the words: a dining bar is what Tokyo calls a place pitched between a restaurant and a bar, where you drink and order plates to share rather than sitting down to a set meal. A fruit tomato is what Japanese growers call a tomato raised with very little water so the sugars concentrate; it is eaten more like fruit than salad. Ricotta is the soft, fresh whey cheese. Ajillo is the Spanish way of cooking something — mushrooms here — slowly in olive oil with garlic, served bubbling in its little pan. Harissa is a North African paste of chili and spices, cumin among them. A condiment, on a menu written this way, means the sauce or relish set beside the meat rather than poured over it. Rump is the cut from the top of the hindquarter, and wagyu is Japanese beef. Fritti simply means the pieces are battered and fried.
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resonance on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hey, this is Hangover Meshi. Dinner this time is right next to Tokyo Station! I suppose the nearest one is Nijubashimae Station. I came to “resonance,” a dining bar inside the Tokyo Building TOKIA. A seriously stylish zone. The entrance, though — I couldn’t really work it out from the map alone, and since it’s well over toward the Yurakucho side (there may well be a smarter way in from Nijubashi, mind you), I’d say you’re better off coming from the Yurakucho side. I went in from the Nijubashi side and there was no entrance for ages, so I ended up going the long way around.
Anyway — it’s very stylish.
The windows are huge, so it looked like the night view would be good, and the ceiling is enormously high. A lovely space.
French fries — 1,000 yen
Spicy squid fritti — 1,250 yen
Thick-cut country-style pâté — 1,400 yen
Carpaccio of the day — 1,800 yen
Fruit tomato and green tomato salad — 1,700 yen
Wagyu lasagna — 3,250 yen
Charcoal-grilled wagyu rump with black pepper condiment — 5,950 yen
There’s a lot on offer, so for now I looked through the menu and ordered roughly as I went.
Wine first!
I picked out a few dishes here and there that would go nicely with the wine.
Seriously good. The ricotta and the tomatoes go beautifully together. As a first salad, surely this is the best pick on the menu!
This is another very stylish-looking dish. What’s on top is nuts and mushrooms.
The roast beef is tender but with real texture to the meat. Delicious.
The blue cheese is seriously good. It goes with wine, naturally.
Very meaty, thick mushrooms. The savory depth feels stronger than usual. This is the regular size, but apparently there’s a large one too, so if you love mushrooms you might want to order the large. Delicious.
Main dish, part one! This meat is seriously good too! The wine keeps going down.
The little dab on the left is harissa, the seasoning everyone’s talking about. It’s chili-based so there’s a bit of heat, but with all sorts of spices mixed in, and the cumin note in particular goes perfectly with lamb. Delicious.
Wagyu rump. This one too just looks delicious, doesn’t it. The deep flavor of the lean meat is simply
so good!
Every one of these is a perfect snack to eat while drinking wine! A really lovely place.
resonance has a good range of set courses too, but honestly, if you like a drink I think you get more out of skipping the course and going heavier on the snacks and the wine. The mains and the desserts look delicious, but frankly you’d rather have the snacks and the drink, wouldn’t you! The atmosphere here is good, and the prices and value aren’t bad either, so I’m planning to use this place a lot from now on.
resonance (Dining bar / Nijubashimae Station, Tokyo Station, Yurakucho Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.5
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
