Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
I don't think I've ever been to any restaurant listed in this thread so far, and I still enjoy the Japanese food experience. To generalize one point, however, I avoid Chinese restaurants in Japan because the ones that I have tried haven't been very good, even by my local SF bay area standards.
The curious standout in foreign cuisine in Japan is Indian restaurants. They're consistently decent and sometimes quite good. Driving to Mt Iso in a rental car in Kyushu, one of my kids was impulsing it through FourSquare and found an Indian restaurant we were coming up on that had a few check-ins, although we couldn't read them since no one in the car knew Japanese. We stopped and had a really good lunch for about Y1400 each.
What about French restaurants? An old chef friend of ours - Bruno Menard - from the Ritz Carlton Buckhead (Atlanta Georgia USA) became the head chef at L'Osier - and it was widely regarded as one of the best restaurants (French or otherwise) in Tokyo until it closed. Robyn