Heno Heno

Everyday Japanese food on Wielandstraße: udon and soba hot or cold, gyū-don, curry rice, onigiri and house-pickled vegetables.

Heno Heno is a small Japanese place on Wielandstraße that has been in Charlottenburg for many years; it used to be on Kantstraße. There are tables, a few seats at the counter and a terrace on the street, and the menu is everyday Japanese food rather than sushi platters.

The udon and soba noodles come hot in soup or cold, vegetarian, with tofu, with beef or with curry broth. Gyū-don is beef and onions on rice, and there is Japanese-style curry rice, onigiri with kombu, umeboshi or salmon, inari sushi and oshi sushi with herring. The kitchen pickles the vegetables for the nukazuke itself. To drink there is green and roasted tea, a house-made ginger lemonade or mugi shochu, a Japanese barley spirit.