- 4-1-1 Toranomon, Minato Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 105-0001
The Tokyo Edition, Toranomon is home to several food and beverage venues including the tranquil, slate-hued Lobby Bar and the sumptuous all-day eatery known as The Blue Room. Both 31st-floor spots are bright and airy, filled with dramatic greenery and boast stunning skyline views of the city that will leave you picking up your jaw from the floor. But discerning cocktail drinkers will feel most at home at Gold Bar, tucked away near the hotel’s ground floor entrance. Follow fashionable Tokyoites inside the black-walled, gold-accented boîte, where tattooed bartenders artfully mix cocktails from behind a marble-topped bar. Sexy black leather couches, a focal fireplace made of Nero Marquina and a cathedral-high, white barrel-vaulted ceiling make this ornate bar among the megalopolis’s most moody settings for a drink. Try the Japanese whisky and rum-based “Yaki Tokyo Banana,” made with banana, kogashi butter, citrus, egg white and chipotle salt from the seasonally-dependent cocktail menu. For a wildly inventive tipple with big umami undertones, go for the “Cumin & Mango Nigiri,” featuring Woodford Reserve bourbon, mango tea, spices, sushi vinegar, bonito flakes, cream, citrus and egg white. Hungry? Nibble on izakaya-style small plates like a wagyu beef cutlet sandwich.
Just don’t expect to enter this intimate hideaway without a reservation on weekends. That’s when Tokyo’s best-dressed locals, hotel guests and the occasional in-town pop star come to party while DJs grace the decks. You can always try your luck at newcomer The Tokyo Edition, Ginza and swing by the Punch Room, the Tokyo outpost of Edition’s punch-focused bar concept that evokes 19th-century London private clubs, or The Roof, Ginza’s first natural wine bar.