{"id":27,"date":"2013-08-18T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/18\/2013-6-18-shanks\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T02:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:19:28","slug":"2013-6-18-shanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Shanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanks is not a bar you you would just stumble upon. If you did \u00a0manage to stumble into the second floor of a generic building across from Sangubashi Station, you still wouldn&#8217;t think of ordering a burger. The bar serves all kinds of whiskey, along with a pleasantly varied list of high end beers and some nice wines by the glass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Shanks-1.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact, I was wondering if I&#8217;d come to the right place. The two small tables and five seat bar didn&#8217;t leave a lot of room for eating, and the menu only had drinks.\u00a0 Yet when I asked the bartender, she pointed out there was another page to the menu, and here I finally found the two burgers they offer.<\/p>\n<p>I had struck up a conversation with the guy next to me at the bar and he turned out to be a local who assured me both of the burger options were great. The bartender warned me the burger takes at least 23 hours to make (okay, maybe it was 30 minutes).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Shanks-2.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although 30 minutes of commitment is a bit much for me, it turned out to be well worth it. The Smoky Cheeseburger lived up to its name. A rich taste, somewhat toasted bun, and some very smoky tasting cheese all combine for a completely satisfying burger experience. For $10 with no fries, it&#8217;s a bit more expensive, but the quality is fantastic (aside from some very peculiar bitter pickles on the side that are best avoided &#8211; and this is coming from someone who loves kimchi, tsukemono, umeboshi, or almost anything pickled).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Shanks-3.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friendly people, good service and a phenomenal burger. The only thing I don&#8217;t like about Shanks is the typically Japanese \u00a5500 yen table charge that you get whether you order one drink or a whole meal. That just bugs me. I came to Japan to escape the land of vague tipping (oh, and maybe some culture stuff, too).<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 8.5\/10, Burger 8\/10, Fries N\/A<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/XjsTJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/XjsTJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanks is not a bar you you would just stumble upon. If you did \u00a0manage to stumble into the second floor of a generic building across from Sangubashi Station, you still wouldn&#8217;t think of ordering a burger. The bar serves all kinds of whiskey, along with a pleasantly varied list of high end beers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5,15,4],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sangubashi","tag-burger","tag-sangubashi","tag-tokyo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}