Kaliko P.
Yelp
Any place that has Halloween and dark Vampire theme all-year 'round is my kind of place! Even if the food was just OK and the drinks entertaining, and the cost was more on the expensive side (approx $109 USD for a salad, a cheese platter and 5 drinks) and we didn't get to sit in the main dining area, it was still a 5-star experience in my book as I'm a huge fan of Halloween, and I really love how the owner, Earl Rose (how he prefers to be called) takes care to attend to all the details of the dishes and drinks and puts rose petals in most of the creations, giving you a romantic, but spooky feel.
The only reason we got into this place on a Saturday night without advance reservations through a website like Tabelog was because my friend lives in Japan and has a local phone number, so when she called, we were able to get four seats at around 730 PM.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to sit in the "cool" main area, the larger and more grandiose and decorated area, due to our last-minute reservations on a popular, Saturday night.
Our "chanting salad" in which the "blood" (Thousand Island dressing) was poured over a salad with a rose-shaped vegetable sitting in it - was pretty interesting, as we had to yell/chant loudly otherwise, as our hostess explained, our salad would "poof" disappear.
I kept inquiring as to the whereabouts of Earl Rose, who finally showed up after my friend requested an eyeball cocktail - he shook the cocktail shaker aggressively in her face, but that's just part of the act. He's not supposed to be nice, you see, as he's a creature of the night and he drinks blood too.
After our party paid the tab and started walking out, he calls out to me and asks me "would you like my CD?" to which I emphatically say "yes!" so he disappears for a bit. I ask my friends "what? is he going to give me a CD for free?" and my friend said "no ways, he's going to ask you to pay". Earl Rose re-appears with a Halloween CD that he's mastered (he's also an accomplished musician) and says it costs 660 Yen. My friend hands him a 1000 Yen and tells him to keep the change, to which he says "YAY!" in English and throws his hands up into the air.
He bows to us as we get into the cramped elevator to take us back into the mortal streets of Ginza where the normal masses of people walked, unaware that above them, was a quiet place and haven for the undead and the semi-undead like yours truly.