Star Wine List Restaurants in Tokyo

ALTER EGO

Tokyo, Japan

In Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, Alter Ego occupies a former sake merchant's premises, its cedar ball still hanging from the eaves. The kitchen operates under a framework established by Milan-based chef Yoji Tokuyoshi: Italian technique applied to Japanese seasonal ingredients, served à la carte rather than omakase. A Michelin Plate holder since 2024 and ranked 144th in Opinionated About Dining's Japan list that same year.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Apicius

Tokyo, Japan

Operating from a basement in Yurakucho for over four decades, Apicius is one of Tokyo's most enduring French grand maisons, holding a Tabelog Silver Award and a Michelin Plate recognition. Dinner runs JPY 50,000–59,999 with a 12% service charge, placing it firmly in Tokyo's upper-tier French bracket. The dress code, private rooms, and dedicated sommelier signal a deliberately formal register that fewer restaurants in the city still maintain.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Breeze of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

On the 36th floor of the Marunouchi Building in central Tokyo, Breeze of Tokyo occupies a tier of high-altitude dining rooms where wine credentials carry real weight. Recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star award in December 2021, the restaurant sits above one of the capital's most concentrated pockets of corporate and culinary ambition. For serious wine-focused dining in Marunouchi, it belongs on the shortlist.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Collage

Tokyo, Japan

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Collage sits in Tokyo's Higashi-Shimbashi district, a neighbourhood defined by its proximity to the waterfront corporate corridor yet still navigable enough for serious diners to seek out. The restaurant holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, signalling a wine program of measured depth. It occupies a tier where wine culture and kitchen ambition intersect in one of the city's more purposeful dining addresses.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Crony

Tokyo, Japan

2 Michelin stars

A two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Higashi-Azabu, Crony occupies a glass-walled detached house across from a park, where Chef Michihiro Haruta serves prix fixe menus rooted in French technique and a sustainability ethos that extends from suppliers to staff. Ranked 30th on Asia's 50 Best in 2025, it sits among Tokyo's most closely watched fine-dining addresses.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog, We're Smart World

CYCLE by Mauro Colagreco

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

CYCLE by Mauro Colagreco brings the circular gastronomy philosophy of Mirazur — the Michelin-starred restaurant on the French Riviera — to the Otemachi business district of Tokyo. Prix fixe menus are organised around four natural themes: roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Japanese chef Yuhei Miyamoto, who trained at Mirazur, leads the kitchen, and the wine program has ranked among Japan's top lists on Star Wine List for two consecutive years.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog, The Best Chef

Dining 33

Tokyo, Japan

Dining 33 occupies the 33rd floor of Azabudai Hills' Mori JP Tower in Minato, Tokyo, and holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List as of March 2025. The address alone positions it within one of the city's most architecturally significant recent developments, where altitude and urban scale define the dining environment as much as what arrives at the table.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Empire Steak House

Tokyo, Japan

A New York transplant operating in Roppongi's international dining corridor, Empire Steak House brings American steakhouse tradition to one of Tokyo's most globally oriented districts. It sits within a neighbourhood where Western dining concepts have long found a receptive audience, competing alongside other American-style operators while drawing on its Manhattan origins as a point of distinction.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, Tabelog

ESPRIT C. KEI GINZA

Tokyo, Japan

On the 11th floor of a Ginza tower, Esprit C. Kei Ginza translates the three-Michelin-starred Paris blueprint of chef Kei Kobayashi into an à la carte format built around what the restaurant calls a 'gourmet laboratory.' Consecutive Michelin Plate recognition and La Liste scores of 75.5 and 76 points across 2025 and 2026 position it as a serious entry point into Tokyo's French dining tier — creative, ingredient-led, and anchored in Kobayashi's Paris pedigree.

Also recognized by La Liste, Star Wine List

ESqUISSE

Tokyo, Japan

2 Michelin stars

ESqUISSE brings Tokyo French dining into a Ginza register: formal, seasonal, and more reflective than bistro-derived comfort cooking. Chef Lionel Beccat’s kitchen is backed by Michelin two-star recognition, La Liste 93 points for 2026, and long-running Tabelog Award history, placing it in the city’s serious French conversation rather than the casual Parisian mold.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

est

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

est Tokyo elevates contemporary French cuisine to new heights on the 39th floor of Four Seasons Hotel Otemachi, where Michelin-starred Chef Guillaume Bracaval transforms 95% locally-sourced Japanese ingredients into sophisticated tasting menus that honor both French technique and seasonal terroir.

