Tokyo · Food & Drink

Best Restaurant in Tokyo

26 places, each checked by our team.

• Asakusa Imahan (Kokusai-dori Main Store) 浅草今半 国際通り本店Asakusa — Asakusa's grand sukiyaki house since 1895: kimono-clad staff cook marbled Japanese Black wagyu tableside in a cast-iron pan, then dip each slice in…
• Den 傳Jingumae / Gaien — Chef Zaiyu Hasegawa's playful kaiseki that topped Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2022 and is beloved online for 'Dentucky Fried Chicken', a…
• Gonpachi Nishi-Azabu 権八 西麻布Nishi-Azabu — The cavernous wooden izakaya-restaurant that inspired Kill Bill's 'House of Blue Leaves' fight scene: soba, yakitori and robata in a three-level…
• Gyukatsu Motomura Shibuya 牛かつもと村 渋谷店Shibuya — The basement counter that turned gyukatsu (deep-fried beef cutlet) into a social-media obsession: a rare-centred cutlet you finish yourself on a…
• Hakushu Teppanyaki 鉄板焼 白秋Shibuya (Sakuragaoka) — A small, family-run teppanyaki counter near Shibuya Station where the chef sears Kobe and other wagyu on the griddle in front of you, a social-media…
• Harajuku Gyoza-ro 原宿餃子楼Harajuku / Omotesando — A no-frills gyoza joint on a Harajuku backstreet where you choose between pan-fried and boiled dumplings, with or without garlic, and that's almost…
• Hikiniku to Come (Shibuya) 挽肉と米 渋谷店Shibuya — The hamburg-steak sensation where chefs grill three hand-formed patties over charcoal and drop them, one at a time, straight onto your rice, a…
• Kaneko Hannosuke (Nihonbashi) 日本橋 天丼 金子半之助 本店Nihonbashi — The tendon (tempura rice bowl) that launched a thousand food videos: a towering heap of conger eel, prawns, squid, a soft egg and nori, drenched in…
• Kangei Honten (Kamata) 中国料理 歓迎 本店Kamata — One of Kamata's "big three" hanetsuki gyoza houses: crisp-winged pan-fried dumplings, cheap Chinese plates and a crowd of locals in a no-frills…
• Kawachiya (Shibamata Eel) 川千家Shibamata — An eel restaurant on the Shibamata sando dating back to the late Edo period, grilling river eel over charcoal in a rambling wooden building that…
• Myojinshita Kandagawa Honten 明神下 神田川 本店Kanda / Akihabara — Historic eel restaurant below Kanda Myojin shrine with over 200 years of history, serving unaju in tatami rooms.
• Namiki Yabusoba 並木藪蕎麦Asakusa — Classic Asakusa soba house near Kaminarimon, one of Tokyo's traditional 'Yabu' soba shops, known for its strong dipping sauce.
• Nihao (Kamata) 你好 本店Kamata — The Kamata restaurant credited with inventing hanetsuki gyoza, dumplings joined by a lacy, crispy 'wing', still cheap, smoky and packed with locals.
• Nishiazabu Butagumi 西麻布 豚組Nishi-Azabu / Roppongi — Nishi-Azabu tonkatsu restaurant where you choose your cutlet from a list of brand pork breeds from across Japan.
• Okonomiyaki Sometaro 風流お好み焼き 染太郎Asakusa — A weathered wooden house in Asakusa where you sit on tatami around an iron griddle and cook your own okonomiyaki, a Showa-era time capsule that's…
• Onigiri Bongo おにぎり ぼんごOtsuka — Tokyo's most famous rice-ball counter, in business since 1960 in Otsuka: oversized, loosely packed onigiri with more than 50 fillings, made to…
• Ponchiken ポンチ軒Kanda / Ogawamachi — Kanda tonkatsu and pork-shabu restaurant opened in 2012 by a yoshoku chef, known for juicy, roast-pork-like cutlets.
• Spice Magic Calcutta Minami-guchi スパイスマジック カルカッタ 南口店Nishi-Kasai — The South Indian branch of Nishi-Kasais original Indian restaurant, founded by tea trader Jagmohan Chandrani to feed the local Indian community:…
• Tempura Kondo てんぷら 近藤Ginza — Chef Fumio Kondo's Ginza tempura counter, famed for ultra-light batter and vegetable tempura such as shredded sweet potato.
• Tempura Tsunahachi (Shinjuku Main Store) 新宿つな八 総本店Shinjuku 3-chome — Shinjuku's classic tempura house since 1924, serving crisp, light Edo-style tempura at the counter at prices far below Ginza's tempura temples, the…
• Tonkatsu Maisen Aoyama Honten とんかつ まい泉 青山本店Omotesando — Tokyo's most famous tonkatsu house, serving cutlets 'so tender you can cut them with chopsticks' inside a converted 1940s public bathhouse in…
• Tonkatsu Marugo 丸五Akihabara — Akihabara tonkatsu institution frying Yamagata Sangen pork, a short walk from Electric Town.
• Tonkatsu Tonki (Meguro) とんかつ とんき 目黒本店Meguro — A theatrical tonkatsu temple since 1939: a long white-cypress counter where a team of cooks in white batters, fries and slices with balletic…
• Tsukishima Monja Street 月島もんじゃストリートTsukishima — Some 70 monjayaki restaurants on one shopping street: grill a runny, savory batter yourself on a hotplate and scrape it up with tiny spatulas.
• Udon Shin うどん 慎Yoyogi / Shinjuku South — A tiny Yoyogi udon shop famous worldwide for its hours-long queue and Instagram-darling carbonara udon topped with bacon tempura. Noodles are…
• Zauo Shinjuku 釣船茶屋 ざうお 新宿店Nishi-Shinjuku — Catch your own dinner: diners sit inside a giant wooden boat and fish from a pool, and the kitchen turns whatever you hook into sashimi, tempura or…