Ajishige

This Michelin-starred restaurant in the G-Dining building serves prix fixe dinners of amazing seasonal Japanese cuisine, with a focus on seafood. Convenient downtown location at the border between the Susukino and Odori districts. Worth the price. You can bring your own wine (corkage fee applies). ... What's best is the variety of dishes: soup, tempura, sashimi, steamed dishes. For a great cross-section of fine Japanese cuisine, course after course, this place rocks! Attentive service. Highlights: Simmered octopus--wonderfully tender! Katsuo sashimi. Claypot dish (dobin-mushi) of conger and sudachi with clean, flavorful broth. Fritter of shrimp and fish paste. Maitake tempura. Raw sea urchin. Low points: Small glassware for wine, which is surprising for a Michelin-starred restaurant, but at least they have corkage, which is rare in Japan. Sushi rice topped with shredded matsutake mushroom: rice overcooked, mushroom oversalted. Cold pumpkin soup: A bit grainy.

Visited September 2018