About 38 minutes by car from Naha Airport. In Nanjo City, there is a kappo restaurant, “Wana Saki,” which is recognized by professionals. The dishes prepared by the owner, who trained in Kyoto, are not only delicious but also reasonably priced despite their generous portions! This restaurant is recommended by tourists and locals alike.
Point 1: “Wazana Saki” boasts a wide variety of menu items.
With its concrete exterior, it looks like an up-and-coming Japanese restaurant.
The name “Wazana Saki” may sound like a Japanese Kappo restaurant that rarely takes reservations, but it is a restaurant that serves not only Japanese food but also pizza, steak, salad, takoyaki, and fried potatoes.
However, the owner is a talented chef who trained in Kyoto and opened his restaurant after returning to his hometown!
Even if the dishes are just snacks, they are “carefully prepared dishes” that are recognized by peers and professional chefs alike. He is so confident and customer-oriented that he serves a wide variety of dishes.
The restaurant has a good reputation not only for its food, but also for its polite services, such as the cleanliness of the restaurant, the appropriate time from order to delivery of food, and the comfortable atmosphere.
It is a restaurant that seems to ooze the personality of the owner.
For this reason, the restaurant is a favorite of tourists as well as people who have been working on the mainland and have returned home.
Recently, however, the restaurant has become so popular that it is difficult to make reservations.
Point 2: “Wasai Saki” also offers top-notch Okinawan cuisine!
The restaurant’s name, “Japanese Food,” would be meaningless if the local Okinawan cuisine were bad.
Starting with “Chanpuru,” a typical Okinawan dish, there are a few varieties such as fried hechima mafer, tebichi oden, hirayaachii (Okinawan-style salty okonomiyaki), and sujikaa (salted pork), but they are all excellent. If anything, there are many Okinawan dishes that are not so popular (laughs).
Seafood items such as assorted sashimi, hokke grill, chirashi sushi, and fried geso are also delicious.
Point 3: “Wana Saki” is delicious but extremely reasonable!
Although the restaurant’s stylish interior may make it look like it costs tens of thousands of yen for a course meal, all the dishes at Wagashoku Saki are reasonably priced.
The cheapest dish, Yakitebichi, starts at 420 yen, and the most expensive is the “sashimi aru mon assortment” at 1,280 yen, so you can understand how reasonable it is.
Most dishes are in the 500 to 600 yen per item range, so you can enjoy your meal to your heart’s content without worrying about your wallet!
The food is top-notch and yet more reasonably priced than anywhere else, so you can see why it is so popular.
