Ise

Excellent restaurant with great tempura 🍤

This is my first visit here!
I thought about having a tempura bowl, but the counter seemed to be serving freshly fried items one after another, so I decided to go for the tempura set meal.
green pepper
zucchini
eggplant
Mate shell seaweed roll
shrimp
sweet potato
kiss
white fish
Freshly fried pieces come out one after another.
Taste alternately with tempura dipping sauce and homemade salt.
After all, freshly fried tempura is delicious♪

Tempura Ise
(Minamioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo / Nearest station: Omori Kaigan)

●Tendon (lunch) 1800 yen

8 minutes walk from the east exit of JR Omori Station, 3 minutes walk from Omori Kaigan Station on the Keikyu Main Line. Ise is a tempura specialty restaurant tucked away in a back alley in a residential area near Omori Bellport.

A famous restaurant that received one Michelin star for four consecutive years from 2011 to 2014 in the Michelin Guide Tokyo.

The owner, Hajime Iinuma, was born as the son of a tempura shop owner in Naka City, Ibaraki Prefecture.He trained at Tensei, a long-established restaurant founded in 1932 in Kanda Sarugakucho (currently relocated to the Marunouchi Building), and became independent in 2007. He named the shop ``Ise,'' the same name as his parents' tempura shop.

We use carefully selected ingredients from all over the country, such as prawns shipped directly from Amakusa, Kyushu every day, seasonal vegetables purchased from contracted farmers, and wild vegetables picked by my father, and fried in light oil for a light flavor. The specialty is tempura.

Located on the first floor of an apartment building in a back alley, it has the dignified atmosphere of a high-end store. The interior of the store is an elegant space with a counter made of a single piece of Japanese cypress. There are 8 counter seats and a tatami room in the back for groups.

At night, it's a high-class restaurant where the average price per customer exceeds 10,000 yen, but at lunchtime, you can enjoy authentic tempura in bowls and set meals at reasonable prices in the 1,000 to 2,000 yen range.

[Lunch menu]
・Kakiage bowl 1400 yen
・Tendon 1800 yen
・Temura set meal 2000 yen
・Upper tempura set meal 2800 yen
・Omakase (reservation required) 9,600 yen

I ordered Tendon (1800 yen). The tempura rice bowl has two shrimp, kisu, conger eel, seaweed scallops, eggplant, green pepper, and sweet potato. The amount of rice in the bowl is generous and the volume is enough to satisfy an office worker's lunch. Comes with pickled vegetables and shimi (red seaweed) miso soup.

The copper tempura pot that can be seen from the counter seat was inherited from his parents, and the father and son have been using it for over 40 years. The best part of counter tempura is the live experience where you can watch the soup bubble and make a sound the moment you take the tempura out of the oil and dip it into the bowl of soup.

The tempura bowl soup is based on a 40-year-old tempura soup that was given to me by my parents, and is made with bonito stock to keep it from being too sweet. The color is dark, but the taste is refreshing and not too sweet. Spread the soup evenly over the rice in a bowl, then dip each piece of freshly fried tempura in the soup and serve.

The essence of tempura is sometimes said to be ``steamed'' rather than ``fried,'' but all the ingredients, such as shrimp, fish, and vegetables, retain their moisture and are juicy. Tempura is wrapped in batter and placed in hot oil, which steams the food using its own moisture, condensing the natural aroma and flavor of the food.

The frying oil is the base cottonseed oil, with the addition of taiko sesame oil and extra version olive. We use sesame oil for the fish, olive oil for the vegetables, and seeds to accent the aroma.

It seems to be a famous tempura restaurant. For lunch, they serve set meals and tempura bowls, and the only seating available is at the counter, making it a small restaurant that can only seat about 7-8 people.

Visited for lunch and ordered the tempura set meal. They were very kind as they fried the food just in time for the number of people to eat.

Please note that only cash can be used.

This is my first time visiting for lunch.
The restaurant has been listed in Michelin for four consecutive years.

The store's appearance is simple, but there are stylish moss balls displayed at the entrance.
When I looked at the noren, I saw the words Kanda Sarugakucho Tensei.
The owner who became independent from Tensei apparently trained at the Otemachi and Haneda stores.

When you open the door, there are 8 counter seats.
The seats were already full
Of course, I had predicted this and made a reservation, so I went to the front of the store.

There are 4 types of lunch menus

It says 2 shrimp, 3 fish, 5 vegetables, and kakiage.
I ordered the top tempura set meal for 2800 yen.

When you order, the owner will ask you
Lastly, I'll serve you kakiage. You can serve white rice first, or you can finish with kakiagedon. Would you like that?
I have a question
I chose Kakiagedon and asked for less rice due to the amount of tempura.

This time's menu is
Cod roe, okra, young corn, 2 shrimps, scallops wrapped in nori, zucchini, potatoes, conger eel, Kisu, kakiage, rice, clams in red soup stock

Tempura is served at a slightly faster timing.
Freshly fried ingredients are fresh and crispy
Served with tempura soup made with homemade salt and grated daikon radish.
This salt is exquisite!
I couldn't help but ask for a replacement.
Tentsuyu also tastes great
Brings out delicious tempura

The kakiage bowl at the end has a good sauce too.
It was fried shrimp and scallops.

If I had to say, the red clam soup is a step up.
Everything else tasted as expected.

Omakase courses starting from 8,800 yen at night
This lunch is quite expensive.