Délirium Café Ginza — Restaurant in Tokyo

Visited in October 2025. Japan 🇯🇵 Tokyo.

We stumbled upon this café by chance — it’s located in Ginza, though not on the main street but tucked away in a quieter alley. The place immediately caught our eye for its selection of burgers and an impressive beer menu. The interior is spacious and feels a bit like a piano pub, with a lively yet relaxed atmosphere.

FOOD:

Aside from burgers, the menu includes appetizers, pastas, salads, and desserts — a mix of casual European-style dishes. However, we came specifically for the burgers. They offer patties made from Kobe Wagyu and another, less expensive Wagyu breed. We went for their classic double Kobe beef cheeseburger (3,400 yen), expecting something truly special given the reputation of Kobe beef.

Unfortunately, it was a complete disappointment. The burger looked promising — two thick patties, nicely toasted buns, and melted cheese — but the first bite revealed everything wrong. The meat had a coarse, uneven texture, full of tough sinewy bits that couldn’t be chewed. The flavor was flat, lacking any of the characteristic sweet fattiness of good Wagyu. It felt like they were using the Kobe name just as a marketing trick to attract tourists while grinding up leftover trimmings into the patties without any care for quality. Even in photos, you can see the gristly texture.

The fries, however, were cooked well — crispy and seasoned nicely. We ordered a few extra mayo-based sauces, which were quite good.

SERVICE:

The service itself was friendly and efficient. Orders are placed through a tablet, and our waitress was helpful — she even helped to have the burger cut in half for us. But when we asked whether it was normal for their patties to contain so many tendons, the staff replied that this was “standard” and that the burger met their quality expectations. That response said everything.

VERDICT:

The beer selection and general atmosphere were enjoyable, but the burger was one of the worst we’ve had in Tokyo — tough, poorly made, and far from worthy of the Kobe name. If you care about quality meat, skip the burgers here. The rest of the food might be fine, but this one was a major letdown and definitely not...

The Delirium Cafe is a Belgian-themed restaurant, which is party of a family of Delirium-themed restaurants.

The interior is well-appointed, and when the weather is nice, it's open to the outside. The decorations and fixtures are pretty nice. It can be a little narrow to move around, but otherwise the atmosphere is nice.

Drinks are the main attraction here, with a wide selection of Belgian craft beers available on draft, as well as in bottles; there are also some local Japanese craft beer selections available as well, which was a pleasant surprise. If you're in need of a great Belgian beer, well, come here!

The food was good, with a variety of dishes that you might find in the low country. We enjoyed french fries, mussels, risotto, and a pasta made with the mussel liquid remnants. Overall, the food was well-prepared and quite enjoyable.

The service was friendly, if a little scattered at times; we had to correct our order, and the runners/servers seemed to be frequently mixing up orders in our section.

As a minor gripe, there is a 300 yen cover charge; for this you do get a small appetizer, but it seems out of place for an establishment like this.

Overall, a good experience, I would...

I dropped into this "cafe" while waiting for a the reservation time of another restaurant nearby. First of all, it's not a cafe. It's an overpriced restaurant with a cafe-like layout. So, if you're hoping to just have a cup of coffee, you'll be disappointed at the size of the coffee and the price. What it does have going for it is a decent beer menu, so "bar" might be a more accurate moniker than cafe. I was pleasantly surprised by their house brew Nocturnum on tap. The service, however, was very subpar--especially for Ginza. First of all the, the waiter was curt and ended his seating of me with "no English OK?" If fact there was an (poorly translated) English menu using the QR code that was on the table. I received no information about this and just figured it out myself. The waiter then brought me a bottle of water, but when I didn't immediately poor a glass, took the water away. So, when I did want water, I had to ask for it again. The correct action would have been to bring the water, poor a glass FOR me, and then leave the bottle on the table. In summary, it's not a cafe, overpriced, has poorly trained staff and...