About 43 minutes by car from Naha Airport. Located on the border between Okinawa City and Uruma City, it is a Western-style restaurant. If you choose a main dish, you will be surprised to find that a buffet is included in the price! Recommended for those who want to eat with gusto and a variety of food at a low price!
Point 1: What is the location of “Oak Restaurant”?
Oak Restaurant is located on the border of Okinawa City and Uruma City. It is only a 7-11 minute drive from Southeast Botanical Garden and Camp Courtney, so it is an area that tourists almost always pass through.
There are no tourist attractions in the surrounding area, such as convenience stores, a small diner, and a driving school.
The parking lot, which can hold about 15 cars, is almost always full, even outside of lunchtime, and there is also a second parking lot.
The unique neon sign at the entrance, with the word “Restaurant” written vertically, makes one wonder what kind of restaurant Oak Restaurant is, which opened in May 1972, four days after Okinawa reverts to mainland Japan.
Point 2: What is the menu like at “Oak Restaurant”?
The first thing you see when you walk into “Oak Restaurant” is a line of buffet plates.
You may think it is a buffet restaurant, but you will be served a proper menu. The menu includes the usual lunch menu items such as “Tempura Set Meal” (1,650 yen), “Tuna Sashimi Set Meal” (1,600 yen), “Tonkatsu Set Meal” and “Chicken Karaage Set Meal” (1,100 yen), and the popular “Oak Lunch/C Lunch” (1,200 yen) that includes a combination of fried dishes and hamburger steak.
Steak (1,680 yen), shrimp chili (1,380 yen), and soki with Chinese miso (1,480 yen) are also available, offering a wide variety.
One of the surprising things I noticed among the customers in the restaurant is that as soon as they finish placing their orders, they immediately get up from their seats and head for the buffet corner.
The buffet corner includes white rice, cereals, bean curd, salad, boiled vegetables, fruit, etc. The quality of the food in this section alone is such that you could not complain if you were charged for the main dish alone.
Since that is the price for the main dish only, and the buffet fee is free, even the word “cozy” sounds clichéd now.
Point 3: “Oak Restaurant” also has a terrific happy hour!
Oak Restaurant” has a “Happy Hour” from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
For those who dine at the restaurant, barley artisans, lemon sours, highballs, mugs of awamori, and Kuro Kirishima are offered for a whopping “100 yen.
This is practically like free drinks already. The service is too good, isn’t it?
In Okinawa, there are sometimes hotels that offer all-you-can-drink alcoholic beverages, but this is already a mass of service spirit and sincerity!
Please visit this retro restaurant where you can eat with gusto and sincerity.
