Daikokuya

This restaurant it’s not easy to find, you have to follow the indication in front of the door of google maps located. You have to turn on the right and the entrance is the first photo of TripAdvisor. The location is poor but nice, in japanese style, downstairs the typical table, upstairs normal tabl...e. Tempura was really good and value for money is ok.

Visited August 2018

I came here unfortunately inexperienced in my knowledge of tempura restaurants. The menu cost is ¥7000 / ¥12000 (without tax) for a half or full course menu, which is incredibly expensive, but maybe it isn't for tempura, I'm not sure. Regardless, this restaurant is best suited to businessmen with e...xpense accounts - there's a reason the restaurant doesn't have a $-$$$$ listing... its closer to $$$$$$. You're sat in a room facing the chef who exquisitely makes you the finest tempura, but there is no atmosphere, no music, it is not a restaurant full of people, so it's pretty awkward. No doubt the food is tasty, but.. how good can tempura be? Anyway, if your boss wants to take you out on the expense account, then I can recommend this place. If you are filthy rich, I can recommend this place. Otherwise, I'd stay away, its simply not worth the price to most people.

Visited July 2016

We were taken to this restaurant by a Japanese friend. It is tucked away near a bridge across the Kanda River in an old-fashioned looking part of Tokyo. The restaurant has apparently been open since the 1930's and has a pleasantly retro look and feel about it. The restaurant has an English menu of s...orts but it is probably best to go with someone Japanese to explain the finer points of the process. After entering the ground floor and taking off our shoes we were taken upstairs to a waiting room with a pleasant view over the river green tea for a few minutes until the tempura chef was ready. The dining room has a horse-shoe counter with about ten or a dozen seats around the chef's large pan of oil and ingredients. He prepares the seafood and vegetables, dips them in tempura batter and quickly fries them in front of the diners, immediately placing them in front of each diner. The selection is at the chef's discretion but includes shrimp, clams, fish and squid together with bamboo shoots, mushrooms, ginger, chrysanthemum flowers and onions, and continues serving until you have had sufficient. Rice is served and very good sake or beer but the emphasis is on tempura. I can honestly say I have never tasted tempura as good as this, so simple, so fresh and so expertly cooked. The only drawback is that it would be difficult to experience fully without a Japanese friend or long-term resident of Japan to experience it fully. It is not cheap, but not expensive for the quality.

Visited October 2015