$ - inexpensive
Taiwanese
Taiwanese Buddhist vegetarian
It's Vegetable serves Tawainese Buddhist cuisine (non-dairy vegetarian, including no onions or garlic).
They have an all-you-can-eat buffet for lunch for ¥980 and a dinner buffet for ¥1250. Both are excellent deals. You can also order a la carte and many of the items are around ¥700-800.
It's Vegetable also sells a number of their food items to be prepared at home, such as dehydrated gluten products that you just cook in hot water.
Take the JR Sobu line to Kinshicho and go out the north exit of the station (the one with the giant "donut" sculpture outside). The Kinshi Koen (park) will be across the street on the left. Cross the street (toward the park) but go right, instead of left. Go one block, and when you get to the "Straight Bureger-Lotterie" place, take a left and It's Vegetable is half a block down, on the right hand side.
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Added by Dave Rolsky on Apr 5 06 (updated Oct 6 07)
Reviews
I've been here twice so far, once for the lunch buffet and once for dinner. The lunch buffet was quite good, with a good selection of dishes and a great deal at 850 yen for all you can eat.
At dinner, we ordered a la carte, which was more expensive, but having the food freshly prepared was better. Everything we had was excellent. I'd definitely recommend trying the radish cakes, which are battered and fried deliciousness. The corn soup made with soymilk and mock ham was really good, but very rich.
The staff are very friendly, and the manager speaks a little English. Of course, if you speak Chinese, make sure to talk to the owner, who can recommend all sorts of good dishes.
This is the best place I've been to in Japan. Really good size portions AND fake meat--both of which are hard to come by here. I had the lunch buffet and the sweet and sour "pork" was to die for. It's offered as separate item on their menu.
The only thing was that the staff kept staring at us greedy Americans, as though they wanted us to stop eating--although 3 Japanese guys next to us were eating way more than us. They even came and took our plates before we left, something they weren't doing at other tables--likely because they wanted us to leave. Not cool, but we sort of understood.