Sumibi Yakiniku Nakahara

This was an excellent place to do a Wagyu course. The ambience was great and so was the food. Every course was amazing and the Wagyu quality is top tier. They had let us choose our size for the ending donburi and we were a bit shocked at how small the large size was. You can pay extra to sit at the counter and pay another add on to get their Katsu Sando. We opted to not do so for the steep pricing and enjoyed our meal just without. Overall a bit pricy compared to other similar restaurants but still worth going!

Sumibi Yakiniku Nakahara offers a truly memorable dining experience. The food is absolutely delicious, with each dish thoughtfully presented in a well-balanced order that enhances the overall flow of the meal. The course is well-paced—not too long, and just right to enjoy everything without feeling rushed or overwhelmed. The staff are attentive, professional, and provide excellent service throughout. Highly recommended for anyone looking to enjoy premium yakiniku in Tokyo.

The chef, Henry, was super nice. If you’re going to eat here, definitely get the counter seating so you can chat with the chef and watch them prepare the food. The meat was the best and we tried all the parts of the cow. The meal is a pre-set course that already comes with all the meat, soup, etc. so you don’t have to order anything. So if you’re looking for high quality meat and a great experience, I highly recommend this place.

Great place to try different Wagyu parts! I would recommend you get the counter seating so you can chat with the chef. Otherwise the waitress doesn’t really explain much.

Great yakiniku restaurant. They are course menu which you don't have to order but they arrange everything for you which is really good. It's varieties of beef from different parts and taste are different. They choose the good one for you so you can try different parts. The whole course took almost two hours and it's full. They have 2 rice dishes and one noodle dish at the end. Every plate are good. Good quality and well cooked. Excellent service. English communication are ok. They are good. Reservation only and not difficult, you can do it from the link in google map. Credit card are accepted. They allowed you to come in when it's the time of reservation and only convenient store available for waiting near by. Be prepared and Enjoy !

I booked this place for my Husband’s birthday. We went for the Special Course, the beef tongue and beef slices were cut and charcoal-grilled to perfection. From the Appetizer to dessert, everything was divinely flavorful. It was quite a pleasant and enjoyable sensory dining experience!

One of if not the best meal I had in Japan. The staff was super nice and pleasant explaining all of the cuts of meat. They cook it all for you which was nice, I prefer that in higher end places over cooking it yourself, it adds more to the experience overall. The sake is super cheap imo and strong, try the sparkling sake. The heart and stomach was chewy but still flavorful. Towards the end they offered rice with beef and kept on refilling if we wanted which was very nice of them. Keep in mind this was a $200 experience per person. I think it was fully worth it.

Hard to top this meat/beef eating experience. Slightly cleaner in flavor profile than say, Yakiniku Jambo Hanare (flavortown baby!!). The point of coming here is to experience how amazing “simply” prepared meat can taste, as well as to converse with Nakahara-san with regard to his cooking philosophy and experience (only if you get the counter seating) Similarly priced to Jambo Hanare (the “flagship” branch of Yakiniku Jambo/Jumbo I believe) In short, this is a purist’s peak yakiniku experience. Have my second visit lined up already in a few months 😁

amazing wagyu tasting, loved everything we had. each cut was fatty and flavorful, cooked perfectly. the finishing dishes were also good (beef and rice, beef and rice with yolk, and chilled noodles). service was friendly, the meal moves at a good pace, dessert was good. would highly recommend

Great food and great experience! This restaurant is located in a very lovely area of Tokyo. We got to eat so many different beef cuts and body parts, with thoughtful small dish and drink pairing. Our waiter cooked all the meats for us and they were so perfectly cooked. Other than barbecued meats, we also had small beef bowls and a state of the art steak sandwich. We were very full at the end but not uncomfortably so. 5/5, strongly recommend!

The best meat I have ever had and I love meat. Location: 9th floor of a non description high rise building. Reservations: Advance booking is a must and can be done via Pocket Concierge. You must select your Omakase course option in advance. See pocket concierge for full cancellation policy. Note: credit card required at booking and you will be charged immediately upon confirmation of booking. Yakiniku: Grilled premium meat curated by chef. Real charcoal grill. Waitress will grill each piece of meat for you to perfection. We chose the standard course with legendary tongue and ofals. Each piece of meat has its own flavor, but all are perfectly marbled, tender, juicy and melt in your mouth good. Nothing we can get in the US compares. If you love meat, this place is a must.

One of the best places we ate in Japan. Went around 8pm and luckily they still had meat left - another location we tried was already sold out. Line moves fast as they ask you your order while you're waiting. We waited ~40 min I did 1.5 cutlets while my partner did 2 and it was slightly too much food. The meat was so tender and you can cook to your liking!

Sumibi Yakiniku Nakahara for wagyu yakiniku & best meal of my entire trip. I booked the reservation 1.5-2 weeks before I arrived in October 2023. I got the menu with the beef filet sandwiches well aware there was going to be a lot of food but still was shocked how much came out (even a couple drink pairings). Paid about $200 USD. Again, be ready for a ton of food though, plan accordingly. I almost died eating everything & had to cut portions. I came by myself and enjoyed the ambiance, food, and service, everything was perfect. The servers know English and all the bbq smoke gets immediately sucked up so the whole place isn't consumed by smoke or the smell of grilled meat. Highly recommend this place and would come back in a heartbeat with a completely empty stomach.

