Tableaux Lounge

Basement jazz club on Ochanomizu's guitar street, open since 1969 and run by a saxophonist owner. Two or three 45-minute sets nightly, usually featuring instrumental jazz trios and quartets.

Intimate Yoyogihachiman French bistro evoking Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with a blackboard menu of charcuterie, crudités, and Yamagata-beef steak frites; staff picks the wines. A recurring Michelin Bib Gourmand.

An American-style café in Shimokitazawa's Reload complex serving thick-cut sagari beef steak sandwiches with grain mustard sauce on toasted shokupan, plus bottled American beers.

Lively Shibuya izakaya serving teppanyaki dishes like dashimaki tamago and okonomiyaki alongside sashimi platters, beef tendon stew, and griddle-fried salmon and shirasu rice.