Kichijoji, Tokyo, appears at the top of the "City Ranking for Living" every year. It's a charming city with many nice cafes and restaurants. Every time I go, I wonder where and what to eat today.

So this time, I asked about 5 recommended cafes and restaurants that genuine locals born and raised in Kichijoji are actually repeating! You won't get lost anymore!

1, I want to drown in cheese! Tony's Pizza, a long-established pizza restaurant that has been in business for 48 years

A long-established pizza restaurant that has been loved for nearly 50 years since it was founded in Yoyogi in 1968. The nostalgic atmosphere of the oldies is crowded with students, businessmen, and housewife friends.

Once you eat the pizza here, you'll be captivated
Once you eat the pizza here, you'll be captivated

The signature menu is a pizza topped with plenty of cheese. Among them, the "Mixed Pizza" (790 yen), which can be said to be the "face" of the store, is baked with a large amount of cheese on a pizza with meat and vegetables so that the ingredients can not be seen. One person is a quarter (2 pieces) of 1 hole.

This is for one person. There is a lot of volume
This is for one person. There is a lot of volume

The cheese is too heavy to hold in your hand, so use a knife and fork.

Is cheese thicker than dough?
Is cheese thicker than dough?

When I bite into it so as not to spill the overflowing cheese ... It's thick and rich, and the richness and umami flow into my mouth like a flood! This is the first pizza where you can taste cheese so luxuriously. As you continue to eat, you can meet the crispy onions and peppers hidden in the cheese, but this is like a little treasure hunt and it's fun.

Happiness ... happiness spills
Happiness ... happiness spills

The amount of cheese is extraordinary, but the taste itself is simple and orthodox. I want to repeat it as many times as I want.

The store is located at 1-6-9 Kichijoji Minamicho, Musashino City, Tokyo.

2. Feel free to have lunch at the grape shop you admire!

"Grape shop" is a restaurant where you can enjoy Japanese black beef steak, shabu-shabu, and yakiniku. You can easily use the grape shop, which has a slightly high-class image, for lunch without straining your shoulders.

From the 1st basement floor to the 3rd floor, stores of different types of grape shops are gathered
From the 1st basement floor to the 3rd floor, stores of different types of grape shops are gathered

This time I visited Yakiniku BUDO-YA. I ordered "Yakiniku Lunch" (1,500 yen) from the lunch menu. This is a popular menu where you can bake and eat domestic top loin yourself. In addition to rice, soup and appetizers, dessert and coffee are also included after meals.

Yakiniku lunch at the longed-for grape shop
Yakiniku lunch at the longed-for grape shop

Assortment of 3 kinds of appetizers. You can enjoy different tastes such as sweet and sour and salty. As an appetizer, of course, it is recommended to eat it by sandwiching it in the middle of the meat as it will refresh your mouth.

3 appetizers
3 appetizers

Now, bake the meat. A ruby-colored loin that makes a sizzling sound when placed on a net. There was a fragrant scent. Capture it at the timing when the wrinkles and gravy float, and put it in your mouth.

Juwa ~
Juwa ~

(I knew it) Good !!! The meat is moist and tender, yet crispy and crispy, with little fat but exceptionally melty in the mouth. It has a lot of lean meat and a refreshing taste, but the more you chew it, the more umami and sweetness it melts.

Plenty of meat. This is all mine!
Plenty of meat. This is all mine!

Of course, it is delicious even if you eat it with a sauce of grilled meat (slightly sweet), but if you want to fully taste the delicate meat itself, you should simply taste it with salt.

After-meal desserts are either grape sorbet or almond tofu and are served with hot tea and coffee (including ice cream).

Luxury ~
Luxury ~

This time I chose almond tofu. The palate is fluffy and the aftertaste is slightly spicy and full-fledged. 120% satisfaction with a voluminous feeling that does not look like a dessert for a lunch set!

Even so, I think that yakiniku alone is so much fun ... I feel like I bought the best happiness for 1,500 yen.

The store is located at 2-8-1, Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino City, Tokyo.

3, moms with children are also safe! Fashionable yakitori restaurant "Tamaya"

"Yakitori Tamaya" opened in 2014. Speaking of yakitori restaurants in Kichijoji, "Iseya" has been famous for a long time, but this is another restaurant where you can enjoy a different kind of modern yakitori.

