🍾Fukuoka drunkard's incomplete guide | Drank here for a week and not a single night was sober
00 min
Jul 29, 2024
Jul 29, 2024
type
status
date
slug
summary
tags
category
icon
password
😀
Fukuoka is the center of life in Kyushu, Japan's third largest island, and is a laid-back port city known for its excellent food and warm human touch. With an abundance of fishing in the area, Fukuoka has a good number of izakaya (Japanese-style pubs) with good value for money, as well as make bars where you can get some good drinks, and during my week in Fukuoka, I was barely awake one night at a time.
I visited four izakaya and five make bars during my week in Fukuoka, and there is always a place for you.

🤗 お料理 うち山

If I were to recommend a restaurant where you can eat and drink at the same time, お料理うち山 is an excellent choice in my mind.
notion image
Located near Akasaka Station, this fully reservation-only izakaya is owned by a young couple, with the older man busy cooking in the kitchen and the woman greeting customers at the bar. The restaurant serves only a fixed menu, with squid sashimi being sweet and fresh, shabu-shabu beef being incredibly tender, and tuna potbelly hand rolls full of grease-induced delight.
notion image
notion image
The wine selection is also good, and the wine cabinet displays well-known inscriptions such as the Fourteenth Generation, Rock Self-Slow, Huayang Bath, and Glorious Chrysanthemum.
The style of this restaurant is roughly equivalent to that of a sophisticated bistro in the Japanese food world, and the environment is more comfortable than that of a private izakaya, and the ingredients and cooking techniques are not inferior to some high-end Japanese restaurants. When you check out, you can see that 7 dishes and 6 glasses of sake are about 16,000 yen.
notion image
Tel: 050-5872-3249
Address:1-1-17 1F,Akasaka,Chuo-ku,Fukuoka-shi,Fukuoka

🤗 魚虎

Strictly speaking, this izakaya is not in Fukuoka City, but in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. I took a train ride from Fukuoka City for more than an hour, and I made a reservation half a year in advance for this tabelog Izakaya in all of Japan.
notion image
It was 8:30 p.m. when I arrived at the restaurant, and while the front of the restaurant was not unlike that of a typical izakaya, the entrance was filled with diners ready for their second round of entry. The restaurant specializes in fish dishes and the portions are generous, with a platter full of sashimi featuring a variety of fresh ingredients, including boiled bonito and deep-fried onigiri, both of which are very tasty. One of the restaurant's specialties is the eel tamago-yaki, where grilled eel is rolled in between the tamago-yaki to create layers of sweetness and flavor.
notion image
notion image
The level of cuisine is a natural part of this restaurant's superb rating, but another plus point is the great generals who score full marks for hospitality. As soon as the doors opened for the second round, the guys greeted each guest warmly, keeping a keen eye on each table's needs even as they were busy cutting up the fish behind the bar. Because of a few chats while sitting at the bar, the general made a point of waiving the drink bill for us at the checkout. A neighboring guest checked out with a reservation for the next time he wanted to come in.
notion image
Tel: 093-622-1001
Address:1-2-5,Kumanote,Yawanishi-ku,Kitakyushu-shi,Fukuoka

🤗 太郎源

The store is divided into Honkan and Bekan, with Honkan available a la carte from the menu, and Bekan's set menu available if you have a phobia of choosing. The store has a two-page wine list by the glass, and a one-page wine list by the bottle that includes New Deal No. 6.
notion image
This set menu is one of those that has a small number of courses but a large portion. The first sashimi platter of tuna, squid and blowfish is about three times the size of other restaurants. The deep-fried puffer fish, vinegar-mixed puffer fish skin and then a huge tiger puffer fish white roe make your mouth ooze with oil, which is quite ungainly to eat.
notion image
notion image
notion image
Phone: 092-481-8522
Address: Tanaka Building B1F, 3-27-24 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

