TenTempura Uchitsu * Tokyo

Fava bean with silky tofu
Salt fish
Abalone with beer pickled daikon

Tempura:
Prawn
Taranome and Kogomie – fiddle heads
Bamboo shoot
Ice fish
Baby corn
Ayu – sweet fish
Japanese squid
Shiso leaf wrapped uni
Hokkaido carrot
Shiso with tofu skin onion and
Amago – river fish
Asparagus
Baby shrimp

Strawberry, mandarin, vinegar sauce

Wife and I got one of each Gohan choice:
Scallops, seaweed broth with rice
Scallops, rice sweet soy sauce pickled plum and miso soup

Vanilla ice cream with puffs

Tempura Uchitsu in Tokyo is an intimate 8 seat tempura restaurant. The picture window behind the chefs is absolutely stunning and makes you feel like you’re in nature. Service is great, chef is entertaining, he will delight you with conversation and will even pull out a map of Japan to show you where he resources his ingredients from. Chef would entertain me with the different temperatures and times at which he cooked the different ingredients, which I absolutely loved! The tempura is so light that even after having 15 different servings you didn’t even feel weighed down with oil. Compared to what tempura I have had in the states, one could probably eat this forever without having that feeling of greasy gut. Sake was flowing and paired well with the tempura! I would have to say my favorite bites were the Ayu and the squid. The squid was super thick but, at the same time was super tender!