Osaka Restaurants

Osaka Restaurant Reviews

Osaka has a broad range of Japanese food, from the local snack foods, okonomiyaki and takoyaki (tasty, grilled octopus in batter) to full kaiseki restaurants. The seafood from the Seto Inland Sea is always fresh, as is the tender beef used at the many Korean barbecue restaurants in Osaka's Korea Town, Tsuruhashi. French and Mexican foods are also popular in Osaka.

The department stores around Osaka Station are "gourmet palaces," each with several floors of restaurants. The Hankyu Grand Building and the Daimaru at JR Osaka Station have the best selection. Under Osaka Station is the Shin-Umeda Shokudokai—a maze of narrow alleys lined with izakaya (lively after-work drinking haunts). The beer and hot snacks comfort many an overworked salaryman on the commute home.

For some energetic dining neonside, head to Dotombori-dori and Soemon-cho (so-eh-mon cho), two areas along Dotombori-gawa packed with restaurants and bars. Kimono clad mama-sans serve the city's expense-accounters at Kita-shinchi, in south Kita-ku, the city's most exclusive dining quarter.

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