YFC Historical Archive - Kamon - かもん

In December 2013 Kamon closed and a Yakiniku BBQ place opened in its place... 

Kamon now becomes part of the YFC Historical Archive.  

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Izakaya Kamon is another very easy place to walk right by and not even notice it. Its store front is only about 8 feet wide and is located around several other places that all have bright signs and flags.  Have walked by this place numerous times and only recently checked out the menu outside and decided to give it try.  They're located one block East of Blue street, and a half block south of Hamazushi, and can be found on the blog map or by clicking on the location link at the very bottom of the post. 

Kamon storefront

Kamon means "family name" or "family crest." There are a few booths as you enter on the left, and some counter space on the right. But the main seating area is about 30 feet to the back of the restaurant.
I'm not sure if they had a no smoking section but we didn't have any problem with people smoking around us. You can bring your family and there were a few others with teenage kids in the restaurant.

They have an extensive food and drink menu typical of most izakayas. The menu was in Japanese but there are good pictures of every dish so you know what you're getting.So even if you speak no Japanese, heck, even if you cannot speak, you can come here and order by pointing at the menu.

We were mostly satisfied with Kamon. Only complaint was they put too much salt on some of the dishes.  The prices were pretty good, serving sizes good, and good taste. We'll likely be back. They have my favorite umeshu - yuzu umeshu ゆず　梅酒,　and even a no alcohol umeshu. (My attempt to make this at home did not work out so well). Another interesting beverage menu selection is Hoppy. Hoppy is a no-alcohol beer flavored drink that is often mixed with shochu (but that is not necessary). Its origin goes back to when beer was out of reach of ordinary people.

Whenever a little salad or snacks are brought out as soon as you sit down you know that your in a restaurant with the seating charge. A small fee for "seating" and for the snack.  I explain this a bit more in my Kuimonoya post. In this neck of the woods it's called Otooshi お通し.

Wakame and Shirasu Pizza

The seaweed and shirasu pizza was surprisingly good. Shirasu are tiny little sardines. The thin crust was perfectly crisped - not a common find in Japan. 

Kamon Salad

The house salad was good and large by Japan standards.

This was the large fries, but for $6 it's a very generous serving for a restaurant.

 Bean and cheese rolls

Something similar to bok choi

Saba or Hokke

Onigiri

 The onigiri was presented really well here, except they mixed sea salt into the rice, so you ended up biting into the relatively large salt grains. The salt was not necessary.

Spam musubi anyone?

Kamon website

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