Yotsuya 3-chome
Open 11am-3, 5-11pm. Closed Sundays.
Simple, down-home Vietnamese food prepared extremely well. Their deep-fried ichiba harumaki (market spring rolls) are crunchy and flavorful; other highlights are fried tofu stuffed with beef...
Open 11am-3, 5-11pm. Closed Sundays.
Open 5:30pm-midnight. Closed Sundays.
Craft sake from small, often obscure, breweries in Nagano Prefecture and elsewhere is the focus at this popular sake specialty bar. Servings are in small-size glasses and sharing is encouraged, so...
Open 5:30pm-midnight. Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-4am (Sun -2am) daily.
This rather old-fashioned basement bar is worth mention mainly for their late-night hours. Wine is served by the glass along with tapas-style snacks; budget around Y4000 for food and drink...
Open 6pm-4am (Sun -2am) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Well-prepared Chinese standards and some Szechuan-style noodle dishes, with a mostly neighborhood crowd.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
The sign outside this old-school sake pub entices with the promise of jizake - local sake - and makes good on that offer. On Friday nights, the crowd consists mainly of beer-drinking salarymen, but...
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-3, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Above-average curries and tandoori dishes, at good prices.
Open 11am-3, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 5pm-1:30am (LO). Closed Tuesdays.
A tiny (14-seat) second-floor bar specializing in craft beers from around Japan, with an ever-changing selection. The atmosphere is laid-back (there's a muted TV set along with loungey background...
Open 5pm-1:30am (LO). Closed Tuesdays.
Open 5-11:30pm (LO; Fri, Sat -1am) daily.
Hinai-dori - heirloom-breed chicken from Akita Prefecture - is the specialty at this upscale yakitori shop, and the white liver and tebasaki (wings) are especially recommended. They also serve...
Open 5-11:30pm (LO; Fri, Sat -1am) daily.
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
We first noticed this charming hole-in-the-wall drinking spot thanks to the prominent display of their daily sake menu on their front wall. Although they're not a sake specialist, their selection of...
Open 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-midnight (Sat, Sun 5-11pm). Closed Tuesdays.
Dasenka is a cozy, charmingly quirky basement restaurant that serves excellent Czech and Eastern European fare. You can feast on stick-to-your-ribs dishes like Moravsky Brabec (slightly fatty...
Open 6pm-midnight (Sat, Sun 5-11pm). Closed Tuesdays.
Open 6pm-1:30am (LO). Closed Sundays.
"Jamon y vino" is the simple yet enticing concept at this small tapas bar, with Spanish wines starting at around Y3800 per bottle. Typical dishes include Iberico chorizo sausages, Catalan-style...
Open 6pm-1:30am (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 8pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
A quiet neighborhood spot with an impressive collection of jazz and soul music on vinyl, for your listening pleasure. There's a Y500 cover charge.
Open 8pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
It's like a party in a chemistry lab every night at Science Bar Incubator. Drinks are served in beakers and erlenmeyer flasks, food is heated on wire-mesh stands over alcohol lamps, and customers...
Open 6pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
Open 6-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
This tiny, Michelin-starred kaiseki restaurant offers good value for money, with prix-fixe menus starting around Y5000. Counter seats are the best; other areas can get smoky.
Open 6-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 6-10pm. Closed Sundays.
Nearly thirty well-chosen craft sake from relatively obscure small breweries are on offer at this cozy neighborhood drinking spot. There are also sake-friendly nibbles like grilled dried fish and...
Open 6-10pm. Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-1, 5:30-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Aomori Prefecture in Northern Japan produces some very nice sake, and Ringo no Hana is a good place to try it out. Some twenty different types of local craft sake are served either in ichi-go flasks...
Open 11:30am-1, 5:30-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-1am (LO; Sat -10pm). Closed Sundays.
There's a lot of good yakitori to be found in the izakaya-lined alleyways of Arakicho, but Doromamire grills up some of the best. The chicken here is good enough to eat raw, and indeed the shop's...
Open 6pm-1am (LO; Sat -10pm). Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-2:30am (Sun -9:30pm). Closed Mondays.
