cuisine
- Mexican
- Dining
- International
Latin American Innovative
area
- Tokyo
- Ginza・Tsukiji・Tsukishima
Access
4 minutes from Ginza station (H09) exit C9, 1 minute from Ginza 1-chome station (Y19) exit 3, 2 minutes from Yurakucho station (Y18), 9 minutes from Hibiya Station (H08), 5 minutes from Kyobashi Station (G10), 5 minutes from Tokyo Station (M17)
Price
- ¥9,800-¥15,000
- ¥9,800-¥25,000
Good For
- Non-Smoking Seats
- Free Wi-Fi
- Online Booking
- English Menu
- English Speaking Staff
- Antiallergic food
Concept :
There are restaurants in Tokyo that serve exceptional food. There are restaurants with celebrated chefs, rare ingredients, and beautiful interiors. ETHICA is not competing with any of them — because what happens here cannot be replicated anywhere else on Earth.
Thirty seconds from Ginza-ittchome station, behind a façade that gives nothing away, you descend into something closer to geological time than a dinner reservation. Stone walls close in. The lighting drops to 38 lumens — the threshold at which your eyes stop searching for the familiar. Blue resin tables glow from beneath, replicating the still water of a Yucatán cenote. The outside world does not follow you here.
Key Points :
Chef Masao Andres Matsunae Guzmán trained at MAZ — ranked among Asia's 50 Best Restaurants and holder of two Michelin stars — where he developed his philosophy of cuisine as a record of the earth itself. At ETHICA, that philosophy takes shape as Latin American Innovative cuisine. Courses are built around moments in deep time: the formation of the planet, the Cambrian explosion, the emergence of the first civilizations of the Andes and Mesoamerica. Every dish is a document. Every ingredient meets the same ethical standard — sustainable, regenerative, waste-free.ETHICA has held a place in the Michelin Guide for three consecutive years. The current chapter, launched in March 2026, is its most ambitious yet.
Recommended Dishes :
For those who want the full experience, the nine-course progression at ¥19,800 — paired with a curated beverage selection at ¥14,800 — takes you through nine chapters of deep time, from the birth of the planet to the rise of civilization, one dish at a time. A shorter introduction is available at ¥9,800 for guests with limited time, but not limited curiosity.ETHICA also offers two of Tokyo's most singular dining formats. The private dining room — enclosed, intimate, with a window that frames the kitchen like a stage — seats guests who want the full drama of the meal without sharing it with anyone else. And for those who want to go further still, the Chef's Counter places just two seats directly inside the kitchen itself, where the meal is not observed from a distance but lived from the center of it.
ETHICA holds three years of Michelin recognition not because it follows the rules of fine dining, but because it has written its own.
- Address:
- Toa Bldg. 1F, 1-3-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
- Access:
- 4 minutes from Ginza station (H09) exit C9, 1 minute from Ginza 1-chome station (Y19) exit 3, 2 minutes from Yurakucho station (Y18), 9 minutes from Hibiya Station (H08), 5 minutes from Kyobashi Station (G10), 5 minutes from Tokyo Station (M17)
- Telephone:
- 03-6228-7313(Please mention JAPAN RESTAURANT.net for making reservations)
- Hours:
- Lunch: 11:30am-2:30pm (LO 12:30pm); Dinner: 5:30pm-11pm (LO 8:30pm)
- Closed On:
- Seating:
- 16 seats
- Website:
- https://www.ethicatokyo.jp/
- Credit cards accepted:
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