Pure beef heaven. Easily one of the most memorable meals for me in Tokyo, and one that I will for sure be coming back to on my next visit. Each cut of wagyu was thoroughly tender, juicy and flavorful, and I had a hard time picking my favorite of the bunch. Just kidding, it was the beef tongue. Make your reservations online and make them ahead of time if you want to try the beef tongue, it goes fast! Our server told us each cow produces 6 slices so they're not able to get a lot each night. The best part (aside from the amazing food) was that the server grills all the cuts of meat for you, so the 'stress' of messing up a perfectly decadent piece of wagyu is lifted off your shoulders. The sando was also something to write home about. Very tender, the meat comes apart with your bite and doesn't try to bring the entire piece along with it, and the bread was so evenly toasted (balmuda?) and made each bite consistently amazing. Yes, this is pricey, but you leave full and the splurge is definitely worth it if you're wanting to sample some of the finest wagyu available in Tokyo!

Made a trip to Tokyo and saw on hangrydairy that she had just eaten here. Made a reservation and pre ordered the waygu tongue (you must pre order this before you come!). The whole meal was legit. The most delicious meal I had. Alittle pricey but completely worth it if you want to splurge. Best part of meal was the waygu sando with a lager. The best thing I had ever eaten in my life. I wish there was more! And chef kentaro was super nice and even hooked us up with a parting gift!

This was the best meal I had in Japan. I found this place through instagram pictures. Make sure you make reservation 1 month a head if you want to try their wagyu tongue. I made my reservation on pocket concierge. The wagyu literally melts in your mouth. It's slightly fatty tasting but the texture and flavor is just indescribable. The wagyu tongue was the most tender pieces of all the parts I've tried. The tongue special comes with 3 different pieces from different parts of the tongue. My husband doesn't normally like tongue but he ended up loving the wagyu tongue. I think if we were not told that those were tongue we wouldn't have been able to guess it. The service was just spectacular. Our server was super friendly and tried to make small talk with us the entire night. He stood there to help us cook each individual slice to perfection. I observed that some of the locals just cooked their own meat. At the end he gave us an extra plate of wagyu that was "lower quality" for us to cook on our own. It actually takes a lot of patience and skill to have it cooked perfectly. I would definitely come back again. Highly recommend this even though it's a little more on the pricey side.

Nakahara-san has the best knife cutting skills of any of the Yakinikus. It's seasoned rather lightly. The tongue is sublime, all 3 parts of it. I have a feeling he trained as a sushi chef or something, and for quality of meat, even though Yoroniku wins gold medal consistently, I've got to say Nakahara is way better. He's from San Jose, CA...

It will be hard to find a better variety of wagyu cuts than here. If you like meat with a lot of marbling this is the place. I highly recommend the tongue special. They offer it three ways. You need to let them know ahead of time if you want the tongue. We did not get the wagyu sandwich but we saw it on the table next to us and it looked delicious. That's another add on. The waitstaff was very pleasant, but I could have used better descriptions of some of the cuts of meat. I wasn't always sure what I was eating. The good news is everything tasted great.

Sumibiyakiniku Nakahara (Yakiniku Nakahara) is not only one of the best yakiniku restaurants in the world, but you'll also find some of the best wagyu beef in the world here as well. Nakahara san says that a miniscule 0.2mm difference in thickness or a slight change in knife angle can cause a complete transformation in texture and taste. This is the mark of a true perfectionist. It's the reason he hand slices all the meat, but only after he "carefully observes the meat's texture and appearance, touches it, and listens for its voice telling him to cut this way". Each cut must be better than the last, each meal must be better than the one before. Even in Japan, not many people at the mere age of 40 have such passion and obsession to be and serve the very best. Combined with the philosophy of Kaizen, Nakahara will only get better with age, much like the meat that he so painstakingly slices. Read the full review - https://thepursuitoffoodperfection.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/nakahara-yakiniku-restaurant-review/

"Nakahara" is one of the most recognized Yakiniku restaurants in Tokyo. I had the opportunity to go and check it out the other day and liked it just like any other better-than-average Yakiniku places. In other words, it wasn't actually what I was expecting based on its extraordinary reputation, but it was of course good overall. I'd personally recommend you check out "Namaiki" first, and then "Yoroniku", and eventually this place, to see how you feel about these places. The quality of beef is very good at any of them, I can guarantee.

This place never disappoints. Sure it can get a little pricey with a few orders of the sirloin and tongue but it's soooo worth it.

Life changing meal. Its expensive but oh man so worth it. Best meat in the world. Wildly delicious, this would be my last meal on earth.

Amazing meal!! This is the best meat ever! It's so tender it melts in your mouth mouth! Nakahara is a genius with meat. The quality is amazing. Very Highly Recommended!!!

Unbelievable good!! Meat is so tender it's scary!! The meat is completely different from the rest of the world, a little fatty means very tender, in the Western world if it looks like that it's very chewy. Nice friendly and good service! Highly recommended!!!! 6 stars!