Jamusu

Choose the silver salmon grilled with Saikyo miso and it comes as a set with a main dish, 2 small side dishes, rice, miso soup and pickles. Diners have remarked on the gentle miso seasoning, which does not overpower the salmon’s sweetness, as well as the crisp, fragrant skin and moist flesh. The menu lists it at 1,100 yen. It is an easy choice when you want a meal that includes rice and a selection of sides.

Other listed grilled fish include salt-grilled mackerel, salt-grilled silver salmon collar and split, dried hokke (Atka mackerel). The range offers a choice of fish and cooking styles, while pork ginger-yaki is another set-meal option. It is a substantial serving of meat, and some diners have found its seasoning particularly good with rice. Some people also come for the grilled-fish set at lunchtime. Whether you are after fish for lunch in Nishi-Shinjuku or weighing up fish against meat, there is a choice to make.