Best Tasting Menus in Hiroshima
NAKADO in Naka serves French tasting menus with an extensive wine list, and hiroto in Naka has a Burgundy-focused 500-label list. DIRETTO serves wood-fired Italian courses in Naka with sommelier-led wine service. Most restaurants on this tasting-menu list are in Naka, with others in Saijo, Nishi, Higashi, and Asakita.
Japanese counters serve kaiseki, omakase, tempura, or yakitori, and many keep a sake program. Nakashima and Eizan are seasonal kaiseki counters in Naka. Chiso Sottakuito is a nine-seat omakase in Naka, with Seto Inland Sea seafood, wine, and sommelier-led service. Ryoriya Sobiki in Saijo uses local spring water and a premium sake selection with seasonal kaiseki. Tenyoshi in Naka serves seasonal tempura with sashimi and Japanese small plates.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Chinese Sai Kichijitsu
Chinese Sai Kichijitsu puts Hiroshima’s small-format Chinese dining in a sharper register: eight seats, reservation-only service, and a 2026 Tabelog 100 Chinese WEST selection. Its interest lies less in grand banquet language than in how a compact room can translate regional Chinese technique through Japanese seasonality and sourcing discipline.
Chiso Sottakuito
Chiso Sottakuito is a nine-seat counter for Japanese cuisine in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward, priced in the JPY 20,000–29,999 dinner tier and recognized with Tabelog Silver in 2026. The format is reservation-only, counter-led, cash-only, and built around fish, dashi, sake, shochu, and wine rather than spectacle.
DIRETTO
DIRETTO places Hiroshima’s Italian dining conversation in a compact counter format, with fish, wine, and firewood shaping the public identity rather than hotel-dining polish. Recognition in Tabelog’s Italian WEST “Tabelog 100” in 2023 and 2025 puts it in a selective regional bracket, while the room’s eight counter seats make the experience feel closer to a focused atelier than a conventional trattoria.
Eizan
Eizan is a small Hiroshima Japanese-cuisine counter built around ritual, restraint, and a narrow service rhythm rather than spectacle. Recognition includes The Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze and selection for Tabelog Japanese cuisine WEST 100 in 2025, placing it in the serious regional conversation for formal Japanese dining.
hiroto
Deep wine list
hiroto places Hiroshima’s French dining in a quieter register: fish-led cooking, wine service, counter seating, and a compact 20-seat room in Fujimicho. Its selection for Tabelog French WEST “Tabelog 100” in 2025 and 2023 gives it a clear signal within western Japan’s French category, while the reservation-only format keeps the experience firmly in planned-dinner territory.
NAKADO
NAKADO gives Hiroshima’s serious French dining a compact, ingredient-led address rather than a grand dining-room statement. Its Tabelog Bronze run from 2023 to 2026 and Tabelog French WEST 100 selections place it in the city’s higher tier, with a small counter-and-private-room format built around fish, wine, sake, and course-menu discipline.
Nakashima
Nakashima places Hiroshima kaiseki in a small-room register rather than the city’s louder oyster-and-okonomiyaki shorthand. Tetsuo Nakashima’s restaurant is recognised by Tabelog with a 2026 Bronze Award and by Opinionated About Dining in its 2026 Japan Recommended list, making it a serious address for diners comparing regional Japanese cuisine beyond Kyoto and Tokyo.
Ryoriya Sobiki
Sobiki places Saijo’s water, fish culture, and sake-town identity inside a disciplined Japanese cuisine format rather than a city-centre spectacle. Its Tabelog Award Bronze recognition and Tabelog Japanese Cuisine WEST 100 selection put it in the serious regional tier for Hiroshima dining, with a small counter-and-private-room setup that rewards diners who care about provenance and pacing.
Shinya Teki Chuka Shokudo
Shinya Teki Chuka Shokudo brings Chinese cooking into Hiroshima’s late-evening dining rhythm, with Tabelog 100 Chinese WEST 2026 recognition giving it a clear credential beyond neighbourhood word of mouth. The appeal is less ceremony than pacing: a compact city-centre meal built around shared plates, smoke-free dining, and the kind of post-work timing that suits Kanayamacho after dark.
Soshi
Tabelog Bronze Award winner for 2025 and 2026, Soshi is a 14-seat counter sushi restaurant in Hiroshima's Naka Ward focused on Setouchi fish interpreted through an Edomae framework. Dinner runs JPY 20,000–29,999 with two fixed seatings nightly. Reservations are booked several months ahead and accepted exclusively through the OMAKASE online platform.
