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MEGUmi is LOTTE HOTEL MOSCOW's authentic Japanese corner in the heart of the capital. Exclusive interior details immerse guests in the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun, while unique, masterful culinary preparation and authentic, high-quality ingredients make for an unforgettable gastronomic experience. Everything at MEGUmi is about pleasing the tastes of even the most sophisticated lovers of modern Japanese cuisine. The restaurant's philosophy is to combine the best culinary traditions of East and West in every dish. A professional team led by two chefs from Japan, Yoshitaka Enmei and Hoshi Takashi, is responsible for the superb gastronomic feats, and their unsurpassed art is on display in an open kitchen. The masters use the rarest ingredients from all over the world, including products unique to Moscow from Japan, from shellfish and premium beef to the rarest sauces and even salt varieties. The open kitchen sushi bar and aquarium menu—with seasonal oysters, king crab, and clams—deserve special attention. And so does the MEGUmi wine list, which includes a wide selection of European and international wines, in addition to a drink menu with two dozen types of sake and signature cocktails. MEGUmi's interior design was created by Wilson & Associates, who carefully established a connection to Japan by using natural wood and stone materials, as well as silk fabric kimonos and textile images of geishas decorating the walls. The main restaurant hall is decorated with a large bronze bonsho bell. Tables are set with exquisite Japanese porcelain and German crystal glasses. Subdued lighting creates a relaxed, intimate atmosphere, and guests desiring additional privacy can choose from four separate rooms: Kiku, Ran, Sakura and Hanabi, which guarantee guests supreme peace and comfort.

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Mon-Fri: 12:00~23:00 Sat-Sun: 14:00~23:00

• Original design concept: bolts of brightly colored antique kimono fabrics cover The Kimono Lounge. Suspended in the main dining room is a traditional Japanese bronze temple bell called a “bonsho” bell. It is an exact replica of the largest bell in Japan which is hung in the Todaiji temple in Nara. • A carefully selected wine and sake list. • A sushi-bar with an open kitchen. • 177 seats and 4 private rooms - Sakura, Kiku, Hanabi, Ran.

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From the traditional to the modern, fine dining destinations in Moscow celebrate the best that Russian cuisine has to offer.

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With many of the best restaurants in Moscow also doubling as bars and clubs, the atmosphere is nearly always one step away from a party, and many of the city’s elite come dressed to impress. Of course, there are still many elegant and family friendly restaurants for those who prefer a quieter evening. With such a large selection available, Elite Traveler has compiled a suitable list for diners of all persuasions.

Café Pushkin

Designed to recreate the feel of a 19th century aristocrat’s house, Café Pushkin has become one of the most popular restaurants in Moscow, thanks to the quality of its food, impeccable service and the excellent vodka selection. The atmosphere of pre-Revolution Russia is delightfully charming, from the flowery script of the menu to aristocratic country house décor. Pushkin is the ideal destination if you want to be treated like Russian nobility and dine like a Tsar – but book ahead, the restaurant’s popularity requires reservation well in advance.

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Lavishly decked out with chandeliers and hand-painted furniture, the menu selection may come as a surprise to first-time guests, with options ranging from Pi Pa duck with melon and truffle to beefsteak with foie gras. Turandot puts a French spin on pan-Asian cuisine, and does so with incredible style and boldness. Whilst the interior décor is certainly to be marvelled at, it is the thoughtfully conceptualized and perfectly executed menu options that make for an incredible dining experience.

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The company has a reputation for the high quality of its restaurants that grace the streets of the capital, and Buono is no exception. The views from Buono are unashamedly spectacular, while the décor is elegant, with soft creams complementing the fine views on offer. The food is classical Italian; Chef William Lamberti is well known throughout Europe and has created an excellent menu. It’s always best to book ahead at Buono, as the window seats that offer the finest views over the city are quickly taken.

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Italian for ‘small’, Piccolino is a cozy, homely restaurant – something of a rarity in Moscow.

Serving typical Italian food, the family friendly establishment is laid back, but this doesn’t compromise the quality of the food: good, hearty portions that are exceptionally tasty. The interior of Piccolino has been designed to replicate that of a large country house, and the décor is entirely fitting with the atmosphere of the restaurant. In a city where many of the establishments value the names of their guests over the quality of their dishes, Piccolino is the place to come if your preference is quality of food rather than famous faces.

Twin Gardens

With two tasting menus and an à la carte option, the Twin Gardens at the heart of Moscow caters to any palette. With the restaurant concept based on the symbiosis of science and nature, their Vegetables set menu explores all manner of produce from seedling to peeling, delicately plated in a tasteful homage to the natural life cycle of wild plants and flowers. For more adventurous types, their Rediscover Russia menu offers a culinary tour of various local specialties found in provinces across the vast continent. They also have a wide selection of Russian wines.

