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😍 5/5 - An authentic and beautiful Kyoto kaiseki dining experience in an urban forest
By 👻 @KittyChan, 10/20/2022 3:00 am
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I greatly enjoyed my 16-course lunch (35,000 yen, second-most expensive option), and I’m so glad I’d visited the nearby Kawai Shrine before lunch and the restaurant-adjacent Shimogamo Shrine just afterward - they enhanced the whole Kyoto nature experience. I have to say that while a few of the dishes were underwhelming - mostly the root and other vegetables - that may have been just my own subjective palate - and overexposure to the the hyperstylized molecular/fusion Western (including in Japan) Michelin-star dining blowouts I’ve enjoyed over the years. All of the seafood courses were outstanding - especially the two large squares of toro. Wow. I dined at the counter, along with two elegant women from Tokyo. (Covid measures limit the usual five-seat bar to just three diners; I was great with that.). Chef-Owner Tanigawa spent quite a bit of time with us - I think he likes the direct attention and intimacy of the counter, and almost all of the conversations with him and his sous-chef/barman (a handsome young man) were in Japanese - perhaps because, when asked in Japanese whether I’d prefer English or Japanese, I responded, both are OK. My single-favorite Kaiseki moment - and one many reviews have noted - was when Tanigawa-san served me the soup and directed me to intro-sip and taste each ingredient once before he moved the julienned citrus to the other side of my bowl, and then directed me to sip again. Yup; different taste experience. I loved the theater of it, and I could tell he enjoyed it as well.) I had the Chef susume (recommended) sake paring - six glasses of amazing sake - for 110,000 yen. The meal concluded with two of the best teas I've ever tasted - a matcha and a smoky roasted - and lasted a little over 2-1/2 hours. I was perfectly (and not overly) full. I found the old-school Kyoto design, decor, and layout of Kichisen to be authentic and very soothing. All of the focus was on the amazing fresh food, presentation, and sake. I'll be back - kairimasu! Thanks to Chef Tanigawa-sama and his team for a truly memorable kaiseki experience.
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