Away from the bustling crowds, blaring television sets and blasting music, Tore Hide En is your perfect place for superb Japanese food, quiet lunches or dinners, and pleasant conversation with friends and family members.
Tore Hide En offers its diners a wide selection of Yakitori or traditional Japanese style barbeque from $1.25 and up. You could go for chicken, pork, asparagus, beef, or vegetables. Start your meal from the long list of appetizers from $4.50 and up like omelette Japanese style, cold tomato, kimchee, and more. Work your way to the salads including the Saipan Seafood Salad, Wafu Tofu Salad and other choices ranging from $6 to $14. Local food like fish kelaguin and beef kelaguin are also available for $10 and $12.
If you are a fried food lover, Tore Hide En will satisfy your cravings with its full menu of fried items like French fries garlic taste, potato croquette, torino karage (fried chicken), hamburger steak, shrimp tempura and the list goes on.
For curry lovers, Tore Hide En will not disappoint you. Try the restaurant’s chicken katsu curry, tonkatsu curry, seafood curry and ebi fry curry—all from $9 to $12.
Tore Hide En also serves a wide variety of ramen, udon, soba, set menu of fried rice, chicken, pork or beef, and a variety of rolls.
For a quick lunch, you can opt for Tore Hide En’s bento boxes. I tried for the beef Yakiniku bento box ($7) while my companions tried chicken teriyaki bento box ($7) and the American Roll Set ($9.50). The bento boxes come with soup, rice, salad and appetizers. We finished everything in world record time and left with satisfied stomachs.
Tore Hide En portrays the its name from the round glass peepholes in its wooden doors, to the soft brush strokes and figures in the walls, to the chairs and tables with circle designs inside the restaurant,.
“En” is a Japanese word which means circle and this, according to restaurant owner Hideo Miyazawa, represents the harmony they wish to depict between the restaurant and their customers.
Tore Hide En opens for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner everyday. For reservations or take out, please call 670-233-4692.
