{"id":6,"date":"2013-07-21T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/21\/2013-6-21-journal-standard\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:24:14","slug":"2013-6-21-journal-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Journal Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjuku has many things. Clothing. Electronics. Sex clubs. Bars. Department stores. Train stations. Yet a good burger joint? Not so easy to find.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Journal-Standard-1.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Journal Standard is a medium-range clothing store chain. Think Banana Republic. Nicer than H&amp;M&#8217;s slipshod work, but not fancy enough to be brand name conscious.<\/p>\n<p>Yet peculiarly perched on the third floor above Journal Standard Shinjuku is the Journal Standard hamburger shop. I guess the Japanese see nothing weird about a restaurant in the middle of a clothing store.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Journal-Standard-2.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And who am I to argue? With a surprisingly warm atmosphere for a clothing store restaurant, Journal Standard could easily stand on its own. There&#8217;s indoor and outdoor seating, and the burgers themselves are consistent and satisfying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Journal-Standard-3.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fries have a hint of that magical curly fries flavor to them, despite being rather uncurly. They&#8217;re good, but the burger is the star. It&#8217;s delicious with all the usual fixings (along with your choice of cheese; I went for the red cheddar).<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t have any use for new clothes (and I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you &#8211; you could use some new clothes), you can always use a burger. Journal Standard is one of the better options in Shinjuku, just a couple of minutes from one of the 2,600 exits from Shinjuku Station (near the Southeast part of the station).<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 7\/10, Burger 7.5\/10, Fries 7\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjuku has many things. Clothing. Electronics. Sex clubs. Bars. Department stores. Train stations. Yet a good burger joint? Not so easy to find. Journal Standard is a medium-range clothing store chain. Think Banana Republic. Nicer than H&amp;M&#8217;s slipshod work, but not fancy enough to be brand name conscious. Yet peculiarly perched on the third floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"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":[52],"tags":[5,8,4],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shinjuku","tag-burger","tag-shinjuku","tag-tokyo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tokyoburgerblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}