Also recognized by Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

ESTERRE by Alain Ducasse

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

On the sixth floor of the Palace Hotel Tokyo, ESTERRE by Alain Ducasse frames the gardens of the Imperial Palace through floor-to-ceiling glass while putting Japanese terroir at the centre of a French fine dining format. Michelin-starred since 2024 and positioned at 78 points on the 2026 La Liste ranking, it is one of the few Tokyo addresses where Kamakura vegetables and Japanese-sourced ingredients drive the logic of a classically structured French kitchen.

Also recognized by La Liste, Star Wine List, Tabelog, We're Smart World

Ginza L’écrin

Tokyo, Japan

The kitchen applies orthodox French technique to Japanese-sourced fish and seasonal produce, with a wine program overseen by an in-house sommelier. Dinner runs from JPY 20,000 to JPY 29,999; reviewed spending averages suggest considerably higher.

Also recognized by La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Ginza Soseki

Tokyo, Japan

Ginza Soseki sits in Chuo City's premium restaurant corridor, recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star distinction for its wine program. The address on Ginza 5-chome places it within walking distance of the district's other serious dining counters, and its inclusion on Star Wine List in April 2023 signals a list built for guests who treat the bottle as seriously as the plate.

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Ginza Soseki Arata

Tokyo, Japan

A Star Wine List White Star recipient in Ginza's Chuo ward, Ginza Soseki Arata sits within Tokyo's most competitive fine-dining corridor, where wine program credibility operates as a distinct differentiator. The address in Irifune places it steps from the district's concentration of omakase counters and French-influenced tasting rooms, making the wine list recognition a signal worth reading carefully before booking.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Gyoza Bar Chaozu

Tokyo, Japan

A compact bar and restaurant in Azabujuban, Minato City, focused tightly on gyoza dumplings and the wines that sit alongside them. Ranked #1 by Star Wine List in 2025, Gyoza Bar Chaozu operates in the tradition of Tokyo's specialist single-product venues — where depth of focus, not breadth of menu, is the argument. The gyoza are the reason to visit; the wine program is the reason to stay.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Hei Fung Terrace

Tokyo, Japan

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Hei Fung Terrace brings Cantonese tradition to central Tokyo via a Hong Kong-affiliated kitchen operating out of Yurakucho, steps from the outer garden of the Imperial Palace. A Michelin Plate recipient in both 2024 and 2025, the restaurant spans dim sum craft and iron-pot grilling within a Chinese garden atmosphere. The wine list runs to 735 selections, with notable depth in California and France.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, Tabelog

Hyakuyaku by Tokuyamazushi

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

A 2024 kaiseki opening in Minato City, Hyakuyaku by Tokuyamazushi brings Shiga's fermentation traditions into a Ginza-adjacent setting. The Michelin Plate-recognised menu centres on funazushi and seasonal game, framed through a kaiseki structure that treats fermentation not as accent but as architecture. For milestone dining in Tokyo, it occupies a tier defined by precision, provenance, and a clear regional point of view.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Il Ristorante - Niko Romito

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

On the 40th floor of Tokyo's Bulgari Hotel in Yaesu, Il Ristorante - Niko Romito translates a Michelin-celebrated Italian philosophy into a setting that matches its ambitions. The kitchen applies a technique-driven approach to Italian regional cooking, extracting moisture from vegetables without water and concentrating tomato into its most direct form. It is one of the few Italian fine-dining addresses in Tokyo operating at this level of conceptual discipline.

