Okonomiyaki with crosshatch sauce drizzle on a hot steel plate
Japanese street food cooking on a teppan iron plate
Close-up of crispy okonomiyaki edges with steam rising
Bonito flakes dancing on a hot savory pancake
Japanese cuisine plated with artful sauce patterns
Chopsticks lifting melted cheese strings from a savory dish
Pork belly strips sizzling on a cast iron plate
Highball glass with blue flame reflection in a moody restaurant
Cabbage and batter being layered on a hot cooking surface
Japanese restaurant interior with warm amber lighting
Ramen and Japanese dishes on a dark restaurant table
Hands breaking through a crispy outer layer of a savory pancake
Japanese izakaya dishes with dashi broth and garnishes
Couple dining at a Japanese counter restaurant
Japanese sauce being drizzled in artistic patterns over food
Savory Japanese pancake with colorful toppings
Close-up food photography of Japanese street food
Golden hour food photography of grilled dishes
Hiroshima · Osaka · Live Fire

Every plate is
a performance.

Batter on 250°C steel. Bonito curling in rising heat. Built right in front of you.

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A Meal for All Five Senses
01
01 / Sound

The sizzle that starts it all.

Batter hits 250°C steel and the room changes. That crack of cold batter on a scorching plate — there's no sound in dining quite like it. You hear the meal before you see it.

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Sound
02
02 / Sight

Bonito flakes dancing in heat.

Paper-thin katsuobushi laid over a freshly flipped okonomiyaki — the thermal current from the plate makes them curl and wave as if breathing. Every table gets this moment.

Bonito flakes curling and dancing on a hot okonomiyaki
Sight
03
03 / Smell

Dashi, sweet sauce, caramelized pork.

Nagaimo aerated into the batter. Thinly sliced kakuni pork belly, fat rendering slowly into the cabbage beneath. House-made Worcestershire brushed on in the final thirty seconds. You already know what it tastes like.

Close-up of pork belly sizzling with aromatic steam rising
Smell
04
04 / Touch

The snap of a perfect outer crust.

Hiroshima-style builds in layers — crepe, soba, cabbage, pork — the outer surface achieves a structural crispness that yields with a single press of chopsticks. The contrast of textures is the whole point.

Crispy outer crust of okonomiyaki being broken with chopsticks
Touch
The Counter

The plate is the kitchen.
You're the audience.

Teppan is a counter restaurant. Eight seats face a single steel plate. Your meal is cooked within arm's reach — every flip, every layer, every brush of sauce visible from where you sit.

We offer two seatings: an omakase format where the kitchen decides the progression, and à la carte for groups who want to order the whole menu and share everything. Both happen at the same counter. Both feel like theatre.

Teppan steel counter with warm amber lighting and intimate seating
8Counter seats
250°CSteel plate temperature
2Seatings nightly
What Goes In
Fresh nagaimo mountain yam root with earthy texture

Nagaimo

長芋

Mountain yam grated into the batter — the source of that impossibly light, airy interior.

Braised pork belly slices with caramelized edges

Kakuni

角煮

Braised pork belly, sliced thin. Fat renders into the base as the plate does its work.

Delicate bonito flakes ready to dance on a hot plate

Katsuobushi

鰹節

Shaved bonito flakes. Paper-thin. They dance when the heat rises. Every plate gets this moment.

Dark glossy sauce being drizzled in artistic patterns

House Sauce

特製ソース

Worcestershire base with mirin, oyster, and a 48-hour reduction. The recipe isn't shared.

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Guest Moments

The meal ends.
The memory doesn't.

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We watched every layer go down. By the time the bonito started moving I was already emotional. I don't know how to explain it — it's food as ritual.

Meredith Callahan, anniversary dinner guest at Teppan

Meredith Callahan

Anniversary dinner·Portland, OR
"

I grew up in Hiroshima. I've been looking for this specific flavor — that soba layer, that sauce — for eleven years. This is the first time I've found it in America.

Kenji Watanabe, Japanese expat and solo omakase guest

Kenji Watanabe

Solo omakase·San Francisco, CA
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Six of us came for a birthday. We ordered everything. The counter seats meant we were all facing the same direction, all watching the same performance. Best group dinner we've ever had.

Priya Nambiar, birthday group dinner guest at Teppan

Priya Nambiar

Birthday group·Seattle, WA
Guest photo of okonomiyaki with sauce drizzle
Guest photo of bonito flakes dancing on hot plate
Guest photo of Japanese cuisine at counter
Guest photo of couple dining at the teppan counter
Guest photo of savory pancake with toppings
Guest photo of Japanese dashi and ingredients