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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/kaufmann_i_am_too on 2025-05-20 14:16:29+00:00.

So, after a day of intense travelling (we took the Shinkansen to Nara and back to Hiroshima), me and my wife were craving for a nice warm food. We were tired of Okonomiakis and Tepannyakis so I looked up google and found a Grill restaurant, Grill Hikoboshi. We kinda took a while to find it since it’s located in the second floor of a little commerce, but we found it. Climbed the stairs to face a closed door. Knocked and got in… the chef was quite surprised to see us, he was either expecting someone else or he wasn’t expecting anyone, but he greeted us and sat us in. He was cleaning the kitchen, organizing stuff, doing all the chores to start working. He didn’t speak much english, almost nothing to be honest, but the language barrier was beaten with google and a huge paper dictionary he had there! He gave us the wine and drinks menu, asked us we liked and disliked and proceed to start cooking. No menu, no nothing, we sensed that everything was to be out of his head. A profound unconfortable silence filled in the room, we were scared what that japanese guy was thinking, and man, our bet in the restaurant paid off! After a while the plates started coming, first a blowtorched sashimi dipped in a lemon juice, so full of flavour, like I never had a sashimi before. We sensed the chef was keen on talking to we started chatting, he wanted to know the fish we liked in Brazil, the dishes we liked, just “elevator” chat, then proceed to the second course, a vines salads, with lots of different spices and plants, things I never tried before, the salad was as flavoured as main course. More talk, he wanted to know our toughts about the city, Japan, we talked about his experience, then came the third course, a sensational fresh sardine in the super aromatic salad. Whe I saw the sardine I immediately thought of a canned sardine and tought that would be an awful tasting fish… I couldn’t be “wronger”! What a delicicous sardine, I never thought a simple sardine could be so delicious in that prepare. To end it all, the main course, a set of Hiroshima steak, cooked and grilled to perfection, that ting melted in my mouth, I’m an avid mean eater, but i never tasted anything like that. Just like every japanese food, almost no salt was used, but it was seasoned perfectly, gosh, what a wonderful meat piece. For dessert he served us a creme brulée style pot that was absolutely delicious too. The whole experience must have taken us some 2 to 3 hours, and we were absolutely shocked with the freshness and variety of flavours he "invented’ with all those ingredients. it wasn’t cheap, but it was worth, for us, every yen! Grill Hikoboshi, a very very veyr pleasant surprise in Hiroshima.