Upscale in Fukuoka

Bar Higuchi

• ★ 4.8
• Cocktail Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Nakasu

Drink Rare Japanese whisky

Bar Higuchi in Nakasu-Kawabata is a whisky cocktail bar with a vast bottle collection. iPad menu with transparent pricing, signature Moscow Mules made well.

Yakitori Mako

• ★ 4.7
• Japanese Yakitori
• ¥¥¥
• Yakuin

Order Omakase yakitori course with the Kuro Satsuma flight.

Mako grills Kuro Satsuma chicken from Kagoshima, raised 120 days. Listed in Tabelog Yakitori Top 100 in 2024. Eight counter seats, charcoal smoke.

Yakitori Mako Yakuin

• ★ 4.7
• Japanese Yakitori
• ¥¥¥
• Yakuin

Order Omakase yakitori with the Kuro Satsuma flight.

Mako's Yakuin counter grills Kuro Satsuma chicken from Kagoshima, raised 120 days. Tabelog Yakitori Top 100 in 2024. Eight counter seats wide.

Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Akasaka

• ★ 4.6
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Akasaka

Order Miso motsunabe for two, finished with the champon noodle round.

Yamanaka invented miso motsunabe in 1984 and codified the Hakata offal hotpot. The Akasaka branch is the easiest of three to reach in central Fukuoka.

Bar Sebek

• ★ 4.6
• Cocktail Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Nakasu

Drink Bartender's classic cocktail

Bar Sebek is a long-running classic-cocktail counter in Nakasu, profiled in international bar press as one of Fukuoka's reference cocktail rooms.

OKURA Brewery, Hotel Okura Fukuoka

• ★ 4.6
• Brewery
• ¥¥¥
• Hakata

The Hotel Okura Fukuoka runs an in-house craft brewery with a beer-garden brewpub format, pouring lagers and pale ales alongside a pizza-and-grill kitchen.

Yamanaka Ohashi Honten

• ★ 4.6
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Akasaka

Yamanaka Ohashi Honten in Fukuoka: The original 1984 Yamanaka is in Minami-ku, twenty minutes from central Hakata; tourists usually go to Akasaka.

Motsunabe Rakutenchi Tenjin So-Honten

• ★ 4.5
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Imaizumi

Order Puripuri motsu daimanzoku course with all-you-can-eat champon noodles.

Rakutenchi Tenjin flagship: three floors, 240 horigotatsu seats, the largest motsunabe room in Kyushu. Soy-sauce base, mountain of garlic chives.

Yakitori no Hachibei Shoninbashi

• ★ 4.5
• Japanese Yakitori
• ¥¥¥
• Yakuin

Order Omakase yakitori platter plus the daikon salad.

Hachibei's Shoninbashi-dori branch is the original yakitori counter that grew into a Tokyo chain. Hardwood charcoal, long counter, packed every night.

Motsunabe Rakutenchi Tenjin

• ★ 4.5
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Imaizumi

Try Soy-sauce motsunabe with champon noodles

Rakutenchi Tenjin so-honten runs to 24:00 with the soy-sauce motsunabe and all-you-can-eat champon noodles. Three floors of horigotatsu seating for groups.

Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Hakata

• ★ 4.4
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Hakata

Order Miso motsunabe for two, finished with champon noodles.

The Hakata Station branch of Yamanaka miso-motsunabe original, closer to the shinkansen than the Akasaka room, with the same recipe since 1984.

Bar Kurayoshi

• ★ 4.4
• Cocktail Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Nakasu

Drink Whisky-forward classic cocktails

Bar Kurayoshi is one of Nakasu's stalwart classic-cocktail rooms, regularly listed alongside Sebek and Higuchi in Fukuoka cocktail-bar reviews.

I.N.U.wines Hakata

• ★ 4.4
• Wine Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Hakata

I.N.U.wines is a pioneer of Kyushu's natural-wine scene, with a shop and tasting bar inside the KUOHKA food complex in Canal City Hakata's basement.

Hermitage

• ★ 4.3
• Wine Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Daimyo

Hermitage in Daimyo is a French bistro off the main street with a natural-wine cellar and chemical-free cooking. Organic vegetables and a healthier kitchen.

Carbo Imaizumi

• ★ 4.3
• Wine Bar
• ¥¥¥
• Imaizumi

Carbo runs an Italian and Spanish leaning natural-wine bar in Imaizumi with pasta-forward small plates. Meat and Wine Fukuoka participant. Priced at ¥¥¥.

Tempura Hirao Honten

• ★ 4.0
• Japanese
• ¥¥¥
• Imaizumi

Hirao's seasonal tempura course works through Genkai shellfish and Kyushu vegetables across 12 to 16 dishes. A long-respected open-tempura counter.