Ootoya
Type: Japanese Style Restaurant Chain
Location: The Ootoya restaurant chain has heaps of restaurants in almost every major area of Japan making it very easy to find when you want to. A lot of places, such as Shibuya for example have two.
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After seeing these Ootoya signs all over Tokyo for my first two years in Japan, I still had no idea exactly what kind of restaurant they were or even if they were non smoking, but after being introduced to Ootoya by a friend of mine, I've never looked back.
Ootoya is a very wide spread restaurant chain that has branches all over Japan. They're all 100% smoke free and offer some of the freshest modern Japanese food I've seen here. Most "sets" they serve come with the main dish, pickles, rice and the best miso soup you'll ever taste. I've actually found myself on several occasions going to Ootoya just for the complimentary miso soup, it's that good!
Ootoya is a very nice surprise for a first timer and one that I guarantee you'll come back to again and again once you try it.
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Labels: Chains, Japanese Food, Ootoya
2 Comments:
At Mon May 14, 03:57:00 pm 2007 ,
Anonymous said...
The Ootoya nearest my work is not smoke-free (but I do like the food). Perhaps you could map out the smoke-free Ootoya's for us?
At Tue May 15, 07:45:00 am 2007 ,
Brad said...
Really? That's very strange. I've been to about 15 or so Ootoya's throughout Japan and every one has been 100% smoke free. That one must really be the exception.
Have you seen any others that have smoking?
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