I always have a good time at Ebisu.
Maybe you guys just aren't drunk enough.
Or you're really, really, boring people.
I don't know about you guys, but I like having a bit of authenticity when I go out to eat a Japanese/Korean/etc Restaurant. The Eatery is about as wrong as the Viet people at Samurai. I've been to both, and the Eatery was fine, but ehh.