Recommended by Okayama residents! 10 restaurants with delicious rice bowl menus
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This time, we will introduce "restaurants with delicious rice bowl menus" recommended by Okayama residents. From seafood, meat, and fried foods to original dishes, we will introduce a variety of rice bowl dishes sent in by Okayama residents along with comments from those who tried them.
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Okayama Prefecture is located in the Chuo of Western Japan, and is known as the "Land of Sunshine" due to its warm climate and little rain throughout the year. It is conveniently located halfway between famous tourist spots such as Kyoto, Osaka, and Hiroshima, and is also the gateway to Shikoku via the Great Seto Bridge. Okayama is also known as the "Fruit Kingdom," and the fruits that grow in the warm climate of the Seto Inland Sea and sunshine are of the highest quality in terms of sweetness, aroma, and flavor. You can enjoy seasonal fruits such as white peaches, Muscat grapes, and Pione grapes! Okayama is also home to world-famous tourist spots such as Okayama Castle, Okayama Korakuen Garden, one of Japan's three most famous gardens, and Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, which are renowned for their history, culture, and art!
1. Kajiya (Okayama City)
[Kajiya]
Address: 1356-1 Takehara, Higashi-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 086-297-3600
Business hours: 11:00-15:00, 17:00-20:30
Closed: Mondays
Parking: Available
●The famous shrimp bowl. It has huge shrimps that look like they might spill out of the bowl, and is a taste I've been eating since I was a student, with tartar sauce. I highly recommend it. (40s/male/office worker)
●The shrimp tempura bowl is impressive in appearance and volume, and of course it tastes delicious! I recommend going there on an empty stomach so you can enjoy it to the end. (40s/female/office worker)
2. Uoshin (Okayama City)
[Fish heart]
Address: 804-5 Narahara, Higashi-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 086-297-5539
Business hours: 11:00-15:00 (last orders 14:30), Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 11:00-15:00 (last orders 14:30), 17:30-21:30 (last orders 21:00)
Closed: None Parking: Available
●The seafood bowl is filling, tasty and very reasonably priced. The daily bowl and fish bowl are 1,000 to 1,500 yen. Miso soup is free to refill. There is ample parking space, and you can wait in your car. (50s/female/office worker)
●The portions are packed with ingredients, so they are filling and satisfying. The seafood is fresh and delicious. It's located along National Route 2, so it's easy to get to. (50s/female/housewife)
3. Uoichi (Okayama City)
[Totoichi]
Location: Okayama City, Kita Ward, Yanagimachi 1-14-20 Raviel Yanagimachi
TEL: 086-226-3003
Business hours: 11:30-, 18:00-24:00
*Lunch is served Monday through Friday. Closed on Sundays and Mondays on public holidays.
Parking: None
●The seafood bowl, available only on weekday lunches, is great value for money! The ingredients are fresh and delicious, so I keep coming back. (20s/female/office worker)
●The ultimate seafood bowl for lunch. Prices start from 500 yen and vary depending on the size, but the maximum is 1,000 yen. Even women can easily finish a large portion. The seafood is seasoned, so all you have to do is eat it. It's a popular restaurant. (40s/Female/Freeter/Part-time worker)
4. Hiromatsu Chinese Noodles (Okayama City)
[Hiromatsu Nanki Branch of Chinese Noodles]
Address: 2-6-2 Minamiki, Minami-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 086-250-9929 Business hours: 11:00-22:00 (last order 21:30)
Parking: Available
Chinese Noodles Hiromatsu Nanki Branch | Tabelog
●The special katsudon is delicious with rice, katsu, and sauce. It comes in small, medium, and large sizes, so you can choose the one that suits you best. (40s/female/full-time housewife)
● Demi-katsudon. Goes great with ramen. The taste has remained the same since the old days. (40s/female/freelance/part-time worker)
5. Tempura Yoroi (Okayama City)
[Tempura Yoroi] Location: 3-12-1 Ima, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 086-245-0461
Business hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday 11:30-14:00, Saturday, Sunday 11:30-14:00, 17:30-20:00
Closed: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Parking: Available
Tempura Yoroi｜Official website
●Tendon. The tempura is fried one after another right in front of you. When you enter the restaurant, they greet you with a loud "Welcome!" No matter how famous they become, they don't get arrogant and they practice the basic principles of the restaurant, so I'm sure that customers can visit this restaurant with peace of mind. (40s/male/office worker)
6. Katsudon Nomura (Okayama City)
[Pork cutlet bowl Nomura]
Address: 1-10 Heiwacho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 086-222-2234
Business hours: Tuesday to Friday 11:00-16:00 (last order), Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 11:00-14:30 (last order), 17:00-20:30 (last order)
Closed: Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a public holiday)
Parking: None
●This is the restaurant where the demi-katsudon was first made, and the demi-katsudon is very delicious!! The egg rice bowl that comes with the demi-katsudon is also very delicious!! (30s/female/freelance/part-time worker)
