As we found out later, Yakitori is a style of food which comprises grilled meat on skewers; in this case, the meat was chicken.

Yakitori is located in the downtown Nagoya area, between Fushimi and Sakae stations along Hirokoji-dori as you walk towards Sakae station. On the right-hand side of the road, it is a second-floor restaurant, so keep an eye out for the white sign up high.

They have both English and Japanese menus, so ask for the English version. The Japanese version doesn't have many pictures, either, so you can't even point at the dishes. The waitress spoke some English, so between her and my phrase book, we got by.

The food was very nice, the restaurant clean, and there was a good selection of different types of Japanese dishes to choose from.

We selected Japanese salad, honey chicken wings, seafood spring roll, chicken croquette, chicken rice balls, and a traditional tofu dish that our waitress selected for us. Of course, we washed it all down with warm sake.

As with most roadside restaurants, this one is quite small and cosy. The seating area has semi-private booths that make up two tables of four. From your table, you can see the chefs working in the open kitchen.

Altogether, we had five dishes, three beers, and one large sake, which came to 5,639 yen, including taxes--not bad, really! They also accepted all credit cards.