Tuesday, May 24, 2016

L'effervesence

No. 12 on Asia's best restaurants is L'effervesence in Tokyo.
Lunch Menu: Through the pathway


Horse mackerel, cucumber, sugar pea, gazpacho


Mountain breeze-
Deep fried firefly squid and mountain vegetable, hamaguri clam and leek jus, sour cream, and micro tomato

A fixed point -
4 hours cooked Tokyo turnip, parsley, basque ham and brioche

From an idea of apple pie #19-
Conger eel, hamaguri clam, new burdock, langoustine and apple, seaside flavoured sauce with seasonal salad.

A little tipsy -
Sake lees mousse and sake lees chocolate ice cream, sake baba, blood orange

Matcha & World Peace


The lunch was not bad. There were a lot of vegetables and the ingredients were very fresh. One of the dishes my friend had was beef with spring onions, but the star of the dish was the spring onion, which they claim is the best in Japan because the farmer took 3 years to come out with a produce that he's really satisfied with. All courses were very well executed and balanced although the preparation time was too long and I had no patience to eat for 2-3 hours for a meal, especially when you are overseas and you have much things to shop/buy rather than wait for your food to come. Haha. 

The overall experience was really good. They allowed you to choose your own knife which was made up of different woods. Their sake + french wine drink was a nice touch, in addition to the freshly baked bread and their tofu cream cheese dip. As a takeaway gift, we were given freshly baked turnip cookies. 

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