Tempura Ebino-ya Minamimorimachi — Restaurant in Osaka

This is my first time here. It's a one-minute walk from Minamimorimachi Station along Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street. The restaurant has about 10 counter seats and about 20 table seats. It's a bright restaurant with plain wood interiors. In the open kitchen, a chef is busy cooking tempura behind the counter. The wait staff is quick and customers come and go quickly. This time I ordered the “Anago tendon”, tempura over rice with conger eel tempra. Even though it was busy, it was served within 10 minutes. Seven kinds of freshly fried tempura, including anago-conger eel , shrimp, squid, white fish, green beans, pumpkin, and egg, were piled high on top of the bowl and topped with a sauce that wasn't too sweet. The texture was crispy, the toppings were piping hot, and all the toppings were fresh and had a good texture and taste. The red miso soup was also good, and the mentaiko, spicy cod roe, which was free to refill, seemed a bit too generous, but it was very delicious. To be honest, I had underestimated it, thinking it was just a chain tempura restaurant, but the high quality of the tempura over rice and the friendly atmosphere in which the chefs and staff worked left a...

Tempura was delicious. They serve it with the sauce to dip and pink salt to dip after when is wet. For 1200 yen I had a set meal at 3 pm which served for lunch and dinner. Rice and spicy fish eggs topping (I had 2 bowls of each) is eat as much as you can. The Ebisu bottle beer is the most amazing beer you can get in Japan. the small bottle was 380 yen ... and I remember paying 550 for a glass of a lower level beer at Niku Banzai Tennoji yesterday so I am not sure why some people can charge so much for beer ... there is no regulation and of course bottle beer is much better since it keeps cool in the bottle and it is not served with bubbles. Bubbles are sold in Japan under the term creamy beer to rip you off and sell you one third less of what they claim and of course at 3 times the price in some isakayas. I was so please with the beer choice and bottle size served as well as...

Actually, my partner and I stumbled upon this restaurant while we were looking for a place to have lunch. Fortunately, the restaurant wasn't crowded at the time, so we didn't have to wait and were seated right away. We ordered the tempura set menu (I forgot the name of the menu). We didn't think of changing the set menu because we wanted to try everything it offered. And it was the right decision! All the tempura served was delicious, and the tare sauce was not too sweet, so it was well-balanced.

The service from the waitress was also good. We received good treatment from the restaurant staff. Even though we used English and very little Japanese, the staff were very helpful.

Overall, we never regretted coming for lunch at that time. Someday when I visit Osaka again, I will definitely...