The Top 100 Restaurants Near Chukasoba Mugen
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Rank 1. Chukasoba Mugen
Ramen
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Rank 2. Point
French
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Rank 3. Rakushin
Japanese
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Rank 4. Rooots Nakanoshima
Contemporary
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Rank 5. ad hoc
French
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Rank 6. Yonemasu
Japanese
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Rank 7. La Baie
French
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Rank 9. Oudon Yomogi
Udon
A udon shop with the soul of a proper kappo restaurant, which means you sit at a plain-wood counter, work through little appetizers and sake, and finish with a bowl of the house-made noodles in a clean, clear broth. Ending a meal with udon instead of soba is the whole vibe here, and it works. The crowd tends toward people who know exactly what they're doing and never need to ask questions.
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Rank 10. via del emme
Italian
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Rank 11. Ayamuya
Yakitori
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Rank 12. HAJIME
Innovative
Hajime holds three Michelin stars and earns every one of them. It's a boundary-pushing fine dining room in Osaka where the chef turned a background in systems engineering into some of the most quietly mind-bending food you'll eat, all built around a deep reverence for nature. The crowd is dressed up and a little awed, as they should be. That giant planet-shaped artwork watching over the room sets the tone perfectly.
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Rank 13. Izakaya Tokitame
Izakaya
This cozy izakaya in Fukushima feels like eating at someone's mom's place, which is basically the point. The chef grew up cooking alongside his parents and it shows in the obanzai, those homestyle Japanese small plates that taste like they've been made the same way forever. The crowd is relaxed, the portions flex to fit your group, and they'll even resize the onigiri if you ask. Unpretentious and genuinely warm.
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Rank 14. Iroha
Japanese
This Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Osaka's Kita Ward treats every dinner like it might be your last good meal, which is honestly the right attitude. The chef rotates the menu entirely around what's in season, pulling off techniques like kombu pickling and skin searing to make sashimi feel like an event. Dishes are garnished with seasonal leaves, which sounds precious but lands beautifully. The crowd here came dressed for the occasion and isn't checking their phone.
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Rank 15. Numata
Tempura
A two-Michelin-star tempura counter in Osaka where the chef fries whatever moves him that day in sesame oil, producing a coating so light it practically floats. Seafood and vegetables arrive in alternating pairs, and you finish by choosing your rice course, whether that's a classic tendon, one steeped in roasted green tea, or a shrimp tempura onigiri. The crowd is serious about their meal but not stiff about it.
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Rank 16. Sakamoto Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 17. il luogo di TAKEUCHI
Italian
Osaka has no shortage of Italian spots, but this cozy trattoria in Fukushima earns its reputation by mostly getting out of the way of the ingredients. The chef leans on charcoal flame and good sourcing rather than fuss, which means what lands on the table actually tastes like something. Lunch is a casual pasta affair, evenings open up to a broader à la carte spread. The kind of room where regulars eat slowly and nobody's performing for anyone.
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Rank 18. Yakitori Ichimatsu
Yakitori
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Rank 19. KuushinGarandou
Chinese
This Michelin-starred Chinese spot in Osaka's Kita Ward has a genuinely unusual idea at its heart: everyone eats together, everyone finishes together, and then you all gather around tea like you're old friends who just happen to have met tonight. The food tours China's regional home cooking with small, clever twists on familiar dishes. The crowd tends toward people who appreciate that kind of warmth, not a power-dinner scene, more like a communal dinner party.
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Rank 21. Oryori Nonohara
Japanese
A Japanese kaiseki spot where the seasons and old folklore shape every detail of the meal, not just the menu. The tableware shifts with the calendar, lacquer bowls catch the light like a night sky during the Star Festival, and the sweets nod to a Fukuoka shrine the chef grew up near. It's the kind of place where the regulars sit quietly and let the ritual wash over them, which honestly seems like the right call.
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Rank 23. Pierre
French
A Michelin-starred French restaurant on the 20th floor of the InterContinental, Pierre is the kind of place where the view alone would justify the reservation, and then the food goes and outdoes it. The chef builds the menu around Japanese ingredients, listing only the components and letting the cooking surprise you, which sounds like a gimmick until it genuinely isn't. Couples on big nights out, suits celebrating something expensive.
