On a hot summer day, I was very lucky to visit a "Kaiseki"(懐石) restaurant and to have lunch there. Kaiseki restaurants are traditionally consiedered as ones for people in high rank and celebrities such as politicians, senior executives etc and the places are far from ordinary people like me. So of course this is the first time for me to go into the world!
Mid-summer is slow season for that kind of luxury restaurants as many of their clientel are taking their vacations and have been out from Tokyo. All tables at the restaurant are in each private room. We can never see other dinners in the restaurant. Only I recognize some voices that seemed to be by other guests.
Kaiseki is a traditional style of serving food in Japan. The origine is from the traditional Japanese tea ceremony way and it has over a few hundreds years of history. The world is too deep to tell everything in a blog.
Tsujitome, the restaurant where I visited, has been a cater for a major school of Japanese tea ceremony in Kyoto for a century. The present chef is the third generation of the restaurant or catering service house.
Kaiseki style course is normally composed of several plates.
Todays our plates were... starter, soup, boild, cold, grilled, soured, rice and soup, pickled vegetables, sweets and green tea, served by waiteress wearing kimono.
All food and the sophisticated presentation never missed to remind us current season "summer".
It is important for Japanese cooks to take seasonal fresh food into the menu.
Particularly in our menu, they were very seasonal dishes which made us pleased the most.
Clear soup with "Hamo" (a kind of conger)
Hamo is expensive fish to eat and available only at luxury restaurants in summer. The meat was very soft and melted in mouth. Obviously it was the best quality one I have ever had...
Grilled "Ayu"(sweetfish) salted with sour source.
The fish was harvested in Kyoto according to the restaurant master.
The cooking is simple but the quality is essential and to grill in a good way requires skills. The fish looks like alive and jumping on the boad!
We sensed the warmest hospitality of the restaurant, the host(cook) and the hostess.
High quaity food in the most sphisticated presentation reminding us the season.
One of the best meal and the nicest experience I have ever had.
Restaurant name: Kaiseki Tsujitome
Address: B1 floor Toraya Dai-ni building, 1-5-8 Moto-Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo
****** Our recommendable accommodation around this restaurant *******
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