Hand-picked from our ultimate guide to the the best restaurants in the city, our nominees offer the culinary adventure of a lifetime with their exceptional dishes and service.
Run by a young couple whose homely hospitality extends to every single customer, Ise Sueyoshi offers remarkable kaiseki dishes made with ingredients from the ancient city of Ise in Mie prefecture.
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Although much cheaper than other restaurants dealing in super-fresh natural seafood, Shinpaku boasts quality unrivalled even by Ginza’s fabled sushi counters. The unique presentation is a major draw.
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This could be Tokyo’s best restaurant specialising in crustaceans. They deal in more than 40 types of crab annually, so you can enjoy different flavours on every visit.
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Although most great yakitori restaurants are small, this pioneering spot has room for more than 30 diners. Their natural wine selection is particularly noteworthy.
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2017 could well have been the year of the tonkatsu. Among a range of eateries specialising in the deep-fried pork cutlets, this one stands out with its nostalgic atmosphere and superb flavour.
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The sea bream painted on the wall is a bit of a giveaway, as this wildly popular ramen shop specialises in soup made from said fish, known as ‘madai’ in Japanese. The quality of the domestic ingredients shines through.
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Run by the only Japanese chef to be awarded two Michelin stars in France, this casual dumpling spot puts a completely new twist on gyoza, surprising even Chinese diners.
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Get ready to queue up for your bowl of tempura over rice here, but the wait will be more than worth it. Food of this quality at under ¥1,000 is nothing short of a miracle, and the feeling when you dig in is truly inimitable.
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Mejiro is the modest setting for one of the city’s top exponents of ‘yoshoku’, the Japanese interpretation of ‘Western’ food, which over the decades has become part of the national cuisine in its own right. Yoshoku dates back to the Meiji era, when Japan first opened up to the world, and is a wonderfully multicultural experience.
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The casual Path is best described as a Tokyo-style bistro. Opened by a pair of chefs who worked together at the Hyatt Regency hotel’s Cuisines Michel Troisgros, it serves oven-baked delicacies with coffee for breakfast, while at night you get to pick from natural wines, Kyoto-made craft beer and rare liqueurs to complement the beautifully plated Italian cuisine, all in a delightfully laidback atmosphere.
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