Kotetsu

Hot Japanese experience

Kotetsu uses heat and fire to bring out the best in every ingredient. This is a teppanyaki izakaya that takes the Japanese dining experience a step further and creates well-orchestrated dinners with a focus on grilled food. The restaurant is run by the team from MamaWolf, but here they've taken their food from street food to a more refined format.

Food is cooked in front of the guests on the teppan, the frying pan, where it sizzles, flames and smells intensely of grilled food and umami. A table reservation automatically means a tasting menu, which consists of grilled meat, fish, seafood, vegetables, omelette and the signature dish okonomiyaki, a Japanese cabbage pancake topped with delicious things. If you'd rather pick and choose freely from the à la carte, a more spontaneous drop-in experience is the order of the day, but even then the tasting menu may be available. In terms of drinks, the menu leans towards sake and beer, selected to match the grilled flavours, complemented by aperitifs and non-alcoholic options.

The few seats by the kitchen provide front row seats to watch the chefs work, while the window seats facing Högalidsgatan and the more secluded tables in the dining room make for a quieter setting. However, if you want to experience the full teppanyaki experience, you want to sit by the grill.

This is a place to go when you want something different from a regular dinner: a special date, a dinner where the conversation revolves around the chefs' work, or an evening where the whole party wants to be taken on a Japanese culinary journey.