Japan Michelin Starred Restaurant Advice
Sep 7, 23, 10:53 pm
#181
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: TYO
Programs: Tokyo Monorail Diamond-Encrusted-Platinum
Posts: 9,490
There are a ton of high-end restaurants with plenty of non-seafood options. You should certainly tell them that you have a seafood allergy when you make your reservation and when you order.
Sep 8, 23, 3:52 am
#182
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,008
Are you aware that certain restaurants specialize in Wagyu Beef, and the Kobe Beef variant. Im not a beef eater, so cant help you with a recommendation, but Ive seen these selections in many restaurants that happily serve me seafood.
Sep 8, 23, 8:01 am
#183
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Cape Cod
Programs: Free agent
Posts: 1,515
Does you wife only not like seafood she can see? There is dashi (fish stock) in an immense amount of Japanese food so that is pretty limiting.
As for recommendations, I think you'd be safe with 747FC 's recommendation of teppanyaki. There are a ton of options in all three cities at a huge variety of price points. You do usually get what you pay for with higher price points offering more luxury cuts and higher grades of wagyu.
We did not see (and admittedly were not looking for) substitutions on any menus but the advice I was given was that most places do not like to sub or change their menu.
As for recommendations, I think you'd be safe with 747FC 's recommendation of teppanyaki. There are a ton of options in all three cities at a huge variety of price points. You do usually get what you pay for with higher price points offering more luxury cuts and higher grades of wagyu.
We did not see (and admittedly were not looking for) substitutions on any menus but the advice I was given was that most places do not like to sub or change their menu.
Sep 9, 23, 4:12 pm
#186
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 1,087
Id definitely spend my yen elsewhere.
Sep 16, 23, 9:50 am
#188
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 1,087
Sep 16, 23, 5:06 pm
#189
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NYC / TYO / Up in the Air
Programs: UA GS 1.5MM, AA 2MM, EK, BA, SQ, CX, Marriot LT, Accor P
Posts: 5,941
Sep 17, 23, 8:06 am
#190
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 1,087
It's hard to go wrong. One of the things I like about Yamato is that the "base" menus are always exceptional. It's not trying to be an upgrade factory. I don't think I can remember a bad bite, but I do love the menus that include bread--strategically timed to land in front of you after a sauced seafood course to mop up the remaining deliciousness.
Sep 17, 23, 4:34 pm
#191
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NYC / TYO / Up in the Air
Programs: UA GS 1.5MM, AA 2MM, EK, BA, SQ, CX, Marriot LT, Accor P
Posts: 5,941
It's hard to go wrong. One of the things I like about Yamato is that the "base" menus are always exceptional. It's not trying to be an upgrade factory. I don't think I can remember a bad bite, but I do love the menus that include bread--strategically timed to land in front of you after a sauced seafood course to mop up the remaining deliciousness.
Sep 25, 23, 2:22 pm
#192
Join Date: Sep 2022
Programs: HH Diamond
Posts: 78
I'm not meant to make a reservation at Den. The first time I tried, I called over 100+ times, got placed on a waitlist and never got confirmed. For this second trip, I made a note on their holidays, but now that I check back their holidays shifted a day, so they're going to be closed and two months from then is the date that I would like to get a reservation to eat dinner there. how do I make a reservation for two months from that date if they aren't picking up the phone for reservations two months before? Do I call them after or before that closed date? The stars aren't aligning at all over and over again.
Sep 25, 23, 5:41 pm
#193
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 160
I'm not meant to make a reservation at Den. The first time I tried, I called over 100+ times, got placed on a waitlist and never got confirmed. For this second trip, I made a note on their holidays, but now that I check back their holidays shifted a day, so they're going to be closed and two months from then is the date that I would like to get a reservation to eat dinner there. how do I make a reservation for two months from that date if they aren't picking up the phone for reservations two months before? Do I call them after or before that closed date? The stars aren't aligning at all over and over again.
The nice thing about Tokyo is that, for every restaurant that's impossible to book, there are at least ten that are easy to book and just as good.
Sep 25, 23, 6:00 pm
#194
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: TYO
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,721
I'm not meant to make a reservation at Den. The first time I tried, I called over 100+ times, got placed on a waitlist and never got confirmed. For this second trip, I made a note on their holidays, but now that I check back their holidays shifted a day, so they're going to be closed and two months from then is the date that I would like to get a reservation to eat dinner there. how do I make a reservation for two months from that date if they aren't picking up the phone for reservations two months before? Do I call them after or before that closed date? The stars aren't aligning at all over and over again.
You'll make it there one day and it will be great.
There are restaurants I've been attempting to book for a long time that don't work out due to scheduling or other reasons, eventually I get a booking and it's very satisfying when you can actually go. So keep trying, but also accept it might be next trip, or maybe next year.
Japanese restaurants are pretty big on loyalty and I believe Den is no exception so the first booking is usually the toughest.
Sep 25, 23, 7:00 pm
#195
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 1,087
Part of the fun in my opinion.
You'll make it there one day and it will be great.
There are restaurants I've been attempting to book for a long time that don't work out due to scheduling or other reasons, eventually I get a booking and it's very satisfying when you can actually go. So keep trying, but also accept it might be next trip, or maybe next year.
Japanese restaurants are pretty big on loyalty and I believe Den is no exception so the first booking is usually the toughest.
You'll make it there one day and it will be great.
There are restaurants I've been attempting to book for a long time that don't work out due to scheduling or other reasons, eventually I get a booking and it's very satisfying when you can actually go. So keep trying, but also accept it might be next trip, or maybe next year.
Japanese restaurants are pretty big on loyalty and I believe Den is no exception so the first booking is usually the toughest.
Den is a weird restaurantpart of its allure to me. Its easily my favorite restaurant in the entire world, but I can name 20 other spots where the food is actually better.
Keep trying or maybe PM me for a tip to help you out on your hajj.
