Hajime* Osaka

TLDR; This meal was absolutely insane and blew The French Laundry (the only other 3 star I've been to) completely out of the water.

A couple of things before we start:
1. I definitely haven't eaten as many fine dining restaurants as some in this thread, but I'm definitely starting to hit my stride. Have been to one 3* (The French Laundry), one 2* (Aquavit), and over a dozen 1* restaurants as well as a much larger of awesome non-Michelin restaurants.
2. Had a cocktail before dinner and started off with a couple of glasses of Krug before the wine (and sake) pairing, so I got progressively drunker as the meal went on. I don't have a picture of the menu so can't recall every ingredient in some of these dishes well.

1. Some sort of dashi with a pod in it: This dish was the biggest miss of the night, simply because the dashi was served too hot and scalded on the way down. It didn't affect the rest of the meal, but made it difficult to remember what the dish tasted like (my wife did not have this issue).
2. A series of dishes called "Rocky Coast": The sea water over dry ice was a bit of a gimmick, but the resulting fog had a distinctly briny aroma which actually enhanced the rest of the dishes. It consisted of shrimp and caviar on top of a pastry (loved), an oyster with a bunch of stuff in it (incredible, creamy and vegetal), some sort of fried ball with a leaf on top (good but not super memorable a month later), and a mussel with robust red bell pepper sauce (excellent and one of our favorite dishes of the evening).
3. Trout: We loved the presentation on this dish, some of the garnishes were flavor-packed and meant to be eaten with the trout, which was cooked perfectly.
4. "The World": This is a stunning salad served on a very large plate. It has over 100 ingredients which added many different flavors and textures to the dish. We, at the advice of our waiter, mixed it up before we ate it. What I loved about this dish was that every bite was different (not possible to get all of the ingredients in each bite) but each worked.
5. Tile fish with a dashi: perfectly cooked fish, tender with a crispy skin, the broth had the richness of a dashi along with a certain herbaceousness. Loved this dish.
6. Bread: sort of a weird presentation. Very good bread. I don't know if was better than other awesome breads that I've had, but it was good.
7. Lobster: The focal points of this dish were the spiny lobster tail (served against the rock on the top of the plate) and the agnolotti at the bottom of the plate. The agnolotti was very good (forget what the filling was). The lobster was perfectly tender.
8. Wagyu: Served with vegetables and some sauce. I have eaten a lot of high end beef (lots of A5 wagyu and other hybridized wagyu). This was right there with the best beef I've ever had. Note how perfectly it is cooked with almost no gray band.
9. Dessert 1: This was some sort of frozen cheese in a bowl made of ice and you poured the chrysanthemum liquid over the top. Tasted awesome (I'm pretty drunk at this point in the dinner, so "tasted awesome" is the best I can do.)
10. Dessert 2: Look at that beautiful leaf! This was really good. The little ball thing was cold and sour. The most memorable part of the desert was the fried pear on top which was insane (I mean, it's a fried pear).
11. Dessert 3 ("Love"): This dessert was called "Love." Before the dessert they hand you a drawing of the dessert which has a little essay about love. That sort of thing would strike me as corny, but this meal was good enough that it honestly made me a bit emotional. Love was awesome, lots of different presentations of strawberries.
12. Another dessert!: A bit less memorable, I think it was melon themed. There was ice cream. It was definitely good, but you're basically hitting sensory overload at this point.
13. The final dessert: lots of bites. The most memorable was a pod that tasted like an apple pie. Cheesecake was good too and there was a chocolate (also good). The cotton candy was just cotton candy, but the stick had a heart lollipop on the end, which was cool. Had some 2005 Chateau d'Yquem with this course, which was awesome.

Apart from the Dashi issue at the beginning, this meal had no misses at all. It was incredible. The service was also flawless and the restaurant was beautiful and serene. I literally cannot imagine a better meal than this. Total was about $2400 for two people including the wine. If you're in Japan and you're looking for a splurge meal, don't feel like you need to kill yourself trying to get into some Tabelog Gold restaurant. This reservation was easy to get, and the meal was superlative.