Torafuku

Choose your rice after you pick your main. At Torafuku, the set-meal experience is about more than the main dish: you can also choose from white rice, multigrain rice and seasonal rice cooked with other ingredients. One diner reported that rice refills were free. On that visit, the seasonal rice was chestnut rice, remembered for its sweetness and just-right saltiness. Choosing the seasonal option brings another small pleasure to the meal, with the rice changing through the year.

Set meals can centre on one main, or bring two dishes together. Options include grilled fish, the day’s fried dish, Japanese-style ginger pork, beef and tofu, and a simmered dish of colourful vegetables, fish and fried tofu served with grated daikon. One diner who chose the simmered dish with grilled fish said both were carefully prepared and went well with rice. Another described the simmered dish—fish, colourful vegetables and fried tofu—as gently seasoned and comforting.

For a meal focused on fish, there is also a sashimi set. It comes with an assortment of 4 kinds of sashimi, rice, three side dishes and miso soup; the menu says rice refills are free. With a choice of one accompanying dish, you can shape the set around your appetite by adding, for example, grilled fish or fried tofu simmered with grated daikon.

Another standout is the sea bream rice set. The dish combines raw sea bream with dashi soy sauce and egg, served over piping-hot rice, then finished with a pour of dashi broth. It appeared on the menu as a summer recommendation. It can be ordered as a set on its own or paired with simmered fish and colourful vegetables or fried chicken.

There are options for rounding out the meal, too, including pork soup, seasonal rice cooked with other ingredients and fruit-vinegar drinks. Whether you want to mix and match the main dishes or make the rice the focus, Torafuku offers a set meal to suit.