6 Popular Restaurants in Shibuya for Big Eaters

1. Tokyo Tonteki [Shibuya]*CLOSED

It is recommended to try the teishoku (set meal). It comes with rice, miso soup, and pickled vegetables. The Tonteki Teishoku (200g) is 1,050 yen, the Large Tonteki Teishoku (250g) is 1,250 yen, and the Extra Large Tonteki Teishoku (500g) is 2,300 yen.

A Salisbury steak made 100% out of pork called Ton-Burg (850 yen) is another popular dish. This 300g steak is delicious and pretty filling!

2. Napolitan Pancho [Dogenzaka]

Napolitan is a kind of pasta unique to Japan. One of its characteristic features is the thick and soft noodles. You can add a variety of toppings to it, and one of the recommendations is fried egg. You can make it large for no additional fee, so if you are hungry, don't hesitate to do so! There also is curry-flavored napolitan.

Their meat sauce pasta is simple, yet addicting. The usual price is 690 yen, but once a year, on March 10th, the price lowers to 310 yen! If you happen to be in Japan around this date, you cannot miss this!

If you are greedy and hungry enough to try them both at once, the Meat Napolitan (840 yen) is the dish for you.

[About Napolitan Pancho]

Opening Hours: 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM (last orders 10:30 PM)

Closed: Open all year

Access: 3 minute walk from Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit on various JR lines
1 minute walk from Shibuya Station on various subway lines
1 minute walk from Shibuya Station West Exit on the Keio Inokashira Line

Address: Fujiyamakosan Dogenzaka Bldg. B1F, 2-6-2 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Google Map)

HP: naporitanpancho.com/ (Japanese Only)

3. Murugi [Dogenzaka]

Founded in 1951, Murugi is a well-established curry restaurant. You can see the history of the place by the look of it. It only opens during lunch hours and is closed on Fridays and holidays, so please be sure to check the calendar.

A popular dish is the Murugi Curry with Egg (1,050 yen). Rice is served in a mountain-like shape. The curry sauce is pretty spicy, yet smooth. A red line drawn with ketchup gives an accent to the dish.

You can customize the Murugi Curry by adding toppings such as cheese (+100 yen) or additional egg (+50 yen). Make it your own!

[About Murugi]

Opening Hours: 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Closed: Fridays/Holidays/Occasional Seasonal Holidays

Access: 6 minute walk from Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit on various JR lines
5 minute walk from Shibuya Station Exit 1
5 minute walk from Shibuya Station West Exit on the Keio Inokashira Line

Address: 2-19-2 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Google Map)

HP: https://murugi.co.jp/ (Japanese Only)

4. Spice [Nishihara]

Spice is a restaurant where you can have curry with some nostalgic flavors. You can choose your curry from pork (mild), beef (medium), and chicken (hot), or mix them all. A mountain of rice will be served in the center of the plate.

Free pickled vegetables and leaf mustard are available at each table, so you can enjoy a change of taste by adding some to your curry or by having some as a type of refreshment.

If you order your curry with a small order of rice, it comes with salad and a banana instead. The sweetness of the banana goes well with the curry!

[About Spice]

Opening Hours: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM (closes once ingredients run out)

Closed: Mondays

Access: 2 minute walk from Hatagaya Station South Exit on the Keio New Line

Address: 2-28-2 Nishihara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Google Map)

Twitter: twitter.com/spice_1973 (Japanese Only)

5. Camp [Sendagaya]*CLOSED

As the name suggests, Camp is a camp-themed restaurant offering curry with a lot of vegetables. Their signature dish, One Day's Vegetables Curry (990 yen), is stuffed with enough vegetables for a day's nutrition. The amount of vegetables put on a plate is so much that it is difficult to see where to start. It is a really good dish in terms of nutrition.

You can choose to have pasta instead of rice. They use a screw-looking pasta called fusilli. If you are looking to change things up a little bit, you should try their pasta.

The spoons they use at the restaurant are really neat. They are shaped like a shovel and it is fun to eat with them. The plate is stuffed with a lot of ingredients, so you literally have to dig in!

6. Torikatsu Chicken [Dogenzaka]

This restaurant is located in a rather difficult place to find. It is in the back of the second floor of a multi-tenant building, so it takes a bit of courage to enter, but it is definitely worth it.

The Two-Dish Set Meal (650 yen), which lets you choose two dishes from about 20 dishes such as chicken cutlets, cream croquette, fried fish, and more, is the popular meal at the place. Three-dish and four-dish set meals will cost 800 yen and 1,000 yen respectively. You can refill your rice for additional 200 yen.

The three-dish set meal of chicken cutlets, ham cutlets, and croquette is a really good deal since it only costs 650 yen, as opposed to a normal three-dish meal which is 800 yen.

[About Torikatsu Chicken]

Opening Hours: (Monday - Friday) 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

Closed: Weekends, Public Holidays

Access: 6 minute walk from Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit on various JR lines
2 minute walk from Shibuya Station Exit 1 on various subway lines
7 minute walk from Shibuya Station West Exit on the Keio Inokashira Line 

Address: Miyakoji Bldg. 2F, 2-16-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Google Map)

HP: https://shibuyadogenzaka.com/?p=713 (Japanese Only)

Tokyo has a reputation for having high prices, but there are actually a lot of cheap restaurants with big and delicious meals. Have a lot of food and charge yourself for touring Tokyo!