Nishiazabu Taku 西麻布拓 @ Nishiazabu, Tokyo

Foreigner friendly? Feeds you a lot? Very reasonable pricing? Good cost performance? Large variety of tsumami and nigiri sushi? If you said yes to all that, then this is the place for you! Compared to all the high profile sushi names out there flooding instagram everyday, Nishiazabu Taku is a one star michelin sushi restaurant that is definitely not as famous as many other places but its a must-go for me because the chef serves a lot of things at a very reasonable price. Shall we have a look:

Edamame, Sea cucumber, barracuda box sushi, snapper, surf clam, surf clam muscle

Steamed spanish mackerel, oysters, chawanmushi with clam broth, grilled black trout, daikon with shiso leaf

Shirako, squid stuffed with rice and eggs, lotus roots, mushrooms, wakasagi fish

Sea trout, snapper, 2 kinds of sea urchin, squid, sayori fish, marinated spanish mackerel

Young Tuna, Medium fatty tuna, fatty tuna, gizzard shad, boiled shrimp, raw mackerel

Conger eel, egg, murasaki sea urchin, monkfish liver, clam soup, 3 kinds of ice cream

For over 30+ items including premium items like shirako, sea urchin, monkfish liver and fatty tuna, the bill came to about slightly less than 20,000 Yen. Considering the sheer number of items and quality that you get, I'd say it was well worth the price, in fact, good cost performance. Similar to the Sushi Sho related restaurants, the chefs at Nishiazabu Taku also use a combination of different vinegared rice to complement the various types of fish used.

As I mentioned earlier on, this place is also very foreigner friendly and very flexible to their demands; although of course the best experience is the one where you can eat anything and just allow the chefs to work their magic. By the way, I was rather surprised by its low tabelog score though, I honestly thought it would be rated a lot higher than what it is at the moment. Nevertheless, in my books, it is at least a solid 4/5 if not higher.

Website:http://www.eatpia.com/restaurant/taku-nishiazabu-sushi
Address: 〒106-0031 東京都港区西麻布2-11-5 カパルア西麻布1F
Budget (Dinner):17000+
My rating: 4 - 4.5 / 5