Minato 🇯🇵 — Restaurant in Antwerp

I went here for my daughter's birthday and I am really impressed with the whole experience. Born and grew up in one of asia's biggest city, I was spoiled with the selection of japanese foods back home, as there are a lots of japanese immigrants that established really authentic restaurants there. Since I moved to europe 12 years ago, it was hit and miss experiences with the many "japanese" restaurants that I went into here in the continent. But, this restaurant..this is the first time again after so many years that I can conveniently say that this is the taste that I've known for many years back "home". This is the most authentic japanese foods that I've ate after a really long time and I'm glad that I found this gem, just stone throw away from my home...

Can't wait to go back. The most delicious Japanese cuisine I have ever eaten in Belgium. My husband and I are now on a mission to try all the starters on the menu. We had four starters yesterday and two mains. Of course we were completely full and satisfied! We do not regret having ordered so much though. The starters came one by one (we were sharing), they were so good and they did leave some time in between. The staff was very friendly, the setting was cosy and the bill was amazingly reasonable for such good food and quantity! Sorry, no pics because we ate everything without thinking about anything else but the...

Luckily we reserved a table :) We enjoyed several plates, each one of them took us back to Japan. There were even a few Japanese patrons (always a good sign). The tempura vegetables, the seaweed, the natto temaki (hand roll sushi), which I topped with the Sapporo beer and the warm Sake all were delicious. We finished it all with a Matcha ice cream with red bean paste. We did our best to order in Japanese (with success). The service was Japanese-style friendly,...