What can one say about Ryoji? When you walk into a Japanese bar, and there's a guy bowing to you, and another guy behind the bar with cornrows and a bandana ready to cook, you can't help but feel safe. Our waiter had a cool ring.
So we drank beer. And it was good. We also had fried chicken. Excellent.
Ambience was calm - made me feel comfy while throwing back beer. There was a wedding reception (or rehearsal) going on. That's cool, because we basically got drunk and joked about the newly weds (or weds-to-be) and how awkward it was that we were basically crashing a wedding (or rehearsal dinner) that we weren't invited to. The white groom guy performed the ritual "look I'm cultural just like my Japanese wife and her family" dance which was painful to watch but that has nothing to do with Ryoji.
4/5