Satonoyado

First choose your fish, then decide: salt-grilled or simmered? At Satonoyado, set meals featuring herring, horse mackerel and sablefish offer a choice of cooking methods, making how to enjoy the fish part of the decision. Diners who ordered simmered fish have said its sweet-and-savoury sauce and tender flesh go particularly well with white rice. Opinions on the simmered golden eye snapper vary: some found its slightly sweet sauce especially good with rice, while others appreciated that the flavour was not too strong. Tastes differ, but it’s an option for anyone in the mood for simmered fish with rice.

Grilled choices include teriyaki or miso-grilled sablefish and salt-grilled mackerel. One diner who ordered the sablefish teriyaki enjoyed its well-cooked skin and rich, fatty flesh as a dish that made the rice disappear quickly. Another reported finding fatty flesh beneath the crisped skin of the salt-grilled mackerel. It offers a different flavour from simmered fish.

There are à la carte dishes as well as set meals. Some diners have added scallop cream croquettes to a fish set meal; others have enjoyed simmered fish with draft beer. You can make the meal the focus or have a drink alongside it. This set-meal restaurant is in Minamicho, Kichijoji, and serves lunch and dinner; it also suits solo diners. Payment is cash only, so come prepared.