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Japan’s budget chain restaurant Saizeriya might just be the perfect first date location

• Elliot Hale
  Mar 16, 2026
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Why not feast like royalty while keeping your wallet, and your date, happy?

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • cheap food • COK • date ideas • date spots • dating • family restaurant • family restaurants • first dates • food and drinks • Italian food • Saizeriya • SNJO)

Denny’s Japan launches a giant customizable crepe for students

• Elliot Hale
  Nov 22, 2025

Sweet or savory? With a whole 25 toppings to choose from, after school is getting a lot more delicious.

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• (COK • crepes • Deni-bu • Denny's • Denny's Japan • family restaurants • food • restaurants • SNJO • student deal • students • sweets)

What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Denny’s in Japan?

• Oona McGee
  Oct 19, 2025

Find out what you should order from the menu at this super popular family restaurant chain.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • cheap finds • COK • cool • Denny's • Denny's Japan • drinks • family restaurants • food • Japanese food • japanese snacks • Japanese sweets • restaurants • snacks • SNJO • sweets)

Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Saizeriya?

• Elliot Hale
  Jul 7, 2025

Eleven locals showcase their idea of the most satisfying meal at one of Japan’s cheapest restaurants.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • cheap food • COK • drinks • family restaurant • family restaurants • food • Italian food • Japan super budget dining • restaurants • Saizeriya • SNJO • sweets)

Best breakfast in Akihabara? Might be the breakfast buffet at this “family restaurant”

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2025

Most Jonathan’s don’t have a buffet, but this one is an awesome exception.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • all-you-can-eat • breakfast • buffet • COK • family restaurants • food • hotels • Jonathan's • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Japan’s unique tradition of bottle keep, where your drink literally has your name on it

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 2, 2025

It started with bars, but now even family restaurants are getting in on the act.

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• Japan
• (Asami Oshima • Bamiyan • bottle keep • COK • culture • drinks • family restaurants • liquor • shochu • SNJO • tradition • Whiskey • Yumean)

Churros at Japanese family restaurant chain are designed to enslave you

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2024

Dip churros are now on the menu, and they’ve got everyone hooked.

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• (churros • COK • desserts • family restaurants • Gusto • Mariko Ohanabatake • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Are Family Mart’s new “exquisite” rice balls worth the high price tag?

• Oona McGee
  Sep 18, 2024

Japanese convenience store chain teams up with esteemed restaurants for a new type of onigiri.

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• Japan
• (COK • combini • convenience store food • convenience stores • Family mart • family restaurants • food • Japanese Restaurant • konbini • musubi • omusubi • onigiri • review • rice • rice balls • SNJO • taste test)

Denny’s Japan teams up with Paris patissier for premium-price 50th anniversary sweets【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  May 26, 2024

Sadaharu Aoki creates fancy matcha dessert to celebrate casual restaurant’s milestone.

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• (COK • Denny's • Denny's Japan • family restaurants • food • green tea • matcha • Sadaharu Aoki • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Kusaki Marino: A Japanese family restaurant where you bow your head and enter like a samurai

• Oona McGee
  May 14, 2024

Through a tiny door, no less.

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• (COK • cool • family restaurant • family restaurants • food • Japanese food • Kanto • Kusaki Marino • Masanuki Sunakoma • Noodles • restaurants • review • samurai • SNJO • Tochigi • traditional)

How to make an epic pizza at a Japanese family restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Apr 13, 2024

Eating on the cheap doesn’t have to be boring.

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• Japan
• (cheap eats • family restaurants • food • food hack • food hacks • Gusto • hacks • pizza • restaurants • review • SNJO • Takamichi Furusawa • taste test • Tokyo)

Is Denny’s Japan’s new ultra-expensive Amaou strawberry parfait worth it?【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2024

Prized Fukuoka fruit delivers joy to the taste buds, shock to the wallet.

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• (Amaou • COK • Denny's • Denny's Japan • expensive • family restaurants • food • fruit • ice cream • parfaits • SNJO • strawberries • sundaes • sweets • taste test)

Bando Taro proves family restaurants in Japan are on a whole other level

• Oona McGee
  Oct 25, 2023

There are family restaurants, and then there are Bando Taro family restaurants.

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• (Bando Taro • COK • cool • family restaurant • family restaurants • food • Ibaraki • Japanese food • Kanto • Masanuki Sunakoma • miso nikomi udon • Noodles • restaurants • review • SNJO • soba • udon)

What does a family restaurant in the middle of nowhere, Hokkaido, serve? We find out

• Shannon
  May 17, 2023

Good eats in this part of the countryside aren’t hard to come by.

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• Japan
• (COK • countryside • family restaurants • food • Hokkaido • Japanese countryside • Noodles • restaurants • rural • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • soba • travel • wanko soba)

Three things you should eat at Denny’s in Japan, according to staff who work there

• Oona McGee
  Apr 30, 2023

Recommendations from a staff member reveal what they really like to eat behind the scenes. 

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• (Clerk's Own-Pocket Recommendation • COK • Denny's • diner • family restaurants • food • Japanese food • recommendations • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test)

Bikkuri Donkey isn’t only good for hamburger steaks–their breakfast is bomb too!

• Dale Roll
  Sep 4, 2022

And once you try their Potato Salad Toast…you won’t want to order anything else!

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• (Bikkuri Donkey • breakfast • family restaurants • Mr. Sato • taste test • toast)

The immense, and immensely Instagramable, shaved ice of…Coco’s Japan!【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2022

Japan’s heat wave is the perfect excuse to eat double desserts.

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• Japan
• (Coco's • family restaurants • food • restaurants • shaved ice • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

“Is it acceptable to go to a family restaurant for your first date?” Japanese survey asks

• Katie Pask
  Jun 13, 2022

Survey asks Japanese people how they feel about going somewhere cheap and cheerful for a first date.

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• Japan
• (COK • date ideas • dating • family restaurants • food • relationships • restaurants • romance • society • survey)

What’s on the all-you-can-drink menu at Denny’s Japan? 【Family Restaurant Drink Bar Showdown】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 8, 2022

Join us as we size up the drink bar options at Japan’s top family restaurants, starting today with a trip to Denny’s.

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • Coca-Cola • coffees • COK • Denny's • drink bar • drinks • family restaurants • famire • juice • SNJO • soft drinks • teas)

Miyagi restaurant refuses to accept customers’ money after tsunami warning evacuation

• Master Blaster
  Jan 20, 2022

Company’s policy is to place human life above all else.

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• Japan
• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • Bikkuri Donkey • customer service • evacuation • family restaurants • Miyagi Prefecture • Tagajo • Tonga • tsunami)

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