Kikunoi Honten

Authentic Japanese cuisine and elegant traditional environment but not too fresh, service is OK but not up to Michelin standards in Europe and America. After eating, I always feel that it is not worth it.

Alaska snow crab, one crab, three ways to eat: 1. Steamed egg with crab roe. 2. Crab legs as sashimi. 3. Steamed the rest. This is my favorite way to eat it. The freshness of the ingredients determines whether it tastes delicious. So this Japanese restaurant is still very good!

Because we had made a reservation at TB for the two-Michelin-starred Kikunoi, we said we must not be late, so before we reached the top of the mountain, we walked down the mountain and took a bus to Roan Kikunoi in Gion Shijo. It tastes pretty good, I like it very much!

The highlight of the night is Michelin recommended, Kikunoi. We booked almost a month in advance. Different price ranges use different grades of ingredients. Each dish is like a work of art. Even the menu has two versions, Japanese and English, printed on beautiful Japanese paper, which you can take home as a souvenir. There will be a detailed description of each dish. Of course, there are basically no Chinese waiters here. Fortunately, there are local Osaka classmates in our group who can translate, otherwise we would not know what we are eating.

Kikunoi is a very famous Japanese restaurant with very good business. There are three Kikunoi restaurants in the world, two in Kyoto and one in Tokyo. The main restaurant in Kyoto has three Michelin stars and the one in Tokyo has two Michelin stars. Everything here is first-class from the environment to the dishes to the service.

Michelin Kaiseki cuisine No Kaiseki, no Japanese cuisine. A delicious journey. Feeling the craftsmanship. Sighing and feeling ashamed. When those beautiful traditional qualities were lost by ourselves, they were upheld by others. We are too impetuous. We live in a high-profile manner but are extremely empty in spirit. There are too many beautiful bodies and too few interesting souls.

The Michelin two-star kaiseki cuisine has wasabi in every dish, even ice cream... The whole process took two and a half hours, and my butt hurt. I spent more than 100,000 yen on a meal that I didn't appreciate! It's just too expensive! Hahaha