Best 50 Restaurants in Japan According to Tabelog

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
   
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
    
15. フロリレージュ - Florilege - Tokyo
    
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
    
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
    
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
    
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.)