Octie Appetie: Japan 2024 Trip Part 24: Kobe Beef From Steakland Kobe-Kan Restaurant

04 June 2024

Japan 2024 Trip Part 24: Kobe Beef From Steakland Kobe-Kan Restaurant

Previously:

Japan 2024 Trip Part 23: Himeji

My main purpose visiting Kobe this time was plainly to have Kobe beef from one of the popular restaurants in Kobe. It is none other than Steakland Kobe-Kan restaurant. We arrived there pretty early just to find out that the restaurant was still closed for dinner service and would re-open again at 5pm. So, in the meantime, we were strolling around this harbour city and taking some snaps. However, it was a cloudy afternoon at that time, so pictures did not come out nicely.

Kobe tower

Steakland Kobe-Kan restaurant is located right next to JR Sannomiya Station. This premium teppanyaki restaurant offers high quality of Kobe beef with their set menu prices ranging from 3,200yen to nearly 12,000yen.

Of course, in teppanyaki style, everyone is getting their chef table seat. For this reason, we can get to see up close while the chef is preparing and cooking our food. Here, there were 2 different chefs cooked for us. One person for cooking vegetables only and another one was the one handling and grilling the meat.

Once they took our order, we then have been given with some salad and soup. Meanwhile they were preparing our meat cuts and heating up the hot plate. After that, the chef kindly showed us the meat and asked how we like our steak done. He was then carefully cooked that marbling red meat and served on each plate in front of us. He also added some deep-fried crispy garlic and teppan-fried cucumber, mushroom and konjac to our dish.

We ordered three different meat sets: 3,200yen, 6,400yen and 9,800yen. They can be distinguished easily from the texture to their taste. Obviously the one 6,400yen was slightly more tender and smoother texture than the cheapest one. But the most expensive cut that we tried was absolutely wonderful. It had that unmatched tenderness and flavoursome piece of meat. It was literally melted in my mouth.

Overall, we had a great meal there and their service was amazing. Although somehow it was quite a splurge meal, but nothing compared to the superior eating quality and the experience of indulging in Kobe beef justify the cost.