7 Best Restaurants in Tokyo

Yakiniku restaurant that is located just 2 minutes walking from Shibuya station. At Yakiniku Like – a restaurant catering to solo diners as well as groups – you can eat your heart out with budget-friendly set meals that include different types of marinated pork and beef. The cheapest set, which only costs ¥790, comes with rice, seaweed soup, kimchi and condiments for your yakiniku, which you can cook on a small grill designed for one person.
Here, you can savor top-quality branded pork from all over the world in a stylish restaurant that does not seem like a typical yakiniku restaurant. Thanks  to this, it is quite popular for dates and other special occasions. A popular place for young women, this restaurant specializes in grilled chicken and has a stylish café-like interior. Even if you are on a diet, you can stop worrying and enjoy the food here.

For a budget-friendly option, try one of the many Nabezo locations throughout Tokyo. They offer all-you-can-eat courses of 100 minutes at different price-points, but of course their more expensive courses include delicious Japanese wagyu, which we highly recommend. Miyachi specializes in dry-aged beef, a process that makes the wagyu extra-tender and flavorful. They have a few different course meals that range between ¥10,000 and ¥30,000 per person, but if you go for lunch you can get a fantastic teppanyaki course set for about ¥5,000.
Upstairs, there is also a curtained-off place for worship, which is an attractive feature of the restaurant for those looking to pray before or after their meal. They use only a limited number of special Islamic ingredients to ensure that their halal ramen is safe for Muslims to eat and adhere to regulations set by Japan’s Halal Certification. This upscale and tourist teppanyaki restaurant serves some surprisingly tasty meat and seafood.
This style is a unique take on a yakiniku menu, but it’s perfect for anyone who wants to ease in without knowing exactly what to order. Added to enhance the taste of the meat without overpowering, it works in harmony with the beef to bring out 恵比寿 ジンギスガン  the best flavor. Reservations are required as the restaurant only seats a few guests at a time, adding a cozy and intimate atmosphere to your dinner. Try to secure a reservation at this restaurant with a cheeky name for a relaxed atmosphere.

An essential stop on the Tokyo yakiniku trail, this sleek Aoyama giant is best enjoyed by ordering one of the prix fixe courses. More than just a long list of different cuts and flavours, these feel like carefully thought-out love letters to meat, all composed with expertise and dedication. Many Muslim visitors to Japan have difficulties finding appropriate food and prayer space as Japan is still developing in terms of its understanding of, and knowledge about Islam.
If you are looking for inexpensive Japanese BBQ, quality and affordability collide at Bazuka Yakiniku Japanese BBQ – a new Japanese restaurant at Westgate. For those of you worried about smelling like a BBQ after the meal, the electric grills  produce no smoke and so there is none of that lingering smell. Conversely, the second floor has the earth and greenery as its theme. The multilayered levels of the floor, made from laminated OSB panels, resemble contour lines. Climbing the different levels of this unusual and asymmetric landscape is definitely a unique experience that excites the senses. If one were to lean against the slope, it would feel almost like being at a hillside picnic.

On their a la carte menu, kohada goes for JPY 130 for two pieces. Every table is situated next to a conveyor belt that goes around the entire restaurant. Eating sushi at a proper restaurant or sushi bar is great, but for us, nothing beats the experience of grabbing passing plates of sushi from a conveyor belt. We haven’t eaten at enough sushi restaurants in Tokyo to definitively call them the cheapest but their sushi was indeed very good.
The staff lets you know the day’s specials, and you can chat happily across the counter. Since it’s possible to casually enjoy yakiniku here on your own, solo-dining female customers are continuously dropping by. A restaurant where you can enjoy fresh raw meat in a variety of ways. The popular menu item, Yukhoe Bruschetta, is a baguette coated with garlic butter that goes well with the yukhoe.

Here you'll find more high-class items than at "USHIGORO," including high-end wagyu beef from Tamura cattle and Kobe cattle raised in riverside pastures. Most customers visiting here are looking to order their signagure dish, "salted tongue." Supposedly at one point even the prime minister lined up to wait for a seat here at Sutamina-En, hoping to enjoy fresh, high-quality yakiniku. Until recently, Yoroniku's omakase course was only available to regular customers, but now even first-time customers can enjoy the experience. Kunimoto does not use a specific brand of meat, but rather it sources only the best-quality meat from all across Japan. If you'd like to try this restaurant group's famous dishes like "nohara-yaki" and "hire-niku takikomi gohan" while in the downtown area, this Shirogane location is the restaurant for you.
The proprietress runs the restaurant by herself, and there are only 4 table seats for 4 people in the store. The famous "tongue salt" is thick yet soft, and is excellent with plenty of garlic and sesame oil. The loin is so tender and seasoned that it is called "drinkable loin".
好美家 is a very local place so there’s no English menu, but I understood the word “mixed” when my server was pointing at the menu so that’s what I got. It had squid or octopus, pork, and perhaps a few other things. According to my Japanese friend, monjayaki is such an important Tokyo dish that you can’t possibly talk about the food in Tokyo without including monjayaki, so here I am. One of my best friends is Japanese and his wife is originally from Tokyo. Her sister’s friend provided me with a list of the best places to eat in Tokyo and this monjayaki restaurant was on it. Each order of six pan-fried or steamed dumplings at Gyoza Lou goes for just JPY 290.

In Tokyo, one of those regional specialties is fukagawa meshi which is a Japanese dish of clam and long onion cooked in miso and topped over rice. My Japanese friend ate here a few weeks before we did and was blown away by this ebi miso tsukemen. If you’ve never had tsukemen before, it’s like a deconstructed type of ramen where the noodles and broth are served separately. To eat, you dip the noodles into the broth which is typically more concentrated in flavor than regular ramen broth. I believe the type of ten yen sushi they give you changes by the day but I got fifteen pieces of kohada which is a type of gizzard shad fish. It was delicious and nothing about it told me it was low quality sushi.
You can enjoy these with either simple salt seasoning or with a special home-made sauce. Serious fans of grilled meat flock to Jambo’s four Tokyo restaurants, the first of which opened almost three decades ago out east in residential Edogawa. Hanare in Hongo is its newest outpost but has already earned a fervent following, so reservations can be difficult to come by. Yakiniku is generally treated as a communal dining experience, where multiple platters of meat are cooked on one shared grill. That said, we firmly believe that solo diners should treat themselves to the city’s culinary delights, even if their friends are unable to make  it. Though it’s always the mouthwatering meat dishes that draw in customers here, a firm fan favourite is the mountain-high kakigori shaved ice dessert – a Yoroniku speciality – to be shared by the table.