Outstanding CP. You really get a lot of seasonal food for ยฅ15,000. I want to highlight the chefโs attention to vegetables, such as the carrot, seri, and fukinoto, which were all of excellent quality (the fukinoto especially). You also will get plenty of luxurious ingredients in the course, such as fugu shirako, an especially large hata, and the perfect cut of meji maguro. Not to mention an incredible quantity of eel.
The eel itself is extremely crispy. The way the fats were rendered give the skin a thick-bodied and audible crunch. My personal preference is for a more delicate crisp like Yamasei in Matsumoto, but I can see fans of this style too! My only nitpick was that the eel had a slightly muddy smell, which distracted from the shirayaki. But honestly at this price point itโs hard to have a genuine complaint.
Both the chef and the proprietress made an effort to chat despite my rather bad Japanese ๐ , which I really appreciate. The restaurant is less than a year old, and I look forward to the cuisine becoming more refined (I feel like the simmered dishes could use a more delicate hand on the heat, and the yuzu seasoning on the ankimo was a tad aggressive which distracted from its natural sweetness). In any case, the generosity of ingredients at this price point really reflects their love of food that they serve their guests, and for that reason, Iโd revisit if I...
ย ย ย Read more์ฅ์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์์ฝํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ถฉ๋์ด์๋ค. ๋ณ ๋ค์ฏ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ๊ธ ํ์ . ๊ทธ ์ซ์ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ๋ฌํ ์๋ฐ๊ฐ์ด๋๊น. ์กฐ๊ธ์ ๊ณผ์ฅ๋ ๊ธฐ๋๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ๋๋ ์์ฝ ๋ฒํผ์ ๋๋ ๋ค. ์์งํ ๋งํด, ์์ฆ์ ๋ณ ๋ค์ฏ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ ํ๋ ์ธ์์ด์ง๋ง, ์ด์ฉ์ง ์ด๊ณณ์ ๋ฌ๋๋ค. โ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ ์ฅ์ด์ ๋๋คโ๋ผ๋ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง์๋ค.
๊ฐ๊ฒ๋ ์๊ณ ์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค. ๋๋ฌด๋ก ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด์ ์์ํ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ๋์๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒผ๋ค. ๋๋จํ ์ฅ์์ด๋ ํ๋ คํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ ์์๋ค. ์ฐจ๋ถํ ์กฐ๋ช ๊ณผ ๊ณ ์ํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ฌํ๊ฒ ์ง์คํ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค. ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ ์ด๊ณณ์ด ๋ณ ๋ค์ฏ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ ๋งํ ๊ณณ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํด์ก๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋์ด ์ฅ์ด๊ฐ ๋์๋ค. ์ ์ ์์ ์ฅ์ด๋ ๋ง์น ๋ฌด๋์ ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ๊ฐ์๋ค. ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์์ก๊ณ , ์ค๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ ๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ ํ๋ํ๋๊ฐ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋๋์ด๋๊น. ์์๋ ์ฐ์ด์ ๋ธ๋ํํผ๊ฐ ์์ ํ ๋์ฌ ์์๋ค. โ๋ง์๋๋ก ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ณด์ธ์โ ํ๊ณ ์์ญ์ด๋ ๊ฒ๋ง ๊ฐ์๋ค. ๋๋ ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ฅ์ด ํ ์ ์ ์ง์ด๋ค์๋ค.
์ ์ ๋ฃ๋ ์๊ฐ, ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฉ์ท๋ค. ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์์ง ๊ป์ง์ด ์ฒ์์ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฐจ ๊น๊ณ ์งํ ํ๋ฏธ๋ก ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ธ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ์์ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ์ด์ดํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ ํ ๋ฒ์ ์ฃผ์ ํจ๋ ์์ด ํ๋์์ ๋ น์๋ด๋ ธ๋ค. ์ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฟ๋ ธ๋๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค. ํ ๋์ ์์ธํ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ด ์ค์ณค๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ์ฅ์ด๊ฐ ํ ๋จ๊ณ ๋ ์งํํ๋ ๋๋์ด์๋ค. ๋ธ๋ํํผ๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋ค์์ ๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์คํ์ด์ํจ์ด ์ถ๊ฐ๋๋ฉฐ, ์ ์์์ ์์ ํญํ์ด ์ผ์๋ค. ํ ์ ํ ์ ์ด ์๋ก์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
์ค๊ฐ ์ดํ ์ฅ์ด ํ ๋ง๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํต์งธ๋ก ๋์๊ณ , ์ ์์ด ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊น๊ณผ ํ, ์์ฌ๋น๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ์๋ค. ์ฅ์ด์ ์ฌ๋ ค ๋จน์ผ๋ผ๋ ์ค๋ช ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป์๋ค. ์ด์ง ์๊ตฌ์ฌ์ด ๋ค์๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฅ์ด ์๋น์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๊ตํ ์ฅ์ด์๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฑธ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์๊น? ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๋ฒฝํ ์ฅ์ด์๋? ํ์ง๋ง ํ ์ ์ ๊น์ ์น๊ณ , ํ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ฟ๋ฆฐ ๋ค, ์์ฌ๋น๋ฅผ ์ด์ง ์ฌ๋ ค๋ณด์๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์์ ๋ฐ์ด์๋ค. ๋ฐ์ญํจ๊ณผ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์์ ์กฐํ์ ์ ์ ํ ํ์ ๋งค์ฝคํ ์์ฌ๋น๊ฐ ๋ํด์ง๋, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์น ์์ ํ ์๋ก์ด ์๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ปด์ก๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ฃ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ ์ด๋ฉด์๋ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ ์ ์์์ ์ถค์ถ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ค. ๋๋ ๋ช ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ณตํด์ ๋จน์๋ค.
