{"id":758,"date":"2015-05-26T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=758"},"modified":"2019-02-03T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:41:07","slug":"fuku-elevating-yakitori-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/26\/fuku-elevating-yakitori-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo’s Fuku – Good Value Yakitori"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yakitori was never in my list of priority foods to eat in Tokyo. There are so many yakitori joints where I live and the ones beneath the railway tracks near Ginza were never that great. But Fuku’s yakitori is unlike others (due in part to\u00a0quality\u00a0ingredients) and is proof that you can eat really well in Tokyo and for very reasonably as well.<\/p>\n

\"Fuku<\/a>
You can sit around the counter or at tables<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For travellers to Tokyo, Fuku is also relatively\u00a0visitor\u00a0friendly. The owner speaks very good english and was able to provide more details about the various yakitori\u00a0in the menu\u00a0to us. Nonetheless, the restaurant was dominated by locals and I think this is partly because it’s in a \u00a0residential area and reservations do need to be made. So if you do plan to come here, do call ahead to make a booking.<\/p>\n

Our meal, inclusive of sake (which was around\u00a0half the expense), cost less than USD50 per person. Note that we did have a lot of food and that Fuku’s portions are generous so one could eat for a lot less as well.<\/p>\n

Fuku is located in the Yoyogi-Uehara area\u00a0and is only around a five minute walk east of\u00a0the Yoyogi-Uehara subway station. If you happen to be touring the Meiji Shrine, you can take the Odakyu line from the Sangubashi station, just two stops, or it’s just around\u00a0a 30 minute walk away.<\/p>\n

Contact Fuku at tel.no.:<\/strong>\u00a0+813-3485-3234 (opens daily for dinner except Wednesdays)<\/p>\n

Supreme Yakitori:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apologies for the lack of description. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.\u00a0Incidentally, that is\u00a0chicken skin yakitori\u00a0\u00a0in the featured photo for this article.<\/p>\n

\"Fuku<\/a>
Enoki mushrooms rolled in there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chicken<\/a>
Chicken thighs with finely chopped onions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Leeks with eggplant and bacon rolled cheese stuffed peppers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Chicken wings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
An acquired taste – pickled sea cucumber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Liver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Eat your greens – broccoli with mushrooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Chicken cartilage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fuku<\/a>
Any type of grilled cheese is good<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yakitori was never in my list of priority foods to eat in Tokyo. There are so many yakitori joints where I live and the ones beneath the railway tracks near Ginza were never that great. But Fuku’s yakitori is unlike others (due in part to\u00a0quality\u00a0ingredients) and is proof that you can eat really well in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,21,134],"tags":[43,58,98,99],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asiapac","category-japan-asiapac","category-japan-tokyo","tag-featured","tag-japan","tag-japanese_food","tag-tokyo","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}