Top 10 Tokyo Restaurants - 10-9 01.05.08
Tokyo has thousands of restaurants. From my time living there and subsequent visits I’ve been to an extremely small percentage of them. So with complete disregard for statistical significance, here is the definitive list the best 10 restaurants in Tokyo.
10. Ippudo
Like Kitkats, Baseball and Gary Lineker ramen came to Japan from abroad and was fully embraced by the Japanese, and it’s a ramen restaurant that kicks things off at number 10.
Ippudo in Roppongi is a popular place with the queue extending outside the door when I visited on a Monday afternoon. The ramen and gyoza are superb and they kindly give you the opportunity to choose the hardness of your noodles which is a nice touch.
Ippudo is a chain that’s obviously doing pretty well as they’ve just opened a restaurant in New York.
4-9-11-1F, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
www.ippudo.com
9. Yottekoya
2 ramen restaurants in the top 10 might seem a little excessive when there is so much food variety in Tokyo. To be honest it probably is, but none the less Yottekoya in Shinjuku has snuck onto the list at number 9 off the back of its marvelous super garlic ramen.
Yottekoya’s regular ramen is pretty tasty but the garlic one is something a bit special, particularly if you’re trying to keep a cold at bay. It launches into a four pronged garlic offensive - whole fried garlic gloves, grated garlic, crushed garlic and a dark threatening garlic sauce. It’s also pretty good value with ramen and a plate of gyoza costing about £5. If you’re still not convinced Garlic Central lists all manner of garlic benefits, including effective natural mosquito repelling qualities.
3-35-13 Shinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo
http://www.yottekoya.com/