If you’re ever after a really special fancy lunch, at the base of Tokyo Tower is the most beautiful Tofu restaurant called Toufuya Ukai.
This is more of a special occasion kind of spot but is worth it for the walk through the gorgeous gardens and the restaurant itself is just so amazingly beautiful.
They are open to making changes for different dietary requirements (just because it’s a tofu restaurant doesn’t mean that it is vegetarian or vegan food) if you notify them one week in advance.Lunch courses start from 5,940 yen on weekdays and 7,560 yen on weekends.
(Dinner courses start from 10,000 yen.)They are used to international visitors so will walk you through where to take your shoes off.
One piece of advice is to inform the staff if you need to leave by a certain time – I’ve been stuck before – not because the service is bad. Just because it’s set up to be a dining experience.Before dining, the staff walk you through the whole restaurant and site gardens. They also show you where their house-made age-dengaku (fried thin strips of tofu basted with miso paste.)
As much as I wouldn’t really call this place kid friendly, I would say they ARE baby-friendly. They have Moses baskets ready for little babies with pillows ( please let them know you’ll be bringing a baby when you make a reservation.)
This is more of a special occasion kind of spot but is worth it for the walk through the gorgeous gardens and the restaurant itself is just so amazingly beautiful.
They are open to making changes for different dietary requirements (just because it’s a tofu restaurant doesn’t mean that it is vegetarian or vegan food) if you notify them one week in advance.Lunch courses start from 5,940 yen on weekdays and 7,560 yen on weekends.
(Dinner courses start from 10,000 yen.)They are used to international visitors so will walk you through where to take your shoes off.
One piece of advice is to inform the staff if you need to leave by a certain time – I’ve been stuck before – not because the service is bad. Just because it’s set up to be a dining experience.Before dining, the staff walk you through the whole restaurant and site gardens. They also show you where their house-made age-dengaku (fried thin strips of tofu basted with miso paste.)
As much as I wouldn’t really call this place kid friendly, I would say they ARE baby-friendly. They have Moses baskets ready for little babies with pillows ( please let them know you’ll be bringing a baby when you make a reservation.)
TOFUYA SHIBA UKAI
港区芝公園4-1-13
4 -4-13 SHIBAKOEN, MINATO-KU
OPEN WEEKDAYS 11:45AM-3PM & 5PM-7:30PM
OPEN WEEKENDS & NATIONAL HOLIDAYS 11:30AM-7:30PM
CLOSED 2 MONDAYS PER MONTH (SO CALL AHEAD)
