Sendai was our first stop in Honshu via the new Shinkansen under the sea. It's a modern buzzing city of cafes, shops, bars and restaurants. After a quick visit to Sendai Mediatheque (very interesting building by Toyo Ito, very disappointing community centre inside), with only one night in the city we had to find the gastronomic speciality, barbecued ox tongue. We found the perfect place for it, a very old local restaurant (no idea what the name was) with only one thing on the menu and the most miserable chefs in the world cooking it. The ox tongue comes fresh off the barbecue with a bowl of plain rice, some cold unidentified greens and a bowl of ox tail soup. Great proponents of nose (tongue) to tail eating hundreds of years before it was trendy. The restaurant was next to a small shrine behind a big mall on one of the busy bar streets in the centre.. Also worthy of note was the extremely cool and very tasty cheese tart shop Bake, located in Sendai station. Annoyingly it is within the JR rail platform area so slightly hard to find, but at least with a rail pass you don't need to buy a new ticket to get one.
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