This one cost 780 Yen. Choppy is meant to represent Harajuku which, according to the restaurant’s website, “is like a monster that swallows everything in its path and keeps expanding”. The Kawaii Monster Cafe – かわいいモンスターカフェ – opened in August 2015 as a collaboration between artist Sebastian Masuda and Diamond Dining, the company responsible for several of Tokyo’s best known themed restaurants. Thank you for your detailed post , The Kawaii Monster Cafe is really fun! Kawaii Monster Cafe Harajuku.

46,061 were here. So now you know what that means! 696 reviews #179 of 4,252 Restaurants in Shibuya $$ - $$$ Cafe. We were pretty excited to have scored what I think is probably the best seat in the whole restaurant. It’s all about crazy baby animals. This obviously varies depending on what you order. Bar Experiment is a small area which has bar seats.

Keep walking until you reach the YM Square building. They differ according to the dish that they’re served with. Please turn it on so that you can experience the full capabilities of this site. Pink – strawberry/raspberry For reference, here’s what it looks like on the website: The pasta is not nearly as colourful in real life, and the portions of sauce much skimpier. This is the case with most themed restaurants and cafes – they’re rarely inexpensive. The Kawaii Monster Cafe will serve all collaboration menu items, but some items will differ between the Alice’s Fantasy Restaurant branches in Tokyo. Walk straight through Takeshita-Dori and as soon as you come out the other side, cross the road again.

Each customer receives a ‘Fall in Stomach Monster Card’  (a card for falling into Choppy the monster’s stomach).

), these are the less expensive tables in the Mushroom Disco area. Like many tourist attractions, you exit the Kawaii Monster Cafe via the souvenir shop.

“MONSTER GIRLS” and then come across the cake shaped Merry-go-round Wherever you are seated, you can enjoy the surrounding art created by Sebastian Masuda and colorful menus. This is something that we’ve also noticed at many of the table service restaurants at Tokyo Disney Resort – they allow customers to queue for lengthy periods, leaving up to half the tables free the whole time. Colorful Rainbow Pasta (Painter) Monster Dip flavours:

The first thing that you’ll see once you enter the restaurant is the big cake-shaped merry-go-round. It's grandiose, it's colorful and it's just insane. A lot of themed restaurants have very strict rules around taking photos, so it’s great that the Kawaii Monster Cafe is so reasonable in this regard.

Red – chilli tomato

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You can’t order from the tablet itself, but you can look at all of the items on the menu (and see the merchandise that you can purchase in the store on your way out). "MUSHROOM DISCO","MILK STAND","Bar Experiment", and "Mel-Tea ROOM". There is also a map on the restaurant’s website. I can’t see myself going enough times to try all of the different areas given that the menu is limited and it’s not cheap, but if you’re willing to fork out the money, I would recommend checking it out at least once. Between expeditions into the unknown, there is food to be eaten, stared at and prodded with suspicion at the Tokyo monster cafe. Colorful rainbow pasta with Halloween cream, 1,400 yen, White Rabbit Mummy ~Chocolate and Lemon Cream Parfait~, 780 yen, Smiley Cheshire Cat Zombie ~Chocolate and Cassis Cream Parfait~, 780 yen, Queen of Hearts Dress Up Party ~Chocolate and Cheese Cream Parfait~, 780 yen. Directions for the Kawaii Monster Cafe: The Kawaii Monster Cafe is fairly easy to find. You can either sit in a booth (for an additional fee), or you can sit at a smaller table. We didn’t notice any smoke smell in the restaurant at lunchtime when we were there. Phone: It was very sweet, tasted like cassis and cost 800 Yen. This past spring, they had a cute-meets-Easter-meets-sakura spring fair, and even a “genderless” Valentine’s Day menu in support of LGBT couples. And like Diamond Dining’s other cafes (including the Vampire Cafe, Christon Cafe and the Alice in Wonderland cafes), the Kawaii Monster Cafe is not really a cafe, but a restaurant. Once you’re up there, find the end of the queue and line up. As such, you’ll probably want to order mains as well as sweets. The non-alcoholic one does not come with the little vile. We ordered two mains, the first of which was ‘Colorful Rainbow Pasta (Painter)’ – their most famous dish. It’s not everyday that you eat lunch with multi-coloured ‘Monster Dip’ sauces in front of a giant, rotating Sweets-Go-Round. Dinner: 18:00 – 22:30 (last orders 22:00) – seats are available up to 2 hours. KAWAII MONSTER CAFE is the new Tokyo that nobody has seen. will welcome you at your table. Calling Kawaii Monster Cafe the most bizarre place in Harajuku, Japan–a place known for eccentricity and sometimes outlandish fashion–is really saying something. The menu is the same regardless of where you’re seated, but each area has different, spectacular decor. The first level is pearl pink. Yellow – garlic mayo Harajuku, a colorful and crazy town that has been creating it’s own original culture by engulfing the world’s most trendiest fashions and cultures. Amazingly, Kawaii Monster Cafe has attained this celebrity status in just four years. I’ll definitely visit it if I get another chance to visit Tokyo. 「まだ誰も見たことがない新しいTOKYO」へようこそ。ケーキ型メリーゴーランドと個性的な4つのゾーンでMONSTER GIRLがお出迎え。増田セバスチャンこだわりのアートとメニューを堪能あれ。

