BBQ House Anan

Rating: Very good
Meal: Lunch for 2
Price:  3000 yen
Payment: Credit cards accepted
Dishes: Two lunch all you can eat specials
English Menu:Yes (electronic)
Smoking: Yes (not certain, but usually permitted at this sort of establishment)

Electronic touch menu

My wife and I have been on a low-carb kick lately so we were looking for a reasonably priced meal to eat out on Saturday.  It's tough to eat out and do low carb in Japan (rice anyone?) but at least there are some things you can count on being ubiquitous:  yakiniku being one of them.  We sauntered over to a spot nearby that I've been avoiding since I don't usually love yakiniku.

Lunch special

It was lunch time, the best time to do yakiniku as they usually have quite affordable lunch specials.  BBQ House Anan happened to have a lunch all you can eat special that was quite cheap at about 1500 yen per person, so we opted for that.  They flipped a switch and our electronic touch screen ordering system displayed only the free options available to us so we could order with abandon.

Real charcoal

The experience overall was more positive than our usual yakiniku trials, but even so afterwards both of us felt like it was more of an ordeal full of stress (don't burn the meat!  put out the fires!) than a relaxing lunch.  Also, we realized afterwards we should have asked for all of our meat to be sauceless as everything comes smothered in either sweet, spicy or salty marinade, all of which are full of sugar and goodness knows what.  Not the greatest thing when you're trying to only eat whole foods.  Even the veg came with a (delicious) dressing or was kimchi-fied (also delicious, but probably not on the diet).

Raw meat

We ended up eating a ton and were too full for dinner that night.  Still, despite the drawbacks one of the better yakiniku experiences and since it's so close to us we might be persuaded to go back again someday.

Cooking meat