Yakitori Haretsubame Shinjuku higashiguchi — Restaurant in Tokyo

We found this restaurant as we walk passed the building and we saw their standing banner. It has no english writing on it and it has a big yakitori image. Located in basement 2.

We were lucky, to be able to got a counter seat without reservation on a Monday (public holiday) dinner time around 6:30pm.

There is an english menu, their staff are friendly too albeit limited english fluency.

Our server Yudi was great!! He was attentive, explained us the menu, popular dishes including recommending how best to eat the dishes. He also keep checking on us about our meals and drinks. Yudi is awesome!!!

Our Yakitori omakase set was delicious!! The duck meatball was so good. No wonder this restaurant is busy.

Advance reservation is recommended. We will come back again when...

After spending a long day around Shinjuku and seeing the famous Godzilla Head, there was so many options around the area it made our head spin.

Luckily, we found this gem. Located a few stairs below street level, we were seated quickly on a Friday evening and served an incredible assortment of yakitori. Their menu was great, affordable and I unfortunately realized my eyes were bigger than my stomach.

I’d recommend this place to folks in the area and was surprised as some of the staff spoke English quite well helping to navigate whenever we had questions. Our booth was quaint and even with the busyness of the restaurant I felt that I could have a nice meal with my wife without concern.

I should have taken more photos but the special lemon sour...

If you want local Yakitori but don’t fancy waiting 30 minutes like most restaurants do- we’d recommend coming here! They’re super quick with the food but it’s also top quality and the staff are very friendly! Would also recommend the chicken skin gyoza and the oden. (If you fancy a great drink- try the pineapple sour! They give you half a pineapple and you can squeeze out the juice yourself!) they also do things like horse sashimi and also other light snacks! Our total bill came up to around ¥8000 yen but that was A LOT of food so definitely worth it! We were also lucky with the walk-in at around 9:30- would recommend booking in advance unless you want to...