Shirokanedai Kobayashi

This kaiseki restaurant in Shirokanedai takes exclusivity to the next level by offering a private dining room with its own private entrance. This is a perfect space for celebrating special occasions, featuring entertaining touches such as mini indoor fireworks. This and the standard dining room are both elegantly decorated in golden hues as richly colored as the dashi broth in the kitchen. Guests here can sit at the counter and watch the master chef at work. The dishes which he prepares change regularly, but the structure of the meal always stays the same: beginning with appetizers, moving through sashimi and other small dishes, to boiled dishes, and finishing with a seasonal clay rice pot. The owner goes to great lengths in sourcing fresh ingredients for these dishes, with many brought to Tokyo from the Kansai region where this dining style was born. To try their limited seasonal crab menu, you’ll need to book it at least three days in advance to give the chef ample time to prepare.