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Located in an elegant 19th century mansion, CDL is one of the most sophisticated restaurants in Moscow.

The interior has been gorgeously designed to recreate the grandeur of the Silver Age of Russian culture, with antique balustrades and bas-reliefs throughout the Oak Hall main room. The staircase in the Oak Hall is a particular masterpiece; it was built without a single nail or screw. The fireplace is equally impressive and has been used as a meeting room by President Dmitry Medvedev. Guests can also hire additional rooms such as the Cigar Room and the Cabinet Room. A menu of authentic Russian cuisine has been created by top chef Alexander Popov, with organic dishes bursting with flavor and a splendor to match the opulent surroundings. With so much luxury and class on display, it’s little wonder that former US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush have chosen to dine here. Situated in the center of the city between Bolshaya Nikitskaya 53 and Povarskaya Ulitsa 50, it’s worth booking ahead to avoid disappointment.

White Rabbit

With a domed window inviting soaring views of the Moscow cityscape, White Rabbit has recently undergone extensive renovations, to both its interior and its menu. Renowned architect Natalia Belonogova has transformed the restaurant into an airy, modern space, perfected by the addition of a summer veranda. To connect the dining options with the new interior, head chef Vladimir Mukhin has created a new menu, Metamorphoses, to reflect the lifecycle of the mayfly butterfly.

Delight your palette with scallop, strawberries and blackcurrant or, for dessert, dandelion honey with melted cottage cheese. This summerlike and refreshing menu has its roots in Russian soil and its head in the clouds above Moscow’s skyline.

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One of the best places to see and be seen, the O2 Lounge is half stylish seafood restaurant and half trendy pre-club hangout.

The food on offer is delicious Japanese fare, with sumptuous sushi prepared in front of diners by the team of talented chefs led by Nicholas Courtois. Located on the 12th floor of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, the restaurant has spectacular panoramic views over Red Square and The Kremlin. After dark the restaurant becomes one of the coolest bars in town, with award-winning cocktails and a selective wine list.

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For authentic   ramen   (noodle soup), head for the chain of KU: Ramen Izakaya bars, opened by Novosibirsk restaurateur Denis Ivanov and his Japanese wife, Chizuko Sirahama, who is also the concept chef and takes personal responsibility for the authenticity of the recipe.

"This is the only restaurant in Moscow where the taste of ramen is similar to the Japanese original," said Maruyama Kanako from Japan.

As a guide: the lightest ramen,  gyu sio,   in beef broth with tongue costs 580 rubles [ $9] , and the most filling,  tonkotsu,   680 rubles [ $11] .

Average bill: up to $25.

Address:   8 Smolenskaya str. / 69 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya str. / DEPO (corner), 10/2 Presnenskaya Nab., / 20 Lesnaya str.

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Japanese cotton cheesecakes

An everyday Japanese cafe with modern urban cuisine, which wouldn’t be out of place on a busy street in Tokyo. The name is a play on words (“Japan” and “pan” obviously, plus  pan   in Japanese means “bun”).

"At J'PAN, it’s worth trying the Japanese street food – fish-shaped  taiyaki   cookies and   okonomiyaki   pancakes," says Ksenia Akhlebinskaya, an expert on Japan.

The menu was developed by Japanese experts, including the famous confectioner Mai Ikeda. Japanese cotton cheesecakes (200 rub. [ $3] ) with their unique airy texture, for example, are made here three times a day, so they’re always fresh.

Address:  21 Trubnaya str. / DEPO (corner), 20/3 Lesnaya str.

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The famous Japanese fast food chain opened its first outlet in Moscow quite recently, and if things go well, dozens more are set to open nationwide. The news has already excited Russia’s Japanese community.

The owners and chefs are all Japanese, yet the prices compare favorably with other such establishments. The average-sized portion of   gumesi   (soup and a bowl of rice with thinly sliced ​​pieces of beef), a traditional Japanese business lunch, costs only 250 rubles [ $4] .   Tonkatsu teishoku   (soup, rice with breaded port, and salad) is 490 rubles [ $8] .

Address:  27/2 Sushchevskaya str.

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Korean cuisine

4. bely zhuravl (white crane).

This restaurant with Seoul cuisine is always full of diners from Moscow-based South Korean firms, which speaks about the quality of the fare. The chef, also from South Korea, is known for his specialities:  toganitan   beef tendon soup (700 rub. [ $11] ) and   kimchi   with pork and   tubu   (tofu) soybean curd (1,200 rub. [ $19] ).

