Night 3 dinner.
Kanda. One of the few Michelin 3*s that would take a party of 5. We got our own private room.
Service was impeccable. Staff to patron ratio is 1:1 if not more.
Cuisine was spectacular. At $300 all in which included 3 rounds of junmai daiginjo sake x 4 pours each and 10% service charge, it is the best QPR 3* out there and one of the best tasting food wise.
My sister was under the weather and didn’t feel like eating raw stuff so they switched out all her raw dishes and made some pretty amazing dishes on the fly.
Many of the ingredients used are seasonal.
Grilled baby ayu.
Uni wrapped in Tai and shiso flowers for us
Fried Spanish mackerel for my sister. Light oatmeal like coating but finer (? rice) and the fish was pristine sweet.
Tai sashimi with lightly torched skin for us
Tai en papillote with shiso for my sister. I liked this dish even better than the one we got!
Amazing sweet shrimp dumplings with edamame again.
Amazing chu toro brushed with a thicker slightly sweet soy glaze and kasugo (baby snapper) belly. Wow. So tender and the kasugo may have been even better than the chu toro. I could do an entire sushi meal from this chef.
Braised baby snapper head for my sister
Sawara grilled with miso and topped with fried wild vegetables
Shabu of wakame flown the same day from the chef’s home prefecture of Tokushima. The wakame was thicker and had more texture than your regular wakame. It was dark brown initially and turned green upon cooking. The resultant broth with the clams was better than ambrosia.
http://www.pref.tokushima.jp/english/attraction/food/index08.html
Mizayaki beef. Coated with that thin corn meal or rice meal. Really nice and really tender. I think it was sous vide so it wasn’t overly fatty. I don’t typically like Kobe beef but this was excellent.
Fried Sakura shrimp over rice and seaweed. So good it’s hard to describe.
A duo of desserts. Strawberry custard with Sakura jelly and hojicha ice cream(amazing).
Pacing was perfect and 2.5 hours passed rather quickly. Highly recommend this for traditional high end Japanese fare.