The room
Seven names, two countries. We list them because they are the menu.
Provenance
Nothing on this list is chosen for provenance alone. Each one is here because the alternative was tried and was not as good.
Day boats · Attica
Landed north of Athens in the afternoon and on the counter the same evening. What the boats bring decides the sequence.
Tuna, eel · Athens
Hiroshi walks it himself before five, which is why the menu is not set until half past.
Small ware · Aegina
Hand-thrown on the island each winter. Every bowl on the counter was made forty minutes from it.
Koshihikari rice · Niigata
A private batch grown for our shari since 2020, on its second harvest before the room had opened.
Cypress · Kyoto
The eight chairs and the hinoki counter they face. Nineteen months late, and worth the wait.
Resident sake · Ishikawa
Resident brewery for the 2024 and 2025 pairing flights. They send things no importer carries.
Sencha, soba-cha · Uji
First-flush sencha, and the buckwheat tea that closes every service.