“This is one of the most authentic Korean restaurants in Moscow where you can always eat good-quality kimchi,” says ethnic Korean Nikolai Kim. We always come here for a family dinner once a month or two. True, it’s not somewhere you come every day – it’s a ‘status’ establishment and pretty expensive, but the quality matches the price.”

Address:  14 Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya.

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Koryo, a Pyongyang-cuisine restaurant, offers more than 150 Korean national dishes, including traditional cold noodles (from 300 rub. [ $5] ) and kimchi (from 180 rub. [ $3] ), with spicy and not-too-spicy options.

The staff here come from Korea, and the special atmosphere is created, inter alia, by North Korean concerts, usually shown on TV.

Average bill:  $20.

Address:  11/9 Ordzhonikidze str.

Site  (in Russian and Korean)

Chinese cuisine

6. stary sychuan (old sichuan).

Fried carp with vegetables

This restaurant, which used to be called Druzhba (Friendship), has been operating in Moscow for a long time. The portions are large and the prices reasonable. The lion’s share of the visitors are Chinese.   Xihu   soup (broth with small pieces of beef and omelet) will set you back 200 rubles [ $3]  per serving, while the restaurant’s signature dish - fried carp with vegetables in spicy Sichuan broth (600 g.) - is 1,800 rubles [ $28] . It is said to be popular, despite the price.

Address:  25/2 Lubyansky Prospekt. / 93 Vernadsky Prospekt.

7. Kitayskie Novosti (Chinese News)

The interior of this restaurant chain is modeled on the streets of a modern Chinese city, with illuminated signs shipped all the way from Hong Kong. The spiciness and dimensions of the portions have been slightly adapted to European tastes, but there are frequent Chinese visitors here, too. Above all, diners sing the praises of the crispy chicken with pineapple in sweet and sour sauce (440 rub. [ $7] ) and pork   wontons   (dumplings) (370 rub. [ $6] ).

Average bill: $20.

Address:  126/3 Profsoyuznaya str. / 25/20/1 Spiridonovka str. / 17 Novy Arbat / 27/1 Bratislavskaya str.

Site (in Russian) 

8. Tri Mudretsa (Three Wise Men)

It might seem that a trip to this restaurant is mandatory for all Chinese tourists in Moscow, given the number of coaches outside the entrance. Inside, visitors can enjoy the simple Chinese-style setting. The menu includes Sichuan beef, spicy and sour soup, and, of course, fruit caramels. The prices may seem inflated (from 500 rub. [ $8]  per dish), but the portions are not small.

Average bill:   up to $25.

Address:  1/7/1a Spartak Ploschad.

Facebook page  (in Russian)

Vietnamese cuisine

For a huge portion of   pho bo   (beef and noodle soup) – one bowl will do for two, or a delicious mango shake, go to one of the Bổ cafes, located in Moscow’s major food malls (Danilovsky Market, Baltschug, DEPO, etc.). Authentic street food is prepared here by a team of Vietnamese chefs who certainly know how to make  nam   fried rolls with pork and shrimps (100 rub. [ $1.6] ). The service is quick, comparable to any fast food joint, so you can go there for lunch.

Average bill: $10 .

Address:  Danilovsky Market, 74 Mytnaya str. / StrEat, 26 Leninskaya Sloboda. / Baltschug, 5 Baltschug str. / Gorky Park, 9 Krimsky Val. / VDNKh, food court near the Culture pavilion / Bratislavsky Market, 3a Myachkovsky Bul. / DEPO, 20/3 Lesnaya str. / Bagrationovsky Market, 10 Barklaya str. / Eat Market Factory, 27/7 Vyatskaya str. / Degustator Federation Tower, floor 1, 12 Presnenskaya Nab.

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Indian cuisine

10. khajurao.

This restaurant is named after the Khajuraho temples of love in Central India (second only to the Taj Mahal by number of visitors). Scaled-down replicas of bas-reliefs with images of love scenes adorn the walls of this Moscow establishment. But the restaurant is famous less for its interior than for its clay oven and the dishes cooked therein: sea trout, chicken marinated in Indian spices, flat cakes with various fillings, etc. Spicy Indian dishes are adapted to Russian tastes, but can always be served as per the original recipe. The regular clientele include diplomats from the Indian Embassy.

Average bill: up to $30 .

Address:  14 Shmitovsky Prospekt.

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Hidden Gem for meat lovers Nobu-style Beef Toban Yaki is a meticulously crafted dish that captures the essence of Chef Nobu San's cuisine. Here, succulent slices of premium beef are marinated in a unique blend of traditional Japanese and Peruvian flavors. They are then expertly grilled on a ceramic 'toban' plate, imbuing the meat with a subtle smoky nuance. The result is a harmonious blend of umami-rich taste, tender texture, and aromatic appeal, served sizzling hot in true Nobu style.

