Kamoya

This is the cheapest set since I’ll have dinner soon. Waited for quite a while (around 30 mins) but totally worth it. You can tell the eel is freshly grilled, as the edge of it is a bit crunchy. The souce and the rice perfectly matched the eel. And the soup was also great, made with the eel liver, totally fresh and no horrible flavor. If you are to try the grilled eel in Tokyo, can definitely consider this one near the Ueno park. A small but a professional restaurant, they provide English menu.

One of my top must-try foods on our trip to Japan was Unagi. I’m not going to lie, at the time we visited, I just wanted a restaurant where I could sit down and rest my very sore and tired feet. I told my husband a few food options that I was in the mood for and he found this one. The restaurant wasn’t too far from where we were in the park and they had unagi on the menu. Win-win!

The restaurant is so beautiful inside and fancier than I was dressed for, but luckily that didn’t matter. We had a wonderful waitress who spoke English and offered some great recommendations. We both ordered an unagi set and tea.

The soup was like a miso cooked with eel liver. Light and refreshing but a tad on fishy side which I kind of expected. The unagi bento was delicious! Perfectly grilled and melted in my mouth. And the rice was amazing, especially with the juices and sauce having soaked in. On it’s own though, I have never had better rice. Soft, slightly sweet, not too sticky.

I highly recommend stopping in if you’re in the area.

Good first stop in Ueno. Nice ambiance, good presentation, delicate flavors. Would have liked to know where the eel was from and a bit more sauce, and a little crispier, but this is tokyo style. You are definitely paying for the ambiance. Not a bad place by any stretch of the imagination.