Benten

Pretty good okonomiyaki place in the Asakusa area. I wanted to take my friends to both okonomiyaki and monjyayaki, so this place did the trick.
It was cheap and their okonomiyaki was really good! Seafood ones came with ample seafood as well. The portions may be a tad smaller than other places I’ve tried in Tokyo but I was happy with the flavour. Monjyayaki tastes much better once the bottom starts to burn a bit or else it would look AND taste not that great lol.
Smoking is allowed (like many small restaurants here) and the smoke may be too much for some people because the ventilation is not too strong there. Would avoid if you don’t want to be around loud, smoking people during the night or if you don’t want your clothes smelling like smoke. Standard okonomiyaki place if you do not mind the above.

Great fun, small place just to the side of the markets.
Basically Japanese hot plates (for okonomiyaki etc) where you cook your own food. Fresh ingredients, done to your liking.
Yum!

Delicious meal which you cook on your own hot plate set into the table. Fresh ingredients. Fun to cook. Delicious. It’s a tiny restaurant, maybe 5 tables?, with lovely atmosphere. The people at the table next to us helped with some of the intricacies of the cooking – their okonomiyaki came out heaps better than ours, but it was our first go.
Okonomiyaki is a savoury pancake, ours was the special with seafood and other things. Don’t forget the okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise and scallions (all pictured) which we forgot (except of course for the mayonnaise).
And if you are travelling with kids there’s a basic playground right next door.
The sign for the restaurant is in kanji, so it may be hard to find. It’s on the corner. The playground is on the adjacent corner.

Slightly hard to find but so worth it! Tips:
Not located in the train station.
If you walk through the tourist market on the way to the shrine, this is one street over to your right (facing the shrine)
The restaurant signage is in Japanese, not English
They are vegetarian friendly!!!
Veg okonamiyaki & yakisoba
So friendly, cool place
Go here :)

Solid place for okonomiyaki!
I actually haven’t had okonomiyaki in forever, so my friends and I decided to try it for dinner and it was delicious. This restaurant is quite small, but it’s cozy and the servers are really nice :) When you walk in go straight through the first door; don’t be confused by the menu and small staircase to the right, that’s the way to a wine bar.
When we arrived we were the only ones there, so we took our time ordering. We ordered two okonomiyakis: one with green onion and one with pork belly, and then we decided on an order of yakisoba because it’s the bomb.
Our food arrived quickly in bowls because okonomiyaki is DIY: D I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to just dump everything onto the grill, so we ended up making a bunch of mini savory pancakes for each person (which we found out was not the correct way to cook it, but it was a lot of fun!) We definitely weren’t sure what to do for the yakisoba, but thankfully the waiter came over and offered to cook it for us which was legit because he added a concoction of sauces that I would not have been able to replicate.
Everything was delicious and the food is filling! There were three of us and we couldn’t finish all the food so be aware of the amount of food you order. They let you take your leftovers home though so that was great!