So much Osaka cuisine at Tennnoji Mio! Complete Report on Popular Restaurants That Sell Osaka Cuisine

2024.08.07

The restaurants in Tennnoji Mio are always busy, welcoming many local residents as well as tourists. Tennoji also has a wide array of shops that sell Osaka cuisine, such as okonomiyaki and takoyaki, as well as popular ramen and traditional Western-style food restaurants!
We have done a thorough survey of the Osaka cuisine that you can enjoy at Tennoji Mio. Continue reading to find out more about what we recommend at each shop.

■ Okonomiyaki ■
Have a bountiful feast at Botejyu

Botejyu offers a broad assortment of famous Osaka dishes such as okonomiyaki and takoyaki, and offers a variety of teppan dishes such as modan-yaki and Hiroshima-yaki Okonomiyaki with a crispy outside and fluffy inside are extremely popular!

Deluxe Tsukimi-yaki packed full of ingredients

We recommend the Deluxe Tsukimi-yaki, which is made with beef, pork, shrimp, squid, and octopus. The dough contains a massive amount of Japanese cabbage and is fluffy and juicy. It is an impressive amount of food that you will find yourself gobbling up.

If you stuff your mouth with soup-stock-infused dough, your mouth will experience the savory and soft taste of sauce and mayonnaise, which are an original of Botejyu and which taste excellent with the other ingredients. Add a soft-boiled egg to give your entire dish an amazing taste.

Deluxe Tsukimi-yaki 1,958 yen

Recommended Osaka cuisine!

Takoyaki Combi allows you to taste three pieces of sauce-flavored takoyaki and three pieces of soy sauce/onion takoyaki in the same dish. These takoyaki are the perfect size for when you just want to eat one more thing before leaving the restaurant. Enjoy the contrast between thickness and simplicity.

Takoyaki Combi 660 yen

After your meal, make sure to enjoy a mixed juice, a local Osaka drink! This drink is a rich and delicious blend of oranges, bananas, apples, peaches, and milk.

Mixed juice　605 yen
Botejyu｜Main Building 10F

■ Doteyaki ■
Yukari offers a broad lineup of original dishes.

Yukari has received attention for their staple okonomiyaki dishes such as pork okonomiyaki and squid okonomiyaki, as well as for their original okonomiyaki. MIO-yaki, an original item at Mio, is popular among regular customers.

Doteyaki made with Japanese beef

Try Yukari’s doteyaki to enjoy the charm created through the combination of rich miso with Japanese beef tendons. Eat the collagen-filled, jiggling tendon meat with miso to enjoy a happy and satisfying taste.

The restaurant also sells takeout pouches, which are perfect as a present for people from far away. Experience the utmost joy by being able to enjoy the same taste that you would while dining at the restaurant!

Doteyaki　650 yen　*For takeout: 580 yen

Recommended Osaka cuisine!

Their Naniwa Haitoku-yaki, which was released on July 1st, has quickly become popular. Be one of the first to enjoy a dish that won the TEKO-1 GP (Tekowan Grand Prix), an event hosted by the Yukari Headquarters where participants debut original okonomiyaki recipes.

In line with the name “Haitoku” (Japanese for “immorality”), it is a high-calorie but delicious dish made from various types of ingredients such as boiled pork cubes, mochi, cream cheese, pork, chunks of fried tempura batter, and slow-boiled egg.

At a glance, it seems that it is made the same way as any other okonomiyaki.

Take a bite and you will you taste the cream cheese and mochi. You will be impressed by a flavor that combines different textures, such as moderate saltiness, a rich, savory flavor, and a doughy texture. You can also enjoy the crunchy taste of the tenkasu placed on top!

Naniwa Haitoku-yaki　1,680 yen
Yukari｜Plaza Building 4F

■ Takoyaki ■
Aidu-ya, is the first shop to sell takoyaki

At the Aidu-ya takoyaki restaurant, you can enjoy takoyaki with broth-infused dough and no sauce added. Aidu-ya is extremely famous as the restaurant that created takoyaki. It is widely loved by both locals and tourists from outside Osaka.

Simply glancing at the frying takoyaki at the store front is enough to increase your excitement! You can enjoy your takoyaki at the restaurant or to go.

Osaka Set, which includes Minoh Beer

We recommend the Osaka Set, a discount set that includes 12 pieces of the Classic Takoyaki and craft Minoh Beer. This set has gained immense popularity since it was started about two or three months ago.

The plump dough is hot, with a sticky middle. This is a widely popular dish. You will want to eat it while it is hot, so make sure to blow on it before sticking one in your mouth. There are many varieties of Minoh Beer, such as the classic stout, and you can pick the one that best suits you.

Osaka Set　1,150 yen

Recommended Osaka cuisine!

For those of you who would like to try various flavors or would like to share food with friends, we recommend Shin Radio-yaki 4 Varieties, which includes the Classic Takoyaki and three other types from an abundance of varieties such as scallops and asparagus with bacon. The restaurant has happy hour all day, with deals such as 180 yen for a highball and 300 yen for draft beer (medium size) for customers who order takoyaki. This allows customers to have a lively meal, during lunch or dinner, over drinks.

