A5 Teppanyaki experience in Kobe, Hyogo

[gboss]

A5 Teppanyaki experience in Kobe, Hyogo

During my recent trip, I made time to go to my favorite high end teppanyaki place in Kobe.


Here's the Menu, showing both genuine Kobe Beef as well as A5 Wagyu options. I've had the Kobe before and did not want to spend the money this time, so I opted for the A5 Wagyu,

Edit: wanted to add that it came out to just under $100 all-in (including tax, no tip necessary in Japan) for the B Set plus a glass of sparkling wine.




I ordered the 240g A5 Ribeye, B set.




Getting some garlic cooked. Veggies on deck. Salt, black pepper, wasabi all ready on the serving plate




Beef appetizer



The main thing.




Stoked for this.




Kabocha soup





After the garlic is ready.


Separated the spinalis and complexus muscles. Separating the bits of fat from the Longissimus.




Beginning to chop up the fat for later.

[gboss]

More chopping of the fat for later. All the main pieces of meat to be cooked are ready. Veggies still cooking.



First piece of ribeye.



seasoning on the grill




wasabi and garlic




Special bit of fat



Ribeye and veggies



Last bit of rib, I believe that this was the spinalis.







The fat and trim from before were used to make the final sprouts dish. Delicious, of course.





Cleaned my plate.

[Donw]

Wow!

[smokenoob]

You’re killin’ me!

[STEbbq]

What an experience! It looks fantastic!

Do you dip the meat in the salt, pepper, and wasabi before eating or something else?

[gboss]

They recommend you try the first bite with just a touch of salt. They actually didn't like me combining the garlic and wasabi, but ehhhh.

But yes, slight dip in the salt and the pepper. I would put some wasabi on top to control the amount more exactly. Lots of folks like horseradish on beef. Wasabi fulfills a similar role.

[Bkhuna]

gboss - Ever try using a little yuzu kosho and grilled proteins? It'll rock your world.

[hoovarmin]

OMG. I see you are using chopsticks. I would have used one of those bread dough scrapers, I believe they call it a bench knife, to make sure not a morsel remained. Great post, thanks for bringing us in on this experience.

[Bkhuna]

I stayed at the Kobe Portopia Hotel for a few day years ago and our hosts took us to the Teppanyaki grill. Wonderfulmemory.

[realdocBBQ]

I'm actually surprised it wasn't more expensive. Converting those, it looks like about US$150 for the top end steaks.

[gboss]

Yeah, it's expensive but not outrageous. When you consider on top of that it includes everything (tax and service) in the price, it compares very favorably to other high end steak experiences. The Yen is especially weak at the moment. It was about $1=130JPY when I was there. When I first moved there in 2012, it was $1=78JPY.

[Bkhuna]

gboss - When I was lived there in the early 80's, the yen rate was around 230. Nice to get a large beer (approx. 732 mL) for 500 yen.

[das85]

Wow that is spectacular. Thanks for sharing!

[Huskee]

Thank you for showing us this. What a memorable 5-star experience.

[DaveD]

Thanks for the great roundup! I suppose licking the plate clean would have been frowned upon...