Before you come
Tell us forty-eight hours before service and we will adjust within reason. Tell us on the night and we will do what we can, which is less.
The short version
The menu contains fish in every savoury course, soy in most of them, and dashi made from kombu and bonito in the chawanmushi and the suimono. Bonito is fish, so a no-fish diet cannot be accommodated at the counter at all — there is nothing left of the menu once it is removed.
We do not run a vegetarian menu at the counter. The Ozashiki kaiseki can be made vegetable-forward with notice, and Hiroshi will speak with you about it directly before you book rather than take it as a note on a form.
The soy sauce contains wheat. A wheat-free tamari is kept for guests who ask, and it changes the nikiri slightly but not objectionably.
The matrix
● present · ask means we can remove or substitute with notice · – not present. Trace contamination cannot be excluded: the counter is one board and one set of knives.
| Course | Fish | Shellfish | Egg | Soy | Wheat | Sesame | Dairy | Nuts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chawanmushi | ● | ask | ● | ask | – | – | – | – |
| Mukozuke | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Cured fish (kohada, saba) | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Akami nigiri | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Chu-toro nigiri | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Hirame nigiri | ● | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Kinmedai aburi | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Saba nigiri | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Anago with tsume | ● | – | – | ● | ask | – | – | – |
| Negitoro hand-roll | ● | – | – | ● | ask | ask | – | – |
| Suimono | ● | ask | – | ask | – | – | – | – |
| Tamago | – | – | ● | ask | ask | – | – | – |
What we can and cannot do
No mackerel, no eel, no urchin — any one or two species can be swapped for something else off the same boat. Forty-eight hours is enough.
Neither is standing on the counter menu. Both appear occasionally and both can be kept off entirely.
The kaiseki can be rebuilt around vegetables. The counter cannot: an omakase without fish is not a shorter omakase, it is a different restaurant.
The dashi is bonito and the shari sits under fish. We would rather say so now than serve you eleven courses of rice.