Hokkaido Restaurant Genshiyaki

Restaurants · klongton

83 Sukhumvit 26, Khwaeng Khlong Tan, klongton, Bangkok 10110

Rated 4.7/5 from 2631 reviews.

Data checked on 23 May 2026.

Order the Broiled Seafood Tower first and watch the torch work happen at your table. The interactive plating is the whole point, and skipping it for a quiet booth misses what makes the room distinct. Built for slow dinners with people who want food finished in front of them, not behind a kitchen wall.

You sit down and within a minute someone is at your table holding a culinary torch over a heap of seafood and tamagoyaki cubes. The genshiyaki method does the rest. Skewered fish meets open charcoal at hearth level, the infrared heat works through the flesh, and the room holds the smoke.

The kitchen has been running this format for more than eleven years on Sukhumvit 26, sourcing the bulk of its fish and produce from Hokkaido directly. The Broiled Seafood Tower is the signature: fluffy rice base, sweet-savoury tamagoyaki, torched seafood on top, ikura crowning the bowl with little bursts of brine.

Pasta and donburi dishes also finish tableside. The staff treat each plate like a small performance, which makes the meal slower than a typical Japanese dinner in this neighbourhood and more theatrical. Eleven years of repeat trade has trained the rhythm.

Lunch runs 11:00 to last-order 14:00 on weekdays and 15:00 on weekends, then a break, then dinner 17:00 to last-order 22:00 daily. Reservations go through TableCheck or LINE at @144bjioc; the soi is a Sukhumvit cut-through with limited street parking, so a Grab to the door beats hunting for a spot.

Worth the trip for anyone who wants the Hokkaido cooking format done with the original tools rather than a stylised interpretation. Bring people who appreciate watching their food get finished, and order the seafood tower before you order anything else.