Also recognized by Gambero Rosso, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

JULIA

Tokyo, Japan

At JULIA, omakase becomes a luminous dialogue between land, sea, and vine—crafted by a visionary chef and her sommelier husband. This intimate, couples-run address champions Japan as a terroir, spotlighting pristine produce and seafood from Ibaraki, the husband’s birthplace, in elegantly surprising pairings—often fruit-forward—designed to sharpen nuance over showmanship. Expect a feather-light progression that fuses color, clarity, and precision with rare Japanese wines, each pour amplifying texture, minerality, and a quiet sense of place. For the well-traveled gourmand, it’s a study in restraint and radiance—an experience that feels both self-taught and effortlessly assured.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, The Best Chef

Kabi

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

Kabi sits in Tokyo’s innovative dining bracket with a fermentation-led vocabulary shaped by Japanese preservation traditions and Northern European technique. Chef Shohei Yasuda’s Denmark experience matters here, not as biography for its own sake, but because it explains the restaurant’s cross-cultural treatment of mold, pickling, miso and rice as serious culinary structure rather than trend signaling.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

KEI Collection PARIS

Tokyo, Japan

On the 49th floor of Toranomon Hills Station Tower, KEI Collection PARIS brings Kei Kobayashi's French cooking to Tokyo's skyline in à la carte format. The charcoal-grilled wagyu and playfully constructed appetisers reflect a chef who built his reputation in Paris now working on his own terms. Recognised on La Liste's Top Restaurants list in both 2025 and 2026, it occupies a distinct position in Tokyo's French dining tier.

Also recognized by La Liste, Star Wine List

KIBUN

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

A 10-seat counter in Nishiazabu where a French-born chef trained at a Kyoto ryotei structures his prix fixe menu in two movements: Japanese technique first, French classicism second. The volcanic stone and hinoki wood interior, framed by a single Hiroshi Sugimoto photograph, makes KIBUN one of Tokyo's more considered rooms for a meal that marks a specific occasion. Michelin Plate recognition in 2025.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, The Best Chef

Kobayashi

Tokyo, Japan

Kobayashi opened in Roppongi in June 2024, earning a Tabelog Bronze Award within its first year and a score of 3.83 — a rapid credentialing for a new counter. Chef Takeshi Kobayashi runs an eight-seat format with the 'Ultra K' tasting menu, placing the restaurant inside Tokyo's increasingly competitive small-counter Japanese dining tier. Dinner service runs six evenings a week from 18:30.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, Tabelog

L'aube

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

L'aube holds a Michelin star (2024) in Higashi Azabu, where a trio of chef, pastry chef, and sommelier builds contemporary French cooking around direct relationships with Japanese producers. Positioned at ¥¥¥ in a city where French fine dining runs from three-star flagships to neighbourhood tables, it occupies the tier where seasonal ingredients and technical precision matter more than ceremony.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

L'Effervescence

Tokyo, Japan

3 Michelin stars

Tokyo’s French dining scene has a serious Japanese inflection, and L’Effervescence sits in the high-formal end of that conversation. Chef Shinobu Namae’s kitchen is framed by sustainable sourcing, prix fixe structure, and a tea-ceremony cadence, with recognition from Tabelog, Opinionated About Dining, La Liste, and Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants reinforcing its place among the city’s destination rooms.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Relais Chateaux

LA BONNE TABLE

Tokyo, Japan

A Michelin Plate-recognised French restaurant in Nihonbashi's Coredo Mitsui complex, La Bonne Table positions itself in the accessible mid-tier of Tokyo's Franco-Japanese dining scene. Chef Kazunari Nakamura's farm-to-table sourcing philosophy, with direct relationships with producers across Japan, informs a menu where vegetables and seafood arrive with clear provenance. Lunch draws neighbourhood professionals; dinner shifts toward a more composed, multi-course format.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

La Pioche

Tokyo, Japan

La Pioche is a French bistro and natural wine bar in Tokyo's quiet Suitengu district, ranked on Opinionated About Dining's Casual Japan list for three consecutive years (2023–2025). Under Chef Shinya Hayashi, the room draws serious wine drinkers, industry professionals, and visiting winemakers. Evening hours run from 5:30 pm on weekdays and 4 pm on weekends.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Le Bistro Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Le Bistro Tokyo, located in Sendagaya, Shibuya, holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List as of March 2025, placing it among Tokyo's noted addresses for wine-forward dining. The French bistro format in Tokyo has carved a distinct niche between high-ceremony gastronomic rooms and casual wine bars, and Le Bistro sits within that considered middle tier. Plan ahead and book in advance.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Maruta

