Ranking
An editorial ranking of restaurants, cafés and bars: grades from A+ to F, price range, and the Tabelog score where one exists.
Places ranked: 2,446
Kanagawa · Casual Dining
Nakamura Menzaburo Shoten (中村麺三郎商店) is a ramen counter in Chuo, Sagamihara. It serves refined clear soy ramen with house-made noodles, three cuts of chashu and ginger-scented shrimp wontons.
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Kanagawa · Casual Dining
Ramen Moriya. (らーめん森や。) serves additive-free chicken-and-bonito ramen with house-made noodles and charcoal-roasted chāshū. It is in a quiet residential part of Yokohama, a bus ride from Totsuka Station.
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Kyoto · Fine Dining
A tasting-menu restaurant in Kyoto fusing Okinawan ingredients with modern Spanish live-fire cooking. It's known for its theatrical presentations, intimate counter seating, and creative non-alcoholic pairings.
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Kanagawa · Casual Dining
A lunch-only spice-curry counter in Yokohama's Fukutomicho, on the 3rd floor of the Ichiwa Building. Its daily-changing plate is mixed as you eat, and reviewers call it the most beautifully plated curry they know.
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Kyoto · Fine Dining
Experience refined Kyoto kaiseki cuisine at this popular restaurant on the 11th floor of the Isetan department store in Kyoto Station. It's known for its panoramic city views, live counter-side cooking, and signature sea bream sushi.
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Kagawa · Casual Dining
Teuchi Judan Udon Baka Ichidai (手打十段 うどんバカ一代) is a self-service udon shop in Tagacho, Takamatsu. It is widely cited as the birthplace of kama-butter udon, freshly boiled noodles with butter, black pepper and raw egg.
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Tokyo · Casual Dining
One of Tokyo's most celebrated tsukemen shops, Tsukemen Michi in Kameari serves an intensely rich pork and fish broth with substantial house-made noodles. It's a destination for noodle connoisseurs willing to queue for perfection.
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Aichi Prefecture · Fine Dining
A branch of the famed Gifu restaurant, Yanagiya Nishiki in Nagoya's Nishiki district serves a seasonal omakase of mountain and river ingredients. Expect charcoal-grilled game and fish with a distinct smoky flavour.
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Tokyo · Fine Dining
An intimate six-seat counter in Nishi-Azabu where classic French technique meets Japanese 'yōshoku' comfort food. Go for the theatrical tasting menu, featuring signatures like a bouillabaisse croquette and a refined omurice finish.
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Kanagawa · Casual Dining
China Soba Ya Honten (支那そばや 本店) is the original shop of the late ramen master Minoru Sano, a short walk from Totsuka Station in Yokohama. Come for its clear chicken shoyu and shio broths and house-made noodles.
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Kanagawa · Casual Dining
The first direct branch of Yoshimuraya, the shop that created iekei ramen, serving pork-bone and soy broth with chicken fat since 1999. In Shinsugitacho, Yokohama, 3 minutes from Shin-Sugita Station.
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Kanagawa · Casual Dining
Chuka Soba Menya Shokudo Honten (中華そば 麺や食堂 本店) is a long-running ramen shop in Saiwaicho, Atsugi. People come for its thin house-made noodles in clear shoyu broth, its fried rice and its warm send-off.
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