Nakagawa — Restaurant in Takamatsu

No wonder it's a top 5000 restaurant on tabelog, a top food review site in Japan! The taste buds are left super pleased!

It's a standard omakase course for everyone (15k yen), unless you go with a big group. Having tried many sushi restaurants including the michelin starred in Tokyo, I must say their small dishes are just impeccable!!!

The sushi honestly though is not mind blowing particularly the rice ball part (as you may tell from the photos). A big part of sushi is the rice ball and it's a skill that's super hard to master given that you have to deliver consistently good quality for every piece of sushi you make. The restaurant is just the chef himself running most of the cooking part with only one assistant for 20 or more customers. He's been super tied up and perhaps that's why it's been compromised.

I'd still give 5 stars overall as I think the quality and quantity is there, with this price. Do make a booking...

9월에 방문 했습니다. 타베로그 3등 안에 드는 집이라 가봤어요. 너무 맛있게 먹고있었는데 너무나 기분 나쁜 일이 발생해서 구글 리뷰 단 한번도 남겨본적 없는데 남깁니다. 첫번째는 한국인인 저와 옆자리 홍콩 여성분이 받은 장어스시입니다. 두번째는 제 남자친구가 받은 장어스시고요. 일단 크기가 너무 차이가 나서 기분이 나빳는데 2번째 큰 장어스시를 제 접시에 먼저 올려주셨다가 바로 다시 가져가시더니 남자친구 접시에 올려주시고 저는 저 작은 장어로 주시더라고요 ㅎㅎ 같은 돈 주고 먹는데 작은돈도 아니고 무려 2만엔짜리 식사였습니다.. 그래서 원래 여자는 이렇게 작은 사이즈를 주나..? 했는데 옆자리 일본현지인분들은 여자 남자 가릴거 없이 다 동일하게 남자친구가 받은 큰 사이즈로 주더라고요. 일단 먹었는데 올려주신 저 짜투리..ㅋ.ㅋㅋㅋ…뭐죠..? 정말 기분 나빳지만 저희는 일본어를 현지인 수준으로 구사하지 못하고 여행왔으니 참자..하고 참긴 했지만 저희(한국)와 홍콩분들에게 어디서 왔냐고 물어보시고 나라를 분명히 알았지만 계속 바꿔서 말하시고(저희한테 중국어 따라하면서 뭐라고 하고 홍콩 사람들한테 마싯서? 하면서 질문) 명백한 차별대우가 있다고 생각합니다.저희 일행은 술도 많이 시키고 총 5만2천엔을 결제 하고 나왔는데 기분 좋게 여행와서 차별을 받을진 상상도 못했는데 이게 말로만 듣던 인종차별?인가요? 맛은 있었지만 추천하고 싶지도 다시 가고싶지도 않네요.

I visited in September, drawn by the fact that this place ranks in the top 3 on Tabelog. The food was delicious, but an extremely unpleasant incident occurred, compelling me to leave a Google review for the first time ever.

First, the unagi sushi I received, as well as the one served to the Hong Kong woman next to me, was much smaller than the one given to my boyfriend. To make matters worse, the larger piece was initially placed on my plate but was then promptly taken away and given to my boyfriend instead, leaving me with the smaller piece. We paid the same amount of money—no small amount either, considering the meal cost us 20,000 yen each. At first, I wondered if women were simply given smaller portions, but then I noticed that the Japanese locals, both men and women, were all served the same larger size that my boyfriend received.

What was that pathetic excuse for a piece that you gave me? I ate it, but seriously… what’s going on? It was utterly insulting, but since my Japanese isn't fluent and we were on vacation, we decided to just tolerate it. But the situation got worse when they started asking us and the Hong Kong woman where we were from. Despite knowing we were Korean and she was from Hong Kong, they kept mixing it up, making rude remarks in broken Chinese to us and asking the Hong Kong woman something like "Masitseo?" in a mocking tone.

This was blatant discrimination. We ordered plenty of drinks and spent a total of 52,000 yen, but never did I expect to face such discrimination while trying to enjoy a pleasant trip. Is this what they call racism? The food might have been good, but I would neither recommend this place nor...

Did not make a reservation, chef was gracious enough to offer my wife and I a seat upstairs for Omakase. The meal was like a beautiful symphony with a strong start to introduce the type of sushi Kagawa is famous for. When we thought we were about done, more dishes were served with even more mind blowing flavors. The sweetest uni was served. Then the most beautiful tuna. Finishing off with a well balanced savoury sardine. The control of umami in each dish is testiment to the chef's experience. This was an unexpected discovery that we were fortunate enough...