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Oryori Katsushi

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Straightforward Japanese cuisine with no glitz nor glamour: at Oryori Katsushi, each deeply satisfying dish features the chef’s exquisite dashi. And in everything, he's in perfect step with his wife, the proprietress, affording this space a cozy, warm atmosphere. Your body will soak up these gentle, savory flavors, and thank you for choosing to spend a mindful evening here.

The location is Ginza 8-chome, a block of the metropolis peppered with small galleries, boutiques, and high-end cuisine. Here, Oryori Katsushi was opened by the younger brother of Sushi Yoshitake’s three-star chef in the space it vacated after a move a few blocks over. Opened in April 2019, look for a signboard penned by Chef Katsushi himself guiding you into the restaurant with an elegant seven-seat counter that has seated hundreds of guests over its ten-plus years in use. Every night the chef douses it with hot water and lovingly polishes it clean ready for the next guests to gain an intimate look at the chef’s preparations. The tableware collection features many Kanazawa antiques and artisan pieces, and like the dishes they showcase, they tell a story of one pocket of Japan. Take a seat, feast on the distinctive Japanese flavors of Oryori Katsushi, and savor the scenes of a chef at work. One visit will whet your appetite, compelling you to return next season.

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CUISINE

Traditional techniques and creative touches

Ten to twelve dishes comprise the chef’s degustation course, with ingredients determined by daily deliveries. Chef Katsushi Yoshitake’s creations simultaneously show masterful traditional techniques and creative touches. Simplifying his cuisine over the years, unnecessary garnishes have all been removed to reveal clean cuisine that exudes elegance and a sense of the season.

Obsessive about dashi, the curtain is raised on Yoshitake’s cuisine at each sitting with the shaving of bonito right before guests’ eyes. He serves freshly brewed ichiban dashi so guests can taste the pure flavor and umami of kombu. It is then combined with dashi extracted from premium Makurazaki bonito produced through a long and painstaking process in Kagoshima Prefecture, with the chef making minute adjustments to the ratios to match each dish.

A hair crab shell serves as the vessel for a dish filled with Hokkaido hair crab, grilled eggplant, yuba soymilk skin, and a glistening dashi gelée. The owan lidded bowl dish in early summer features hamo daggertooth pike conger from the bountiful waters of Amakusa, Kumamoto. Remove the lid to reveal the fish curled to perfection with beautiful knife cuts alongside the crunchy stems of a wild nettle variety called mizu, pickled plum, myoga, and sudachi citrus. This aromatic punch leaves a sense of cooling and refreshment.

From Akashi on the Seto Inland Sea comes tai sea bream, freshly cured each morning. Plump Hokkaido prawns appear in a Japanese version of the Chinese dish ‘drunken crab’; the prawns are marinated for two to three days in a homemade seasoning and served with egg and seaweed. The velvety texture of abalone is achieved by slow steaming with sake and kombu. It is served with abalone liver sauce atop red vinegar–infused rice, the latter a delicious accent and a nod to the chef’s older brother – a highly acclaimed sushi chef. Simple and almost invisible touches like this deliver unforgettable flavors to guests. The soft-shell turtle hot pot is notably uncomplicated, containing only the turtle, yuba, and green onions, but it has a surprising flavor punch you will never forget.

The appeals of this restaurant are aplenty, not least the fact that you can savor the same three-star tuna as served at Sushi Yoshitake. And the wines have all been chosen by Sushi Yoshitake’s sommelier. The sake collection is carefully curated to pair with the delicate flavors of Yoshitake's dashi: Mibu from the chef’s home prefecture of Tochigi, Sawaya Matsumoto from Kyoto, and Miyagi's Hakurakusei Junmai Ginjo.

INGREDIENTS
The chef carefully selects his seasonal seafood and vegetables from suppliers at Toyosu Market, Tokyo's pantry. The beef is Iwate Shorthorn, and the rare pedigree chicken called Hyogo Midori is specially raised on feed containing the premium sake-making rice variety Yamada Nishiki, resulting in a firm texture and rich flavor. The suppon soft-shell turtle is raised in Hamanako in Shizuoka Prefecture. As for the ingredients essential to the chef’s superb dashi, he only uses the absolute best: Rishiri kombu and Makurazaki honkarebushi bonito flakes. Wasabi comes from the picturesque Azumino region of Nagano. While not served in enormous volumes, maguro tuna is of premium quality – the same varieties served at three-star Sushi Yoshitake.

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CHEF

Katsushi Yoshitake

Katsushi Yoshitake was born in 1967 in Tochigi Prefecture. He never considered becoming a chef until he arrived in Tokyo aged 20. There he was greatly influenced by his older brother, Masahiro, who went on to become owner and chef at three-star restaurant Sushi Yoshitake. With new determination, Katsushi was blessed with good connections and joined a restaurant of authentic Japanese cuisine, or washoku. After learning the fundamentals, he sought to perfect his fish-cooking techniques and chose to join a restaurant with a fish tank filled with live seafood. There he met a chef who had trained for many years in Kansai. Katsushi was floored by the simple flavors of Kansai-style cuisine, in which dashi is used to bring the innate flavors of each ingredient to life. This experience guides the cuisine at Oryori Katsushi, in which elegant, flavorful dashi allows the chef to showcase beautiful Japanese ingredients.

Katsushi went on to train at four Tokyo eateries and eventually earned the praise of his older brother. Then in 2019, he opened Oryori Katsushi, which is already adorned with a star. He regularly talks food with his brother, three years his senior, whose restaurant is just down the street in Ginza 7-chome. During his earlier training days, Katsushi had the good fortune to meet his wife and now restaurant partner, who is a natural at providing wonderfully warm hospitality to guests. He enjoys dining out with his wife and two children on days off. But more often than not, he finds himself in the kitchen of his restaurant, passionately engaged in preparation.

VISION
Chef Yoshitake’s vision is simple: to share his cuisine with ever more people. He is driven daily by a sense of responsibility in approaching his work and guests with honesty and simplicity.

EDO KIRIKO

The sake cups used in the restaurant are Edo Kiriko glassware by the artisan Hidetaka Shimizu. Specially made in time for the restaurant’s opening, the twelve-piece set contains works in different designs and colors stored together in a wooden box. Beautiful standalone, they strike an even more stunning pose once sake is poured in, shooting beams of colored light across the counter. Choose your favorite cup and enjoy a delightful cup of Japanese sake.

Course

Dinner (6PM)
Katsushi Omakase Course from September
  • The price includes our booking fee of ¥8,000
  • The price includes our booking fee of ¥8,000
¥36,500
¥36,500
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Tokyo

Oryori Katsushi

御料理かつ志

PRICE
¥36,500
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CHILD
15
& UP
MIN GUESTS
1
PERSON
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GENRE
Kaiseki, Ginza
ADDRESS
3F Suzuryu Building,, 8-7-19 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
OPEN
6PM-
CLOSED
Sunday and Holidays
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