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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. +81-3-5413-6142 (reservations can be made from 6pm), Address: Strangely enough, once we were seated, we noticed that more than half of the tables were empty. Customers are not allowed to ride it for safety reasons, but are welcome to take photos and pose in front of it. The thing to remember, I suppose, is that you’re not just paying for the food (because the food in itself is definitely not that much), but to dine at what I would say is easily the trippiest restaurant in Tokyo. It is decorated with giant macarons on one wall, strawberries and cream with big forks on the other side, and large pastel chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. What they didn’t explain to us is that while there is a ‘zone charge’ of 500 Yen per person (a cover charge to simply exist in the restaurant), if you sit at a table that has a capacity of four or six people, you’ll pay the zone charge for that number of people, even if there are only two of you.

For the two of us, we had two drinks, two mains and one dessert, which came to 6,080 Yen. At the front counter, a display shows the four different sections of the restaurant. The classic caesar salad gets a Halloween twist with purple carrots, pumpkins, and a silhouette of Alice garnishing the vegetables. For those who would prefer to merely pay a cover charge of 500 Yen per person (can you tell that I’m not a fan of cover charges? Also the iconic Harajuku girls called “MONSTER GIRLS” will welcome you at your table. You can see some of the eerie Halloween offerings below. That’s well over AU$100 just for lunch.

It displays footage of the interior of the restaurant. I’m going to end this post by making a very big call: having visited most of the theme cafes and restaurants in Tokyo (yes, there are more posts on these to come), I would say that the Kawaii Monster Cafe in Harajuku is the best theme restaurant that I have visited.

The dining areas of the restaurant are non-smoking. The menu itself is not extensive. YM square building 4F, As for whether to dine in a booth or a regular table, this too comes down to how much you’re willing to spend.

Also the iconic Harajuku girls called “MONSTER GIRLS” will welcome you at your table. If you’re looking for a crazy, trippy, over-the-top cafe experience, I would definitely recommend the Kawaii Monster Cafe. Kawaii Monster Cafe collaborates with Alice’s Fantasy Restaurant for new Halloween menu 2020-09-29 Tue 2020-09-29 Tue Flawlessly combining the bizarre with the cute, Kawaii Monster Cafe is the essential Harajuku experience rolled into one edible, rainbow-colored package. Green – lime. The decor is incredible, and the menu – whilst small – has some imaginative items. It's set in classic Sebastian Masuda style (he does the sets for Kyary Pamu Pamu's music vids and if you're familiar then you know what to expect). This Halloween, they collaborated with a just as fanciful place: Alice’s Fantasy Restaurant. Coming from Australia where chicken and waffles is not common, this is the first time we’d come across this dish. At 2,300 Yen, this is the most expensive parfait we’ve eaten (the second most expensive being Berry Parlour by Cafe Comme Ca), but given that this is really a two-person parfait, it’s not so bad. Is the Kawaii Monster Cafe non-smoking?

As a result, rather than paying 1,000 Yen to cover the two of us, we were charged 3,000 Yen because six people could have sat in the booth (and yes, this was while more than half the tables and booths were unused).

Learn how your comment data is processed. It is actually fairly decent and not just a re-packaged offering with a weak nod to the theme. The cafe's "Monster Girls" attended Vogue Japan's 20th anniversary in Milan this past September. Lunch: 11:30 – 16:30 (last entry 15:30, last orders 16:00) – seats are available for up to 90 minutes

Above: We may have wasted 3,000 Yen on merely existing in this location, but luckily this went toward the best seats in the house. The carousel is called the Sweets-Go-Round.

The Kawaii Monster Cafe is fairly easy to find. The menu at the Harajuku Kawaii Monster Cafe. 4-31-10 Jingumae 4F YM Square Bldg, Shibuya 150-0001 Tokyo Prefecture +81 3-5413-6142 Website Menu. The tables behind the booth seats are beneath more of the milk bottle lights. We only ordered one dessert between the two of us, as we knew it would be plenty to share. Purple – cream cheese "SWEETS GO ROUND"

Behind the front counter, giant monster eyes move around. The red carpet leading into the corridor is his tongue. Then turn right and walk down the street past the Line Friends Store on your left (you’ll see the large Guzman and Gomez restaurant on the other side of the road).

I didn’t try it, but he said it was great. Both Mushroom Disco and Milk Stand can provide good views of the Sweets-Go-Round while you eat, depending on exactly where you’re seated. The restaurant’s mascot is Mr. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Kawaii Monster Cafe Harajuku: Tokyo’s trippiest restaurant. These non-alcoholic drinks come in three flavors, with each Alice’s in Fantasy restaurant serving a unique one.

We chose a week day to visit the Kawaii Monster Cafe, knowing that themed eateries are often busy, and visiting such a kooky venue in Harajuku would no doubt mean long queues on the weekend.

No less than a match made in heaven, the Kawaii Monster Cafe is right at home in iconic Harajuku (原宿), the home of kawaii. As soon as you enter, you’re presented with visual explosions & larger-than-life decorations, and to top it all off, the food is equally as eye-popping. Blue – peppermint I suspect that this dish will be more familiar to my North American readers. Harajuku Monster Girls wander around the restaurant, posing for photos with customers.