This neighborhood shop is an excellent place to study your fish and seafood kanji-reading skills, as the handwritten menu here can be rather difficult to read, even for the waitstaff. There's no...
Open 6pm-2:30am (Sun -9:30pm). Closed Mondays.
Open 7pm-midnight. Closed Sundays.
This tiny second-floor bar has a Buddhist theme - the name in Japanese is "bouzu", or Buddhist priest - with a little shrine in one corner and bartenders dressed in appropriate priestly garb. Drinks...
Open 7pm-midnight. Closed Sundays.
Open 6pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
This tiny neighborhood wine bar has the unusual policy of letting you try before you buy - you can take a sip or two of whatever bottles are open before committing to their wine by the glass. The...
Open 6pm-2am. Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-11pm (LO; Sat -9). Closed Sundays.
There's a good selection of sake to go with your grilled himono (dried fish) and other izakaya fare, all at quite reasonable prices. Lunch is served until 4pm.
Open 11am-11pm (LO; Sat -9). Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
The main draw at La Boqueria is the "wine buffet," an open bar with over a dozen different wines, not top-end but still very drinkable, priced at Y1980 for two hours. The dining room is attractively...
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
Akebonobashi, Ushigome-Yanagicho
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Modern, upscale bistro fare served in a casual setting is the draw at this neighborhood French spot. The owner-chef trained at La Regalade, the original Paris "neo-bistro," and Parisian bistronomic...
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Budget-friendly Tibetan and Indian dishes are served at this relaxed neighborhood shop. Lunch is around Y1000, while dinner with drinks runs around Y2500.
Open 11am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 5-11:30pm. Closed Sundays.
Still going strong after seventy years, Yoshiura exudes a classic old-school izakaya charm that's hard to match. They draw a loyal neighborhood crowd with their reasonably priced sake (mostly...
Open 5-11:30pm. Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Fugu is the wintertime specialty here, with fugu-centric prix-fixe dinners starting at Y10,000, with sake or wine to drink. Soba lunches with tempura and/or sashimi are priced Y1260-3150.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Good Indian curries, tandoori items and Nepalese starters and side dishes. The momo dumplings are better than average, and the Indian Salad is impressively spicy. Budget around Y2000-2500 at...
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10pm. Closed Sundays.
This unpretentious neighborhood shop serves a wide variety of home-style Burmese dishes, prepared by chefs from Myanmar. If you just want a simple meal you can sit at the counter and order one of...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10pm. Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-2, 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Fantastic Hokkaido seafood and a nice selection of premium craft sake are served at this unpretentious basement izakaya. The sashimi platters are reliable, and often feature fish that you don't see...
Open 11am-2, 5-11pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-3, 5-10pm. Closed Sundays.
There's no better way to enjoy amazing, housemade ramen noodles than in a bowl of abura soba. Literally meaning oil-noodles, abura soba leaves the soup out, with only some tare seasoning, oils, and...
Open 11am-3, 5-10pm. Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-2, 6-9pm (LO) daily.
Elegant, high-end Spanish food in rather grand surroundings - the former residence of Count Ogasawara. Lunch from Y7000, full-course dinners from Y9000, not including wine.
Open 11:30am-2, 6-9pm (LO) daily.
Open 8:30am-8pm (Sun 11:30-7). Closed Saturdays.
An artsy little neighborhood cafe serving espresso beverages, drip coffee of the day, and matcha. Lunches run Y500-1000, and they also roast their own beans, on sale from Y450/100g.
Open 8:30am-8pm (Sun 11:30-7). Closed Saturdays.
Open 11:30am-1:30, 6-9:30pm (LO). Closed Mondays.
L'Habitude is a classic French neighborhood restaurant, with good, meaty fare and casual bistro-style seating at small but well-spaced tables. The wine list is extensive and quite reasonable, with...
Open 11:30am-1:30, 6-9:30pm (LO). Closed Mondays.
Yotsuya
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
One of the nicer spots in Yotsuya to enjoy an outdoor drink any time of day, Marugo offers pleasant terrace seating and a good selection of French wines, including several by the glass. ...
