Toriyaki Sasaya

The restaurant is about a 10-minute walk from the station. It is very popular and was once a Bib Gourmand-recommended restaurant, so it’s best to make a reservation in advance. The dining experience follows the Omakase style, serving a total of 14 skewers. You can order additional items à la carte afterwards. The chef’s yakitori skills are excellent, with perfectly grilled skewers. You can also try some rare cuts here, such as "chōchin" (lantern). However, due to the limited size of the restaurant, the seating feels a bit cramped, and the space tends to get quite smoky.

Legendary yakitori chef and restaurant 🏅 This shop focuses intently on high quality ingredients and excellent preparation in their yakitori. It’s recommended to book a reservation for an おまかせ (omakase) course. The style of the omakase is great. They offer 12 pieces included in the course but, they will continue to serve you until you tell them to stop. When you elect to stop the service, there will be about 2-3 more pieces left, as they will most likely already have some pieces lined up for your service. I think you can possibly make requests for the yakitori. They have limited supply so it might be worth asking for something if you are hoping for a particular cut of yakitori. The 日本酒 (Japanese sake) they offer pairs really nicely with the yakitori. I believe yakitori is a good you can pair with most types of 日本酒. I generally like to start out dry and progress to more bold or fruity/sweet 日本酒 throughout the night. Be prepared to eat a lot remember, yakitori is best rated with some drinks (beer or 日本酒)! 🍺 🍶

Good solid yakitori restaurant, located on the west side of Meguro. Excellent attentive and jovial service. Dynamic Omakase style, with a set menu of various yakitori and grilled vegetable dishes coming out in sequence, until you proactively tell the staff to stop. Note you need to tell the staff to stop 3-4 “courses” before you’re satiated, as the chef prepares them in advance. Good quality, but I think I’d prefer to order a la carte for the yakitori I’d like to eat.

Absolutely my favorite yakitori place in Tokyo. There are other great ones with amazing meat but for some reason sasaya is the most perfect one. Service is great and environment is low key. Just walking out but already making my next reservation.

(Visited Jun’19) From a non-Japanese POV, i would easily give this a 5-star rating, while it’s good - it’s what I expect of a good yakitori place - well seasoned skewers, placed over charcoal over a controlled amount of time. My favourite was the “Kokoro” (Chicken Heart) - that nice little crunch on the outside with an almost melt in your mouth texture as you bite further inside, love it!! Other favourites include the chicken sashimi and tsukune (minced chicken meat) Highly recommend to try!

One of the best Yakitori restaurants in Tokyo. Great food and super service. Just amazing.

It’s served with kinda all you can eat and omakasae menu, yet, it started off with 5 chicken skewers then it came with another 5 veggie skewers. That means if you take 15 skewers in total, there are over 1/3 of veggie. And the chicken skewers were quite oily that i felt like they tried to fill you up with mouth of grease and veggie. Don’t really recommend this shop.

From time to time visiting this place. This venue is Yakitori Senmonten(야키토리 전문점), so to say Japanese style chicken grilled skewers restaurant. The food is very delicious and ever best among Yakitori Senmonten I tried , but little bit expensive. My favorite menu among Yakitoris are Kashiwa and Tebasaki. If you want to enjoy Japanese typical of Yakitori, you can choose this place. But this restaurant has no big spaces and no private room. This venue is very popular, so you need reservaion first if you want to visit