Higashiya

What do you think these are? Those are Traditional Japanese sweets but presented in a very stylish way. Higashiya is such a design Japanese sweet shop. So stylish, good mixture of old and new, I totally falling in love with their presentation and concept. (http://www.higashiya.com)

Japanese Kaiseki style

What always amaze me is richness of color and shape in nature. Changing colors of leaves and plants give me idea of life and live then beauty of it.

Beautiful Ginkgo's gradation color

Graphical layer of Japanese maple

Japanese Kaiseki style always present seasonal food and beautiful shape. Real artisan food. I believe Japanese food is one of most richness food for style, sophistication, balance and refraction with season. Our culture has a lot of celebration each season, each time of year with particular food.

Tokyo

Chibita is my Tokyo love. Thid is his dinner tonight.

Pasta salad

Very sexy restaurant; Momoyaki

Beautiful French food from Katuko warai in Ebisu yokocho

Homemade white sausage

Tasteful mashroom rissoto

Young talanted chef from katuko warai. He make very high level food in reasonable price. Thank you I always enjoy your food so much!

See you Tokyo

See you Tokyo tower!

Wine I drank with view of Tokyo tower.

H's Morning soup; Japanese mix with Italian

Gorgeous breakfast!

My Tokyo love; Chibita. We went to everywhere together.

Last night in Tokyo. It was a day start feeling spring, so we had dinner in a terrace at french brasserie Mori (http://www.mori-ebisu.jp)

Food here is so delicate french with touch of Japanese sense. Turnip soup

Pate wrapped with turnip

Chinese cabbage gratin.

Chef used to work three star Michelin restaurants and he really know how to mix french and delicate Japanese Kaiseki Style. It was very impressive contemporary French.

Meat after fish

I got a parcel from a friend while I was in Izu. She send me a special meat for me to enjoy staying my parents place.

Delicious steak

For my dad's birthday, my brother bring us to very nice BBQ place called Hatukano.

Yukoe; Korean style low mince meat

Pork steak. This place, Hatukano run meat shop so they have very fresh meat and very reasonable! A lot of celebrity come here when they come to Izu but nothing fancy, they purely serve good food which is the best!

A day in Tokyo

I need running back to London, so I just stay in Tokyo one night but it was a great day, very good meal though the day and a lot of energy from friends. Start from breakfast by H, with over view of Tokyo tower from H's flat. Begel, ham and white truffle scrambled egg! It's a season of white truffle. This white truffle from Alba, Italy is famous as one of the best in the world. Flavor is so rich and they have strong aroma.


Sushi lunch 'Shushi dokoro Abe' in Azabu; Assorted Nigiri sushi, Miso soup with crab, small dish and roll sushi.




A "Forget-the-year" party in Japanese Tapas place 'Nejibei' in Shinbashi.
Tapas, tapas, tapas and much more to come, probably we had more than ten dishes at least but I too enjoyed time with friends from Uni. I totally forgot to take photos after 3rd dish... It had been ten years since we graduated but we could go back to same state straight way. Talking stupid episode, shameful confession, inspirational talk. Thank you guys.

Japanese Pancake

This time, I stayed in Tokyo less than 24 hours. I could stay in Naria but always nice to see friends even if it is very short time. We head to Okonomiyaki Place because I wanted to enjoy end of summer. Somehow Okonomiyaki is quite summerly food for me, maybe because we always have Okonomiyaki stand in summer festival or I used to often go to Tukishima in summer time?


Restaurant; Fuwatoro in Ebisu. They do Kobe style Okonomiyaki. Well, It is more like Akashiyaki, that why they actually don't call this Okonomiyaki. They call it Fuwatoroyaki. It is much lighter and very soft than normal okonomiyaki. Mmmmmmm I love it.

Tokyo style BBQ

Beef Kitchen is BBQ place in Nakameguro, Tokyo.
Friends invited me there to celebrate my birthday.

This is a very modern style BBQ. The place looks more like a bar or a cafe.
No wonder this place was produced by a model/fashion designer.
Very stylish than any other typical BBQ places.


Restaurant interior


Numul


Kimuchi


Lever; this is fresh enough even eat low.


Bagna càuda with Vegitable


This was new, never seen before. The foam in front of meat is made from lemon.
Normally we dip beef tongue meat into lemon squeeze but They serve this instead because it's more milder and don't disturb to enjoy taste of the meat.


Beef
All the meat is very soft and melt in your mouth, top quality. Also waiter describe us how each caw grow up and what is best way to eat for every single dish. They are beef sommelier.


Finishing up with noodle


and beef carpaccio rice bowl


Desert time! They make sherbet in front of us! It was exciting.


Here it is!

If you go to Tokyo, this is highly recommend place to go. It is very Tokyo style. Also you could surely enjoy very good food and good presentation.