Restaurants

Cafe California serves French-Japanese style cuisine using seasonal ingredients. Over 50 varieties of California wine are available on the menu as well as some varieties from other parts of the world.

Ahill is a high-end teppan-yaki-cum-French restaurant with an enticing wine list of New and Old World wines. Bottle prices range from 5000 to 2000 (more for premium champagnes). Course dinners and a la carte available.

Smallish, out of the way bistro/cafe/bar-type affair.

A lovely little restaruant that features wines and food from New Zealand

380 yen happy hour wine (1 red, 1 white). Big pours. Spacious pub-like bar area, well-appointed dining room. Wine list: six whites, all 2800. 15 reds, all 2800. Spain, France, Italy, US, Oz, Chile. All grocery store-level wines.

I was introduced by a friend and lucky enough to dine here the opening (public) night.  Food and service incredible and not so expensive as one might think for a 3 star Michelin chef.  Ranked #22 out of 6082 restaurants (all be it by *tripadvisor*)  in Paris makes it imperative to give it a shot.  You need to dress up a bit not to feel out of place though but a special treat can be expected.

Le Petit Tonneau has three locations in Tokyo, all designed to capture the essence of an authentic Parisian bistro and boasting an extensive list of Southern French wines.

Hardly an "izakaya" in any real sense of the word, venerable Izakaya Vin combines a first-class wine list and impeccable French cuisine in a Shibuya location dominated by yakitori joints and smoke-filled watering holes. In other words, an oasis in an otherwise  downmarket patch on Tokyo.

This is the most stylish and satisfying of the three Californian-style restaurants that share the Cardenas name and its distinctive take on Pacific Rim fusion food. The centrepiece is the grill, which serves up chicken, steak, fish and seafood, backed up by a strong selection of US West Coast wines.

Nondescript ground floor wine bar/restaurant situated between a pachinko parlor and it's cash-out window. Older Japanese crowd, service charge, overpriced chateau wines await. The website is worth a look if you want to see what the web looked like when people surfed it using Mosaic.