Rest Pub Chow Chow

A hidden-away neighborhood pub that has been pouring drinks for roughly four decades, Chow Chow keeps the warm, unhurried feel of an old-school Japanese snack bar rather than a polished lounge. Weekends fill with regulars chatting to the hostesses across the counter, and several of the staff have been here twenty years, which tells you most of what you need to know about the mood. Shochu is the house bottle, and bottle-keep customers sit with no time limit, so an evening stretches out at its own easy pace under a female manager.