Café Bintang
Restaurant · Osaka, Japan
About Café Bintang
Café Bintang sits on the fourth floor of a building called Katie's Shinsaibashi in Osaka's Higashishinsaibashi neighborhood, a short walk from either Nagahoribashi or Shinsaibashi stations in Chuo Ward. The restaurant serves Javanese Indonesian cooking, including nasi goreng, ayam bakar, and other dishes drawn from the home cooking of its Muslim owners, who prepare every item to halal standards. A dedicated prayer room on site serves diners who wish to perform their daily prayers without leaving the restaurant, a detail multiple halal food directories single out when describing the space.
The restaurant opens seven days a week. Monday through Thursday and on weekends it is open from noon to 11:00 PM, while Friday hours begin later, from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM, presumably to accommodate Friday prayer observance among staff and regular patrons. The phone line, +81 6-6484-7483, appears consistently across independent Japan based halal food directories including Halal Food in Japan, Halal Gourmet Japan, and the official Chuo Ward tourism portal Osaka Chushin, as well as on international halal travel sites such as Zabihah, Halal Navi, and Have Halal Will Travel, which together provide strong cross confirmation of the address and hours.
Higashishinsaibashi sits adjacent to the better known Shinsaibashi shopping and dining district, an area with a dense concentration of restaurants of many nationalities, and reviewers frequently mention the café as one of the more reliable halal options in central Osaka for both residents and Muslim tourists. Menu items commonly cited by diners include the fried rice, grilled chicken preparations, and a rotating selection of Javanese side dishes and sweets.
Café Bintang fills a real gap in the directory: Osaka previously had an Indonesian diplomatic consulate and a Japanese bank branch listed, but no restaurant of any kind, despite the city's sizable community of Indonesian students and workers in the Kansai region. Its Tokyo area counterparts already listed in the directory, Cabe Meguro, Wayang Bali, Cinta Jawa Cafe, and Monggo Moro among others, are clustered entirely around the capital, so this listing extends restaurant coverage into a second major Japanese city for the first time.
Address
4F Katie's Shinsaibashi, 1-19-19 Higashishinsaibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0083, Osaka, JapanOpening hours
- Monday Thursday
- 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
- Friday
- 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM
- Saturday Sunday
- 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Contact
- Phone: +81 6 6484 7483
Category
Indonesian Restaurant in Japan
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