Dining

Tokyo offers numerous restaurants and other eateries located at almost every nook and corner of the city. Some of these include McDonald's, Wendy's, KFC, MOS Burger, Freshness Burger, and First Kitchen.

If you are looking for a full-fledged feast, head to any of the restaurants during lunchtime. The lunch set offers an entree, drink and salad for a set price. You have a great option of choices of two or three sets for the day.

If you get hungry while shopping, you have the shopping mall restaurant department for the rescue, which is normally situated on the top floor of the mall.

The top two floors of the chic Parco department store in Shibuya have a series of small restaurants, which are decorated and designed in gleaming dark wood.

The dishes you must try in Tokyo:

- Bento Box lunches with a variety of small portions.

- Onigiri Traditional rice & seaweed paper sandwich.

- Sushi Raw fish slices on rice patties.

- Ten-don Tempura shrimp and vegetables over rice.

- Yakitori Grilled skewers of meat and vegetables.

- Zaru Soba Buckwheat noodles served chilled with wasabi.

A. Top Restaurants

Casita

Cuisine Pacific Rim, Fusion-Crossover

Hours Daily Sunday-Thursday 6pm-2am; Friday-Saturdau 6pm-4am (to 4am daily in summer)

Address 54-10-25 Roppongi

Location 3rd floor, Roppongi & Nishi Azabu

Reservations highly recommended

Tel 03/5414-3190

Prices Main dishes $17-$30

The staff in this restaurant proffers high-class service along with delightful cuisines. Casita dishes out extremely tasty food, be it the Caesar salad with serious shavings of Parmesan, the caramelized foie gras with sweet-and-spicy chutney, the Asian roasted lobster, or the tuna roast flavored with black truffle and port wine sauce.

Cuisine American

Hours Daily 11:30am-2: 30pm and 5:30-10:30pm

Address 3-7-1-2 Nishi-Shinjuku

Location Park Hyatt Hotel, Shinjuku

Reservations required

Tel 03/5322-1234

The Cuisine American is situated on the 52nd floor of Tokyo's most elite hotel. The restaurant, established way back in 1994, is also considered to be one of the most sophisticated eatery in the whole of Japan. Prices range for main dishes are around $33 to $65, set lunch costs approximately $38, while the set dinners will charge you something between $83 and $125. It charges Saturday, Sunday and holiday brunch at $48.

It is surrounded on four sides by glass and features stunning views especially during the nighttime. The artwork is so beautiful that it adds to the beauty of this restaurant. You can come and enjoy the live jazz in the evenings along with a 1,600-bottle wine cellar.

Takamura

Cuisine Kaiseki

Hours Tues-Sat noon-3pm and Mon-Sat 5-10:30pm

Address 3-4-27 Roppongi

Location Roppongi & Nishi Azabu

Reservations required (1 day in advance for lunch, a week in advance for dinner)

Tel 03/3585-6600

Prices for set dinners are approximately $142, $165, and $208, set lunches cost around $125, $142, and $165. The restaurant is closed for lunch on the day following a holiday, 1st week of Jan and for one week in mid-August.

Takamura is located at the edge of Roppongi. This is a wonderful 60-year-old house, which is perched on a hill, and concealed with greenery. You will notice that there are at least eight private tatami rooms and each of them is decorated and designed in a different manner. When you visit this place you will observe that this restaurant has a very Japanese feeling, which the meal intensifies all the more. The specialties include quail, sparrow, or duck. The seating arrangement is like most of traditional Japanese restaurants.