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 5-10:30pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
We've tried our share of beef tongue - a culinary specialty of the Sendai area - and this unprentious Yotsuya izakaya serves some of the best that we've ever had. It's not exactly a secret though -...
Open 5-10:30pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10:30pm (LO). Closed Tuesdays.
Cruz offers one of the best combinations of deluxe burgers and craft beers in Tokyo. The burgers are top-notch (the chef is a veteran of Firehouse in Hongo), and come in interesting variations like...
Open 11am-2:30, 5-10:30pm (LO). Closed Tuesdays.
Open 11:30am-midnight. Closed Sundays and holidays.
Boasting a big collection of vinyl, an impressive sound system and humongous JBL speakers, Eagle has a certain old-school jazz-kissaten charm, as long as you don't mind the cigarette smoke. In the...
Open 11:30am-midnight. Closed Sundays and holidays.
Open 6-10:15pm (LO). Closed Sundays, Mondays.
The sake selection at this Michelin-starred izakaya is pretty impressive, and the food is above average, but not quite good enough to justify the prices. Prix-fixe menus are the only option, and...
Open 6-10:15pm (LO). Closed Sundays, Mondays.
Open 5pm-1am (Sat 4-12). Closed Sundays and holidays.
Wakana serves excellent charcoal-grilled chicken and pork on skewers along with a well-chosen list of around twenty types of sake. The restaurant stays open a couple of hours later than most other...
Open 5pm-1am (Sat 4-12). Closed Sundays and holidays.
Open 11:30am-2, 5pm-1:30am (LO) daily.
The food here is very nicely prepared, and in spite of the simplicity of items like tacos and enchiladas, somehow tastes more Mexican regional than Tex-Mex. Our swordfish tacos had a lot of big...
Open 11:30am-2, 5pm-1:30am (LO) daily.
Open 5-11pm (LO) daily.
No, despite the name this isn't a brewpub, simply a small neighborhood bar with a decent selection of Belgian beers on tap and by the bottle. Prices are around average, and opening hours are...
Open 5-11pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-11:30pm (Sat, Sun -10:30) daily.
A sake and soba restaurant, Kuraya serves soba made from 90% buckwheat, supplemented by simple izakaya fare like grilled fish and chicken, and tofu and yuba dishes. The sake is from well-known...
Open 11:30am-2, 5-11:30pm (Sat, Sun -10:30) daily.
Open 5pm-2am daily.
The Vivo chain of casual wine bars offers good food and decent wines at budget-friendly prices, and the conveniently located Yotsuya branch is no exception. Ten daily wines by the glass start at...
Open 5pm-2am daily.
Open 5pm-midnight (Sat, Sun -11:30pm) daily.
Muku is a small neighborhood izakaya serving excellent charcoal-grilled meat and fish alongside a very serviceable sake list. You can choose from around 40 different craft sakes from both large and...
Open 5pm-midnight (Sat, Sun -11:30pm) daily.
Open 11am-3, 5-9pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
This lively neighborhood shop does a brisk business both day and night, so it might be a good idea to avoid peak lunch and dinner hours if you don't want to wait. In addition to doing excellent...
Open 11am-3, 5-9pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Deep-fried kushiage skewers and gyukatsu (beef cutlet) are matched with assertive sakes at this casual basement izakaya. Seasonal shellfish and vegetables make up most of the kushiage selection, and...
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 9am-8:30pm (Sat -5:45pm). Closed Sundays.
A well-stocked sake specialty store; don't miss the refrigerated rooms down in the basement. There's also a stand-up bar in back with around a dozen sake by the glass along with simple, inexpensive...
Open 9am-8:30pm (Sat -5:45pm). Closed Sundays.
Open 7:30am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Good pastries and plenty of outdoor seating.
Open 7:30am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 7:30am-9:30pm daily.
European-style bread, pastries, and a big assortment of sandwiches to go.
Open 7:30am-9:30pm daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO) daily.
This second branch of Tokyo's Portuguese pioneer restaurant is far more upscale than the Shibuya original, with spacious, comfortable dining rooms (smoking and non) a bigger, more serious menu, and...
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO) daily.
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