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July 30, 2015
Prime Cuts Slow-Cooked Over Embers in a Custom Wood-Fired Oven | BAR.JAPAN
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“Exquisite Lean Meat” Slowly Cooked Over Embers in a Custom Wood-Fired Oven
New Style Steak Restaurant "Caro-Fuego Akasaka" Opens
Bar Japan, which operates oyster bars & restaurants like "Ostrea" and motsuyaki & nimono restaurants like "Miroku" in Tokyo, opened "Caro-Fuego Akasaka," a new style wood-fired steak specialty restaurant featuring aromatic lean meat, on Thursday, July 30th.
Text by KAJII Makoto (OPENERS)
Healthy Lean Meat Served "Whole"
The meat served at Caro-Fuego Akasaka is carefully selected lean meat, raised in vast natural environments, such as "grass-fed beef" from New Zealand and "Akaushi beef" from Kumamoto. Lean meat, which allows you to enjoy the original flavor and satisfying texture of the meat, can be eaten in large quantities without feeling heavy, and is a great appeal that it is tender, springy, and rich in flavor due to being slowly cooked in large cuts in a custom wood-fired oven.
The à la carte menu offers a wide range from appetizers using seasonal ingredients to several types of brand beef and patissier desserts. For first-time visitors, we recommend the "Caro-Fuego Course" (from 7800 yen, excluding tax, subject to seasonal changes), which allows you to enjoy fresh seafood such as seasonal raw oysters and swimming scallops as a prologue to the wood-fired steak.
Wood-fired cooking, while not common in Japan, is a traditional method in Europe and South America. It is gaining attention because the heat from near-infrared and far-infrared rays quickly penetrates the center of the food, minimizing the evaporation of moisture and slowing down flavor degradation.
The restaurant selects Nara wood, which has stable heat and burns well, and is compatible with the aroma of lean meat. By slowly grilling large cuts of meat over the embers of the wood-fired oven, the meat juices cling to every fiber from the surface to the center. Even when cut with a knife, the juices do not escape, and only begin to flow into your mouth when you bite into it.
Furthermore, the aroma of the wood, which stimulates the appetite and eliminates the gamey smell of meat, is exceptional, allowing you to fully enjoy "slow food for meat" through its texture and aroma. This is exquisite lean meat that should be savored by meat connoisseurs who believe that "marbled, fatty meat is the best."
Caro-Fuego Akasaka
Business Hours | Lunch 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM (Last Order 2:00 PM), Dinner 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Last Order 10:00 PM) *Closed Sundays and public holidays
Regia Akasaka, 3-7-11 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo
*All seats are non-smoking. A seating charge of 800 yen per person will be applied.
*Lunch service begins August 18th (Tuesday)
Inquiries
Caro-Fuego Akasaka
Tel. 03-6459-1285
http://www.barjapan.co.jp/caro-fuego/
