Whether at lunch or at dinner, Kyobashi's Isehiro will never let a yakitori-lover down. This long-established yakitori shop near Ginza has been serving skewered meat for over 100 years. Some things have changed in that time – the restaurant recently moved across the street from its original building, upgrading its interior and ventilation system in the process – but the food remains as delicious as ever.
The lunch bowl (yakitori-don, from ¥1,600) maintains the same high quality as the dinner courses (from ¥4,950), both of which allow visitors to taste several different cuts of chicken, all flavoured differently and showcasing different textures. You can choose anywhere from three to nine skewers, but we recommend the five-skewer bowl (¥1,900), which contains lean sasami breast, chicken thighs, tsukune meatballs, chicken skin and liver.