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Rank 24. agnel d'or
French
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Rank 25. Óptimo
Spanish
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Rank 26. Ono
Japanese
Ono is a Michelin-starred omakase counter in Kitashinchi where the chef has made it his personal mission to put Awaji Island on the map, one course at a time. Every ingredient, down to the soy sauce and salt, comes from his home island, so the menu feels less like a tasting and more like a love letter with very good wagyu. The crowd is serious about dinner but not about themselves, which helps.
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Rank 27. capi
Innovative
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Rank 28. Ryoriya Inaya
Japanese
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Rank 29. KAHALA
Innovative
Yoshifumi Mori has been around forever, and somehow that's the least interesting thing about him. This two Michelin star restaurant in Osaka is where one chef's obsession with forgotten Japanese ingredients turns into something genuinely revelatory. He makes his own wine, grows his own rice, and travels the country hunting down things nobody else bothers with. The room rewards the curious more than the trendy.
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Rank 30. Nishino
Japanese
This Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Nishi Ward is where the chef treats every detail, from the charcoal used to the plate it lands on, as a genuine obsession rather than a selling point. The smoke on his pan-seared sashimi and grilled dishes is the kind of thing you keep thinking about after. Quiet, serious, and probably full of people who booked weeks out and dressed accordingly.
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Rank 31. La Cime
French, Contemporary
A sleek fine dining room in Osaka's business district where modern French cooking gets quietly rerouted through western Japan's seafood and a subtropical island's citrus. The chef trained in Lyon and Paris, and it shows, though this is far from a museum piece. Suits fill most seats, but nobody's stiff about it. The Boudin Dog, one crispy bite of blood sausage, is the kind of thing you'll still be talking about later. On Asia's 50 Best list.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
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Rank 32. Yakitori Torisen
Yakitori
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Rank 33. Sushi Shigenaga
Sushi
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Rank 34. Artisan
French
A French restaurant in Osaka run by a chef who quit carpentry to cook, and it shows in the best possible way. The food is precise and a little theatrical, shaped by years in Paris and a genuine love of manga. The room feels like the inside of someone's very specific, very committed creative vision, which it basically is. The crowd tends to be curious diners who came for the food and stay for the stories.
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Rank 35. Sumibiyakitori Torio
Yakitori
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Rank 36. Tempura Urakami
Tempura
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Rank 37. Différence
French
This Michelin-starred French dining room in Osaka does something quietly clever: it runs on Japanese ingredients and sensibility, so the food feels rooted here rather than imported. The all-white space feels like someone turned the contrast all the way down, which is either zen or a little eerie depending on your mood. The crowd leans dressy and unhurried, people who came to slow down. Desserts sneak in yokan and daifuku alongside the usual French finishing moves.
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Rank 39. La Lucciola
Italian
Tucked down a back alley in Fukushima, this intimate Italian counter restaurant is built around a chef whose good humor is apparently as much a draw as the food. The cooking is Italian at heart but quietly Japanese in spirit, with a charcoal grill and counter setup that feels closer to kappo than a trattoria. The regulars clearly come back as much for the room as the meal, which tells you something.
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Rank 40. Kaishoku Shimizu
Japanese
A Michelin-starred kaiseki spot in Osaka where the chef's curiosity is the whole point. He studied agriculture just to understand ingredients better, then taught himself to cook, which tells you everything about the obsession level here. Expect dishes that pair seafood with vegetables in ways that feel considered rather than fussy. The house-made soba alone is worth the visit. Dress neatly; the room rewards people who show up paying attention.
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Rank 41. Otsuki
Japanese
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Rank 42. Hiraishi
Tempura
Tempura gets the Michelin-star treatment at this intimate Osaka counter, where you sit on tatami around a low table while the chef fries each piece to order right in front of you. The old ozashiki style makes it feel more like a private dinner than a restaurant visit. The wine pairing idea sounds gimmicky until you try it, and then it makes obvious sense. Locals in understated outfits, very much not their first time here.
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Rank 43. Iwaki
Japanese
This Michelin-starred kappo spot in Osaka's Sonezakishinchi keeps things interesting by running no fixed menu, so every visit genuinely feels different. The chef weaves in Western vegetables and European techniques without losing the Japanese soul of the thing, and the cooking has a quiet playfulness that sneaks up on you. The crowd tends toward people who know exactly what they're doing, dressed just well enough to mean it.
