HARUTAKA

Exceptional cuisine, passion, tradition and etiquette make a dining experience divine. I don’t want to leave Tokyo after our dinner at Harutaka - 特別に優れた!!

Visited July 2024

Harutaka is one of Tokyo's top sushi addresses, and ranked second after the almost saintly Sushi Saito in Tabelog. And , what can I say, it is an amazing experience. The omakase menu served by the chef is outstanding. All of the sushi pieces served are of outstanding quality, and among those the oto...ro, the anago, uni, kohada and tiger shrimp stood out. The otoro was memorable - melt-in-the-mouth-oh-my-god. After dinner here, it will be a long long time before I set foot in a sushi restaurant in Europe (unless in Paris, London or Stockholm). Service was friendly and attentive, and the sake we chose both excellent and cheap. The atmosphere was relaxed, and though the chef spoke no English, one of the sous chefs explained the servings with help of a sushi manual....

Visited July 2019

On the positive side we found the staff to be outstanding! Very accomodating and attentive. However we did not have that same experience with Harutak-san himself as he did not bother to acknowledge our existence until we left. I don't mean he didn't talk to us, theres an obvious language barrier,... he didn't even look at us, while he was smiling and carrying on with everyone else. It was a very uncomfortable experience. The sushi itself was alright, we have had better omakase sets at other high end and even mid range tokyo establishments. We would never visit Harutaka again.

Visited June 2018

I was awed by Mitzutani San but he is now retired. Harutaka is a close choice in terms of experience. Friendly chef; his assistant showed us each fish in the fish book and introduced us to white uni. We took the sushi only omakase and it was very fulfilling; adding the appetisers would have been too... much. The tamago at the end defined the chef. Definitely would return again.

Visited September 2017

The experience was not worth the astronomical price tag! We were shoved into a small room as waiting room, they started serving food without even showing us the menu. When we asked them to go to the main room as promised were the food is prepared in from of the client, they told us the made a mistak...e double booking! The food is good but we found way better quality in other places. Paying more than $ 700 for 3 people you should expect incredible food, service and experience: it did not happened !

Visited October 2017