Japanese izakaya pub [GENSAI HONTEN] in Shinjuku Nishi-guchi. Popular for drinking alone, for party events, and for entertaining guests.
In Shinjuku, Tokyo, a town where many people pass through. Izakaya GENSAI HONTEN is on the first floor of a building within walking distance of Shinjuku Station.
Our shop's forte is allowing our customers to casually dine on high-quality delicacies, as we offer Japanese food made with fresh seafood and seasonal vegetables. Our famous sea eel is fresh enough to be eaten as sashimi because we only start preparing it once we receive an order. Our Japanese sake selection varies according to the season. These drinks go perfectly with Japanese cuisine.
The restaurant is a very cozy space. Regular customers like to sit at the counter, which is perfect for people who come to drink alone or for normal dining. We also have a semi-private room for groups or for entertaining guests. Drop in anytime to enjoy the delicious delicacies.
Izakaya pub GENSAI HONTEN in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Our variety of Japanese cuisine uses the best ingredients of the season. We are famous for sea eel cuisine prepared as sashimi, grilled with no seasoning, or as tempura. You can thus enjoy "sea eel cuisine" prepared in three different ways.
We keep the fresh live sea eels we receive in water tanks in our restaurant. When you order sea eel, we take the live sea eel and prepare it for you. This results in the maximum freshness and quality. As to not waste any part of the eel, we also serve deep fried eel bones with the eel.
Choose the preparation method you want depending on your mood that day. We can also prepare each half of the eel separately.
Sea eel (whole)
2,200yen
*Prices exclude tax.
*Available cooking methods depend on the season.
We highly recommend having our eel as sashimi. Sea eel cannot be eaten raw unless it is really fresh, so this is a rare treat. The texture of the meat is the main draw, and you can only try it here since we keep live sea eels in our shop.
Soft and fluffy grilled sea eel cooked with no seasoning allows you to better experience the mild flavor characteristic of the fresh sea eel. While savoring the flavor of the ingredients, enjoy it seasoned with natural salt or wasabi.
Try tempura that has been fried to have a crunchy outside and a soft inside. The fresh eel's umami flavor trapped within fills your mouth in one bite.
Besides the fresh sea eel, we also serve plenty of other delicacies that use an abundance of the season's ingredients like seasonal seafood and vegetables. What we serve not just for our sashimi combination plates, but also our other many daily specials depends on what we obtain fresh that day. Please enjoy the seasonal flavors.
