Toritama
18 Park Lane Soi Sukhumvit 63 Road Khwaeng Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
This is a small, disciplined yakitori counter, and the chicken liver pâté with warm baguette deserves to land on every order before the skewers even start. Sit at the U-shaped counter, watch the binchotan glow, and let the misaki and the chicken oyster do their job. If the counter is full, the sake bar through the side door is the right plan B.
The binchotan does the work. At Tori-Tama, the open kitchen sits in the middle of the dining room, ringed by a blond-wood, U-shaped counter and glass display cases that look more like an omakase sushi bar than a yakitori joint. The Bangkok branch is the group's fourth in Asia, and the chefs have come from the Shirokane parent in Tokyo.
You take a seat at the counter, the skewers laid out in front of you, and the menu reads like a chicken anatomy lesson with 28 cuts cycling through the grill. The lineup includes misaki (the small piece of meat at the hen's tail, ฿120), the chicken oyster (the dark medallion tucked near the thigh, ฿120), chicken liver (฿80), and standard thigh (฿60). The chicken liver pâté with warm baguette is the obvious add-on outside the skewer list. Pickled-vegetable plates run ฿150 if you want something cold and acidic between rounds. The donburi rice bowl closes the kitchen out at ฿170 for a small and ฿270 for a large. With the grill in the middle of the room, the cooking is the show, and the sizzle carries across every seat at the counter.
A small interior door at the entrance leads into the sister sake bar Orihara Shoten, where pours start at ฿180 a glass and corkage runs ฿500 if you arrive with your own bottle.
Tori-Tama has been carried in the Michelin Guide since the original Bib Gourmand nod the year it opened and remains in the 2026 Bangkok selection. The kitchen is closed on Sundays and runs 5 to 11 PM the rest of the week.
Come hungry, and come with at least one other person if you want to taste your way across the chicken without doubling up on the same skewer. Counter seats are limited, so the reservation goes in before the day of.