French food in Japan is something of a very interesting topic.
As a foodie with practically unlimited budget who have lived in Japan for a while, whenever people ask me for food recommendations in Japan, most are very surprised when I put French cuisine on top of my list.
But for those who are food nerds like me, they may have heard how modern French and Japanese fine dining are heavily intertwined and Japan is home to the most number of Michelin-starred French restaurants outside of France. If we go by the Michelin Guide (subjective), Tokyo alone has more world class French restaurants outside of any city outside of Paris.
The restaurant here is Reminiscence from Nagoya, Japan, owned by the chef Masaki Kuzuhara. I’ve been there twice and each time I was blown away by the quality of the food and their unique selection of Japanese local ingredients.
That’s fascinating thanks OP! Sounds like you’re living the dream with that food budget.
kingpin748
There’s rare and then there’s raw.
i_ata_starfish-twice
That’s raw. Not rare.
Infamous_Ad_6793
To the people that think this is raw, I obviously wasn’t there but lamb is red when cooked. This looks like it could be juices rising rather than necessarily raw.
It could also be raw! But my point is you can’t use the same visuals as you would for beef steak.
agmanning
That’s unevenly cooked, under-rendered in places, and not rested enough.
Glad you’ve got unlimited budget. (Nice humble-brag). Shame you chose to spend it somewhere that they can’t cook duck.
Edit.
Hang on. I recognise that plate.
You posted that miserable piece of duck with peas and raspberries (in February) recently. Jesus. Back then the cuisson on the duck was the only good thing about the dish. This actually looks bad.
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French food in Japan is something of a very interesting topic.
As a foodie with practically unlimited budget who have lived in Japan for a while, whenever people ask me for food recommendations in Japan, most are very surprised when I put French cuisine on top of my list.
But for those who are food nerds like me, they may have heard how modern French and Japanese fine dining are heavily intertwined and Japan is home to the most number of Michelin-starred French restaurants outside of France. If we go by the Michelin Guide (subjective), Tokyo alone has more world class French restaurants outside of any city outside of Paris.
There is a lot of interesting history associated with French food in Japan and how it came to be so special, and this Reddit post from years ago was an amazing read for people who are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/537bio/spoilers_shokugeki_no_souma_ni_no_sara_episode_12/d7qkddy/
In fact, some have argued that modern French fine dining is the result of heavy influence from Japanese Kaiseki: https://www.eater.com/2017/9/7/16244278/japanese-fine-dining-bocuse-tsuji-kaiseki:
The restaurant here is Reminiscence from Nagoya, Japan, owned by the chef Masaki Kuzuhara. I’ve been there twice and each time I was blown away by the quality of the food and their unique selection of Japanese local ingredients.
Edit: album of full meal https://imgur.com/a/FiWCQlF
Oh so smallll
Quelle e la sauce?
That’s fascinating thanks OP! Sounds like you’re living the dream with that food budget.
There’s rare and then there’s raw.
That’s raw. Not rare.
To the people that think this is raw, I obviously wasn’t there but lamb is red when cooked. This looks like it could be juices rising rather than necessarily raw.
It could also be raw! But my point is you can’t use the same visuals as you would for beef steak.
That’s unevenly cooked, under-rendered in places, and not rested enough.
Glad you’ve got unlimited budget. (Nice humble-brag).
Shame you chose to spend it somewhere that they can’t cook duck.
Edit.
Hang on. I recognise that plate.
You posted that miserable piece of duck with peas and raspberries (in February) recently.
Jesus. Back then the cuisson on the duck was the only good thing about the dish. This actually looks bad.