My wife and I visited Japan in May 2018 to celebrate our wedding anniversary and our first stop for dinner was to Takazawa. Takazawa is a restaurant that is surrounded by the allure of exclusivity and secrecy. Seating only three tables and a maximum of ten guests a night, Takazawa serves fusion Japanese cuisine with a splash of molecular gastronomy. Chef Yoshiaki Takazawa originally opened his restaurant in 2005 and it was originally called Aronia de Takazawa. It was named after a little known fruit in Japan similar to a native American blueberry, but it was changed in 2012 to simply Takazawa. From their website, the name change was done to highlight the evolution of Chef Takazawa’s culinary point of view, where he focuses more on Japanese tableware, ingredients, techniques, and flavors. He prefers to call his style of cuisine simply Takazawa style, and it is definitely a unique experience from both a culinary perspective as well as how the overall dinner was orchestrated. Continue reading “Tabemono in Tokyo – Takazawa”
Tabemono in Tokyo – Takazawa
