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Restaurants & Cafés
The best restaurants and cafés in Tokyo, including restaurant reviews and new openings

Best street food and snacks at Tsukiji Market
There’s still plenty to eat at the bustling Tsukiji: tamagoyaki omelette sandwiches, tuna sashimi, grilled scallops and more

Best restaurants in Tokyo for solo diners
Forget casual ramen joints and fast food chains. Here’s where to treat yourself to a good meal when you’re dining solo

The best pizza in Tokyo
Here are the top 20 pizzerias in the city, all serving up thin, crispy, authentic Naples-style pizza

Best ramen in Tokyo
From old-school noodles and tonkotsu classics to soupless tsukemen and spicy favourites – you'll be bowled over by these ramen
Restaurants of the week

Jikasei Mensho
Jikasei Mensho also offers a vegan dandan noodle dish that is almost impossible to tell from the meaty original...

Ponchi-ken
The humble cutlet has undergone plenty of evolution since those days, culminating in the 2015 awarding of the first Michelin mark to a tonkatsu-only restaurant

Nezu Kamachiku
Kamachiku is quite possibly the most beautiful udon restaurant in Tokyo...

Izakaya Masaka
Hidden within Shibuya Parco’s Chaos Kitchen, this izakaya-style restaurant serves only vegan dishes...
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Best kakigori in Tokyo
Best kakigori in Tokyo
Ice, ice baby. Here are Tokyo's best kakigori shaved ice desserts to beat the heat
Every Tokyo restaurant in David Chang’s 'Ugly Delicious' season one
Every Tokyo restaurant in David Chang’s 'Ugly Delicious' season one
From pizza at Savoy and Seirinkan to Den’s fried chicken – see the celebrity chef's Tokyo top picks from his hit Netflix show
Best cafés for latte art in Tokyo
Best cafés for latte art in Tokyo
Follow our guide to Instagram the most beautiful latte art in the capital
Best bakeries in Tokyo
Best bakeries in Tokyo
The city’s upper crust: these excellent bread shops and patisseries are definitely worth your dough
Best kaiseki restaurants in Tokyo
Best kaiseki restaurants in Tokyo
The traditional multi-course kaiseki dinner is considered the epitome of Japanese cuisine, and these dedicated restaurants are the best in Tokyo
Best restaurants in Shinjuku
Best restaurants in Shinjuku
From ramen and udon to tempura and kaiseki, here's where to go in Shinjuku for some of your best meals in Tokyo
Food and drink events

You can get this spicy chilli shrimp egg sandwich only at Eggslut Shinjuku
Two Chinese-style egg sandwiches are exclusive to the Eggslut in Shinjuku Southern Terrace – and for a limited time only

Chocolate dishes are trending in Tokyo for Valentine's Day 2023
You won't just find chocolate in desserts this Valentine's Day – it's appearing in everything from soba to dim sum

Michelin awards Tokyo restaurants a total of 263 stars for 2023
Tokyo still dominates as the city with the highest number of Michelin stars in the world

Shinjuku has a new yokocho food hall with 17 eateries
Dine on world cuisine and Japanese comfort food, while also enjoying a spot of karaoke, at Shinjuku Higashiguchi Yokocho
Hot new openings

Taizan
Can’t decide between Japanese or Chinese? You can have both at this new Ebisu restaurant, serving up meals made with traditional Japanese...

Bloody Angle Dougen Tong
All the cool kids come to hang out at this record and café bar just off the busy streets of Shibuya...

Izakaya Masaka
Hidden among the cool restaurants of Shibuya Parco’s Chaos Kitchen, this shitamachi (downtown) izakaya-style restaurant serves only vegan dishes...

Jikasei Mensho
With a total of ten ramen restaurants in Tokyo and a Michelin-starred outpost in San Francisco, ramen master Tomoharu Shono opened his newest location in the...
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Best restaurants at Toyosu Market
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Best character cafés and restaurants in Tokyo
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The most beautiful Starbucks in Japan
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