The room
Eight cypress chairs facing a single hinoki counter. No tables, no music, no menu on paper.
Three things worth knowing
Eleven years at Sushi Iwa under Yamamoto-sensei, mostly on rice and on the cure, then nineteen months waiting for eight chairs to arrive by sea.
Despina drew the room as an inverted boat hull: eight chairs on a shallow curve facing a single unjointed board of hinoki.
Skala Oropou, the Athens market, Aegina, Niigata, Kyoto, Ishikawa and Uji. We list them because they are the menu.
Two in the room every service. Hiroshi and Despina opened it; Periklis cooks the shari; Yuki pours and writes the sake notes.