Tonkatsu Maruichi — Restaurant in Tokyo

I've eaten a lot of tonkatsu in Japan. The best tend to have the right amount of crunch, the right amount of juice, and a great flavor.

I am happy to report, Maruichi's tonkatsu have all three points, nearly to perfection.

For English speakers, there is a limited English menu. The hostess will seat you and give you the limited menu printed out, point at what you want and you're ready to feast.

If you can read/speak Japanese, there are more options available but the tonkatsu for me was the best option and it's available to everyone (they will also serve the other items if you can figure them out, of course; it's not like they won't make them for you if you aren't Japanese).

Sadly, the hostess struggled with my Japanese but I had a great...

The place for old style Japanese Katsu restaurant in Ueno. Maurichi Tonkatsu is specialize in Katsu menu, they offers wide range choice of meat for Katsu. From pork, beef and seafood. The cooked in open kitchen where you can see chef deep frying Katsu on the counter bar, very enjoyable and smell the aromatic from the frying pan. The Katsu is real amazing, well cooked and tasty, the menus that I ordered is assorted beef Katsu, flavorful and aromatic. This place is real local with grateful gratitude of serving the Katsu, atmosphere here are so wonderful and very traditional .The place is running by the older staff, they are real nice and friendly even they are not speaking English. There is English menu with picture to help...

i stopped by twice for lunch with my girlfriend as we stayed at the hotel next door and was amazed at how cozy the atmosphere was and how home cooked the meals felt.

my girlfriend loves saba shioyaki and claims this is the best she had during our time in japan. it was perfectly grilled, not dry, and super tender.

my katsu was also amazing, super crispy and juicy. you can even smell/hear the chef deep frying the katsu fresh for every order. it smelled good from across the room before my dish was even served to me

it was a great start to our days, we'd love to go back if we ever found ourselves in the area again on...