Originally Posted by
glac13
When I was doing research for my Japan trip earlier this summer I found a place called Steak House Satou which seemed to be popular with (English-speaking) internet food bloggers as being a good value. It's a little bit off the beaten path in Kichioji (a Tokyo suburb). It's primarily a butcher shop that sells Matsuzaka steak, but upstairs they have a really small restaurant where you can get high quality steak for about $50 (at lunch, probably a bit more for dinner).
You can read about it here:
http://paulstravelpics.blogspot.com/...-yakitori.html or just googling for "steak house satou" for some other links.
You could go to Matsuzaka to have the Matsuzaka steak. It's about 30 min train ride from Nagoya. I went to one of butcher shops that run a steak house as well in Matsuzaka and didn't see any Westerners. So it may be a place you are looking for. And I enjoyed their matsuzaka-gyu.