八席 · Eight seats

Tonight’s menu is what the sea brought today.

An eight-seat omakase counter on Skoufa Street, Kolonaki. Hiroshi Tanaka has cooked at this counter since March 2021, with two seatings nightly, Wednesday through Saturday.

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Tonight

What is on the counter tonight

Posted by 17:30 every service evening. The full sequence is decided after the day-boat fish arrives from Skala Oropou.

Chawanmushi, sea urchin from Astakos

Steamed egg custard, dashi, urchin tongues. The opening course.

Astakos

Kohada, eight days in salt

Edomae gizzard shad. Salt first, then rice vinegar, until the second seating arrives.

Central market

Buckwheat tea, warm tamago

Soba-cha and a sweet egg finished on the hot iron. The close.

The room

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A joiner's bench laid out with chisels and cypress offcuts

Months waiting

We waited nineteen months for the chairs.

Hiroshi ordered eight cypress chairs from the Kyoto craftsman Saito-san in the spring of 2019. The first lockdown delayed the kiln, the second delayed the ship, and a reroute through Algeciras delayed the truck. Despina drew the room three times while they waited.

When the chairs arrived in February 2021, the nikiri had been reducing on a low pilot for nineteen months. The room opened on a Wednesday in March, four guests at six and four at nine. They are still on the customer book.

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The counter omakase

Twelve to fourteen courses, ninety minutes.

A chawanmushi opens. Six to eight nigiri follow at Hiroshi’s pace. A hand-roll bridges to the soup, and tamago and miso close. He calls each course as he sets it down.

€145Per person

90Minutes

08Seats

€58Sake flight, five pours

Kohada sliced on a board beside the knife

Chawanmushi with Astakos sea urchin

Steamed egg custard, dashi, urchin tongues.

Kohada cured eight days

Edomae gizzard shad, salt then vinegar.

Akami over warm shari

Bluefin lean cut, hand-shaped, rice at thirty-six degrees.

Anago simmered with tsume

Salt-water eel under a soy reduction glaze.

Tamago, slow seven minutes

Sweet egg, hot-iron finish.

Buckwheat tea and yuzu sorbet

Soba-cha, citrus, a single mochi.

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A steamed custard course beside a cup of warm sake

Seats behind the shoji

A private room for four.

One low table, one seating, at half past seven. The menu is kaiseki, not the counter omakase: a longer arc of mukozuke, hassun, suimono, yakimono, mushimono and a rice course.

€165 per person · Pairing €72

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Provenance

Where the room comes from

Seven names across two countries. We list them because they are the menu.

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Skala Oropou

Day boats · Attica

Landed north of Athens in the afternoon and on the counter the same evening. What the boats bring decides the sequence.

Athens Central Market

Tuna, eel · Athens

Hiroshi walks it himself before five, which is why the menu is not set until half past.

Anagnostou Pottery

Small ware · Aegina

Hand-thrown on the island each winter. Every bowl on the counter was made forty minutes from it.

Japanfour

Maeda Family Farm

Koshihikari rice · Niigata

A private batch grown for our shari since 2020, on its second harvest before the room had opened.

Saito-san Workshop

Cypress · Kyoto

The eight chairs and the hinoki counter they face. Nineteen months late, and worth the wait.

Tedorigawa Brewery

Resident sake · Ishikawa

Resident brewery for the 2024 and 2025 pairing flights. They send things no importer carries.

Hatsumomiji Tea

Sencha, soba-cha · Uji

First-flush sencha, and the buckwheat tea that closes every service.

The customer book

The counter is silent during the nigiri sequence, which is exactly right. The room remembers.

Markos Vasileiadis · Pangrati · seventy-one seatings

412guests have come back three times or more since March 2021.

71seatings for one retired conductor from Pangrati, the longest-standing regular.

08couples have been photographed again, twice for portraits and once ten years on.

Journal

Hiroshi writes when he has something specific to say.

Season notes · 14 April 2026

Reservation is by telephone.

We answer between two and five in the afternoon, Tuesday through Saturday. If the line is busy the room is being cleaned, and it is worth trying again in ten minutes.

Reservation details

Telephone+30 210 360 8842

Address24 Skoufa Street, Kolonaki, 10673 Athens

SeatingsWednesday to Saturday, 18:00 and 21:00

Electronic mail[email protected]