Hiro Tanaka
Toronto · Kyoto — sixteen years at the counter
Counter discipline: three movements, precise temperatures, nothing hidden behind sauce.
Hiro runs a quiet kitchen. Duck over binchotan, greens dressed in sesame, soba cut to order — the same three dishes, sharpened every season.
Fixed for the season, mastered for the house.
Campaign · Quiet luxury — Toronto direct
- 01Meat
Binchotan duck breast, sansho
Dry-aged eight days, grilled over white charcoal, peppered with sansho.
IngredientsDry-aged duck · sansho · yuzu kosho - 02Vegetable
Goma-ae greens, toasted sesame
Market greens blanched to the second, dressed in stone-ground sesame.
IngredientsStone-ground sesame · mirin · dashi - 03House Specialty
Hand-cut soba in dashi, yuzu zest
Milled each morning, cut to 1.8mm, served within the hour.
IngredientsBuckwheat · kombu · yuzu
Trained in Kyoto and Osaka · Soba and dashi specialist · Kappo counter veteran