Miku Toronto Marks 11 Years With a Six-Course Anniversary Kaiseki
Miku Toronto is marking its 11th anniversary with a new six-course kaiseki menu running through most of the fall. The waterfront restaurant’s Anniversary Kaiseki is available from October 1 to November 30 and costs $175 per guest.
Chef de Cuisine Michael Acero built the menu around seasonal seafood, Aburi preparations, Japanese A5 Wagyu and a matcha-yuzu dessert. Guests can also add an optional six-course wine and sake pairing for $55.
Quick details
| Dates | October 1 to November 30, 2026 |
| Price | $175 per guest |
| Optional pairing | Six-course wine and sake pairing for $55 |
| Chef | Michael Acero, Chef de Cuisine |
| Location | Miku Toronto, 105-10 Bay St., Toronto |
| Reservations | OpenTable reservation page |
The menu starts with seafood and seasonal accents
The first bite is a tuna tartare and ankimo amuse bouche. From there, sashimi arrives in four preparations. Madai comes with persimmon and sudachi. Kanpachi is paired with smoked soy and shiso. Aburi sawara gets yuzu saikyo miso, while botan ebi rounds out the course.
That opening stretch keeps the focus on seafood. Fruit, citrus, smoke, herbs and miso move through the dishes without making the early courses heavy. The meal then shifts toward richer flavours as it progresses.
The Hassun portion brings roasted scallop with ume glaze and fried octopus with black garlic aioli. Shogun maitake comes with truffle dashi. Smoked trout roe with yuzu beurre blanc follows before the sushi selection.
The sushi course leans into richer combinations
The sushi lineup starts with kinmedai paired with yuzu kosho and kiku. Chutoro comes with foie gras, while kobujime hirame is matched with Asian pear. Miku’s Wagyu Nigiri completes the selection.
These combinations keep one foot in Japanese technique while bringing in ingredients such as foie gras and pear. The result stays close to the contemporary style that Miku has used across its Toronto menu.
The savoury sequence then moves to Japanese A5 Wagyu. It comes with braised red cabbage, celeriac puree and karashi jus. This is the most substantial plate listed in the release after a run led mainly by fish and shellfish.
Dessert shifts back toward citrus and tea. Matcha Yuzu Cake comes with matcha mousse, yuzu gelee and pistachio feuilletine. Yuzu white chocolate ice cream finishes the plate. The optional pairing adds $55, so the menu and pairing total $230 per guest.
How Miku approaches kaiseki
Miku describes its tasting menus as inspired by kaiseki ryori, the Japanese multi-course dining tradition. Its version pays attention to seasonality, presentation, flavour and texture across a set progression of dishes.
The restaurant also brings its Aburi style into the format rather than treating the meal as a strictly traditional kaiseki. Miku serves the courses on Aritayaki plateware sourced from Arita in Kyushu, Japan, according to its tasting-menu page.
That framework helps explain the range in the anniversary menu. Raw fish, flame-seared preparations, cooked seafood, sushi, beef and dessert all appear within one set menu. Diners get a broader look at the kitchen than they would from a sushi-only order.
The anniversary menu ties back to Miku’s Toronto opening
Miku Toronto opened in 2015 at Bay Street and Queens Quay, making 2026 its 11th year in the city. It was ABURI Restaurants’ first East Coast location. The Toronto restaurant spans more than 7,000 square feet and includes a raw bar, sushi bar and patio.
Aburi remains central to the restaurant’s food program. Miku describes the method as flame-searing. The technique appears throughout its sushi program and returns in the anniversary menu through items such as the Aburi sawara.
Acero now leads the kitchen as Chef de Cuisine. Miku says he has more than 20 years of culinary work behind him. He has also contributed to several ABURI Restaurants openings, including Minami and Miku locations in Vancouver and Toronto.
That history gives the anniversary menu a link to Miku’s earlier Toronto years without turning the dinner into a retrospective. The lineup instead centres current seasonal ingredients and a mix of kitchen and sushi courses.
What to know before booking
The Anniversary Kaiseki is scheduled for a limited run from October 1 to November 30. Reservations can be made through OpenTable. Miku Toronto is located at 105-10 Bay St. in the Harbourfront area.
The $175 price covers the six-course menu. The six-course wine and sake pairing is optional at $55. Diners targeting a specific night should check the reservation page for current seating availability.
For diners interested in a multi-course Japanese dinner this fall, the anniversary run gives them two months to try Acero’s current take on Miku’s Aburi-focused cooking. The menu remains available through November 30, with reservations offered online.
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