The sense of distance from the menu sign to the goodwill is fashionable
The sense of distance from the menu sign to the goodwill is fashionable

The lunch menu includes "Various small bowl set meals" (1,200 yen) where you can eat 7 kinds of side dishes little by little, "Special Oyakodon" (880 yen), "Stewed chicken wings chicken curry" (780 yen), etc. Is a lineup.

Especially recommended are "Special Oyakodon" and "Chicken Curry".

Oyakodon is a luxurious bowl of chicken that is bound with eggs and placed on rice, and the yolk of raw eggs is topped with a colon in the center. If you break this up and entangle it and stretch it, your mouth will be filled with the richness of an ultra-rich egg. The balance with the fluffy, tender and light chicken is also exquisite!

It's voluminous but it's licking
It's voluminous but it's licking

Egg-stained rice is also delicious
Egg-stained rice is also delicious

Chicken curry is a dish of plump and chewy rice layered with fruity sweet roux. The taste of chicken is working. There is a softly stewed wing with bone in it, but this is fluffy and melts in your mouth! It is delicious that even women can eat lightly.

Comes with miso soup and pickles
Comes with miso soup and pickles

The curry of the yakitori restaurant, which is not the curry of the soba restaurant, is also the best!
The curry of the yakitori restaurant, which is not the curry of the soba restaurant, is also the best!

All the menus are seasoned and you will want to drink alcohol from daytime. By the way, it can be put in a stroller, so it seems to be popular with moms with children.

The store is located 1-34-2 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino City, Tokyo.

4, full of volume, boys are also satisfied! Curry Montana

Montana is a shop that is connected to curry and is about 5 minutes walk from the station. There are counter seats and table seats, which can be used by one person or a group.

Exotic appearance is a landmark, curry Montana
Exotic appearance is a landmark, curry Montana

Among the pork curry, vegetable curry, shrimp curry, etc., the black curry "Black Pork Curry" (1,000 yen) has a particularly impactful menu. It seems that this serious blackness is produced by bamboo charcoal.

Insanely black
Insanely black

Rice and roux are served separately. You can also put your favorite fried egg or boiled egg on top of the rice.

The photo is a fried egg. The yolk melts ~
The photo is a fried egg. The yolk melts ~

Roux is a smooth soup curry style. I thought it was quite spicy because it was black, but surprisingly the sweetness of coconut was alive and mellow! Tomatoes and coriander toppings blow a refreshing breeze into the rich and ethnic roux with spices.

Moderately addictive and addictive taste
Moderately addictive and addictive taste

Also, it's hard to see in the photo, but in the middle of the roux is a roasted pork chunk. It is fragrant and soft when chewed. The exquisite sweetness of fat spreads.

Rock-like block meat
Rock-like block meat

In addition, it seems that a large serving of rice is free at lunch time (until 15:00). Even if it's not a big meal, I'm full. I don't think even men feel unsatisfactory.

The store is located at 2-10-2 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino City.

5, like a fairyland! Western-style restaurant "Mazaa Guusu"

Recommended by all girls! A Western-style restaurant called Mazaa Guusu. Not to mention delicious food, when you go down the stairs, it's like a fairyland! The world view also tickles the hearts of girls.

This sign is already intriguing
This sign is already intriguing

Cold pasta is popular in the summer, but this time around, we recommend the hot doria. I tried "Pumpkin Doria" (1,050 yen).

A rugged plate has been brought in
A rugged plate has been brought in

By the way, Doria is really hot, so it may be better to wait until it cools down a little. If you eat it in a hurry, you will burn your tongue like I do.

Hook Hoku pumpkin covered with hot sauce
Hook Hoku pumpkin covered with hot sauce

Mellow white sauce, the best! Although it is rich, it melts quickly, and the balance between sweetness and saltiness is perfect. The looseness of the toro-ri is also exquisite. This time, the pumpkin of Hokuhoku is also added here for a warmer taste. The fragrant "Okage" on the side of the plate is irresistible. It was a perfect dish for the coming season when it gets colder and colder.

The store is located at 1-8-14 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino City, Tokyo.

* All menus are introduced at the time of the interview, so please forgive them if they have changed. All listed prices are lunch prices.