epicure reviews: Satsuki Teppan Kaiseki

When looking for a posh and refined dining establishment serving Japanese cuisine, most tend to stick to sushi or kaiseki restaurants. Teppanyaki places hardly make the cut, what with the general image of clanging steel spatulas, chefs’ grilling theatrics, boisterous diners, and fumes from the grill that cling to your clothes well after you’ve left the restaurant. Satsuki Teppan Kaiseki dispels all these notions.

Enter the four-month-old restaurant on Duxton Road and you are greeted by a sleek interior of dark wood, black leather chairs, and warm lighting. The restaurant makes use of its elongated ground space of an old shophouse to carve out semi-private rooms that seat four at the front of the unit, and let the 12-seater teppan grill counter take pride of place in the main dining hall.

Excerpt from the October 2015 issue of epicure.