Japanese food culture, producers leading players Kabeat, a restaurant that highlights the best Japanese ingredients, opened on the first floor of the Kabuto One complex in Nihonbashi Kabuto-cho in December 2021. Kabeat features the concept of a high-quality canteen that supports Japanese cuisine culture and producers. It offers a creative menu supervised by six young and popular chefs using excellent ingredients procured from producers...
Get into digital art, vegan ramen Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo (UZU), in collaboration with the art collective, TeamLab, opened in October 2021 at TeamLab Planets TOKYO DMM in Toyosu. Visitors can taste gourmet vegan ramen while experiencing digital art. MORI BUILDING DIGITAL ART MUSEUM TEAMLAB BORDERLESS (ODAIBA) UZU, which had opened its first restaurant in Kyoto, has now opened its Tokyo branch in an...
Den, Florilège chefs collaborate Denkushiflori is a kushi (skewer) restaurant that Zaiyu Hasegawa, the chef-owner of the Japanese restaurant Den, and Hiroyasu Kawate, the chef-owner of the French restaurant Florilège, opened in 2020. Den and Florilège have both won two Michelin stars and have also been ranked in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants each year. Denkushiflori quickly became a popular restaurant with foodies...
Advantage of Japanese sensibility of taste Once upon a time, western cuisine chefs and sommeliers trained overseas and faithfully reproduced the tastes that they learned upon their return to Japan. However, the younger generation is different. When they were abroad, they were able to retain their objectivity and recognize the rich heritage of Japanese food culture. On returning to Japan, they began to offer original...
Surprising dishes by chef trained at El Bulli Chef Koichi Hashimoto earned his stripes at El Bulli in Spain as well as the Tapas Molecular Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo before striking out on his own in 2015 — now his restaurant is considered one of the most novel, exciting and hardest-to-book in all of Japan. In addition to his signature, “Origami Crane...