●When you think of rice bowls in Okayama, you think of Demi-katsu-don! (Male, 50s)
7. Kissaten in the Port (Setouchi City)
[Kissaten in the harbor]
Address: 5414-7 Ushimado, Ushimado-cho, Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 0869-24-8970
Business hours: 11:00-16:00
Closed: Tuesdays
Parking: Available
Kissaten in the harbor｜Instagram
●Chicken katsudon is not on the regular menu, but is on the weekly menu of today's staff meal, which is only available on weekdays. The chicken katsudon is deep-fried until crispy in olive oil, then topped with homemade sauce and a rolled sushi made with seafood stock. Once you try it, you'll be hooked. The only downside is that it's not on the regular menu. (40s/male/office worker)
●You can't go wrong with any of the dishes that use locally caught seafood. (40s/Female/Other)
8. Utanonaka (Misaki Town)
[Inside the Song]
Address: 2059-1 Utanaka, Misaki-cho, Kume-gun, Okayama Prefecture
Business hours: 11:00-17:00
Closed: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Parking: Available
●The Misaki ginger is plentiful and warms you from the inside, and the pork is tender! I want to eat it again! It's a bowl of rice that I want to eat regularly! (30s/Female/Self-employed)
●"Misaki Ginger Pork Bowl" made with Misaki ginger. This restaurant is particular about using local ingredients. The atmosphere is relaxed and laid back, so you can feel relaxed. Not only the food, but the sweets are also carefully crafted, so you can enjoy it with your eyes and your mouth! The scones are also recommended ☆ (40s/female/office worker)
9. Tsuchiya Restaurant (Asaguchi City)
[Tsuchiya Restaurant]
Address: 302-9 Otani, Konkocho, Asakuchi City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 0865-42-2202
Business hours: 11:00-14:30, 17:00-19:00
Closed: Irregular holidays
Parking: None (use the parking lot in front of the temple grounds of Konkocho Headquarters)
●This is not the usual type of katsudon with eggs, but a raw egg yolk on top of the sauce. It's a memorable dish that I've had since I was a child, when I had it delivered. (40s/male/office worker)
●Not only the katsudon but also the regular set meals are delicious and filling. Yakiniku set meals, ginger pork set meals, etc. It's also ok to just buy the side dishes to go with your drinks. (40s/male/office worker)
10. Hokkai (Tsuyama City)
【North Sea】
Address: 40-7 Yamashita, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture
TEL: 0868-24-1780
Business hours: 11:30-14:00, 17:30-22:15
Closed: Wednesdays and Sundays
Parking: Available
●The steak bowl was so satisfying! They also have a variety of other bowls, so it's a restaurant I want to go back to! (30s/Female/Freeter/Part-time worker)
●The "Sozuri bowl" made with sozuri fish has become popular in Tsuyama, the city of meat, and is delicious. Other recommended dishes include the "Steak bowl" and "Seafood bowl." (40s/Male/Self-employed)
There's more! Comments from Okayama residents
[Soba Restaurant Jingoro]
Address: 9-1 Showa-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Soba Restaurant Jingoro | Tabelog
●It's a traditional, small soba restaurant. Most customers order the oyakodon set. Not only is the soba delicious, but the oyakodon is also superb! The delicious broth and soft egg. The sansho pepper adds a nice kick to the dish, making it one of a kind. (30s/female/office worker)
[Date Soba] Address: 2-3-60 Omotemachi, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●Date Soba is a long-established ramen shop that has been loved by locals and tourists in Okayama for a long time. In addition to the ramen, the katsudon here is excellent. The way of eating the katsudon with demi-glace sauce by dropping a raw egg on it is unique to this shop. I recommend ordering the half and half set meal so you can enjoy both the ramen and the katsudon. (30s/male/civil servant)
[Shokudo Yamato] Address: 1-9-7 Omotemachi, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Yamato Restaurant | Official website
●The fried rice and ramen are delicious, but the demi-glace flavor is unique and very delicious. (30s/female/housewife)
[Izawa]
Address: 1-2-31 Omotemachi, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●For lunch, there are only three types of seafood bowls (1,000 yen, 1,500 yen, and 2,000 yen). They are all delicious. The toppings, vinegared rice (red vinegar), and miso soup are all delicious. (Male, 50s, civil servant)
[Azuma Sushi]
Location: 2F Sunste Okayama, 1-1 Ekimotocho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Azuma Sushi | Official website
●I recommend the Sawara-don. It's located at Sanste Okayama, so you can eat it right away as it's directly connected to Okayama Station, and it's also available as an ekiben on the Shinkansen. If you eat it in the restaurant, it's served in a beautiful dish. If there's one thing that Okayama residents love, it's got to be Sawara. It's a taste of spring. (30s/Male/Freelancer/Part-time worker)
[Men's Udon]
Address: 2-11-17 Tomitacho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●It's filling. The seasoned burdock is delicious. The broth is from an udon restaurant, and the sauce is not too sweet, so it's delicious. (50s/female/civil servant)
[Ajitsune]
Address: 2-6-48 Kanaoka Higashimachi, Higashi Ward, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●The katsudon is delicious. The rice is beautiful. As expected from a sushi restaurant. (40s/female/office worker)
