This hairy crab is hairy… Despite of some wonderful bites like this delicacy from Hokkaido, Sushi Kanesaka is nothing like it used to be. Overcrowded, with too many locations in Tokyo, Singapore and, soon, Macau, the original branch in Ginza has lost its attention to detail and its magic.

It’s been 8 months I didn’t post Tokyo’s best restaurants list, according to Japanese speaking website Tabelog.com.(By some considered more trustworthy than Michelin…) Hope you enjoy the freshly compiled list. It contains quite a few changes since last May. 1. Matsukawa (Kaiseki) http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1307/A130701/13124391/ http://www.luxeat.com/blog/introduction-only-matsukawa-2/ 2. Sushi Saito…

Mitsuhiro Araki is a three Michelin star sushi master from Tokyo, who has recently relocated to London. When you talk about the world’s best sushi chefs (Jiro Ono, Hachiro Mizutani, Takashi Saito to name a few), Araki would be one of them. He is especially famous for his knowledge of…

What makes a good sushi restaurant great? Excellent fish and seafood? Chef’s experience, skills and obsession with consistency? Takashi Saito seems to correspond all these criteria, but it’s much more than that. Saito-san hits the perfect gustative balance in each morsel he produces, taste and texture-wise. Joel Robuchon called Sushi…

Mizutani (9F, Juno Ginza Seiwa Bldg, 8-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; tel. 03-3573-5258) is undoubtedly one of the greatest sushi chefs in history. Some call his rice “mushy” or not al dente enough, but the disciple of the legendary Jiro Ono has really mastered the perfect rice. Very different than the…

To paraphrase the old saying, if the sea won’t come to a Japanese sushi chef, the sushi chef will go to the sea. This is certainly true in the case of 3 Michelin starred chef from Tokyo Toru Okuda, who just opened an intimate, “Edo-mae” style sushi- ya next to…

Sushi Tetsu is considered the best sushi-ya in London and the hardest to get in. (At least for now, before Araki, a 9 seat sushi shop by 3 Michelin star chef from Tokyo opens later this fall.) The seven seat counter restaurant is owned by a young man from Japan…

Sushi gods have been particularly gracious to the Parisians recently. We have 3 Michelin star chef from Tokyo Toru Okuda, who last autumn opened a kaiseki restaurant near Champs Elysees (the omakase meal also includes a sushi course), we have Jin, high end sushi shop run by a young chef…

Below you can see my freshly compiled list of the top 50 results of the best restaurants in Tokyo according to the Japanese language site Tabelog.com users. The world’s most famous sushi restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro with its 51st position has never been so high on this site. Otherwise, my Tokyo…

May 1, 2014 update It’s been a while since I last updated the top 50 results of the best restaurants in Tokyo according to the Japanese language site Tabelog.com users. Click on continue reading below to see the freshly translated list. Otherwise, my Tokyo reviews can be found here, while the…