Hachi — Restaurant in Yokohama

Wonderful experience for dinner at this place. Even though we can't really speak or read Japanese, and they only had Japanese menus; we were able to roughly translate the menus with Google translate. And the boss of the place was able to converse with us with relatively good English as well!

This place is kind of a fusion of western and Japanese food, with a concept of a tasting menu (aka omakase) &/or a la carte menu. I love how the servers and the boss would try their best to explain every dish they serve.

We ordered a mixture of both, and the omakase menu consisted of the following (which may not be the same everytime you order, depending on the availability of ingredients).

Cream cheese with Matcha salt and crackers. Smoked mixed nuts Pickled veggies

They have a set of sauces you can dip the kushiage set with: Lemon juice dip, himalayan salt, basil pesto, dashi, original sauce (okonomiyaki sauce)

The kushiages we had were: White fish, yuba wrapped with gobo, kisu(another type of white fish) , cheese, soft boiled quail egg, bacon, beef, pork fillet, croquette, bamboo shoot.

We had tendon stew, caparccio (of sea bream? Or hamachi?), crab shell stuffed with crab meat.

I love how yummy these all were and felt that the best were the kushiages and the cream cheese with Matcha salt dip.

Would definitely recommend this place to others, but please do make a reservation before you come!

On the side note, I felt the following could be improved a little: cream cheese with Matcha salt dip with crackers were heavenly! But it somehow felt like it carries abit of gelatine in it? So it's not as smooth as we thought it would be. I feel that the gelatine is not really necessary, but if it's really needed in the dish, a reduction of some gelatine would definitely boost the texture of the dip in the mouth! -truffle croquettes were a little dry to taste. Perhaps a bit of melted butter or a touch of cream would be good to add some moisture in the mashed potato. 🤤 service was abit slow since the owner was the one doing almost everything. It would have been faster if ingredients for frying are alrdy skewered beforehand, but perhaps he has his reasons for not doing so. But please have some patience as food will be worth it! If u do come to this place to dine in, please don't do it when u're in a rush to another place.

Will be back again when I'm in Japan next time 🤭😊 thank you for...

Love the fusion kushiage hidden in the alley. The chef/ owner probably used to work in western kitchen.

Five dips were provided and the interesting dip was the basil pesto. The amuse was a matcha cream cheese topped with seaweed powder, a cute little piece of naruto and served with crackers. Great balance and couldn't get enough of it.

Their own pickled vegetables were sweet and not too sour. Preserving the natural taste of the vegetable. Grilled edamame was with a nicely charred flavour and well salted. Strong smoke flavour in the smoked mixed nuts hits your nose straight away. The fried crab shell was stuffed full with fresh crab.

Chicken chasuke was flavourful topped with fried chicken and fried millets. The fish carpaccio was fresh, good citrus and loved the sauce. Probably a soy, dashi and sesame oil mix.

All the kushiage were good. Special mention to the fried fishes and yuba wrapped in goba kushiage. The food was really good here but it was shorthanded so there would always be a wait for food/drinks.

I guess due to the passion for his craft, the chef doesn't pre-prepare some of the food so that added to the waiting time. But the drinks and conversation for the wait was rather enjoyable. Overall I would recommend this place for anyone coming to Yokohama. Oh and smoking...

【串揚げとワイン はち ＠桜木町】

野毛の都橋商店街の向かいにある串揚げ×ワインのお店。 若いお客さんでごった返していて、だいぶ人気店のようです。

カジュアルな雰囲気の中、カウンター席もあればテーブル席も多数あり、ワイワイ賑やかに愉しめる感じですね。

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串揚げを中心にアラカルトで色々といただきました。 （◆：串揚げ ／ ◇：一品料理 ／ 税込価格）

◇ガーリックトースト（528円） ◇クリーミーポテトサラダ（495円） ◇ゴルゴン明太のだし巻き卵（528円） ◆いくらサーモン（290円） ◆もち明太子（200円） ◆和牛のレアカツ（330円） ◆鮑の酒蒸しの串揚げ（399円） ◆いかの姿揚げ（250円） ◆のどぐろ（250円） ◆ヒレカツ（250円） ◆半熟うずら（180円） ◆おでん大根（200円） ◆キスとみつ葉（200円） ◆トリュフコロッケ（250円） ◆天使の海老（330円） ◇牛スジ煮込みのデミ味噌仕立て（638円） ◆穴子のスパイシー揚げ（200円） ◆渡り蟹の甲羅詰め（380円） ◆安納芋のスイートポテトの串揚げ（200円）

まずは、一品料理から。 ガーリックトーストもガリバタしっかり塗られていて、イイおつまみ。 ポテサラはマッシュされて文字通りクリーミー。 揚げられた器状のものを崩しながら野菜と混ぜて食べるのもクリスピーな食感も加わり美味しい。 だし巻き卵は、これまた大好きなゴルゴンゾーラの香りや明太子のピリ辛も加わり、だし巻き卵大好きな人間としては、たまりません。 後半食べた牛スジ煮込みもデミ味噌が利いていながらあっさりとした味わいで、ペロリとイケちゃいました。

そして串揚げ。 一串の大きさはそれほど大きくないので色々愉しめますが、いや～こうしてみると串揚げけっこう食べましたね。 それでも全メニュー制覇まで全然です。

串揚げには、5種類のソースが用意されていて、 ・特製ソース ・燻製出汁 ・バジルソース ・ヒマラヤの岩塩 ・レモン汁 があります。 メニューにはそれぞれの串のオススメソースが記載されているのでそれに沿って食べてみました。

どれも美味しかったのですが、印象深かったものでいうとまずは、 ◆和牛のレアカツ ◆ヒレカツ かな。 どちらもめっちゃ柔らかく肉汁が溢れてきて、これはたまらなかったです。 次回訪問したら、個人的にマストメニューですね。

そして、 ◆鮑の酒蒸しの串揚げ これも良かったなぁ。 酒蒸しして柔らかくなった鮑自体も素晴らしいし、肝も添えられているので一緒に食べると最高です！

◆おでん大根 変わりダネな一串。 とろっとろの大根におでん出汁が染みていてサクサクな衣と一緒に食べると不思議な感じです。

◆安納芋のスイートポテトの串揚げ デザート串からはこちらを。 揚げることで安納芋の甘さが引き立っていてこれもイイですね。 最後に食べましたが、思ったよりペロリとイケちゃいました。

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