Restaurant

We almost cried on our first visit to this under-the-radar budget Italian restaurant in Japan

Was our Saizeriya-fan reporter on the verge of tears of happiness or despair as his world was been turned upside down?

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This beautiful Nara inn was once home to a Living National Treasure

Art, history, and high-end dining make for a unique Japanese getaway.

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Tokyo’s upcoming sumo dinner show matches powerful wrestlers with bilingual entertainment

It’s a clash of culture, comedy, and cuisine.

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Japan’s new restaurant is reeling in customers with its all-you-can-eat sashimi experience

Unlimited fish and a menu that changes every day at an unbeatable price.

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Japan’s original oyakodon restaurant reopens after three years in a newly renovated building

Who cares about which came first when Tamahide clearly knows that the chicken and the egg are a combo best served at the same time? 

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Green is the new color this autumn at Osaka hotel’s latest sweet buffet

Celebrate the fall season with chestnuts, grapes, and decadent matcha treats.

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Chiikawa Ramen Buta restaurant reopens in the basement floor of Tokyo’s Shibuya Parco

New menu items and more make for the perfect place to grab a kawaii bite after shopping in a major Tokyo department store.

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One woman versus endless noodles in this Japanese restaurant’s all-you-can-eat event

With only 90 minutes on the clock, how much soba can one person eat?

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Japanese breakfast ramen for US$3.50 in Shinjuku is the morning meal you didn’t know you needed

The best place to try the unique local custom of “asa-ra”.

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Mega chashu ramen campaign is a delicious challenge for meat-eaters in Japan

Perhaps the dish should be called “pork slices with a side of ramen noodles” instead?

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New tanuki soba specialty restaurant in Ikebukuro serves up soba with a unique taste and visuals

The noodles at Tanuki Soba wa Nomimono don’t look like any bowl of tanuki soba that we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining.

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Yoshinoya serves gyudon beef bowls from a tiny truck in Tokyo

Moving Yoshinoya is an Orange Dream on the food truck scene…for those who know where they’re hiding.

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Want the noodles without the noise? This is the perfect place for you to try wanko soba

This wanko soba restaurant in Iwate Prefecture serves up soba without a side of self-consciousness.

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Yoshinoya teams up with famous curry restaurant to offer the aromatic Beef Roka Curry

Even curry skeptics might like this one for its masterful blend of several spices.

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Take a toothbrush with you to Butakin for this daring mixed noodles with chives dish

It’s just as we’ve always said–with great pungency comes great deliciousness.

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A free karaage mountain for your birthday at this Kanagawa restaurant

Join the birthday tradition where you get one karaage older every year.

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We go on our own hunt for “the biggest mountain” to climb in the style of Tokyo Swindlers

The only difference is that our version of a “mountain” may be a bit more gastronomically inclined.

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Shizuoka’s local Cherry Beans Potato French fries are just plain devilishly good

We can neither confirm nor deny that the devil made us eat them, but regardless, we would binge them again in a heartbeat.

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Has Osaka Ohsho’s “romance-filled” omuraisu morphed into a monster in its new form?

The casual gyoza and Japanese-Chinese food specialty chain releases its second take on omuraisu and we can confirm that it’s nothing like the first.

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Yabai Ramen: What makes this Japanese ramen so dangerous?

Restaurant uses controversial slang word to sell its noodles, and we find out why.

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