Authentic Izakaya
in Barcelona.

Ikoya Izakaya is the largest and most accessible restaurant of Hideki Matsuhisa's Barcelona empire, opened in 2021 in partnership with Grupo Sagardi facing the iconic Santa Caterina market. The cuisine is '100% Hideki': a Japanese-Mediterranean izakaya experience open daily for lunch and dinner.

Kak Koy is the youngest member of Hideki Matsuhisa's Grupo Shunka, opened in October 2015 as a sumiyaki-style charcoal grill and robatayaki restaurant in the Gothic Quarter. It extends the Shunka culinary family into the world of live-fire Japanese cookery.

Shunka is the restaurant that started it all for Hideki Matsuhisa in Barcelona: a Japanese izakaya-tavern in the Gothic Quarter, opened in 2001, that combines Japanese technique with the spirit of a neighbourhood tavern. A Barcelona institution for more than two decades.

Aiueno is Kenji Ueno's most creative Barcelona project, named for the five Japanese vowels (A-I-U-E-O) as a tribute to the Japanese language. A Japanese gastro-bar in the Eixample with an inventive daily menu that fuses Japanese cooking with Mediterranean ingredients.

Can Kenji is the original Barcelona restaurant of Japanese chef Kenji Ueno, who arrived from Japan around 2003 and created a beloved neighbourhood izakaya fusing Japanese technique with a Mediterranean tapas philosophy. A local institution in the Eixample since the mid-2000s.

Japanese chef Shinya Kurashina runs Una Mica de Japó as a true neighbourhood taberna, serving honest, home-style Japanese dishes — katsu curry, onigiri, korokke — at prices accessible to all. Time Out Barcelona calls it a 'clàssica taberna japonesa de Barcelona.'

Japanese chef Kenzo Koketzu and his brother created Yatai as a celebration of the street-food culture of Japan, with okonomiyaki, takoyaki and taiyaki prepared visibly in the open kitchen. The retro décor — Japanese advertising plates from the 1960s and traditional stool seating — transports guests directly to a Japanese festival stall.