Taito City, Tokyo, Japan｜Gyu-nabe Yonekyu

Visited Sat lunch a little past opening, was told it'd be an hour wait but ended up being less than 30 min wait. Meat and service top quality for the price. Rice and the overall plating, table setting could be better, but the generous portion and flavor of the meat made up for it. The building and neighborhood adds historic charm to the dining experience. They have English menu and seemed very used to serving foreign customers. Expect to take off your shoes at entry and pay in cash.

Mm….Simply the best Japanese sukiyaki I have ever had. If you wanna eat it, make sure you come before this shop opens (12nn). I arrived at 11:50am but there had already been 6-7 people lining up. Despite its popularity, the overall environment is good. Quiet. Highly recommended. The bonus is the decoration is full of traditional Japanese old school style

Japanese sukiyaki is one of the well known Japanese dishes - and you can eat everything from budget sukiyaki, to high end sukiyaki with extremely high quality ingredients. This 100 year old restaurants is somewhere in-between, making use of high quality ingredients, like insanely marbled beef, but not as expensive as some Japanese sukiyaki restaurants in Tokyo I came across. But along with the food, one of the main reasons I wanted to eat here is because it’s an old heritage restaurant that’s stood the test of time. As you enter the sukiyaki restauarnt, you take off your shoes and leave them at the front of the restaurant, and when you enter, they beat the drum. You then been led to sit in one of the many dining rooms, and they have both traditional Japanese style seating on the ground, in addition to tables as well. For the sukiyaki, it’s best to order sets of ingredients, and you can either choose the normal beef or the special beef. We went with the special beef because of that insane marbling. The soup is cooked on a griddle on your table, and you boil all the ingredients including leek and mung-bean noodles. But by all means the highlight is the beef, which is cut in thin strips and was some of the most insanely marbled beef I’ve ever seen. The beef was pretty much mostly fat, but it was so good. When you eat Japanese food sukiyaki, you dip each bite into raw egg as your sauce. Yonekyuuhonten Restaurant is an amazing Japanese food restaurant in Tokyo, and it’s truly a piece of Tokyo culinary history.