Shin Radio-yaki　1,350 yen
Aidu-ya｜Plaza Building M2F

■ Ramen ■
Eat it three times and you’ll be hooked. Dotonbori Kamukura

The characteristics of Dotonbori Kamukura are its closely-guarded, mysterious soup and its unique springy, straight, and thin noodles. They say that if you try its unique taste three times, you will be hooked on it.

The restaurant serves hundreds of bowls of its Oishii Ramen every day.

The staple of Kamukura is its basic flavor, the Oishii Ramen, which is widely popular. The soup experts at each restaurant location check each bowl with a spoon, and the restaurant sells hundreds of bowls of soup a day with the same quality.

The soup is simple and rich, with its carefully selected soy sauce and blending of natural sweetness and rich flavor of napa cabbage. Once you are intrigued by its flavor, you will want to finish it to the very last drop of soup!

Oishii Ramen　770 yen
Dotonbori Kamukura ｜ Plaza Building 4F

■ Western-style Food ■
Enjoy traditional cuisine at Petit Grill Maruyoshi

Petit Grill Maruyoshi is a traditional Western-style restaurant that opened in 1946. It has an extensive menu of Western-style dishes such as its famous rolled cabbage wrapped in thighbone meat, omelet over rice, and fried dishes.

Doteyaki simmered in demi-glace sauce

Western-style Restaurant Doteyaki is made by simmering sinewy meat in sauce made by combining miso with an original demi-glace sauce. It is a filling meal, like a stew, that contains ingredients such as grilled potatoes and carrots.

Western-style Restaurant Doteyaki　680 yen

Recommended Osaka cuisine!

Bokkake Spaghetti, is a dish made by pouring a plentiful amount of Western-style Restaurant Doteyaki on pasta. Adding a certain secret ingredient that is commonly used in Western-style food gives the doteyaki a different, fresh taste. We implore you to taste this secret ingredient for yourself!

Bokkake Spaghetti　1,100 yen
Petit Grill Maruyoshi｜Plaza Building 4F

■ Butaman ■
551HORAI sells thousands of butaman every day

551HORAI has a broad range of items, such as the famous Osaka butaman that are individually wrapped by hand, as well as shumai, niku dango, and bento lunch boxes. This immensely popular shop always has a long line of customers!

551s Horai’s must-eat item is their butaman

Their butaman, filled with juicy pork onion fillings, are displayed on the menus in front of their stores. Once you see them, you will want to buy some. You can buy butaman in boxes of 1, 2, 4, 6, or 10 butaman, but the standard size is 4 per box.

Its alluring scent will pique your hunger once you have open the box. Once you put one in your mouth, the sweetness of the dough and savoriness of the fillings will fill your mouth and you’ll find yourself gobbling it up. Their shop in Tennoji Mio sells an impressive amount of butaman a day, over 6,000!

Butaman　210 yen per piece

Recommended Osaka cuisine!

Another popular menu item that you cannot forget is the sweet vinegar dango. You can eat these dango as is, but you can also enjoy them stir fried with vegetables or as a snack in your lunch box. You can get 10 for the reasonable price of 380 yen.

Sweet vinegar dango　380 yen
551HORAI｜Main Building 1F

■ Sweets ■
Amatou Maeda offers an assorted menu of Japanese sweets

The Amatou Maeda sweets shop sells sweets such as the mitrashi dango displayed on the shop’s sign, as well as Japanese sweets using ingredients such as ice cream. A popular shop kept in the family for three generations!

The Mixed Juice Set allows you to experience the taste of Osaka

The set includes two of the popular springy and fragrant mitarashi dango, and mixed juice, that offers the taste of Osaka cafes. Mixed juice is a strong and delicious drink made from a mixture of peaches, pineapple, oranges, bananas, vanilla ice cream, and ice.

Enjoy the superb balance between dango with fragrant, baked skin and the salty-sweet mitarashi paste. Savor the long-cherished flavors of Osaka!

Showa Mixed Juice Set　800 yen

There are items that you will only find at Amatou Maeda’s Mio shop!

Hojicha Agar Milk is a sweet drink made by topping a hojicha latte containing agar with baked marshmallows, whipped cream, and coarse red bean paste. This cute drink that you will only be able to find at Tennoji Mio is one that you will want to post a picture of on social media.

Hojicha Agar Milk　600 yen
Amatou Maeda｜Main Building 10F

At Tennoji Mio, you can enjoy all the best of Osaka cuisine!

Tennoji Mio offers a wide variety of Osaka cuisine, such as okonomiyaki, takoyaki, Western-style dishes, and sweets, that you can enjoy during lunch, dinner, or at a cafe. If you search the Food Area, you are sure to find something that you would like to eat. If you’re hungry, make sure to stop by and enjoy the unique flavors of Osaka.