์์ฌ๊ฐ ์งํ๋ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ๋ค์(๊ตญ๋ฌผ)๊ฐ ๋์๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฟ๋ ๋ค์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ์ฅ์ด ํ ์ ์ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ๋ถ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์์๋ค. ๋ฐ์ญํ๋ ์ฅ์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์๋ฅผ ๋จธ๊ธ์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ณํ๋ ์๊ฐ, ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ฑ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ์งํ๊ณ ๋ ์ฌ์ธํ๊ณ , ์ฅ์ด์ ํ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ป ๋์ด์ฌ๋ ธ๋ค. ๋ฐฅ ํ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋จน์์ ๋์ ์กฐํ๋ ์ด๋ฃจ ๋งํ ์ ์์๋ค. ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ ์์์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์์ฑ์ํค๋ ๋๋. ์ด๊ฒ์ด์ผ๋ง๋ก ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฐพ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ด์๋ค.
์์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ณ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ์ผ์ด๋ ๋, ๋๋ ์ด๊ณณ์ด ์ ๋ณ ๋ค์ฏ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋์ง ์ดํดํ๋ค. ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์์์ ํตํด ์ถ์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌํด์ฃผ๋ ์ฅ์์๋ค. ํํธ๋ฌ์ ธ ์๋ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ํ ๋ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ํ ์ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด์๋ค. ๋ณ ๋ค์ฏ ๊ฐ? ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋ค. ์๋, ๊ทธ ์ด์์ด๋ค. ๋๋ ๋น์ ์๊ฒ ์ฅ๋ดํ๋ค. ์ด๊ณณ์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฐพ์์์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ , ์ด๊ณณ์ ์ค๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ผ๋ ๊ตํ ์ ์์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ , ๋๊ตฌ๋ผ๋ ๊ผญ ํ ๋ฒ์ ์ด ์ฅ์ด์ ๋ง์ฃผํด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ .
Booking the eel lunch was a last-minute decision. A perfect five-star Google rating. It felt heavy, like it had something to prove. Still, the review stuck with me: โThis eel will move you.โ It wasnโt flashy. It didnโt need to be.
I arrived ten minutes late, rushing past the wooden door. The smell of smoke greeted me, soft and clean. The restaurant was small. Quiet. No decorations, no distractions. Just calm light and the sound of people eating without speaking much. It was a place for the food to do the talking.
The eel came out. It glistened on the plate, golden and crisp. A quiet kind of beautiful. Beside it sat small bowls of sansho and black pepper. No explanation, just there. I picked up a piece. The skin cracked gently, and the meat inside melted like it was meant to. Smoky, rich, but not too much. Sansho added something sharp, bright, almost playful. The black pepper was different. It was bold and addictive, the kind of taste that stayed with you and made you want more. It wasnโt just seasoning. It was part of the story.
Halfway through, they brought out a whole eel with seaweed, scallions, and wasabi. They told me to layer it, so I did. A little seaweed, a sprinkle of scallions, just enough wasabi. The bite was fresh, clean, and sharp in a way that made the richness of the eel stand out even more. Each piece felt like it was revealing something new, something I hadnโt noticed before.
At the end, they brought dashi. I poured it over the last piece of eel. The skin softened, the broth soaked in, and it all came togetherโsimple and complete. I ate it with rice, and it felt like finishing a book that didnโt waste a single word.
I left knowing why this place had five stars. It wasnโt about the decoration or the service. It was about the food, and how it made everything else feel quiet and right. If youโre near Kyoto, or even if youโre not, you should find a way here. Itโs worth the trip. Itโs...
ย ย ย Read moreFirst time having a fine dining of UNAGI (eel) in Japan. Food: Iโd say Excellent! Can distinguish easily that the raw material of Unagi used is of high quality. I love the appetiser, the soup and especially the main dish - grilled Unagiโฆโฆ. โManzokuโ which means โwith great satisfaction!โ
The chef (thought to be the owner) and the lady staff are all good. They are nice, very helpful and they explained every single dish about its ingredients, cooking method, etcโฆ..
Highly highly recommended for everyone looking for a decent, value-for-money restaurant famous for Unagi.
Will definitely go there again when we come to...
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