Tokyo, Japan

In Chofu's western reaches, Maruta operates at a remove from central Tokyo's dining circuit, anchoring its menu in firewood cooking and the seasonal rhythms of the adjacent Jindaiji Garden. Homemade kombucha signals the kitchen's broader fermentation philosophy.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

MAZ

Tokyo, Japan

2 Michelin stars

Tokyo's innovative dining tier has become more international without loosening its ritual discipline. MAZ brings Peru's altitude-led way of reading biodiversity into a Japanese fine-dining room, backed by Michelin two-star recognition in 2024 and 2025, Star Wine List appearances, La Liste scores, and Tabelog Bronze awards. The appeal is not fusion shorthand, but a tightly paced meal built around origin, elevation, and restraint.

Also recognized by La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Nogizaka Shin

Tokyo, Japan

1 Michelin star

A Michelin-starred counter in Nogizaka where kaiseki discipline meets Italian-inflected sensibility, guided by a sommelier ranked among Japan's foremost. The kitchen draws ingredients from Tokushima Prefecture, and monthly pairing events — wine alongside Awa bancha fermented tea — position Nogizaka Shin at the intersection of kappo tradition and contemporary beverage culture. Rated 4.6 on Google from 97 reviews and ranked #1 on Star Wine List 2025.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Odajima

Tokyo, Japan

Operating from Roppongi since 1976, Odajima occupies a singular position in Tokyo's dining history as one of the earliest Japanese restaurants to build a serious case for pairing Japanese cuisine with wine. What began as a provocative idea in an era of skepticism has matured into a long-running institution that continues to sit at the intersection of Japanese culinary tradition and European wine culture.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Peter

Tokyo, Japan

Perched on the 24th floor of The Peninsula Tokyo in Yurakucho, Peter occupies a tier of hotel dining where wine program seriousness matches the altitude. Recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star designation in December 2021, it draws a clientele that expects sourcing depth alongside the view. For Tokyo's hotel restaurant circuit, that combination carries real weight.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Rangitoto Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Rangitoto Tokyo occupies a basement space in Bunkyo's Yushima district, operating at a remove from the central Ginza and Roppongi circuits where most of the city's wine-forward venues cluster. Recognised with a White Star by Star Wine List in March 2025, the restaurant has established itself as a serious entry in Tokyo's wine-programme conversation within a short window.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Ristorante Kurodino

Tokyo, Japan

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

An Italian restaurant on the sixth floor of an Optica building in Ginza's 3-chome, Ristorante Kurodino earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in June 2024, signalling a wine program taken seriously enough to merit specialist attention. The address puts it inside one of Tokyo's most competitive dining corridors, where the standard for Italian cooking is set by decades of Japanese precision applied to European technique.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Ryuan

Tokyo, Japan

Ryuan is a Shibuya-based Tokyo restaurant recognised with a White Star on Star Wine List, signalling a wine programme serious enough to earn independent editorial attention. Its Chome-1 address places it in one of Tokyo's most traversed districts, where the density of competing dining rooms makes specialist recognition meaningful. For wine-focused diners, that distinction is the starting point.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Ryuzu

Tokyo, Japan

2 Michelin stars

Tokyo’s French dining scene has long rewarded precision over theatricality, and Ryuzu sits in that disciplined Roppongi tier where the prix fixe format carries the argument. Ryuta Iizuka’s kitchen is supported by Michelin two-star recognition in 2024 and 2025, La Liste scores, Star Wine List inclusion, and repeated Tabelog Bronze awards, making it a serious choice for diners comparing modern French rooms in the city.

Also recognized by La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Senju

Tokyo, Japan

Senju sits in Tachikawa, west of central Tokyo, and makes a case that genuine farm-to-table cooking in the city requires leaving the city. Where the dense wards have no room to grow anything, this western satellite has space, suppliers, and a dining format built around what arrives from local farms rather than what any fixed menu demands.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Sézanne

Tokyo, Japan

Sézanne brings Tokyo’s market-led French dining into a hotel setting with unusual precision: a 42-seat room, Daniel Calvert’s neo-French framework, and a wine program recognized by Star Wine List. Its credibility is broad rather than local only, spanning Tabelog Silver recognition, La Liste scoring, Opinionated About Dining placement, and membership in Les Grandes Tables du Monde.

