CAFE BON

I was introduced to cafe Bon through word of mouth from former customers who raved about the all-you-can eat buffet and humongous drink for only 1880yen. If you have a soft drink which is refillable, the cost is only 1480yen. What a deal!!! This small eatery is in Narita town close to the Naritasan Temple.Turn left at the end of Omotesando St. It’s the first building on the right at the edge of the car park. You have to walk up a spiral staircase to get to it.It’s a Teppanyaki style restaurant and the service is excellent.There are 3 tables which can hold 4 to 6 people and a circular hotplate and counter that can seat about 6 people, a good spot if you are by yourself or for 2 people, as you get to view the chef in action. He is so focused and fast, don’t expect to have a conversation with him as he’s too busy making the hungry customers happy, he does look up and smiles alot though. The other man who oversees everything and always watching and serving does a great job also. You start off with a drink. My choice is vodka and fresh orange juice and when it arrived I thought WOW! I won’t be able to drink that, but I did and I made it down the spiral staircase later on. Actually one time the owner drove us to the train station because it was raining and we had no umbrella. A few minutes into our drink and the Japanese salad appears, so tasty, followed by gyoza, then chunky frenchfries with tomato ketchup. Then fresh chicken breasts cooked japanese style with lots of beansprouts and carrots - so tasty. While ploughing your way through the litre of drink you are asked if you want dessert. Eh! Hmmm.. I’m full but yeh! why not. It quickly arrives, a homemade pancake with ice-cream and hershey's chocolate sauce which they leave at the table so you can spread on as much or as little as you want. This is my favourite eating place in Narita. Each time I have been there I’ve seen lots of airline crews from around the world. I hope you get the chance to enjoy this place some day. They open from 5pm to whenever the last customer leaves and I’ve heard it can be 2am. You will leave pleasantly full, and the walk back up the hill to the station will soon burn off some calories.

 Vodka and orange juice, Gin and tonic

       Japanese salad tossed in sesame oil

Chunky french fries

Gyoza stuffed with pork and green onion

Beansprouts and carrots

Chicken tossed in Soya and spices

        Ice cream, fresh pancake and Hershey's choc. syrup

Obviously the menu

The skinny spiral staircase

ROYAL HOST

Lunch for two

Royal host is like a Denny’s diner only nicer with better choices of food. Open 24hrs, the menu is in Japanese with some English, you can figure out easily what you want as there are lots of pictures, it’s a nice big glossy menu with lots of pages with a wide range of choices, you can spend more time deciding what to order than you spend eating.You press the call button when you have decided what you want. First time I went I was waiting patiently for my order to be taken then I noticed numbers flashing above me on a screen, which happened to be table numbers duh!!! then noticed a paperweight type thing on the table which you apparently press when you finally decide what you want to order, what a great idea. Another good thing is, if you are calorie conscious each dish lists the calorie content. I sampled the spaghetti bolognaise with eggplant, but I also noticed some peas in there, you’ve got to like the Japanese for being inventive ha!!!they even put sweetcorn and fried egg on pizza. It did taste delicious and I asked for extra parmesan. Also had a glass of red wine for an extra 200yen.The other meal ordered was Hamburger, french fries and veggies with some gravy.The total cost of two meals and drinks was just under 2000yen.They serve breakfast from 7am to 11am. Another great service is the drinks bar, for an extra 390yen you have all you can drink tea, coffee soft drinks etc., I had a double expresso and poured it into a cappuccino -  what an eye opener that was...The eggs benedict is good and my friend had royal morning.

Royal Morning

Eggs Benedict - spinach/ham

Spaghetti Bolognaise with eggplant/peas

Hamburger with fries/sweetcorn/greenbeans/gravy

All you can drink coffee bar

Specialty teas

Call button

TECO TECO

Teco Teco is a Brazilian restaurant in Narita, a very inviting and friendly place. The Owners are very welcoming, They are a husband and wife team, the man is from Brazil and the wife from Japan.The food is authentic Brazilian. The salad we had for starters was so tasty with a simple dressing of oil and vinegar. The meat, rice and beans to follow were good and the infamous Capriani cocktail was excellent.
It’s home cooking at it’s best. The ambiance is lovely and decorated with nice bright colours of yellow and red. My male friends all loved the taste of the meat, I’m more a vegetarian type who has steak maybe once a month so for me this was a treat and I thoroughly enjoyed it as I went to celebrate my birthday.