Biwa is celebrating their first anniversary with a one-day only burger special:

In 1950 an American named Johnny Wetzstein opened Japan’s first hamburger restaurant, “The Hamburger Inn- No.1 Tokyo Hamburger,” in the Roppongi neighborhood of Tokyo. In the following sixty years the Japanese have come to embrace the hamburger, along with other uniquely American inventions like Hip-Hop and blue jeans, and have even helped it to adapt to its new home via innovations like McDonalds Japan’s “shrimp burger” or Mosburger’s “Mosburger” (a probably pretty tasty concoction of beef patty sandwiched between a “bun” of compressed rice).

In this spirit we would love to have you here at Biwa on Saturday March 15th to help us celebrate our first anniversary with what we hope to have become an annual tradition: the only available one day a year “Biwa Burger!”

I hope it becomes an annual tradition too! Many happy returns, Biwa. I also hope that you bring back lunch, because then we could go there NOW, and I wouldn’t have to listen to Courtney and Erik whine like little bitches about how they can’t agree on where to eat.

Biwa, 215 SE 9th, and don’t forget about their excellent happy hour: $5 ramen and udon from 9 pm close, plus a $2 yakitori menu and cheap beer/sake from 5-6:30 daily, or anytime if you sit at the bar.