Also recognized by Black Pearl, La Liste, Les Grandes Tables du Monde, Opinionated About Dining

Sushi TAKAYA

Tokyo, Japan

Sushi TAKAYA occupies a quietly significant address in Ginza 7-chome, a block where omakase counters compete at the upper tier of Tokyo's sushi market. The venue sits within a district that sets the reference point for counter dining across Japan, placing it in direct conversation with the neighbourhood's most recognised houses. Booking ahead is advisable for any serious visit to this part of Ginza.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Tinc gana

Tokyo, Japan

Tinc Gana brings Catalan cuisine to Chiyoda's Ichigaya neighbourhood, with Chef Daisuke Tsuji applying a modern sensibility to Barcelona's local cooking traditions. A Michelin Plate holder in 2024 and 2025 and recommended by Opinionated About Dining, it operates as the refined sibling to the popular Spanish gastrobar Gracia. The kitchen's approach centres on carefully sourced ingredients and the kind of lightness that defines contemporary Catalan cooking.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog

Ukiyo

Tokyo, Japan

In Uehara, Shibuya's quieter residential fringe, Ukiyo occupies a ground-floor space where chef Toshi Akama applies spice with the precision of a seasoning editor rather than a showman. The kitchen draws on global influences without advertising them, producing dishes — soft-shell turtle among the signatures — that read as subtle before they reveal themselves as considered. For Tokyo's globally inflected dining tier, Ukiyo is a measured and rewarding address.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Vino della Pace

Tokyo, Japan

Vino della Pace occupies a particular position in Tokyo's Italian wine scene that few venues have managed to replicate. Located in Nishi-azabu, this Italian wine sanctuary built its reputation under the late Kazuo Naito, whose depth of knowledge drew serious collectors and sommeliers alike. For a milestone dinner anchored by Italian bottles, it remains a reference point among the city's most wine-serious establishments.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Wolfgang's Steakhouse Marunouchi Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

A New York steakhouse institution transplanted to Marunouchi's basement level, Wolfgang's Tokyo operates from within the Meiji Seimei-kan building and holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List. The wine program is a central pillar here, with American dry-aged beef served in a format that sits apart from Tokyo's kaiseki and omakase corridors. Book in advance, particularly for weekend evenings.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, Tabelog

Wolfgang's Steakhouse Roppongi Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Wolfgang's Steakhouse in Roppongi brings the American dry-aged beef tradition to one of Tokyo's most international dining districts. The Tokyo outpost earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in December 2021, signalling a wine program serious enough to register on specialist radar. In a neighbourhood where French and Japanese fine dining dominate the upper tiers, it occupies a distinct position as a reference-point steakhouse with a transatlantic pedigree.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, Tabelog

Wolfgang's Steakhouse Signature Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Wolfgang's Steakhouse Signature Tokyo brings the New York steakhouse tradition to Kita-Aoyama, a neighbourhood that sets a demanding bar for imported dining formats. The restaurant holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, signalling a wine program that earns specialist attention. For Tokyo visitors seeking American-style aged beef alongside serious stemware, this Minato address warrants consideration.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

YAWYE

Tokyo, Japan

YAWYE is a basement-level restaurant in Nishiazabu, Minato, recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star designation published in February 2026 — a signal of serious wine programming in a neighbourhood that already sets a high bar. The address places it among Tokyo's most concentrated pocket of destination dining, where the question is rarely whether the food is serious, but how the room approaches the ritual of the meal.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Zai

Tokyo, Japan

Sushi Zai occupies the fifth floor of a quiet Hiroo building and operates within a tier of Tokyo sushi counters that treat comprehensiveness as a design principle rather than an afterthought. Ranked #412 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Japan list and holding a Tabelog Bronze Award with a score of 3.92, it draws a returning clientele drawn by the format's ambition and the neighbourhood's relative remove from the Ginza circuit.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, Tabelog