Gelsons. They’ve had Minerva Dairy butter in stock regularly along with various other high fat domestic butters and interesting imports from France & Italy.
Going back to rice, like in Midnight Diner, a bit of good butter and a few drops of soy sauce on freshly cooked hot rice is low brow greatness.
Oh, well, I don’t consider that truly “plain,” just as bread + EVOO or butter is also not, to me, plain! 
Thanks for the info about the butter. Will keep an eye out for it.
What are the odds?
I can still taste that dish in the back of my mouth. Exceptional.
a few new dishes for summer. a delicious anago oshizushi replaces the aji bozushi, the sashimi course is now a seared, lean-and-clean hatsu katsuo, and with the end of kinmedai season, chef go is now using black cod saikyo yaki in his gohan. the same black cod from the bento only seared over binchotan instead of gas. this was the best rice course i’ve had since the kinmedai gohan, so good 
on another note, unfortunately bethany left and the hayato team is now down to only four, chef go, yuki, hiro, and richard.
dassai 23
sakizuke - chilled torigai, binchotan charred eggplant marinated in kombu dashi, ginger, junsai
agemono - kakiage tempura, brentwood corn, hokkaido scallop, mitsuba
binchotan roasted live santa barbara spot prawns, okra, tosazu jelly, shiso blossoms
(new) shinogi - anago oshizushi, sesame seed, salt, fresh wasabi
owan - dungeness crab, baby kabu, suimono
(new)hatsu katsuo warayaki, chive, salt, soy sauce
cooked over some rice straw that resulted in a perfectly seared and smoky exterior.
sake steamed abalone, abalone stock cubes, abalone liver sauce, wasabi
binchotan grilled nodoguro, lotus root
nuta-ae, raw udo, hokkigai
amadai, ankake, tokyo negi
hokkaido uni tsukudani
shabu shabu - a5 miyazaki wagyu, komatsuna, shiitake and oyster mushrooms, kinome leaves
the wagyu tonight was especially smooth and silky.
karasumi
(new) gohan - black cod saikyo yaki, mitsuba
this cod was so rich and oily with a slight sweetness from the miso. the counter polished the entire rice pot off in no time.
x3
harry’s berries gaviota, kinako infused whipped cream
bonus harry’s and ken’s top notch white nectarines
wasanbon
@js76wisco towel count - .5
after dinner kakigori bang @ hatch
thanks to @coffeezeri for the tip. this was a two night pop-up with naoto yonezawa from kuramoto ice
ichigo shortcake - harry’s berries strawberries, pastry flakes, cream kakigori
Could’ve fooled me that the fish in the gohan was nodoguro. Oh wait… 
Verdict?
pretty good, light and slightly sweet.
next pop-up will be at smorgasburg with two new flavors:
Melon Cream Soda
Weiser Family Farm’s super sweet melon, melon soda foam, Hokkaido milk ice cream
Hojicha with Burnt Honey
Kanazawa Hojicha syrup, burnt honey Hojicha ice cream, macadamia nuts
highlights from this evening:
sakizuke - chilled torigai, binchotan charred eggplant marinated in kombu dashi, ginger, junsai
agemono - kakiage tempura, brentwood corn, hokkaido scallop, mitsuba
binchotan roasted live santa barbara spot prawns, okra, tosazu jelly, yuzu zest
shinogi - anago oshizushi, sesame seed, salt, fresh wasabi
owan - dungeness crab, baby kabu, suimono
seared katsuo, chive, salt, myoga, soy sauce
sake steamed abalone, abalone stock cubes, abalone liver sauce, wasabi
binchotan grilled kinki (hokkaido), lotus root, sudachi
nuta-ae, raw udo, hokkigai
amadai, ankake, tokyo negi
hokkaido uni tsukudani
shabu shabu - a5 miyazaki wagyu, mizuna, shiitake and oyster mushrooms, umeboshi
karasumi
gohan - black cod saikyo yaki, mitsuba
x3
harry’s berries gaviota, kinako infused whipped cream
bonus harry’s and ken’s top notch white nectarines
wasanbon
fin
Lots of effort put into those gifs
gifs, or it didn’t happen. 
I knew you were him…I knew it!
Wow. Most beautiful post in FTC history…
The Porky-verse?
Oh fun! My cousin Curtis was there with his girlfriend. Unless you’re my cousin and I didn’t know he took great food pics 
Somehow you always manage to go a week before my resy and I’m like NO SPOILERS but I’m weak, can’t resist, and your pics are always so good.
I’m stoked 
The correct answer on this quantum physics mid-term exam question is almost always choice (E):Schrödinger’s chow/cat/cousin/kiss/belly
. Yah, you got me.