Ootoya (http://www.ootoya.com/) is a Japanese food chain restaurant which has expanded recently in Japan.
They serve good dishes with reasonable prices, so at lunch and even dinner time there were lines in front of the restaurants in the urban area.
I also like this chain because their menu looks healthy and well-balanced. If you want to take more vegetables, you can add a small dish of boiled leafy greens and seaweed salad at 150 yen(about 1.5 dollars) and they have a variety of different small side-dishes.
At the same time, I can't resist the sweets.
Actually their sweet dishes are subtly sweet, but after a meal it must be an excessive calorie intake anyhow, so I asked to change the bowl of rice with the set meal to a smaller one.
I like to eat the dessert, "Soba namafu no zenzai", the special this month. It was sweet red bean soup with bread-like pieces of buckwheat gluten, and the topping was roasted buckwheat berry.
The roasted buckwheat had a fragrant flavor and was very crispy.
I totally gave myself up to it.
