Teppanyaki Akasaka

OMG. This place is amazing… This place could be described as the start of my love for steaks. This place is so good I hate it, I hate it because it literally ruined every other steak I will ever eat, including a USDA Prime porterhouse steak from one of the best steak houses in Seattle. While this place is expensive, the course is worth it. The wagyu beef is literally so tender that it feels like cutting through butter with your teach and the way they cook it is not some butter filled, thyme infused garlic sauce rather you are given the cooked meat (choice of how it’s cooked but anything under medium rare would be criminal) seared with a bunch of dipping condiments i. e salt and some sauces, in which you can flavor the meat with or not at all.
I ordered the Kobe set meal which costs about USD $ 200,without tax and service charge, and the menu was amazing. The Seared Scorched Wagyu was really just warmed up and it was super fatty making it easily the softest meat I have ever bit into. What followed was foie gras but since this was (unfortunately) the first time I have ever tasted foie gras I had no judgement as to whether it was good or not, but needless to say I loved it. Following the course was some mixed vegetables, which I will not dwell into cause i’m more of a meat junkie. After that came the crème of the crop, the 160g Kobe sirloin, this cut of meat is a Japanese specialty and it saddens to see that there is no strict regulation of the word kobe in America and Australia since the meat is absolutely different. The beef is cooked perfectly and the nothing gets left out, even the fat (which gets cooked down to 10% of its size when it was raw), the steak was gorgeous and nothing could ruin its taste, whether I smothered it in rock salt, some sauce or just ate it plane like that and honestly I could ramble on forever but its hard to describe it. After that came the rice which was honestly not as good as the ones you see in American Hibachi, but that didn’t matter to me as I focused less on the rice. After that you got some miso soup and Japanese pickles. Finally came the Shizuoka crown musk melon, this was the 3^rd crown to the course, the fruit itself is ridiculously expensive (I think USD $ 350 for the whole melon) and the taste is phenomenal. The fibers in the fruit look so juicy its as if they injected the melon with fruit. Each bit of that melon is filled with juices and I could literally lightly with my tongue push on a slice of that fruit to a pulp.
Not to mention the service is great. You have a personal waiter with the politeness of that is well known in Japan and a chef who is very nice.
Overall if you are in Tokyo and have about USD $ 300 to kill I would highly recommend going there as a priority.

Excelent choice for meet in a Japanese way.
Service is outstanding and the atmosphere is great.
To repeat