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List of Japanese restaurants

Prime Minister Abe and President Obama at Sukiyabashi Jiro, Tokyo, in April 2014

This is a list of notable Japanese restaurants. Japanese cuisine is the food—ingredients, preparation and way of eating—of Japan. The traditional food of Japan is based on rice with miso soup and other dishes, each in its own utensil, with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients. The side dishes often consist of fish, pickled vegetables, and vegetables cooked in broth. Fish is common in the traditional cuisine. It is often grilled, but it may also be served raw as sashimi or in sushi. Apart from rice, staples include noodles, such as soba and udon. Japan has many simmered dishes such as fish products in broth called oden, or beef in sukiyaki and nikujaga.

Types of Japanese restaurants include:

  • Conveyor belt sushi – a sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt or moat that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table and counter seat
  • Izakaya – an informal Japanese gastropub
  • Robatayaki – a method of cooking, similar to barbecue, in which items of food on skewers are slow-grilled over hot charcoal
  • Ryōtei – a type of luxurious traditional Japanese restaurant. Traditionally they only accept new customers by referral and feature entertainment by geishas, but in modern times this is not always the case
  • Teppanyaki – a style of Japanese cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food

Notable Japanese restaurants

A chef preparing a dinner at a Benihana restaurant
A bento meal at a HokBen restaurant
Various foods at a Matsugen restaurant
"Paper steamboat" is a Sakae Sushi dish

Japan

Australia

Bangladesh

Brazil

Canada

Notable Japanese restaurants in Canada include:

Denmark

  • Sticks'n'Sushi – a Copenhagen-based restaurant and take-away chain specializing in sushi and yakitori sticks

Indonesia

  • HokBen – a Japanese fast food chain of restaurants based in Jakarta, Indonesia

Singapore

  • Sakae Sushi – a restaurant chain based in Singapore serving Japanese cuisine, and is the flagship brand of Apex-Pal International Ltd.
  • Standing Sushi Bar – a Japanese-food restaurant chain in Singapore and Indonesia

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

Notable Japanese restaurants in United Arab Emirates include:

  • Hōseki - Hōseki has been awarded one Michelin star by The Michelin Guide Dubai for 3 consecutive years since 2022 and 26th Best Restaurant on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Middle East & North Africa 2023.

United States

, Seattle
Saburo's, Portland, Oregon
Sushi Seki, New York City
Yume Wo Katare, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Notable Japanese restaurants in the United States include:

See also

References

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