Eating EVERYTHING at an ALL YOU CAN EAT Starbucks Buffet in Tokyo Japan

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Join Mike Chen on a Tokyo food adventure, from a hidden pizza truck and a wagyu beef sandwich to a rare all-you-can-eat Starbucks buffet and a standing donburi shop.

5 places

1
The Pizza Cart
Pizza restaurant · Shibuya
4.3 (380)Open · until 7:30 PM
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A random pizza cart found in a quiet neighborhood about a 20-minute walk from Shibuya, serving up what the creator calls some of the best pizza in the world. It’s located on a steep, ski-slope-like street.
The Pizza Tokyo Hiroo, 5 Chome-3-16 Hiroo, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0012, Japan
- Diavola Pizza — An amazing Diavola pizza with a beautiful, light, and airy crust that's more charred than most Neapolitan pizzas. It has spicy salami, chili strands, and cheese on top, with a nice sweet and tangy sauce. The creator absolutely obsessed with the pizza dough.
2
Shogun Pizza
Pizza restaurant · Shibuya
4.7 (2,184)Open · until 10 PM
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A pizza place in the heart of Shibuya that serves small, Neapolitan-style pizzas, along with fries and a unique Shogun hot sauce. It also offers vegan and gluten-free options and serves alcohol.
SHOGUN PIZZA Shibuya, スペイン坂OKビル１F 13-4 Udagawacho, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0042, Japan
- Margarita Pizza — A small Neapolitan-style pizza with a super fluffy, airy, and toasted crust. It's cheesy, smoky, and the middle sauce is good. The creator was shocked by how good this pizza was.
- Prosciutto Mushroom Pizza — This pizza comes loaded with prosciutto, mushrooms, and shredded cheese. It's delicious and tastes exactly like a miniature Neapolitan pie.
- Fries — Small bag of fries that comes with a pizza meal. Not bad, especially with the Shogun hot sauce.
- Shogun Hot Sauce — A really garlicky hot sauce that the creator enjoyed with his fries and pizza.
3
Meat Box
Sandwich shop · Shibuya
4.1 (756)Open · until 7:30 PM
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A place in Shibuya that specializes in meat sandwiches. It also offers rice and soups, including grilled oysters, and is located in what feels like a little food court.
Sandwich and cafe "CHERMSIDE SANDWICH Harajuku Takeshita Dori", 井口ビル 2F 1 Chome-6-8 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan
- Meat Sandwich · $20 — An overstuffed steak sandwich with very lean cuts of beef, cooked pretty rare, smashed between two thin pieces of toast. It's seasoned with garlic and sesame, comes with potato wedges, and costs around $20. The creator tried it once and wouldn't try it again.
- Banana Smoothie — A famous banana smoothie that the creator ordered. It's made with real bananas.
4
Starbucks Ginza House
Coffee shop · Chuo City
Open · until 10:30 PM
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An all-you-can-eat Starbucks buffet in Ginza, Tokyo, that the creator had been trying to reserve a seat for two years. It's a Starbucks Reserve location, offering a buffet menu (Apericena) for 3,850 yen, which includes one drink (wine, beer, cocktails, or non-alcoholic options) and various food items like cold cuts, cheese, olives, crostini, and bread. The buffet is an all-you-can-eat food experience, but only one drink is included.
Starbucks Coffee - Ginza Matsuya-dori Street, ＥＳＫビル１F 3 Chome-7-14 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
- Muscat Ginger Peach Tranquility — A delicious non-alcoholic muscat grape drink that is part of the buffet menu.
- First Plate Buffet Selection — The first plate offered at the buffet includes bruschetta, bread with cream cheese, beans and tuna salad, cured ham, pasta, Parmesan cheese, potato wedges, and a spinach omelet/quiche. The bruschetta bread was stale, and the tomatoes weren't fresh. The bread with cream cheese was also stale. The cured ham was good. The spinach omelet/quiche was alright. The tuna and chickpea salad was not bad but not a favorite. The potato croquette was very greasy. The creator felt that if this was all they had to offer, they would just go back for more bread and tuna salad.
- Focaccia with Bacon — A slice of focaccia bread topped with bacon and mushrooms. It was awesome, tasting like a cross between focaccia and a spicy pepperoni pizza, and was wonderfully light. The creator loved how much bacon was on top.
- Spaghetti with Meat Sauce — A small portion of spaghetti with meat sauce. It was not bad, described as high school cafeteria-esque but pretty good and spicy.
- Potato Croquette — A fried rice ball that turned out to be a potato croquette. It was very greasy and tasted a little like a potato mochi.
- Second Plate Buffet Selection — The second round of buffet items includes a Sakura cake, salami, another focaccia pizza slice with bacon, pesto pasta, crab pasta, a small salad with pesto, cheese and tomatoes, chocolate cream sauce, hummus, olive bread, and a baguette. The creator notes that the salami was good. The pesto pasta was pretty good. The crab pasta was fresh and good. The olive bread with hummus was a great combo. The chocolate cream sauce with baguette was also good.
- Sakura Cake — A sakura-flavored cake with whipped cream. It looks awesome and tastes exactly like sakura. It's a very light, airy, and chewy cake with a beautifully fragrant cream, making it a very happy-making dessert.
- Pasta with Pumpkin and Eggplant — A pasta dish with pumpkin and eggplant. The creator enjoyed it, especially the pumpkin.
- Brie Cheese — A small piece of Brie cheese that the creator enjoyed.
- Custard on Toast — A piece of toast with custard that just came out of the oven. It's a nice little custard bread.
- Kish — A small quiche that just came out of the oven. It's pretty hard and contains bacon.
5
Umai Don Miko Shokudo
Seafood donburi restaurant · Minato City
4.3 (747)Open · until 3 PM
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A standing-only donburi restaurant that the creator walked past two nights in a row. It offers various rice bowls, including uni don, ikura don, and salmon don, with different amounts of rice. It has private booths for eating and offers unlimited tea.
Miko Shokudō, メトロ沖山ビル 1階 2 Chome-5-11 Higashishinbashi, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0021, Japan
- Assorted Sashimi Donburi · ¥2,000 — An incredibly beautiful and delicious donburi bowl featuring bright orange salmon, squid, ikura (salmon roe), uni (sea urchin), scallops, otoro (fatty tuna), and yellowtail, all served over rice. It costs 2,000 yen (about $12) and comes with unlimited tea and a seafood fish soup. The salmon was one of the best pieces the creator ever put in his mouth, and the ikura had a wonderful savory pop. The uni was also wonderful. The yellowtail was also very good. The rice was good.
- Seafood Fish Soup — A seafood fish soup that accompanies the donburi bowl. It's not miso soup but a flavorful fish soup with bits of fish in it that goes really well with the rice.
- Unlimited Tea — The restaurant offers three different types of unlimited tea: hojicha, oolong, and green tea. The hojicha was particularly good.