Takumi-Tei Restaurant in Japan Pavilion at Epcot now open

The new table-service restaurant at the Japan Pavilion in Epcot is now open and will soon be accepting reservations, Disney announced today.

Takumi-Tei features a prix fixe multi-course tasting menu and a chef’s table experience. The dinner menu highlights wagyu beef, sushi, sashimi, desserts and signature cocktails.

Takumi-Tei is open for dinner starting at 4 p.m. daily. Walk-ups are currently being accepted, and reservations will be available beginning July 16, 2019, with bookings starting that same day.

Takumi-Tei, which means house of the artisan, is inspired by the collaboration between nature and takumi, the design of the restaurant celebrates the relationship between Japanese craftsmanship and the natural world.

Specialty cocktails are themed to each of the five dining rooms and include Kochi (Joto Yuzu citrus sake, rum, fresh mint, yuzu juice and orange), Raiju (Haku Japanese vodka, spiced ginger beer and lime), Sakurajima (Japanese whisky sour smoked with cherrywood), and Kami (Roku gin, Sayuri “White Lilly” Nigori sake, calipco and lychee). 

Menu items include the following:

Appetizers

• Teien (meaning “garden” and featuring compressed watermelon and tuna sashimi)
• Nikomi Wagyu (braised wagyu short rib with roasted bone marrow)
• Hama no Kani (“Crab on the Beach” featuring crab tossed in a light ponzu sauce as well whole toasted crab)
• Agedashi Tofu, which is vegetarian, with fried silken tofu, brown butter black rice and shimeji mushroom.

Entrées

• Kamo Rosu, features roasted marinated duck with kabocha squash, edamame beans, Japanese mizuna, cured duck egg yolk, and a grape reduction.
• Takumi Gyuniku, or artisan beef, shines the spotlight on a Japanese A-5 wagyu beef tenderloin with leek sauce, warishita, short rib gyoza, roast cippolini onion, curried potato, and seasonal mushroom. 
• Mozaiku on the sushi menu featuring tuna, yellowtail and asparagus.
• Temari Sushi featuring a chef-selected assortment of oceanic delicacies
• Takumi Sashimi entrée features tuna, toro, salmon, yellowtail, uni and ikura

Desserts

• Kumo (yuzu cheesecake, spiced kabocha, orange yuzu gel and blackberry sake)
• Suiren Dani (Water Lilly Valley featuring Japanese water cake, rose, kuromitsu and kinako crumb)