Craft Beer Market Jimbocho

This is a great place. Pretty close to the station. Not a big place, of course great service. Had some nice food, I only had some small plates. Solid, very good beer menu. Focused on a lot of IPAs and mostly Japanese beers. Excellent overall. Would fit in anywhere in Portland.

One of the best Craft Beer Markets. The manager Shuhei is very knowledgeable and does a great job of getting in beers that you don’t see everywhere else in Tokyo. The prices are unbeatable and the space is not terribly small. The roast chicken is really amazing as well as some of the other dishes. Great place and now open on Saturdays at 5:00PM.

Quite similar to other CBM’s in town, has a few outdoor barrel tables, tends to have a pretty good tap selection with quite a few imports. Also does a fun hop-tonic cocktail. Their food special is roast chicken but they also have nice beer curry and taco rice for lunch. Friendly and passionate staff, great prices, very good place, unfortunately closed for weekend brunches.

Stupidly followed Google Maps and ended up here instead of Awajicho where Luc’s Ushi-Tora beer event was. Luckily it all worked out in the end and was only a 10 minute walk away.

Decent sized bar with some long tables. Got here maybe 30-40 minutes after opening and seems most empty seats had reservations but was able to get a seat with a good amount of time before the reservation. Solid tap list with a few beers I hadn’t seen or rarely seen.

Didn’t try the food other than the complimentary mini plate with a squid ring and some veggies.

First bar I’ve encountered a cover charge but not terrible at 300 yen. Worth a look but I’d recommend a reservation or arriving around opening hours.

Super quisy, always busy, but cheap as your mother and great selection most night. Need to reserve!

A lot like the place in Toranomon. Was packed when I was there, but they still managed to find some room for us. Good selection of beer, nice service.

Food is the same as the Toranomon location - get the kebab sausage, totally amazing. Same type of list as Toranomon, but clearly they rotate beers in both places separately. I was really surprised with Romanchiku Godfather Barely Wine I had here, very rare. In any case, what is significantly different between here and the original is the pace of things. Very laid back, with very little standing room. Much more subdued and we did complain about the service....they brought out the food too quickly. Of course, everyone agreed that was much better than the opposite. Overall, if you just want a place to kick back and enjoy yourself without having other people talk in your ear, this place is clearly better than Toranomon.

Went on a Wednesday lunchtime and it was quite a pleasant experience. Decent enough range, so shouldn’t be too difficult to find something decent. Prices are very good, 780 for all pints is not to be sniffed at for Tokyo. I have heard there is normally a cover charge but this is nothing that you couldn’t make up for if you were having a few. They didn’t charge me the cover charge, maybe because it was quiet and I wasn’t eating, which makes a nice change as normally places are fairly inflexible. Quite liked the atmosphere, fairly relaxed, with unobtrusive background music, but I did arrive only about 50 mins before they closed so it was thinning out a bit. Can’t have any complaints about the staff, they were helpful enough and the service was good, but once again, I should stress it was a quiet lunchtime. Also nice that they do open at lunch as most places in Tokyo don’t seem to open till 5. I will be back here again on my days off and will give it a go in the evening too.