Negishi Akasaka-Mitsuke (ねぎし 赤坂見附店) is a beef-tongue (gyutan) set-meal specialty chain in the Akasaka area of Minato City, near Akasaka-Mitsuke Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line and Marunouchi Line. The parent was founded in Shinjuku in 1981 as Japan's first beef-tongue set-meal specialty chain, and now operates many shops centered on Tokyo. The signatures are the "Shiro-tan Set" (a set of thick-cut beef tongue, tail soup, mugi-tororo rice, and salad) and seasonal beef-tongue set meals. The combination of beef-tongue umami and healthy mugi-tororo rice has been favored by local customers for many years.
— Founded in Shinjuku 1981: A Shiro-Tan × Mugi-Tororo Specialty
The signature is the beef-tongue set meal that "Negishi," founded in Shinjuku in 1981, has polished for many years. The representative "Shiro-tan Set" combines thick-cut grilled beef tongue, tail soup (a collagen-rich soup made by simmering cow tail), mugi-tororo rice (healthy rice made with barley and topped with tororo grated yam), salad, and pickles — a style that balances health and great taste. Negi-shio (scallion-salt) beef tongue, miso beef tongue, calf tongue sets, and seasonal beef-tongue creative menu items are also on offer. The tongue is thick-cut high-quality cuts that are carefully pre-prepared as a specialty shop, with a choice of seasonings including salt, miso, and tare (sauce). The parent "Negishi" was founded in Shinjuku in 1981 as Japan's first beef-tongue set-meal specialty chain, and is a popular brand now operating many shops centered on Tokyo. Set in Akasaka-Mitsuke, an area where the business district and entertainment areas blend, the shop accommodates business customers' lunch and evening meals. The price per customer is approachable at 1,000-2,000 yen, and the shop is favored by health-conscious customers as well.