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Rank 44. Shinchi Yamamoto
Japanese
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Rank 45. Yoshikou
Fugu / Pufferfish
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Rank 46. Donostia
Spanish
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Rank 47. Kashiwaya Osaka Kitashinchi
Japanese
Counter omakase done at full ryotei intensity, which is a rarer combination than you'd think. This Michelin-starred Kitashinchi spot is the kind of place where the chef's knife work alone holds the room, and on the right night you watch actual flames rise behind a little glass window while straw-fire cooking happens just in front of you. The crowd is quiet, attentive, and dressed like they knew exactly where they were going.
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Rank 48. PRESQU'ÎLE
French
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Rank 49. atelier HANADA
Chinese
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Rank 50. Alarde
Spanish
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Rank 51. Oimatsu Hisano
Japanese
A two-Michelin-star kaiseki counter in Osaka where the chef treats the seasons like a personal obsession, not a calendar obligation. Leaves foraged from actual hills show up as garnish, a handwritten slip sets the mood, and the rice alone, grown in mineral-rich soil and finished in clay pots, is worth talking about after. The room is quiet, the crowd is serious, and imagination quietly runs the whole show.
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Rank 52. Nishitemma Ichigaya
Japanese
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Rank 53. Taian
Japanese
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Rank 54. Empathie
French
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Rank 55. Tosara
Contemporary, Italian
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Rank 56. YUNiCO
Italian, Italian Contemporary
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Rank 57. Le Pont De Ciel
French
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Rank 58. Oimatsu Kitagawa
Japanese
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Rank 59. Numata Sou
Tempura
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Rank 60. Oryori Yamada
Japanese
This Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Nishitenma is where the chef turns traditional Osaka ingredients into something quietly inventive, the kind of meal that keeps surprising you without ever showing off. The room draws serious food lovers who eat here like regulars even on a first visit. The finale alone, three rounds of different rice dishes with free refills, is the kind of generous move that makes you forgive a lot of things in life.
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Rank 61. Naniwakappo NOBORU
Japanese
Kappo dining means you eat at the counter while the chef cooks right in front of you, and at Naniwakappo NOBORU that proximity is the whole point. The food follows a kaiseki structure but bends to whatever the chef feels like that day and whatever you're in the mood for. The conversation is part of the meal too, which sounds like a gimmick until it isn't. Regulars who've been coming for years and curious first-timers tend to fill those seats.
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Rank 62. La Becasse
French
A Michelin-starred French restaurant in Osaka's business district where the chef hits the markets every morning and builds the menu around whatever Japanese ingredients are speaking that day. This is proper French cooking, not a greatest-hits parade, so the menu keeps moving. The room draws serious diners who actually want to be surprised, which already tells you something about the crowd.
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Rank 63. Osteria La Cicerchia
Italian
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Rank 64. Chi-Fu
Chinese
Chi-Fu holds a Michelin star for doing something genuinely odd: it's a Chinese fine-dining spot in Osaka that treats French technique and wine pairings as natural companions to Shaoxing wine and tofu skin. The menu reads like a poem someone wrote after a long night, and the chef leans into that playfulness without apology. Dress nicely, bring curiosity, and maybe let them pick the wine.
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Rank 65. TEMPURA HANAGATAMI
Tempura
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Rank 66. QUINTOCANTO
Italian
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Rank 67. ku:de kiyo
French
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Rank 68. Koryu
Japanese
Koryu is a two-Michelin-star kaiseki restaurant sitting right on the river, which feels fitting given that Osaka built its whole identity around water. The room is all curved wickerwork ceilings and quiet elegance, and the crowd dresses accordingly. The kitchen is deeply committed to Osaka's own culinary tradition, which gets overlooked next to Kyoto but absolutely shouldn't be. Come hungry and unhurried.
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Rank 69. Miyamoto
Japanese
This two-Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Osaka is worth seeking out for the way it treats a bowl and a plate as seriously as the food that goes on them. The chef has spent years collecting ceramics, and every piece is chosen to match what it holds. The cooking is honest and unshowy, seasonal udon made in-house, rice that tastes like rice should. Regulars here look like people who know the difference.
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Rank 70. Ajikitcho Bunbuan
Japanese
This Michelin-starred kaiseki spot in Osaka is for anyone who wants to eat food that genuinely has history behind it. The third-generation chef runs the kitchen the way it's always been run, which in a city obsessed with the next thing is quietly radical. The crowd tends toward people who already know what they're getting, which is seasonal Japanese cooking made with a level of knife work and dashi judgment that doesn't need to announce itself.