[Eight directions]
Address: 2-7-45 Saidaijikami, Higashi-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●This restaurant is famous for its Chinese noodles, but when it comes to rice bowls, the shrimp cutlet rice bowl is the best! You can choose between egg and tartar sauce, but the tartar sauce is the best. It's irresistible for mayonnaise lovers. If you order chicken soup with it, it's a very satisfying meal. (60s/male/office worker)
[Daimyoan]
Address: 1-1 Ichiba, Minami-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
●I was taken here to celebrate my birthday. I love seafood, especially tuna. So I ordered the tuna bowl. There were food samples in front of the restaurant, and they looked really delicious. When the bowl arrived, I was very surprised! There was a lot more tuna than in the food samples, and it was thicker than anything I'd ever seen. It was very satisfying, and the tuna's flavor was very strong with every bite. I could see why there are so many customers. (Male, 20s, office worker)
[Standing Don Restaurant Tono]
Address: 2-25-45 Achi, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Nijoya 103
●It is part of the Tono Bacon chain, and is located between Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter and Ebisu Manju. The smoked wild boar, bacon, and smoked salmon rice bowls are irresistible for fans of smoked food. The menu changes often, but the currently available braised pork rice bowl has 300g of meat on top, but is less than 1,000 yen, making it a delicious and great value dish! I don't want it to be well known, but I do want it to become more popular. That's the kind of restaurant it is. As the name suggests, it's small and you eat standing up, but that's also good! (40s/female/office worker)
[Petite Chat]
Address: 3234-1 Nitta, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture
●The small bowls of rice made with chicken are very delicious. Although they are small bowls, they are filling and very delicious. (40s/female/office worker)
[Mimatsu]
Address: 2-2-43 Kojima Ajino, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture
●This is a restaurant I've been to many times. They fry the tempura right in front of me, and the wait for the tendon to be brought out is always exciting. The tendon topped with lots of freshly fried, crispy tempura is really tasty. I especially love the shiso leaf tempura. It's also good value for money, so I'm always very satisfied. (Female, 20s, Civil Servant)
[Tamashima Lunch Stand]
Address: 2-91-1 Shin-Kurashiki Station, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture
Tamashima Lunch Stand | Instagram
●This restaurant has a lot of healthy dishes on the menu. The roast beef bowl in particular is not only visually appealing, but the meat is moist and juicy, making it very delicious. The onion sauce and egg yolk go perfectly together. (Teenager/Male/Civil servant)
[Jidai-ya]
Address: 1-38-1 Uno, Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture Tenmaya Happy Town Merca 1F
●The Jidai-ya Kalbi Donburi and Roast Beef Donburi, which use delicious meat, are very tasty! (30s/Female/Freeter/Part-time worker)
[Shakodon Restaurant]
Address: 5914-5 Kasaoka, Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture
There are few restaurants where you can eat mantis shrimp. (50s/male/office worker)
[Yumemian]
Address: 5007 Miyama, Bisei-cho, Ibara City, Okayama Prefecture
●Kakuni rice bowl. The kakuni soba noodles are incredibly delicious! If you put that kakuni in a rice bowl, it's delicious and satisfying! (60s/male/self-employed)
[Yasuda Fresh Fish Shop]
Address: 2247 Odanaka, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture
Yasuda Fresh Fish Store | Tabelog
●They have delicious seafood bowls with lots of fresh fish! (50s/female/civil servant)
[Atchan's Big Tree]
Address: 97-1 Yamashita, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture
●Sozuri bowl. Meat that has been scraped off the bones of a cow is called sozuri meat. This is a bowl of sozuri meat. It's extremely popular. (Male, 50s, office worker)
[Osaka Okonomiyaki Matchan]
Address: 471-1 Toyokunihara, Mimasaka City, Okayama Prefecture
Osaka Okonomiyaki Matchan｜Instagram
●Even though it's called a bowl, it's not rice. It's "Dashioko," which can only be eaten at Osaka Okonomiyaki Matchan in the world. The bowl contains fluffy okonomiyaki, topped with dashi mixed with oil residue and lots of spring onions. People often ask me, "What does it look like anyway?" but it's one of a kind. (Male, 50s, self-employed)
Okayama Prefecture is located in the Chuo of Western Japan, and is known as the "Land of Sunshine" due to its warm climate and little rain throughout the year. It is conveniently located halfway between famous tourist spots such as Kyoto, Osaka, and Hiroshima, and is also the gateway to Shikoku via the Great Seto Bridge. Okayama is also known as the "Fruit Kingdom," and the fruits that grow in the warm climate of the Seto Inland Sea and sunshine are of the highest quality in terms of sweetness, aroma, and flavor. You can enjoy seasonal fruits such as white peaches, Muscat grapes, and Pione grapes! Okayama is also home to world-famous tourist spots such as Okayama Castle, Okayama Korakuen Garden, one of Japan's three most famous gardens, and Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, which are renowned for their history, culture, and art!
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