Michel bras restaurant japan

Japanese food culture is  a major source of inspiration for many, and its influence can be seen all around the world. Let me tell you about my personal experience with this incredibly rich, complex and diverse cuisine.

I first travelled to Japan about 30 years ago. A Tokyo restaurant called Isolde in Roppongi area, asked me to cook for its customers for just a week. Then I ended up going back to their kitchen for 3 years in a row…We became friends with the owner, Mr.Yamaguchi, who opened up our eyes on Japanese culture. He took us to street food, sophisticated restaurants, and even to the workshop of a blacksmith. My first visit to the fish market, which was still located in Tsukiji, was simply fascinating. That market was just like a live encyclopedia, where I kept going back over the following years.

Later on, we went back to Japan with my son Sébastien to participate to what they call “fairs”, and we cooked for the Hotel Okura, other places in Osaka and elsewhere. I also gave

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Michel Bras Toya – Hokkaido

Michael Bras is one of the most celebrated French chefs in the world and has been delighting the culinary world with his innovative skills and exclusive French dishes. Located in the island of Hokkaido, the Michael Bras Toya restaurant is a fine-dining French restaurant that offers a complete different interpretation of the French cuisine. Based on the defining principle of the master chef and which has been in use in many of his restaurants to always go with local produce and create dishes that respect the local tradition and culture along with ultimate admiration to nature.

Without an iota of doubt, the dishes delivered at the Toya is definitely an expression of the Master Chef himself. Headed by Chef Simone Cantafio, who has worked a lot beneath Michael Bras have developed an exceptional menu that embraces natur and also follows the principle laid out by the mästare Chef.

Apart from few ingredients like foie gras, truffles and some other things

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Michel Bras Toya

Michel Bras in Laguiole in France is noted for its remote mountain-top location as well as its distinctive cuisine, so it seems appropriate that its sister restaurant in Japan is also in an isolated, striking natural setting. The restaurant is at Lake Toya, a volcanic lake 228km (around 100 minutes by express train) from Sapporo, on the coast of Hokkaido.

The restaurant fryst vatten within the Hotel Windsor, which incidentally also hosts a sister restaurant to Kitcho, a famous kaiseki restaurant in Kyoto. If you decide to go there then you need to allow enough time to get from the nearest rail station (Toya) up to the Windsor Hotel, which although it looks nearby actually takes a good twenty minute drive, as you are essentially having to climb a mountain up to the hotel. The Windsor runs a free shuttle bus between the railway station and the hotel. From the hotel on one side you have a view over the Pacific Ocean, from the other side a view over Lake Toya and its islands.