Moto-Akasaka Sako — Restaurant in Tokyo

Stumbled upon this hidden gem in Moto azabu for lunch. It's a very small, intimate & cozy spot with around 10 seats or so. The chef cooks from the middle and serves the counter seats that make up the whole place.

Today's lunch options were roast beef don or seafood curry. I had the latter and was served tea (or water) and a shin onion korokke (young yellow onions 新玉ねぎ) - non pungent, mild and sweet. The curry was slightly salty but seafood cooked just right. Overall both the curry and korokke were delicious.

A tasteful place in several aspects. Presentation was exceptionally beautiful as were the plates and tableware - great choices made there.

I'd like to come here in the evening to try the omakase dinner - no menu chefs course of Japanese cuisine small plates (roughly 10 items with the course price...

The restaurant is a very small, counter-seating only 10-person place. The only one working this evening was the chef so it felt like a very intimate private chef cooking for you. (Only 2 other people there). Every dish was very carefully prepared and tasted great. We had a crab salad, soup, mackerel/seabream/clams sashimi, a few fish dishes, octopus, eel, abalone, noodle, etc. We have been to 6 2-Michelin star restaurants in the last month, and the food here is same or better than all of them, and with the price tag of 10,000 for the menu, this is by far the best deal. (Others are...

Come for a late lunch. Ordered the pork and curry rice. Pork was mediocre at best, curry rice was actually pretty tasty which is why I gave this place 2 stars instead of 1. Chef spilled my glass of sake all over the counter, which is OK, accidents happen. But then did not replace it. Instead he kept insisting that we order more food, he asked at least 3-4 times....