Kyu

My friends and I were amazed at how pretty this place is, how attractively the lunch was served, and how delicious everything was, all for 1,000 yen each. This restaurant serves food that is like Japanese home cooking. The plates are attractive, the food was great. Lunch hours: 11:30 to 2:30. Full ...name of the restaurant: Shunwa Zen Kyu. We usually eat white rice, but we tried the “gen mai” (whole-grain rice). We all were glad we’d done so. The rice was tasty and had beans mixed into it. The system is this: You choose your main dish from a list on the printed menu or from the small blackboard that the waitress will bring to your table. That’s “B”. With that, you get three small dishes of various vegetables prepared each in a different way. Everyone gets the same selection. Those are “A”. A plus B plus white rice or gen mai = your lunch. All-you-can-drink tea comes with it. The problem for foreigners is that there is no English on the menu and there are no photos of the food. I think you couldn’t go wrong if you just pointed to a menu item at random. We all enjoyed our lunches, and what people were eating at other tables looked delicious too. Good sense suggests choosing one of the items on the blackboard, because it’s likely to be something special from that day’s market. If you’re bothered by choosing at random, walk around and see what other people are eating. When you see something you’d like, get the waitress to come over to see what you’re looking at. She’ll understand. The restaurant is 3 minutes’ walk from Meguro train/subway station. Show the address from the TripAdvisor web site and ask people to tell you where to go. On the opposite side of the sidewalk from the entrance to the restaurant, there is a big mailbox. On the wall where the stairs are leading down to the restaurant, a sign reads “Japanese restaurante” (like that). Each table is separated from the others with attractive pull-down screens. The restaurant was not at all noisy, even at the peak of lunch hour. This place is also open for dinner. The prices are rather higher than at lunchtime. At dinner, it would probably be good to make reservations. The restaurant is not large. The (only in Japanese) web site has a form for making on-line reservations.

Visited February 2017