Usually I don't drink beer when I go out since I'm more partial to a drop of red wine; however, one of my favorite places to go out for a meal and drinks is Les Hydropathes in Shibuya (usually as a regular meet up joint with my good friend Mikihiro).

It's a belgian beer bar with a nice beer menu (of course!) from White beer all the way to Trappist beer, probably over 50 in all, with 3 types of beer on tap as specials of the day. I would guess I've gone through over 15 beers so far, my favorites for now are Chimay Blue and Rocheford Number 10; yes, I like my dark beer!

The food there is also great; they serve a Mussel soup there which is fantastic and after you've finished with the mussels you can ask them to make a pasta with the rest of it. They also have some of the best 生ハム (raw ham) in town as well as chips with mayonnaise.

I took Simon (an old pal of Annie's) along to the last meetup on Friday. He's working in Japan for the next couple of months, I had not seen him in ages, hopefully he enjoyed it. We were supposed to go to the Aegean greek restaurant but I didn't read the map properly and we spent 10 minutes in the rain looking for it on the wrong side of the station. Luckily, Les Hyrdropathes was close by!

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