最高レベルのホスピタリティ in 赤坂 : Eigetsu

I had decided to go there for a while, and finally visited it. It's located opposite a solo shabu shabu-shabu restaurant. It's a building full of snack bars at night (^◇^;). Oh, I've been to the Kejang restaurant on the second floor of this building a few times. It takes a bit of courage to enter, but the rest are all snack bars? Clubs? But this is the only Japanese-style meal that serves Japanese food. When you enter the entrance, it's very small, but for some reason it's a very relaxing space! There's a small counter that can accommodate up to four people, and a semi-private room for four in the back, that's it. The slender chef (Iwasaki-san), the proprietress, and the three young staff members warmly welcome us. It's very relaxing from the start. We have lively conversations with chef Iwasaki and the proprietress, and it's just a relaxed and fun atmosphere! And the dishes with Kyoto roots are wonderful. We had the following (we each had half a cup of sake, pairing it appropriately): ◎ Sakura-boiled Japanese octopus (from Akashi) ◎ Local clams (Kujukuri) and rape blossoms in a bowl - The clams are huge! So flavorful! There is no seasoning added, and yet such a wonderful broth comes from the clams alone! By the way, this wonderful bowl is called Yoshino-wan, and is served especially in this season of March. It's a learning experience! ◎ Sea urchin, ark shell, flounder, white mill clam strings, and liver with seaweed salt (Kure) and Matsumae soy sauce - This sashimi series was just too amazing. Shellfish are certainly delicious, especially at this time of year, but this was just a little too good! We had three pieces of flounder that had been aged in different ways, and each one had a different texture and flavor, which was interesting!!! By the way, it made the sake go down really well! ◎ Sasagarei (Japanese flounder) Homemade dried mullet roe - This is Yanagi flounder! So nostalgic! When I was living at home, I used to eat it quite often because my father liked it, but since I became a working adult, I have hardly had a chance to eat it at all... And it has roe! Yes, it's delicious, and I miss it! By the way, this homemade dried mullet roe is half-cooked!? It's crunchy and delicious! And it makes you want to drink more and more!!! ◎Monkfish liver and salmon roe Sushi- Wow, this is cheating...!? Of course it's delicious! ◎Abalone, abalone liver and teeth - It's just steamed abalone, but it's incredibly delicious! It's an incredibly delicious dish that symbolizes the idea that simplicity is best. And it's rare to eat abalone liver raw, but what, abalone "teeth"!? It had a crunchy texture that was interesting! ◎Iwanaka pork and spring mountain vegetables (udo, parsley, cod buds, etc.) hotpot - This is the best hotpot. The mountain vegetables are delicious! The parsley root is also good. It reminds me of a soba restaurant in Ginza that lets you eat as much celery as you want (oh, I have to get there soon, or the celery soba season will be over...). I bet it would be even more delicious if they used wild boar instead of pork... ◎ Hokkaido black hair beef Awaji onion - Oh, wagyu beef here. Interesting. The onion is super sweet and delicious, and by the way, I wonder what this mustard sauce-like thing was all about... The sauce was also delicious! ◎ Tsuiyama crab!!! - Here comes a live, super good crab! It's moving so much, and its face looks angry! Chef Iwasaki butchers it with amazing skill. It's amazing. Right in the middle of the shell that has just been butchered, the heart is still pulsating. I've never seen anything like it! And they even let me eat it! Of course, it was my first time eating it! It has a very light and silky taste. We grill these. Of course, I topped it with a generous amount of miso. It was very delicious. I'm grateful to the crab... ◎Rice cooked with celery - A very gentle taste. As expected, I was quite full, so I took the rest home and ate it the next day, but it was still very gentle and delicious! ◎Dessert (strawberries, Seto Inu mandarin oranges, Sakura mochi, matcha) - The last fruit was super sweet and delicious... It's nice to finish off a meal like this with matcha while feeling the season. In the semi-private room next to us, a very nice elderly couple was enjoying the food, and the husband even gave his wife a surprise dessert to celebrate her birthday! They are a really nice couple, and it's also so wonderful that the owner and the proprietress of this high-class Japanese-style meal, who have such a purely Japanese and dignified appearance, are so warm-hearted that I got a little teary-eyed. I felt really at peace! I wonder why I hadn't been there before... The food, the service, everything was really comfortable, and I think they've done a great job on value for money. Because of my health, I've been reluctantly limiting the restaurants I return to, but I definitely want to return to this one! (Even before I had the food, when I entered the restaurant, I knew it was definitely my favorite restaurant. It's strange.) The food was delicious, and the atmosphere was super comfortable! Thank you for the meal!