Kobe — Places to eat
A harbour town squeezed between the mountains and the sea.
- Mouriya Main Store — Kobe beef on the teppan at a shop founded in 1885
- Steakland Kobekan — Kobe beef lunch for ¥6,880; the value teppan spot
- Kobe Beef Steak Ishida Main Store — Kobe beef teppan courses by grade, booking only
- Okonomiyaki Aomori — The Nagata griddle shop that first put sobameshi on a menu
- Tamagoyaki Tachibana (main shop) — Akashiyaki in central Kobe, 10 for ¥700
- Honke Kimuraya (Akashi) — Akashiyaki in Akashi itself, since 1924
- Roshoki — The 1915 shop that started Japan's butaman pork buns
- Ganso Gyoza-en — Birthplace of Kobe's miso-sauce gyoza, since 1951
- Minsei Cantonese Restaurant — A sit-down Cantonese standby in Nankinmachi
- Grill Ippei Motomachi — Kobe yoshoku since 1952: omurice and beef cutlet
- Ito Grill — Beef stew and charcoal steak since 1923
- Nishimura Coffee Nakayamate Main Shop — Kobe coffee since 1948 in a half-timbered house
- Kobe Fugetsudo Motomachi Main Store — Home of the Kobe gaufre, with a hotcake café inside
- Mother Moon Café Sannomiya Main Store — Kobe-born 1993 café with big American-country cakes
- Frantz Café (umie MOSAIC) — Frantz of pot-pudding fame, with a harbour-view café
- Aragawa — Kobe beef steakhouse famously hard to book
- Setsugekka Hanare — Michelin-starred Kobe beef at a teppan counter
- Kisshokichi Motomachi — Kobe beef 3 min from Motomachi, cheaper at lunch
- Hyotan — A 1957 gyoza shop that does one thing
- KOBE ENISHI Sun Plaza — Soupless tantanmen under Sannomiya
- Wakkoqu Kitanozaka Main — Kobe beef steak at the foot of Kitanozaka
- Freundlieb — Bakery cafe inside a former church
- Starbucks Kobe Kitano Ijinkan — Starbucks inside a Western-style house