Ryoushigoya

Rating: OK
Meal:  Dinner
Price: 3500
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Crispy aji, meat with tofu soup, cheezy eggplant
English Menu: No
Smoking: Yes

Well I'm back and reviewing again!  I found this izakaya that I hadn't eaten at before and gave it a shot.  It was actually pretty good, but the place itself was a bit crowded and smoky, so I'm not likely to head back, otherwise I might have given it a Very Good.

Crispy aji

Meat with tofu soup

Cheezy eggplant

Tranzeet

Rating: OK
Meal:  Lunch? (travel)
Price: 65 AED
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Omelet, side of avocado
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Stuck in Dubai Airport I found this Tranzeet restaurant that had an omelet on the menu.  I ate it.  It looked good, but wasn't that great when eaten.  Overcooked eggs, flavorless cheese, avocado not fully ripe.  Sadly.  The tomatoes were good though.

Sky Restaurant

Rating: Very good
Meal: Dinner
Price: 7.600 BHD
Dishes:  Steak tenderloin
Payment: Credit cards accepted
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

I was hanging at the Bahrain airport waiting to fly home and decided to eat something at the Sky Restaurant.  The menu is quite extensive with lots of good stuff on it.  I decided to go for a steak with mushroom sauce.  It was quite tender and delicious.

Calexico

Rating: OK
Meal:  Dinner
Price: 10.300 BHD
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Two tacos, chicken wings
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Expensive Californian Mexican restaurant in Adliya...not very good considering the price.  The wings were overcooked and tough, the tacos made with highly processed white flour burrito shells, the flavors weren't there.

Chips and salsa

Wings

Jalapeno poppers

Two types of "tacos"

Lamb Quesadilla

Tango 338

Rating: OK
Meal:  Dinner for 2
Price: 7.500 BHD
Payment: Cash only (probably, but maybe not)
Dishes: Ethiopian style food on injera bread
English Menu: No menu
Smoking: Lots and lots

My co-worker and I who are travelling this time were interested in a nearby Ethiopian restaurant called Tango 338 that is near our hotel.  We finally had a chance to try it out last night.

The ambience leaves something to be desired, as it is very smoky, not well ventillated, and blaring loud music.  It has a "bar" feel to it, and no one else ate anything the whole time we were there.

We asked for the menu and were told they don't have one.  I asked for the usual Ethiopian spread on injera bread and they said it would be about half an hour.  We decided to press on through and wait for it.

It finally arrived and it was the real deal.  Several different dishes dolloped around a central meat with plenty of injera to go around.  We started ripping off hunks and eating.  Both of us were stuffed by the end, and I can attest to still being full the next morning.

If I was introducing someone to Ethiopian food, I probably wouldn't take them here due to the other challenges, but if someone loved it bad enough this place would scratch the itch.

Beijing Restaurant

Rating: Very good
Meal: Dinner
Price: 7.900 BHD
Dishes:  Lamb in pot, crispy pork with garlic
Payment: Credit cards accepted
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Crispy garlic pork

Beijing Restaurant was one of the first places I ate at in Bahrain when I originally came here, back before this blog.  I tried to find it again a couple of times to review it, but was unable to.  The other night we were walking around Adliya and lo and behold, there it was!  So I had to try it out again as it was a revelation to me the first time.

Lamb and spicy oil

A lot has to do with the dish you pick, and I wanted to try a couple of things, so that's why the price is a bit high.  I'm sure just one of these with rice is plenty of food, but as I am rarely eating rice these days I thought myself justified in ordering two dishes.  The lamb dish was a bit disappointing, the meat being a bit tough and chewy, and the sauce dull and brown.  But the pork dish was better, with a not overwhelming garlickiness.  The best part was the spicy oil sauce, which I slathered on everything.

Not as amazing as the first time I went, but who knows what I had then?  Still, it's a Very Good compared to the places in Japan!

Hash House

Rating: Very good
Meal: Dinner
Price: 4.410 BHD
Dishes:  Sila (looked like gapao to me), water
Payment: Credit cards accepted
English Menu: Yes
Smoking: No

Had dinner last night with some friends.  Hash House was selected, a Thai fusion restaurant.  My dish was only so so, but my friend's dishes were quite tasty.  Of special note was the papaya tempura, very delicately deep fried and delicious.

Papaya tempura

Red curry

My dish - sila