Below you will find our eight favorite Tokyo restaurants. However, on this trip our most memorable dining experiences were at hotels.

Kozue

Though the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel is perhaps best-known for its New York Grill steakhouse, its contemporary Japanese restaurant Kozue is a quiet and elegant setting in which to enjoy a local meal with impeccable service. A variety of prix-fixe tasting menus is offered at dinner — which is when the view is best — ranging from the Shun menu, which is more in line with Western tastes with dishes like tuna, yellowtail and shrimp sashimi, followed by shabu-shabu beef, to the more adventurous Takumi menu, which includes selections such as deep-fried blowfish milt and wild boar hot pot. Menus change according to the seasons.

Kozue
3-7-1-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Tel. (81) 3-5323-3460.