A seasonal sashimi course plated on stone at the HINATA counter
日 向 · O M A K A S E

Ten seats · One counter · Birmingham

The day's catch,
caught in the light.

A counter omakase where Tokyo precision meets the slow warmth of a Mediterranean afternoon — a seasonal progression read aloud, served by the hands that made it.

A warm cup of tea and chopsticks resting at the counterItadakimasu

序 — The welcome

No menu. Only the season,
and what the morning gave us.

Each evening begins before dawn at the market and ends at a counter built for ten. There is no à la carte, no list to scan — only a progression of small, exact courses shaped by the day's best fish, finished with olive oil pressed an ocean away and citrus from our own sill.

Chef Rei Adachi calls it hi-nata — “a place turned toward the sun.” You sit where the light falls, and we cook toward it.

Our story
We don't ask what you'd like. We ask the sea, and then we cook the answer.
Rei Adachi · Chef & Counter

道 — Find your way

Three ways into the evening.

A clean block of cured salmon on a pale plateCourse 06 · Toro

06

This week at the counter

Bluefin, aged nine days,
brushed with sungold.

The belly cut, rested until it turns to silk, then warmed by a single brushstroke of olio nuovo and a breath of charred citrus. One bite. It is the dish people write to us about.

The full progression

Tonight has ten seats

Sit where the light falls.