Aji no Nakamura — Restaurant in Tokyo

This restaurant has an authentic Japanese ambiance - you will feel exclusive as those who dine here comes from the wealthy neighborhoods HIROO area - affluent society and neighborhood ! If you want to dine with those people - this is the place. Very quiet, sophisticated, well mannered people are seen here.

Just an advise to foreigners: the menu is all in Japanese kanji - so you might want to come with a Japanese person to do order as no one speaks English.

The food is amazing - service is top top: they are not engaging but they do the needful ie: when you leave, they check for your left belongings before you leave the restaurant!

Really recommended !

It could be highly priced but value to money...

Authentic Japanese Izakaya with dimmed lights for a much more intimate feel.

We were a party of 3 and had quite a few nibbles which were all amuse-bouche like, and extremely tasty.

The biggest highlight was the menchi-katsu, hereafter to be forever referred to as menchies! Bite-sized morsels of mince in a flaky deep-fried casing with mustard and HP-style brown sauce as dipping condiments.

The various sashimi were also very good.

Tasteful....

西麻布的夜晚不像六本木那樣光彩奪目，從廣尾車站出來，穿過一條充滿綠意的坡道，沿路是高級社區公寓，做好了今天錢包會成為大人的心理準備。坡道的盡頭，一棟灰泥牆面的低調建築映入眼簾，和常見的居酒屋不同，門口沒有日式暖簾、也沒有紙燈籠，只有一道上了年紀的厚重木門配上銅製門鎖，這裡是「味のなかむら」，一家登上食べログ居酒屋百名店的創作料理居酒屋。

走過狹長的走廊抵達漂著低調高級感的座位區，桌上的菜單封面上寫著皐月（五月），有當月菜色、常設菜色和當日推薦，我們沒有點套餐，因此在菜單上鑽研許久，鑽研到店員親切地問我們要不要英文菜單😅總之先決定了飲料，接下來就參考網路照片和直覺點餐。

開場的お通し，是一碗「京都風冷汁」——冰涼的胡麻味噌湯裡放著黃瓜、茗荷與白身魚肉，淡雅但有層次，替今天的晚餐設定好味覺基調。

前菜選擇了「生火腿與哈密瓜，佐西洋菜的豆腐白醬」，前者算是很常見的組合，豆腐白醬也是日式沙拉常客，但出現在這裡的確實特別細緻優雅。接下來的蛋白質時間，選了招牌名物「炸海鰻（鱧）三明治」、炸竹莢魚佐咖哩塔塔醬，炭烤黑毛和牛、酸酸甜甜的黑毛和牛番茄壽喜燒，蓬鬆細緻的出汁玉子燒...等。中間還再次回歸了前菜，選了「佐土原茄子與生海膽」，又滑又嫩的質地讓人再次驚嘆日常食材高級版的魔力。最後用松葉蟹與鮭魚卵的土鍋炊飯收尾。大部分的菜都是符合價位的品質，該有的質感都有發揮出來。有些菜色份量較小，店員會詢問我們要不要點兩份，而且比較難分食的菜會自動分成擺盤完美的四盤，這點貼心讓我們印象深刻。

我們一行四人中除了三個吃貨，還有一個頂級法餐甜點廚師，他會一口吃光然後精準地說出食材或做法，增添了不少話題。其中讓他留下最多評語的是「松葉蟹白醬可樂餅」，不是因為小小的可樂餅內塞滿了蟹肉和白醬，而是底下用蟹膏製成的番茄味沾醬，含有超越蟹膏的濃郁鮮味，「這個醬很貴！是把蝦蟹的殼和番茄等炒過以後打碎過濾再熬製成的」。後來查了一下，是法式料理裡一道極費工的工序，難怪可以有令人眼睛發亮的海味與深度。原本看到菜單上一顆 ¥950...