🤗 ひょご鶏

The main branch of this yakitori restaurant is located in Kumamoto, and both stores tabelog ratings have been around 3.7 for a long time.
notion image
The set menu of 4 small dishes + 6 skewers of yakitori + 2 skewers of vegetables + 1 cup of chicken soup is only 5,000 yen, and if that's not enough there's another menu to add on.
notion image
notion image
The yakitori has excellent fire control, whether it's the half-raw wasabi chicken breast or the tender, juicy chicken thighs.
notion image
Also, the store has a very good sake list, with a lot of local Kyushu sake like Kouei Kiku, and I finally got to drink some of the produced soil here that I didn't get to drink at the other store earlier in the day.
notion image
Phone: 092-753-7269
Address: 1F Scole Akasaka, 1-10-7 Akasaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka

🤗 ソルリバ

A small izakaya with a small store and a lot of good drinks. I drank eight glasses in a row that night, and just as I finished the Yonai Bird and Nirvana Turtle, the owner brought out a few No. 6s from his stock, and when he saw that I had started ordering niche wines such as the Flying Luan and the Yarakudai, he enthusiastically introduced them, and then pulled out his cell phone to show me a number of pictures of him and Sake Zangen Dushi.
notion image
notion image
Tel:090-1367-6031
Address:Triangle Market, 2-3-32 Watanabedori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka

🤗 日本酒専門テイスティングバー 百薬

A make bar with a fuller assortment of great liquors such as XIV Generation, New Deal, and And Now, but with a relatively slightly higher price tag.
notion image
If you don't drink a big drink, there are also cheaper options for putting questions. Except for Bubbly Sky Frog, which can only be opened whole, the other fourteen generations of Dragon Moon and Double Rainbow, the New Deal Heretic Church Ancestor Corporation, Invisible Pink Unicorn, and Introduction to Peasant Art can be sold by the glass.
The only problem is that without realizing it the wallet is empty ......
notion image
notion image
Tel: 090-4483-0172
Address:RAGAZZA Haruyoshi 1F,3-16-41,Haruyoshi,Chuo-ku,Fukuoka-shi,Fukuoka

🤗 LIBROM Craft Sake Brewery

notion image
The store offers comparative tasting of different kinds of wines, so I tried 6 kinds of wines for only 2,000 to 3,000 yen. Almost all of the drinkers are young girls, and the bar offers small dishes to go with the drinks.
notion image
notion image
Tel: 092-753-9298
Address:1-21-27,Takasago,Chuo-ku,Fukuoka,Pref.

🤗 日本酒食堂 吟乃灯

The store is located some distance away from the busy neighborhood, but it's quite convenient by subway. The store has a decent variety and taste of sake, and I ordered four glasses of the soon-to-be-expired Tenmai Junmai Daiginjo 飲み比べset.Besides,the store does a good job with small dishes, and it seems to have recently introduced its own self-developed ramen.
notion image
notion image
Tel: 050-5600-7602
Address:1-28-6, Takatori, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka

🤗 酒峰

The store can sell by the glass some niche hidden models of sake, or long time iced and warmed matured models. The XIVth generation and the present day category is very complete, including the XIVth generation of Ryusen, which can be opened by the bottle for owners who are not poor.
notion image
Phone: 092-714-1401
Address: Cozy Plus Tenjin 2F, 5-1-22 Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
 
💡
The first four home pubs, in addition to the fish tiger need to call a long time in advance to make a reservation, お料理うち山, Taro source can be booked on Instagram, ひょご鶏's Instagram home page has a reservation link, but it should be noted that ひょご鶏, there are two stores in Fukuoka and Kumamoto, don't look at the wrong address when you make a reservation.
After five make bar, ソルリバ seat less, go before the best and store to say hello and ask if there is space, sake peak is a reservation system, need to make a reservation in advance, are contacted through Instagram can be, the other three can be directly walk-in.

Comments
  • Cusdis