Japanese beer hall

Tonight we went out to eat in Shibuya. We didn't want anything too fancy so went to Shibuya as there is plenty of choice there. We settled on going to Ginza Lion which in the evening becomes a bit more like an izakaya where you can have beer and order smaller plates of food especially to share.

As you'll see from the many photos below they are advertising themselves as a Japanese beer hall. They even had a German style Octoberfest menu along with the Japanese autumn specials.

The first beer I tried was a white beer which was very crisp and refreshing. We opted to share a plate of different sausages and some potato with bacon. You can see a photo of the sausages below.

I then tried the mango beer. It's a beer cocktail of lager and mango juice/purée it was nicer than it sounds. I had some deep fried octopus and finished with a "half and half" beer a mix of lager and stout! All of the beers were good if a little unusual.

We went for a wander around shibuya afterwards and I had some ice cream from cold stone creamery. The girls serving sang me a song as they made up my ice cream! Only in Japan :-)

Tomorrow we are visiting friends before a tropical storm rolls in over night. Hopefully typhoon jelawat won't be too destructive!