Japanese restaurants in France
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Chez Hanafousa
Dining at this understated Japanese restaurant is a spectacular choice guaranteed to impress. Sit around a steely-topped U-shaped ‘hot table’ and watch fish, meat, spices, vegetables and herbs chopped, sliced, ground and flamed before your very eyes – all the set menus (bar the quick, good-value miso-and-sushi lunchtime choice) feature teppanjaki (hot plate cooking). End the show with a flaming vanilla ice-cream fritter or less flamboyant green-eat cheesecake with wasabi ice-cream.
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La Maison des Frigos
The location of this tiny hybrid gallery–lunch spot – on the ground floor of the graffiti-decorated art squat Les Frigos – could not be more apt. Grab a table between flower pots outside or between art and industrial piping inside, and tuck into the ‘100% maison‘ cuisine of Japanese cook Mairko. Very much a one-man show, her okonomiyaki (Japanese crêpes) are simple, wholesome and delicious. No credit cards.
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K10
Dishes are colour-coded at this quick, bright, modern eating joint, tagged as the ‘rolling fusion-food experience’, also on Les Quatre Temps’ 3rd floor. Sit down on a bar stool or bright table, and take your pick from the mouth-watering array of rolls, yakitori (Japanese brochettes), sashimi, maki and sushi dishes that glide silently past on a conveyor belt. White dishes cost the least, orange the most.
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Sushi Wasabi
It’s hardly five star, but for the price who cares? This cheap and cheerful Japanese traiteur serves pre-prepared sushi, maki, futo maki etc and a good choice of hot meils to a quick-eat crowd. Jugs of water and condiments are readily placed on each long, shared table, sushi platters include a bowl of miso, and there’s free tea or coffee to finish. Dishes to take away.
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Yen
This Japanese place – the last word in minimalism with its light wood and charcoal-grey slate floor – is a favourite of resident Japanese and knowledgeable Parisians. It has a flair for soba (Japanese noodles) and tempura and you shouldn’t leave without trying the aubergine in miso. Unusual for Paris, Yen serves and sells bento boxes at lunchtime.
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Toyo
Toyo … Toyomitsu Nakayama is the name that’s been on many a Parisian’s lips since this up-to-the-minute dining address opened. The culinary flair behind the place is the former private chef of fashion designer Kenzo and the concept is a fabulous fusion of French and Japanese cuisine that seats diners side by side at a stylish wooden bar – prime real estate for watching Toyo chop.
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Kaï
This exquisite (if pricey) Japanese restaurant is where we want to go when we die (and have been deemed worthy of paradise). The décor – bamboo ceiling, blond-wood flooring – is an exercise in restraint. The food is out of this world with its own style of making sushi and excellent grilled dishes (try the aubergine with miso).
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Moozé
A hip and hugely popular Japanese place, given good marks by local cognoscenti, where colour-coded plates (around €3.50 to around €6) go round on a dual-carriageway conveyor belt. The bathrooms are integrated into a rock garden so those who come seeking physical relief will find spiritual repose as well.
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Moshi Moshi
Moshi Moshi is where Japan meets France head-on in a super-chic, minimalist fashion but where quality food is still the focus. The open kitchen lets you watch its celebrated chefs roll out sushi with unusual twists like foie gras and magret de canard (duck).
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Kunitoraya
With seating across two floors, this simple and intimate restaurant offers a wide and excellent range of Japanese shop-made noodle dishes and set lunches and dinners. If headed here, aim to arrive before 1pm for lunch or before 8pm for dinner to beat the crowds.
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Fubuki
Tables are chauffantes (heated) at this highly rated Japanese restaurant where traditionally dressed chefs armed with very big knives chop and sizzle up fish before your eyes.
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Higuma
Authentic, no-nonsense Japanese noodle shop offers great value, particularly for its location opposite the Comédie Française.
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Taeko
Just about the last thing you would expect to find in the Marché des Enfants Rouges, one of the oldest markets in Paris, is this homely Japanese eatery. There’s sushi and sashimi and salmon tartar to start and delightful warm dishes like codfish balls and chicken cooked with soy sauce. Sit at the communal table near the entrance – if there’s room! Otherwise buy a takeaway bento (lunchbox; €11.90)
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