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This restaurant and Konno Hachimangu Shrine can be both really attractive for tourists. The pleasant staff welcomes visitors all year round. The prompt service displays a high level of quality at SHIZEN. As guests see it, the atmosphere is pretty here. As for the Google rating, this place got 4.5.
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Wilson
5 months ago on Google
pretty sure at the beginning they mentioned 3 drinks are included with the meal, but ended up charging them. Four people ordered 11000yen omakase each ended up paying over 90k yen for not much food and mediocre beverages. If drinks are extra, there need to be a drink menu. Not to mention they keep bring over non alcohol drink to my son without asking and end up charging them. I say this restaurant is at its last phase before closing or target foreign customers, which most will only visit once. Watch out for this one. Food: 1 Service: 1 Atmosphere: 1 Meal type: Dinner
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Alexander Pinkerton
5 months ago on Google
SHIZEN, Tokyo — A Fermentation Fantasy for the Jet-Lagged Sommelier Class Tokyo has a remarkable talent for producing restaurants that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. SHIZEN, however, has achieved something rarer: a restaurant that feels geographically displaced, culturally confused, and gastronomically self-conscious — all while charging as though it were quietly revolutionary. The concept, insofar as one can disentangle it from the ceramics, wood fire, and earnest murmurs about “producers,” appears to be elevated izakaya filtered through global fermentation chic. In practice it resembles what might happen if a Shoreditch natural-wine bar were given a Kyoto pottery budget and told to cosplay as a Japanese kappo counter. The evening’s dominant sensory note was not the charcoal grill or koji funk, but the sound of French winemakers aggressively aerating glasses of what appeared to be perfectly ordinary natural wine — slurped with the solemnity normally reserved for pre-phylloxera Bordeaux. There is something faintly comic about travelling 10,000 kilometres to Tokyo only to drink French wine you could buy at home, then treating it as though it had personally survived the Revolution. Cultural curiosity this was not; it was vinous comfort food dressed as expertise. One can forgive ignorance about sake — it’s a different technical universe — but coupling elementary questions about brewing with operatic reverence for middling natural reds produces a kind of sommelier uncanny valley. The confidence remained high; the insight, less so. The sake list itself leaned heavily on the familiar contemporary trope: small family kura, artisanal narratives, a few “aged” offerings. Unfortunately, “aged” here occasionally translated to “tired,” the sort of oxidised flatness that suggests either romanticised flaws or bottles lingering a touch too long in service. When a server remarks on how quickly you finish a glass that tastes past its prime, it’s hard not to interpret it less as hospitality and more as passive-aggressive dramaturgy. Service pacing, meanwhile, seemed calibrated for a synchronised tasting ritual that not everyone at the counter had signed up for. Arrive slightly off cadence and you enter a sort of gastronomic holding pattern: dishes appear when the narrative requires them, not necessarily when hunger does. Perfectly defensible as theatre, less charming when you’re simply trying to eat dinner. As for the food: competent, sometimes interesting, occasionally very pleasant — but rarely electrifying. Tokyo has izakaya serving equally thoughtful cooking at a fraction of the tariff, minus the conceptual scaffolding. Here, you’re paying for the ecosystem: ceramics, fermentation discourse, international wine signalling, and the reassuring hum of global culinary fashion. None of this makes SHIZEN bad. It makes it emblematic — a restaurant for people who want Tokyo filtered through a familiar cosmopolitan lens rather than experienced on its own terms. If that’s your preference, you’ll likely feel at home. If you came hoping for discovery, you may find yourself finishing an oxidised sake, listening to someone interrogate a perfectly ordinary natural Gamay, and wondering when exactly the city famous for culinary daring started serving imported pretension with such confidence. In short: stylish, earnest, intermittently tasty — and, at times, unintentionally hilarious. Food: 3 Service: 2 Atmosphere: 1 Price per person: ¥10,000+
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7 months ago on Google
Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Meal type: Lunch
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Seafood
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Price range per person
JPY 10,000
Address
3 Chome-6-18 Shibuya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Features
Сredit cards accepted
No delivery
No takeaway
Booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Opening hours
| SundaySun | 12PM-11PM |
| MondayMon | 5PM-11PM |
| TuesdayTue | 5PM-7PM 7:30PM-11PM |
| WednesdayWed | 5PM-7PM 7:30PM-11PM |
| ThursdayThu | 5PM-7PM 7:30PM-11PM |
| FridayFri | 5PM-7PM 7:30PM-11PM |
| SaturdaySat | 12PM-2:30PM 6PM-11PM |
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