Meet
the team
The people behind a small Japanese kitchen on Calle Galileo - a counter, a short carta and a room just off Las Canteras.
The story starts with product. Oliver Schultz and Olga Svandova are the travelling pair behind Hito today, and their restaurant begins with authentic Japanese ingredients before it lets anything else into the conversation - including the memories of Thai and Brazilian cooking they brought back with them.
What grew around that is smaller and warmer than a fine-dining room: a counter you can sit at, a carta kept deliberately short so everything on it is made properly, and a team that has spent years learning the same few cuts. Polished, never stiff. The kind of place made for ordering one more plate and letting the evening run on.
Who
Are We
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Our
Philosophy
Buy the fish whole where we can, break it down here, and cut it a few seconds before it reaches the table. The Balfegó bluefin loin arrives in one block and is worked at the counter by the same people who serve it - nigiri, sashimi, tataki and usuzukuri all come off it.
The rest follows from that. Rice is seasoned for each service rather than held over, rolls are built when the order lands, and the carta stays short on purpose - it is the only way every plate on it can be made properly. Guía Repsol named the restaurant in its 2026 selection for exactly this.
See the full cartaSushi, in short
Ten words that cover most of the carta. Read them once and the menu stops being a guess.
- Nigiri
- A slice of fish pressed onto seasoned rice by hand. Listed and priced two pieces at a time.
- Sashimi
- Fish alone, no rice - cut thick, dressed with little more than a garnish.
- Hosomaki
- The thin roll: nori outside, one filling, six pieces.
- Uramaki
- Rice on the outside, nori within. Eight of them on the carta.
- Futomaki
- The thick roll, several fillings at once.
- Temaki
- A cone of nori filled by hand and eaten the same way.
- Gunkan
- “Battleship” - a band of nori around the rice to hold a soft topping.
- Tataki
- Seared outside, raw within, then sliced.
- Usuzukuri
- Cut so thin you can read the plate through it.
- Oshi-sushi
- Pressed in a box, then cut into blocks.
Book Now
Come and meet the room rather than read about it. Tell us the day, the sitting and how many of you there are, and we will come back to confirm. We serve Tuesday to Sunday and close Monday - Thursday is dinner only, and Sunday is lunch only.
Ask for the counter if you want to watch the fish being cut. Say so in the notes and we will keep a seat there if we can.
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