We had an incredible experience! We are so grateful that Shion greeted us. He took such great care of us! Chef Yamada is one of a kind! His food creativity was beyond any expectations! A true gem!

Shion was an exceptional host! The menu is in Japanese however he was very helpful and patient with translations and providing tasty recommendations. Additionally the food was SUPER tasty!! Best salmon we've had so far and loved the chrysanthemum side dish :)

The food was all very delicious. We had chrysanthemum, red sea bream sashimi, grilled salmon belly, stir fried cabbage and namero. All were excellently prepared and presented. Shion was very helpful, he provided recommendations and was patient and friendly in translating for us when we were struggling a bit. We would recommend this restaurant and also his service. Thank you for a fantastic time.

Visited a little after 19:30 on a Friday When we went to 「蕎麦割烹 一心 赤坂」, it was full, so they directed us to this sister restaurant. The current name of the restaurant is 「蕎麦前 一心 3rd」. The interior is white-based and gives a clean impression. There was a group of 8 and one party at the counter. We were seated at a table for 4. First we ordered beer, but waited 15 minutes. With 1 person in the kitchen and 2 on the floor, I wondered if operations weren't keeping up; when I said we wanted oshibori, they brought them after the beer. With edamame, a three-appetizer platter, pork belly sesame oil salad, white fish carpaccio, and potato salad as snacks, we had ume shiso sours, salted tomato sours, and sansho sours, and ordered rice curry and kake soba to finish. Overall the food was delicious, but with the poor operations and the 8-person group next to us making a racket with vulgar conversation, it was a painful time. The rice curry we ordered to finish came with ice-cold, hard rice, and on top of that they brought an unwashed, sticky used spoon, which was an absurd way to handle things. Upset, I asked them to replace the spoon, but disappointingly it took more than 5 minutes to replace just one spoon. 16,000 yen for 2 people. When we left, someone came out from the kitchen to apologize, but I'm sorry, I won't be coming back. As a restaurant, serving a used, unwashed spoon is a hygiene issue I just can't get past, so I've given 1 star in the hope that they'll improve.

I was having dinner with a running buddy in Akasaka, so we made our first visit to 「NK 蕎麦屋の二階」, about a 5-minute walk from Tameike-Sanno Station. This time we chose a course with all-you-can-drink, and thoroughly soothed our fatigue from work and daily life with delicious food and drinks♬ First, a toast with beer. The starters, namero and smoked oysters, had flavors that made me want sake. We enjoyed them with 「伯楽星」, which the staff recommended, and it was an exquisite pairing, very satisfying. The sashimi was tuna and flounder. It's nice to enjoy the ingredients from the starters as sashimi too. The salt-grilled nodoguro had fluffy, fatty flesh, and the umami spreads juicily through your mouth. Next came buri and hiramasa shabu-shabu, quickly swished through a gentle dashi and eaten with green onions. The fatty buri and green onions are a perfect match, a dish I'd want to eat again and again. The grilled dish was 「Daisen chicken grilled with soba tsuyu kaeshi」. It's lighter than it looks, and it brings out the chicken's umami. The shrimp dish, which I love, was 「big shrimp with mango mayonnaise」. Just like the name, big shrimp made a grand appearance, and it went great with the sweet-ish sauce, making me smile💕 With the sake 「写楽」, juwari soba to finish. Smooth going down, and I went light on the soba tsuyu to enjoy the aroma. The final sweet was ripe melon. Very sweet and refreshing, flawless hospitality to the very end. A luxurious lineup of sake, shabu-shabu, nodoguro, and soba, with all-you-can-drink for 8000 yen, great value. The atmosphere is nice too, a place I'd definitely like to revisit. Thank you for the meal! 【K-Course】 Seafood shabu, nodoguro, and soba indulgence course ・Starters, 2 kinds Tuna and flounder namero Smoked oysters ・Sashimi, 2 kinds Tuna Flounder ・Salt-grilled nodoguro ・Buri and hiramasa shabu-shabu ・Daisen chicken grilled with soba tsuyu kaeshi ・Big shrimp with mango mayonnaise ・Seiro soba to finish ・Sweets #NK蕎麦屋の二階 #蕎麦 #溜池山王

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