Tempura Naruse

Shizuoka, Japan

In 2021, chef Takeo Shimura moved his beloved tempura restaurant to a larger location – still in Shizuoka but now it is located on the site of a former temple. Tempura, made with top ingredients from the fertile Shizuoka Prefecture (home to Mount Fuji), is served at an eight-seat bar with excellent views of the open kitchen and the exquisite garden framed in a huge window. Every morning, Takeo Shimura heads to Japan's leading fisheries, located nearby on Suruga Bay, to source the likes of big fin reef squid, Japanese horse mackerel and succulent tiger prawns. Shimura finds vegetables locally, too – cultivated lotus root, bamboo shoots from the mountains, carrots grown in the foothills of Mount Fuji – treating them with respect, not allowing anyone in the kitchen to handle them until just before they're due to be served. The set menu typically begins with sashimi, before moving on to tempura, including the signature cutlass fish with shaved radish dipping sauce.

Key Information

• Tasting menu from $476
• Lunch and dinner: Mon – Sat
• 81 54 295 7791

Location

12-2 Maruyamacho, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, 420-0861