Kurogi in Nov 2025. Matsutake mushrooms from Iwate. About 130,000 yen per person. Top notch service and food but the elephant in the room is the price. The dishes were excellent and the iwate mushrooms were best of season and apparently that box costs about 800,000 yen.
You do get about 50 percent more food than most other kaiseki restaurants and guests usually leave with 5-7 bento boxes for left over (they pack up whatever you can’t eat).
Very limited English support but they are very warm and talk to every guests. One of them speaks fluent Chinese. For better or for worse, it’s got a Minato-ku vibe and there’s lots of ‘flashy guests’ for Japanese standards. Some compensated dating couples too but that’s pretty common for high end restaurants anywhere.
If they lowered portion sizes and prices by about 30 percent I think they would be much more talked about and popular on tabelog. Kurogi-san is legit and he was on iron chef and trained at Kyoaji which closed but produced some of the top kaiseki chefs including Hoshino-san.
Dishes included mushroom ohitashi with tanba nameko and shiro abalone mushroom, shrimp yam fries with karasumi, yellow tail and grouper sashimi.
Chest nut, egg custard and shiitake mushrooms.
Signature hands noodles with cold somen noodles, caviar and egg yolk.
Matsutake dobin mushi.
Autumn hassun. Tempura mushroom. Deep fried suppon. Two rice dishes, one with matsutake mushrooms.
Three choices for dessert, I chose their signature shaved ice and mochi.
by balldem824
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Yeesh, that’s a steep price tag. I don’t think I would even consider dining the prices reach that high. Although, if we count [Shokuoku](https://shokuoku.com/?ln=1) and how some restaurants like amamoto and saito are auctioning seats that can reach upwards of 300k yen (in fact, just checked and the lowest bid for amamoto is like 280k yen just to bid).
My limit is probably half that in terms of how much I would pay for a meal, but it does look excellent. Does the price vary throughout the year depending on the seasonal menu? Was it full despite the price? I wonder if I might try to go when some seasonal ingredients aren’t high grade matsutake.
What is a compensated dating couple 😂
It looks amazing. To serve guests more food than they generally can eat doesn’t justify a higher price point, I agree that it would be a better idea to cut down on both.
Ate here, not during matsutake season. To remember they served 3 rice courses, at the end I was clearly very full and kind of struggling to eat the 3rd one. The chefs were kind of laughing at how me, and several other guests were struggling to finish the food. Always struck me as odd that that would be something amusing
That sake bottle alone runs $400 to $1k depending.
Mushrooms, crab, and abalone will do this in Japan.
Suetomi is better at this price bracket.
Actually Kawamura can easily run into 200k or 300k range depending on the dishes you order.
I’m actually ok with the price because I see a lot expensive ingredients were being used. I haven’t been there before but as far as I know this restaurant is well known for lavish feast.
I think this is way better value than a lot of top ranked sushi restaurants nowadays that charge 50000+ yen per person though it’s still cheaper than a lot of fine dining sushi omakase in NA and Europe.