Dining in Aida was like travelling to Japan. The sober and discrete exterior and interior, warm but reserved (in a good way) service and delicious cooking with ingredients of the highest quality. It is also the only Japanese (teppanyaki) restaurant in Paris to have a Michelin star which makes reserving a table there quite difficult. (Well, as I've mentioned before, because of my constant travelling i rarely book restaurants even one week in advance). So this time i called at 8 pm and to my surprise, they had a two places at the counter. There was a small problem though. It was the first working day after Easter holidays and the Aida's fish supplier was closed, so the restaurant had a limited amount of fish. But i didn't worry for that too much as what i wanted to try there was the chateaubriand teppanyaki for which Aida is famous for.
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Umu is the idea of a restaurant that i dreamt of ever since i had that very intriguing, but maybe too authentic for Westerners eyes and taste buds meal in Kikunoi in Kyoto ."Could anybody recreate the Kyoto style kaiseki meal but with a modern touch in Europe? ",I wondered.
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Every person I spoke to in London praised Hunan, " a Chinese "gem" ", where there is no menus and you will "explode" of the amount of delicious food. And indeed, Hunan is " not your typical Chinese restaurant." You don't get any menu, and the waiter just asks how spicy you would like your food and what you don't eat. "It's like having your own personal chef - and the result is a unique meal you will treasure forever.",Hunan' s website says.
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