More than the popular tourist destination of Japan, the capital Tokyo, Osaka breaks all the limits of tourist standard, enchanting tourist fans by its unique taste of street culture. Osaka people are friendly and even overfamiliar with others, the food wrap exactly original taste inside every single dish and the busy streets are lit up till the midnight, Osaka welcomes visitors by its most sincere heart and soul of an ancient and diversified culture. Osaka is famous most for its beauty of street food, named theKitchen of Japan or the city of Eat till you drop as whenever you start to try a kind of street food around Osaka, you can not stop eating more and more.
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We have already known that your budget has limit then at least you should know what kind of street food you must try. It is said that you can not leave Osaka without eating the top three street food consisting of Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki and Kushikatsu. Today we introduce to you the number one restaurant with all these food in such the most well known street in Osaka. Among tens Takoyaki stalls in Dotonbori, Creo-ru seems to be the most outstanding with a huge signboard as well as its unique recipe of making Takoyaki. Creo-ru is a brand born in February of 1999 in Higashiyodogawa district and now flowering to numerous branches over the city. The one located in Dotonbori lies right in the middle of the shopping and eating street. Together with a big Takoyaki grill and a small six-seat counter on the ground floor, the restaurant features a large second floor of 70 seats serving Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki and Kushikatsu.
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Takoyaki becomes more and more popular even over the world as the number one street food from Japan so a large part of people get familiar with it but they may not know that it actually originate from Osaka. It is a kind of a deep fried ball shaped mixture of wheat flour and diced octopus covered by mayonnaise and takoyaki sauce. Creo-ru serves a completely different style of Takoyaki, bigger chunks of octopus and thinner outer skin, more solid with deliciously charred skin and stronger ginger flavor, much softer and more mushy. As the batter is softer, its soaks up all the sauce to make a more charming taste. People say that Takoyaki of Creo-ru is a kind of modern takoyaki as it is topped with cheese, spring onions but mayonnaise. Anchovy mayonnaise with black olives, ume-shiso, and truffle oil are some variations beside the popular sauce choices.
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It is easy to see the bustle in front of Creo-ru Takoyaki stall when you stand to wait your Takoyaki serving and incidentally watch the way of making takoyaki in spot and admiring the way skillful hands creating such perfect round balls. They have to handle about 100 balls at once but they are professional enough to flip the takoyaki in the right time. It will take about only several seconds for takoyaki to be taken into a styrofoam box and placed into your hands and you even feel it crackling in boiling hot.
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Tel no.
+81-6-6212-9195
OPEN TIME:
From 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Last order ends at 23:15 pm.
ADMISSION:
Takoyaki:
-8 balls: 700 yen
-12 balls: 960 yen
For taking away:
-6 balls: 450 yen
-10 balls: 730 yen
-16 balls: 1120 yen
– Creo-ru creative Takoyaki: 550 yen each ball
Okonomiyaki: from 900 yen to 1500 yen
Kushiage: from 950 yen to 1300 yen
Sets:
–Kushiage set: 1300 yen
–Osaka set: from 1350 yen to 1550 yen
–Greedy set: 1600 yen
–Convincing set: 1450 yen
HOW TO ACCESS:
From Tokyo Station: take JR Tokaido Shinkansen Line for 2 hours and 30 minutes from Tokyo Station to Shin-Osaka Station. Take a subway for 15 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station to Namba Station.
From Nagoya station: take JR Tokaido Shinkansen Line for 50 min from Nagoya Station to Shin-Osaka Station. Take a subway for 15 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station to Namba Station
Then take a 5 minutes walk from Namba Station of Subway Midosuji Line (exit No.14) to Dotonbori. Creo-ru is located quite next to Tazaemon-bashi Bridge