Good restaurant in Tokyo for the GF's Bday..?

[Jake Unkutt]

Its my GF's birthday this week so I need to find a nice romantic restuarant in Tokyo,

ideally anywhere between Shinjuku and Nakameguro.

any ideas? oh, and nothing too expensive (around 20,000?), im just a poor English teacher,,plus we are going to Okinawa for 4 days this wekend

Thanks

[chromesquared]

I think guru-navi has an English site up now.

[coinlockerbaby]

20,000 yen - so 10,000 a head - qualifies as expensive to me...am I a cheapskate?

[chromesquared]

20,000 yen - so 10,000 a head - qualifies as expensive to me...am I a cheapskate?

Yes, you're a tight fisted bastard. Relatively speaking this is NOT expensive for a significant others Bday, but dont tell your girl that when you guys roll up at El Torito or some miserable shit like that.

Anyway, it seems I was mistaken about an Eng version of gurunavi, but depending on how your Japanese is this might help. If you can recognize the kanji for places I think it might.

http://www.gnavi.co.jp/

BTW, is your girl JPNEEZ? Or no? Just curious as it might afftect restaurant choice. My girl's Bday is coming so I have to do this too, Ill see what I can come up with, let me know what kind of food she likes/what youre lookin for.

PACE

[coinlockerbaby]

Yeah thats true. I forgot it was a "special occassion"...

[Jake Unkutt]

cheers for the link,,but i only know about 3 kanji

yea she is Japanese,,

and it doesnt have to be too extravegant because i've bought her a few bits and pieces, and we will also go to okinawa for 4 days from saturday

any more suggestion please?

rajio? jmatsu..?

[so-so]

Tell her you're taking her somewhere swank and make it seem secrative, then just show up at a super cheesy love hotel and bring bento with you.

Chicks dig that romantic shit.

[Jake Unkutt]

haha,,yea could try that!

or looking at that tableau place in daikanyama,,cant work out if the loung is gonan be better than the restuarant,,,it certainly looks better,,but maybe not suitable for a meal?

http://www.lounge.tableaux.jp/en/daikanyama/home/welcome

http://www.tableaux.jp/en/daikanyama/home/welcome

review:

http://www.spinshell.tv/city/restaurant/ebisu.html

[so-so]

After conducting an exhaustive search of both "balling restaurants tokyo" and "restaurants with a view tokyo" or some shit like that, I have 2 candidates.

http://tokyo.park.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/entertainment/restaurants/index.jsp

or

http://r.gnavi.co.jp/fl/en/g763349/ (english for your uneducated ass)

Seriously, with a birds eye view of tokyo at night they could be serving pre-made bento boxes and you'll still need a rag to keep that vag from getting everything wet.

Picking a top floor restaurant like this is corny as fuck in my mind, but if it doesn't get you the panties on the floor you're probably in a wheelchair.

But seriously I'm like 14 what the fuck would I know.

[coinlockerbaby]

This is a cool place: http://r.gnavi.co.jp/fl/en/g775401/index.htm

Its a tofu restaurant, so you have to like tofu and they have pretty small serves (but its Japan, what do you expect) BUT its really really good.

The restaurant is pretty cool too. Its on a funky street on the way from Shibuya to Daikanyama- you walk in through a white pebbled corridor with a fountain and then get seated in little glasswalled tatami booths. Very minimal modern/traditional.

I took out of town visitros there and hey loved it. not so expensive either. Its called 豆腐料理 空ノ庭 "Soranoniwa."

[Guest jmatsu]

what kind of food do you and girl want to eat?

[djrajio]

Picking a top floor restaurant like this is corny as fuck in my mind, but if it doesn't get you the panties on the floor you're probably in a wheelchair.

Yes. Nothing spells corny deseparate gaijin than choosing the top floor restaurant at the grand hyatt. But seriously, you only gonna drop 10,000 yen each for her B-day? You can't manage to save a little bit more to go someplace decent?

Recommendations:

Tableaux in Daikanyama

Stellato in Shirokanedai

[djrajio]

Higashi-yama in Naka-meguro

Stair-Lounge in Aoyama

[so-so]

Yes. Nothing spells corny deseparate gaijin than choosing the top floor restaurant at the grand hyatt.

NOW WERE TALKING!

granted "balling tokyo restaurants" probably isn't the best way to conduct this kind of search.

[djrajio]

Azabu Haus in Azabu-Juban

Hal Yamashita in Midtown Tokyo

可不可 (pronounced Kafka) in Tokyo Midtown

[_eric_]

Try this place.

[salaryman]

got cash? fuck kyubei, this is it.

http://www.seamon.jp/

If not GINZA ballin', Legato is popular

http://www.legato-tokyo.jp/jp/shibuya/home/welcome

and Tofuya Ukai is old school-pimp.

EDIT: just saw that you said between Shinjuku and Nakame is ideal...in that case only Legato would qualify, and its least highly recommended of the three...

[BBC]

"restaurants with a view tokyo"

Don't know what the food is like, but Opera City has a few restuarants with awesome views. it's at Hatsudai, very close the Shinjuku. There is a massive grand piano there so if you got skills, jump on and play her a song.