Make One Two

Make One Two is a standing bar that rewards curious eaters with a menu that travels so adventurously through the Asian continent that it’s deliciously difficult to stop ordering. 

The menu is redone frequently, but on any given night you can expect inventive dishes like pork-and-kiwi summer rolls, snow-crab japchae, seared lamb tataki, chicken gizzard masala confit and Thai-style gai yang chicken. The drinks lean as far afield as the food with Sichuan pepper highballs, a house medicinal sangria and a clam dashi tomato sour. 

The menu may take a leap from the usual standing bar small plates, but the wraparound bar and central kitchen put you face-to-face with the staff and customers on the other side, making for a classically convivial bar that can be rather hard to leave.

It occupies the ground floor of the Ikoma Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from 1930 on Sakaisuji with big glass frontage and plenty of natural light pouring in from the street. Plus, with a capacity of around 25, it’s one of the bigger standing bars in Osaka and does well for groups.