Tokyo Food File

Shoku-Ishinho serves traditional yakuzen cuisine, which incorporates elements of Chinese herbal medicine, in an entirely contemporary aesthetic.

This preeminent purveyor’s Ginza branch stocks 45 varieties of miso which you can sniff and sample with its in-house “misommelier.”

This Ebisu-based izakaya is small, stylish and serves top-notch food — just what we need to carry us through 2021.

The capital’s restaurant scene saw plenty of culinary highlights that helped bring notes of optimism and positivity to a difficult year.

From word-of-mouth favorite to media darling, this is one of the city’s most unusual and excellent bowls, with a compelling backstory to boot.

Being a tourist can be thirsty work, even in the genteel surrounds of Kamakura. Here are six of the former samurai capital’s best watering holes.

Restaurant group Transit General Office has outdone itself in its new space, with a transportive menu devised by Michelin-starred chef Yusuke Takada.

Nobuhiro Kakinoki may have opened his restaurant during troubled times, but all the essential elements are in his favor.

Tokyo restaurants don’t get harder to book than chef Hideaki Sakai’s highly anticipated second venue.

Norihito Nemoto’s upscale bistro fare makes his laid-back restaurant one of the highlights of the still new and vibrant Eat Play Works complex.

Curry has been Tokyo’s go-to comfort food this summer, and Curry Spice Gelateria Kalpasi’s low-key June arrival hit the moment.

Two of Tokyo’s hottest chefs. A menu tethering contemporary Japanese to modern French cuisine. Tokyo has never seen an opening like Denkushiflori.