The Best 50 Restaurants (all genre, mostly washoku) in Japan.

Tabelog, Japan’s most popular online restaurant listing, recently released a curated list of the 50 best in Japan. You may recall that I recently wrote about their 50 best ramen, a post that can be seen here. Well, I’m almost finished with the ramen list, which means I am almost finished with ramen. I’m happy to announce that Ramen Adventures will now become Washoku-Michelin-Kaiseki Adventures, a foray into the extensive world of Japan’s epicurean depths. Instead of two ramen reviews a week, I’ll be writing about two high-end gastronomical destinations.

At an average of $300 a head for these places, this is going to be quite an endeavor. Luckily, my local yakuza loan shop was happy to give me enough to cover the expense.

Here they are, with photos from shops that I have visited.

  1. 松川 – Matsukawa – Tokyo
  2. 鮨 さいとう – Saito – Tokyo
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  3. 柳家 – Yanagiya – Gifu
  4. 趙楊 – Choyo – Tokyo
  5. 旬席 鈴江 – Suzue – Kyoto
  6. カンテサンス – Quintessence – Tokyo
  7. トゥ・ラ・ジョア – Tout la Joie – Aichi
  8. 虎屋 壺中庵 – Toraya Kochuan – Tokushima
  9. 天寿し 京町店 – Tenzushi Kyomachi – Fukuoka
  10. ガストロノミー ジョエル・ロブション – Joël Robuchon – Tokyo
  11. 初音鮨 – Hatsunesushi – Tokyo
  12. ロオジエ – L’OSIER – Tokyo
  13. 麻布 かどわき – Kadowaki – Tokyo
  14. 神楽坂 石かわ – Ishikawa – Tokyo
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  15. フロリレージュ – Florilege – Tokyo
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  16. 三谷 – Mitani – Tokyo
  17. しのはら – Shinohara – Shiga
  18. レフェルヴェソンス – L’Effervescence – Tokyo
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  19. とり喜 – Toriki – Tokyo
  20. 樋口 – Higuchi – Tokyo
  21. 未在 – Mizai – Kyoto
  22. 京都 吉兆 嵐山本店 – Kitcho Arashiyama – Kyoto
  23. 鮨とかみ – Tokami – Tokyo
  24. 豪龍久保 – Goryukubo – Tokyo
  25. 喜邑 – Kimura – Tokyo
  26. 井雪 – Iyuki – Tokyo
  27. 銀座おかもと – Okamoto – Tokyo
  28. エスキス – ESqUISSE – Tokyo
  29. SALONE 2007 – Kanagawa
  30. 京味 – Kyoaji – Tokyo
  31. 緒方 – Ogata – Kyoto
  32. 竹屋町 三多 – Mita – Kyoto
  33. 本湖月 – Honkogetsu – Osaka
  34. 三芳 – Miyoshi – Kyoto
  35. すし匠 – Sushisho – Tokyo
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  36. 草喰 なかひがし – Sojiki Nakahigashi – Kyoto
  37. ラ・ブランシュ – La Blanche – Tokyo
  38. 星野 – Hoshino – Tokyo
  39. 龍吟 – Ryugin – Tokyo
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  40. かぶと – Kabuto – Tokyo
  41. コート・ドール – Cote d’or – Tokyo
  42. と村 – Tomura – Tokyo
  43. 晴山 – Seizan – Tokyo
  44. アピシウス – APICIUS – Tokyo
  45. エクアトゥール – Restaurant l’equateur – Tokyo
  46. ひさ田 – Hisada – Okayama
  47. 日本橋蠣殻町 すぎた – Sugita – Tokyo
  48. フルタ – Furuta – Tokyo
  49. つる幸 – Tsuruko – Ishikawa
  50. TIRPSE – Tokyo

The original site (with way more and way nicer photos than mine can be found here.)

Oh, by the way
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April Fools!!!!!!!!
More ramen reviews, and only ramen reviews, coming in a couple days.
(Though if someone would like to sponsor Kaiseki Adventures, I am happy to start another site.)

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