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Tokyo American Club to open restaurant to public for first time in its history

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Tokyo American Club in mid-November will open its dining venue Decanter – Steaks Chops Wine, offering guests the true experience of the latest dining scene in LA and Las Vegas. Decanter will also be open to non-members, a club first in its more than 80-year-history.

Located in Azabudai, at the foot of Tokyo Tower, Tokyo American Club has been providing extensive dining, recreation and other services to its members from over 50 countries and their families since the club’s establishment in 1928. In January this year, the new Azabudai club house reopened after a three-year reconstruction. The club is already welcoming non-members to host banquet events in its new facility. Now, the club opens its doors of Decanter to the public so that Tokyoites have the opportunity to enjoy its experience.

A corridor of backlit floor-to-ceiling wine cellars leads diners to the glamorous main dining area. Warm, welcome, fun yet professional experience with the ultimate attention to the smallest details.

Taking a lead from the top steak and chop houses in Las Vegas and LA, Decanter showcases new Americana, turning traditional tried and true steak classics on their head and reinventing the originals using fresh, seasonal organic ingredients with the best beef and meats available in country paired with one of Tokyo’s most comprehensive wine collections.

For reservations, call 03-5488-0245 or email decanter@tac-club.org

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No wonder, they have a lot of financial difficulties recently. In response they are getting choosier, greedier, cutting employee's wages but just fail to attract more new members as well as serving them right with high quality services and catering that would live up to their prices.

They never did too well, but 3/11 was the last drop in the glass, as clientele dropped somewhat, and they were tightrope walking anyway.

Also, not mentioning the huge pile of stored food and beverages in their high capacity storehouses that are going to, or already have expired and better be sold out as soon as possible soon. Not to their registered valued members and barflies of course.

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Oh look! ANOTHER article on a place in.... TOKYO!!!!!!!!

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Seems to me TAC is broke and looking for new revenue streams.

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I put in a few applications at TAC for part time work but they have really crazy working hours and kind of strange policies. They gave me a call literally in the middle of the night, asked some kind of crazy questions and then at the end just said, "ok" and hung up, never to be heard from again.

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its members from over 50 counties

What states or districts are these counties in, I wonder?

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And how many of you average Tokyoites, etc an afford to dine there?

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TAC membership fee is another crime story especially after a three-year redevelopment project, which was conducted jointly with Mitsubishi Estate and Takenaka Corp.

Now it looks like the entrance fee is 3 million yen, a monthly fee is 35,000 yen such as family dues ¥18750 per week (for weeks 1–12) ¥37500 per week (for weeks 13–26) and clients who are willing to pay that amount or more, yes there is even more http://www.tokyoamericanclub.org/news-a-info/membership.html might want to enjoy an exclusive luxury and distinguished environment and services and might not be very willing to pay for what they can get at any public high class restaurants without membership fee for nothing or to share what they payed for with those who didn:t pay for.

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I think I will save a few 10,000 yen and dine at modern ramen shops instead. Sheesh.

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tmarie, this one is good though since I would never go there anyway. Keep up the good work JT and bring us more of these articles that won't make the rest of the country feel guilty for not living in Tokyo.

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People who are interested in TAC or going there, will go there whatever happens. It's rather the low number of posts , just 8 commenter who could be bothered ta say anything is that caught my attention.

Otherwise, I believe that TAC business policy is to attract and milk mostly the Japanese.

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The Munya Times.

Let us know much the meal was and if it was worth it. Most of us already know it is way beyond our normal range and thus the news is boring and open for ...

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Wonder how the members, who pay a handsome sum each year, feel about non-members gettnig access?

Have been there a few times as a guest and enjoyed the food. 1,200~1,600 for lunch I think, which clearly not cheap, but was actually good value (US sized portions, etc). Also had a few poolside barbecues which were great fun.

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gyouzaOct. 15, 2011 - 01:41PM JST

The snobbish would feel they are forced to be together with inferior people and would take it as an insult.

The rich would feel bad about they have to pay for things for what the others don't have to, and will feel insulted.

The one time guests will feel that TAC opened their restaurant to the public to trick them into becoming a member and pay for something that they can get without being a member just because TAC's clientele is dropping, and will insulted.

TAC thinks their business tactic will pay off and one day when their clients will see through the smokescreen and stop visiting TAC to get the same thing that they can get anywhere else cheaper, TAC will feel insulted.

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It's a nice place. A bubble of America, captured into a time warp. Like the rest of America, knocked off its pedestal and quickly coming down to join the rest of struggling humanity.

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Do they have any dinners for under 3,000 yen? No? Oh well.

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Why would you want to eat Japanized American food at American portions? Do you want to become obese like most Americans? Eat Japanese ne.

3 people buy two dishes - just enough. It really isn't a bad place, and a lot of the food looks very healthy (and not Japanized either).

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It really isn't a bad place, and a lot of the food looks very healthy (and not Japanized either).

Not very healthy, they have their own butchery but they store heavy pile of meat in their huge freezer houses for prolonged time including some import cold meat such as pastrami, for American cuisine all imported raw materials come as frozen or canned food and stored for long time in their huge in-house store facilities.

That's a big catering industry establishment, no fresh food there.

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zichi, it's even worse at the TAC. The vibe at the Kobe club is much more relaxed.

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Lots of misinformation about this place written above. It amuses me that people who comment here on JT have nothing but negative things to say more often than not. Who gives a damn if they open to the public or not! And if you think the new joint is too expensive... you do have a choice! Considering it isn't even open yet I find it hard to comment otherwise...

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It amuses me that people who comment here on JT have nothing but negative things to say more often than not.

People post positive comments too, and they post negative comments on bad news that they don't like. It's hard to be positive on negative news. Why is it a bad news? You gave the answer , look here...

Who gives a damn if they open to the public or not!

Those who have payed the skyrocketing membership fee and I believe many of them will sue TAC to pay back the millions of yens they have payed as a membership fee to dine at an exclusive place for club members, instead of a public one. Not a good news for them obviously.

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awesome~!

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