Takanobashi Kiyotan
Takanobashi Kiyotan sits in Hiroshima’s creative izakaya tier, where seasonal Japanese cooking borrows the pacing of multi-course dining without losing the intimacy of a tavern. Its Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze recognition, 2025 Innovative / Creative Cuisine 100 selection, 20-seat scale, and JPY 8,000–9,999 dinner range put it in a focused category for travellers who want Hiroshima beyond the obvious local dishes.
Tenko Honten
Tenko Honten operates in Hiroshima's Yoshijima district, a residential pocket that shapes its identity as a neighbourhood-anchored Japanese restaurant rather than a destination-driven dining event. Recognised by Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Japan list in 2023 and holding, it draws a local-weighted clientele under chef Ryousuke Ito, with split lunch and dinner sittings Tuesday through Sunday.
Tenyoshi
A husband-and-wife tempura counter on Yoshijimanishi island in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, Tenyoshi operates a set-menu-only format that pairs the clean precision of tempura with sashimi and Japanese small plates. The format is intimate, the kitchen approach is disciplined, and the setting places it well outside the city's more tourist-facing dining circuit.
Teppanyaki Atago
Teppanyaki Atago places Hiroshima’s hotel teppanyaki tradition in a sourcing-led frame: beef, seafood, vegetables, wine and sake handled in a counter format built around controlled heat rather than spectacle. Its Tabelog 100 Steak / Teppanyaki WEST selections in 2024 and 2025 put it in a serious regional bracket, while the setting keeps the experience accessible for mixed groups.
Teppanyaki Yamaoka
Teppanyaki Yamaoka places Hiroshima’s steak-and-seafood teppanyaki tradition in a compact Hatchobori room, with counter seating giving the format its usual theatre without turning dinner into spectacle. Selection for Tabelog 100 Steak / Teppanyaki WEST in 2024 and 2025 puts it in a serious regional bracket, while the pricing keeps it below Japan’s trophy teppanyaki tier.
Tori Yamamoto
A reservation-only yakitori counter in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, Tori Yamamoto holds a Tabelog Score of 4.02 and has earned Tabelog Award Bronze 2026 recognition alongside consecutive selection for Tabelog Yakitori WEST Top 100 in both 2024 and 2025. Eleven seats across a six-seat counter and a private room for four to five guests frame an evening built around premium Nagoya Cochin and Omi Jidori chicken courses, served in two structured sessions nightly.
Yakitori Takase
Yakitori Takase puts Hiroshima’s Yagenbori nightlife district into a tighter, counter-led register: charcoal-grilled chicken, a 10-seat format, and a drinks list that reaches sake, shochu, and wine. Its selection for Tabelog 100 Yakitori WEST 2025 places it in a regional conversation that is more selective than the city’s casual skewer bars.
ル・ジャルダン グルマン
A French-accented restaurant in Hiroshima's Nishi Ward, ル・ジャルダン グルマン occupies a quieter residential corridor at some remove from the city's central dining clusters. The name signals a classical European sensibility, and the address places it among a cohort of destination restaurants that draw on Hiroshima's willingness to support ambitious cooking well outside the tourist circuit.
桃花庵
桃花庵 serves Seasonal Kaiseki Omakase at Ibara-59-1 in Asakita Ward, with a chef’s counter, formal service, and a sake program for an extended dinner.
Planning tasting menus in Hiroshima
- Which neighborhood holds this tasting-menu list?
- Naka holds most restaurants on this tasting-menu list. Nakashima, Chiso Sottakuito, Eizan, Soshi, NAKADO, hiroto, DIRETTO, and Tenyoshi are in Naka, along with the yakitori and teppanyaki counters on the list. Ryoriya Sobiki serves seasonal kaiseki in Saijo, and Chinese Sai Kichijitsu serves seasonal Chinese courses in Higashi.
- Which restaurant on this list holds a Star Wine List?
- Tenyoshi, in Naka, is the restaurant on this list with a Star Wine List for 2026. The wine program is extensive, with a sake program and sake sommelier pairings. A husband-and-wife team fries each seasonal course at the counter. Sashimi and Japanese small plates are part of the meal.
- What kinds of tasting menus are on the list?
- The list includes kaiseki, omakase, sushi, tempura, French, Italian, Chinese, and yakitori courses. Nakashima, Eizan, and Chiso Sottakuito serve kaiseki or omakase in Naka, and Ryoriya Sobiki serves seasonal kaiseki in Saijo. Soshi serves sushi omakase in Naka, and Tenyoshi and Tenko Honten serve tempura omakase in Naka. NAKADO and hiroto serve French tasting menus in Naka, and DIRETTO serves wood-fired Italian courses in Naka. Chinese Sai Kichijitsu serves seasonal Chinese tasting menus in Higashi.
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