Restaurants & Cafés

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

Japanese ice cream flavours you need to try

Swap your vanilla ice cream with these unique Japanese flavours: matcha, sesame, sake and more

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

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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

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

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

Follow our guide to Instagram the most beautiful latte art in the capital

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

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

From ramen and udon to tempura and kaiseki, here's where to go in Shinjuku for some of your best meals in Tokyo

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Food and drink events

Survey: Japan is one of the most expensive countries for Michelin-starred dining

A new ranking puts Japan in the top five most expensive countries to dine out at a two- or three-starred restaurant

Enjoy wagyu curry from just ¥680 at this pop-up restaurant in Ginza

Curry Shop DomDom serves premium Japanese beef curry made with offcuts from Tree & Tree’s wagyu burgers

Yakiniku Like in Tokyo now offers all-you-can-drink for just ¥550

Every outlet of this solo yakiniku chain in the city will now serve you unlimited lemon sours and highballs

In photos: Udatsu’s vegetarian sushi course is a sumptuous modern Japanese omakase

Udatsu Sushi in Nakameguro reinterprets a quintessential Tokyo dining experience for the modern vegetarian diners

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...