I saw a blog post or news article about Camp Curry years ago. It sounded kind of fun as the restaurant has a camping theme. If you watch enough anime, you know one of the more common camping foods to make in Japan is curry! So a restaurant themed with the outdoors and tasty curry was very appealing to me. So this last trip to Tokyo was a bunch of firsts for me, and that included my first meal at a Camp Express - a variant of Camp Curry found in train stations. I've seen one in Ikebukuro Station, know there is a restaurant well south of Shibuya Station, and I managed to Google up this newer branch in Shinagawa Station.
IMPORTANT!: All the Camp Curry restaurants (including Express) have closed. A search in December of 2022 found none open. A loss for curry lovers.
One of the things about anticipation is that expectations can get overbuilt. Camp Curry did not disappoint me I'm glad to report. I found the restaurant in Shinagawa Station fairly easily and hopped into a short dinner line. The wait staff was really nice and I was quickly handed an English menu when they realized I didn't read Japanese. You basically get to pick a curry type and can then do a few customizations. I ordered a fully-loaded vegetables curry with minced chicken. This is one of the curry places where you do get lots of fresh veggies - it also looked popular with women when I was there too. After seating at the bar, I got to admire the decor. There is a heavy use of rustic woodwork with camp lanterns and other paraphernalia hung up on beams and on the walls. The cooks wear outdoors sun hats and your water comes in a steel camping mug. Your spoon looks like a shovel to help you eat faster :) too. I could see the cooks pan fry my veggies and sauce and then it was served up pretty quickly.
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| Camp Express |
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| English menu. As usual, you can eat pretty good in Japan for 900 to 1200 yen. |
My curry dish came in a hot metal skillet, with a nice side of rice. It smelled great and my first bite tasted great too. I was very glad I came to eat here and I'd definitely like to have another one of their curries again. Almost wish places like this would open up at home.
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| My eating space and meal. |
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| Closeup of the curry and rice. Lots of vegetables and it was a very tasty curry. |
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