{"id":557,"date":"2023-12-06T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/eat\/?p=557"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:27:42","slug":"honari-japanese-restaurant-oishinbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/makati\/little-tokyo\/honari-japanese-restaurant-oishinbo\/","title":{"rendered":"(CLOSED) Oishinbo in Makati: Reminding Diners of Japan&#8217;s Downtown Food District since 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Updated as of December 4, 2023.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meat, potatoes, burdock, and seafood. These are just some of the food items you will see once you enter Little Tokyo&#8217;s Honari Japanese Restaurant &#8211; Oishinbo.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2006, Honari is a quaint Japanese pub that lets you enjoy great food and drinks when you&#8217;re in the mood for cozy dining and drinking sessions in the heart of the Japanese food compound in Makati that is Little Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34019\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/oishinbou-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/oishinbou-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/oishinbou-1-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/oishinbou-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/oishinbou-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Oishinbou Japanese Restaurant corp.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Similar to the authentic restaurants or pubs in Japan, Honari will easily remind you of the lively downtown food hubs in Japan at night when all the red lanterns are lit up.<\/p>\n<p>This izakaya is known\u00a0for its original and authentic recipes that will set the bar for your overall Japanese dining experience. One of their bestsellers is the <strong>Ebi Tempura<\/strong>\u00a0made with giant prawns covered in a crunchy coating that&#8217;s difficult to rival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34020\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-1-290x212.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-1-768x563.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Ebi Tempura<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Shrimp Tempura is made by a veteran cook which is why this dish is sometimes served with an oversized fan-looking tail that is actually made from\u00a0fried <em>Somen<\/em> (noodle).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you may fancy ordering a plate of <strong>Yakitori<\/strong>, a perfect pair for your Japanese<em> sake.\u00a0<\/em>It is available in sets of 18 and 24 sticks of different Yakitori flavors and variants or you can also order it individually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34021\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-2-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-2-795x600.jpg 795w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/Oishinbo-2-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Yakitori<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The (not so) secret recipe why this restaurant&#8217;s Yakitori is so flavorful is because of their homemade Yakitori sauce.<\/p>\n<p>You may also try their <strong>Tempura Udon<\/strong>\u00a0for a hot and steamy meal this cold weather, or sample their\u00a0<em>nabemono-<\/em>style\u00a0<strong>S<em>ukiyaki<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(Php 960)<\/strong> set for you and your friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By car: If you are coming from Greenbelt 1, drive along Paseo de Roxas them make a right turn onto Arnaiz Avenue. Make another right turn onto\u00a0Chino Roces Avenue. Little Tokyo is located at your right just across Herald Suites.<\/li>\n<li>Oishinbou\u00a0is\u00a0inside Little Tokyo near Ramen Shimada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared in Philippine Primer&#8217;s Japanese (Vol. 136) and English (Vol. 41) magazines.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Updated as of August 14, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oishinbou is a quaint Japanese pub that lets you enjoy great food in the courtyard for when you&#8217;d like cozy dining and drinking sessions in the heart of the Japanese food compound of Little Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,19,112],"tags":[836,473,713,313,3889],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japanese","category-little-tokyo","category-makati","tag-japanese-cuisine","tag-japanese-restaurant","tag-little-tokyo","tag-makati","tag-oishinbou-little-tokyo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65492,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/65492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}