to our Kyoto post... For our last night we decided to head to a funky restaurant serving modern Japanese food called Grotto. It was absolutely amazing. We sat downstairs at a long counter where the chefs prepare the nine courses for you. Yep, you heard right people, NINE COURSES! They're all small courses thank God but very filling none the less. The head, (rather chubby), chef and owner sat us down and then dished out our food whilst telling us what each one was. It was so nice to get that kind of treatment and to have all this wonderfully presented food explained to us.
Here's what we had.
1) Cold pea soup with sesame pudding
2) Tuna sashimi (raw) with anchovy mayonnaise, salad leaves & fried garlic
3) Potatoe dumpling with a baby octopus inside & pickled wild grass
4) Thick ginger soup with snapper, cabbage & parma ham
5) A tasting plate of 7 different bits including an egg & asparagus omlette, eel sushi & Chinese pork spring roll
6) Tempura veg wrapped in sea bass in a fish stock
7) Poached beef & bamboo shoots & spinach
8) Rice with whole baby shrimp with pickled seaweed, mini flour dumplings in lemongrass soup
9) Strawberry ice-cream with wild leaf cake & Cream custard in a caramelised brown sugar & vinegar sauce.
To wash it down we opted for a glass of shochu on the rocks followed by a cool nama biiru, (draft beer). We left Kyoto very happy.
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