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Rank 71. SINAE
French
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Rank 72. Fushimimachi Kakoiyama
Japanese
A Michelin-starred kaiseki spot in Osaka that feels genuinely transportive, like stepping into a tea house where someone thought deeply about every detail. The chakaiseki menu weaves in local Osaka touches, and the chef pours tea at the table, which sounds small until it happens. The crowd tends toward the quietly reverent, people who've made a reservation weeks out and mean it. Come hungry, come unhurried.
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Rank 73. P greco
Italian
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Rank 74. Fujiya 1935
Innovative
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Rank 75. Torisho Ishii
Yakitori
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Rank 76. Tenjinbashi Aoki
Japanese
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Rank 77. Kyomachibori Nakamura
Tonkatsu
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Rank 78. JIANG NAN CHUN
Chinese
A Cantonese restaurant perched high above Osaka with views that make you feel like you're eating inside a postcard. The Hong Kong-born chef does traditional dim sum at lunch and prix fixe dinners built around seasonal ingredients, so the menu basically decides for you, which is honestly fine. The room is elegant in a quiet, unhurried way, and the crowd dresses accordingly.
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Rank 79. Ajikitcho Horieten
Japanese
This Michelin-starred kaiseki restaurant in Osaka carries a lineage that runs deep into the roots of Japanese cuisine, and you feel it the second you walk in. The room is spare and quiet, built in the style of a tea ceremony house, full of people who dress like they mean it. The seasonal menu shifts with real intention, and the appetizer platters alone feel like a lesson in why Japanese food culture matters.
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Rank 80. milpa
Mexican, Contemporary
A Michelin-starred spot where a Japanese chef is quietly doing something genuinely strange and wonderful: making modern Mexican food in Osaka that actually feels rooted in Mexico. Corn, cacao, and chilies come straight from the source, everything hits a wood-fired grill, and Japanese ingredients slide in without making a fuss about it. The crowd tends toward curious food people who read too much. Wear something nice but not stiff.
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Rank 81. Kamigatachuka SHINTANI
Chinese
A Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in Osaka that's doing something genuinely its own, blending Kansai ingredients and sensibility with Chinese technique and serving it all on a mix of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. The chef grew up in a family Chinese restaurant here, and that biography shows up on the plate in the best way. The crowd tends toward curious diners who appreciate that kind of considered cooking without needing it explained to death.
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Rank 82. Konoha
Japanese, Tempura
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Rank 83. Varier
French
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Rank 84. nishi-Shinsaibashi Yuno
Japanese
A Michelin-starred kappo in Nishi-Shinsaibashi where the chef basically does whatever feels right, and it works. The omakase format gives the kitchen room to roam: sashimi with unexpected dipping sauces, grilled things dressed in vegetable sauces, broths built from bones most places throw away. It's the kind of meal that feels personal, like the chef actually thought about you. The crowd tends toward people who know what kappo means and are genuinely excited about it.
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Rank 85. Teruya
Japanese
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Rank 86. Tempura Fukana
Tempura
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Rank 87. Ukitacho Ima
Japanese
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Rank 88. Sushi Hoshiyama
Sushi
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Rank 89. Ñ
Spanish
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Rank 90. Higashichaya Nakamura
Japanese
A one-Michelin-star counter spot in Osaka where the chef is essentially an ambassador for his home region of Ishikawa. He cooks over a charcoal brazier and narrates the whole thing, talking up the fishermen he works with and the coastline they pull from. The seafood changes with the seasons, and the passion is genuine rather than performed. Feels like being let into someone's obsession, which turns out to be a pretty great place to be.
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Rank 91. Le progrès
French
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Rank 92. Masuda
Japanese
A Michelin-starred kaiseki counter in Shinsaibashi where the kitchen runs like a well-rehearsed performance, every chef moving in sync behind the plain wood bar. The seasonal dishes are quietly stunning, especially the hassun course, which looks like someone arranged land and sea into edible art. The crowd dresses accordingly and doesn't rush. This is the kind of place where the chef actually means it.
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Rank 93. Daidokoro Kamiya
Izakaya
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Rank 94. Oryori Horikawa
Japanese
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Rank 95. Naniwa Ryouri YU
Japanese
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Rank 96. Tanpopo
Teppanyaki, Okonomiyaki
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Rank 97. Sui Oya
Japanese
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Rank 98. Sushi Harasho
Sushi
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Rank 99. Yugen
Japanese
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Rank 100. IDÉAL bistro
French