Yakitori Toriyoshi Ginza

Stay away from this restaurant! We walked down the Ginza corridor, found this place, and entered. Failed to do my research. They gave us an English menu that had no prices. The basic yakitori in the area are around 150-200 yen each. We ordered two beers, one bottle of water, 20 yakitori skewers, and two steamed eggs. Our bill totaled 22,000 yen because we ordered from an Engish menu. The price is 4x as much as the Japanese menu. There is also a 10% upcharge. The food was mediocre. There are plenty of restaurants out there that have better service and food.

The sister restaurant was closed for 1 week for a party, and we really wanted to eat good yakitori, so we decided to give this place a try. The food is great, and it seems to be slightly cheaper. However they didn't have our favourite garlic chicken chazuke that we liked. One of the staff from the sister recognised us as he was working there that day, but only towards the end of the meal. Still, it was a nice meal. Thank you for the hard work!

We were a table of four. Since the English menu did not include prices, we asked for them and got another menus with pricing. We ordered 22 Yakintori’s 2 beers and Water. When we got the bill, we were surprised by the sum, which was 17800 yen. We asked for explanations. They calculated it before us and reached lower price. Than they said the pricing in the additional menu were not updated. They added 800 yen per person, total of 3200 yen for table cover. We read outside that the table cover is 800 yen, but didn’t thought it is per person. After 10 minutes of conversation and calculations we decided to pay and leave. If you are not Japanese, don’t eat there!!!

Great range of flavours, textures, and techniques on offer. Really enjoyed the whole experience.

Amazing Yakitori! Perfect seasoning, tender. Good variety.

UPCHARGES TOURISTS CAREFUL English menu costed significantly more, rude servers spilled skewers on me and did not apologize. They clearly think because I can’t speak Japanese I can’t tell they charged me for more skewers I ordered. Food was okay at best, liver was very overcooked.

UPCHARGING FOREIGN CUSTOMERS waiter Spilled food all over my friend and didnt clean it up until much later (only gave a wet towel and went away). Different menus for japanese and english with english having higher prices. Dont go here.

I saw some reviews about not being able to get on without a reservation. Well, make a reservation! I did and it was awesome. You can't just expect to get your own way. You should act like a guest in an important person's house. Then things will go smooth. Talked to the old couple next we for an hour. The food is perfectly cooked, drinks wer strong, all around awesome place.