The Grand Cordon is a quarterly competition among US NOBU bar teams working with a featured ingredient.  The recipes are recreated, judged and the winning cocktail is featured on all menus in the US along with the bartender and their location.

This season nationwide winner is Robbi Leon from Nobu Newport Beach with: OOO MAMI: A pisco-based cocktail featuring Caravedo Mosto Verde Pisco. Robbi was inspired by the concept of “Mother.” Nestled in the Ica Valley of Peru, Hacienda La Caravedo distillery relies heavily on mother nature to craft their national spirit. To incorporate Nobu’s Japanese culture, Robbi added the “mother” of all Japanese ingredients, Miso.  The combination of the sweet and salty Shiro Miso with bright California raspberries results in a unique umami twist on the classic Pisco Sour. Delight in the perfect “Ooo Mami” balance.

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The kitchen is often regarded as the heart of a home. Yet, when it comes to professional kitchens, they are not just the heart but the entire nervous system of a restaurant, a place bustling with creativity, precision, and speed. There are secrets to a professional kitchen's success, elements often hidden behind the 'staff only' door. Let's dive into some of these intriguing secrets from the professional kitchen.

2. The Mastery of Techniques

Many home cooks have wondered how a dish can taste so different when made at home versus a restaurant. One of the secret ingredients is the mastery of techniques. From perfecting knife skills to understanding the nuances of heat and temperature, a professional kitchen is a world where science meets art.

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Professional chefs are like painters but their canvas is the dish and their colors are the flavors they blend. They understand the secret of flavor layering, building depth and complexity in a dish.

Nobu Downtown is open for lunch service! Enjoy all of your favorite signature dishes as well as a number of new specials. 

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This book is both a celebration of Nobu’s long personal journey to becoming a global sensation and an introduction to the world of the next generation of Nobu chefs.

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Quadrum Bar

Quadrum cocktail list represents the history how the Western cocktail culture gradually found its way in our country and acquired its high-class features, giving birth to the unique drinks of the Soviet era. The cocktails dedicated to the spirit of the legendary Moskva Hotel are reflected in the new Quadrum bar collection created by the hotel's head bartender Vadim Panenkov: light-hearted spritz, topped with a splash of sweet sherry and strawberry soda, the apricot brandy French, the delicate and airy Limoncello Sour, as well as our famous white peach Bellini.

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Stop by Silk Lounge to have business meeting or reconnect with your loved ones while enjoying the views of Manezhnaya Square. Discover our great menu selection, including remarkable Russian dishes, home-brewed tea, fresh coffee and delicious desserts by Pastry Chef Igor Melnikov. Afternoon tea in Silk Lounge is a great occasion for a warm and leisurely time with family and friends by a real fireplace accompanied with live music.

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Bystro restaurant, located on the second floor, welcomes hotel guests every morning. The daily buffet includes fresh pastry, syrniki with berries, fresh fruit, Belgian waffles, homemade pancakes with red caviar, eggs Benedict with ham or salmon and many other breakfast specialties.

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The History of Red Bento

The Red Bento is a series of Asian-fusion restaurants located in the Palouse / Lewis-Clark area.

On December 16th, 2009, the first Red Bento location opened in Moscow, Idaho. With a large menu comprising of Japanese meals (Sushi, Teriyaki, Yakisoba, Tempura) and Asian-fusion offerings (Korean, Chinese, Thai), the restaurant would go on to be a massive success with the local community, and be voted the “Best Asian Restaurant” in the Palouse for four years straight by Pullman Daily News.

Following the Moscow restaurant’s success, a new Pullman location would open three years later, in the summer of 2012. Located on Stadium Way, the Red Bento became the primary source of quality Asian meals in the Pullman area.

The success of both Moscow and Pullman locations gave way for yet another location to open-- this time, in Lewiston Idaho.

In January, 2017, a brand new Lewiston location opened for business. Continuing the Red Bento tradition, the restaurant found popularity for its affordable, generous, and delicious meals.

Two years later in 2019, the Red Bento Moscow was relocated to the Palouse Mall. In the new location, customers can dine on delicious Asian food within close distance of apparel shops and department stores.

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I was suprised at how much I enjoyed the restaurant. We were headed to an event close by and the location was convenient. We were sat immediately in a booth by the door. We both chose a japanese beer to drink. We never got to sample the Appetizers although I had immediately made a choice. There were a lot of sushi selections available but I chose from the Hibachi section. My wife chose tempura. Our food came out very fast and it was hot off the grill. Mine was chicken and shrimp with vegtables and fried rice. I ate every bit of it. It was delicious. The resturant was quiet enough so we could have a conversation without screaming. For desert we had a japanese style ice cream. The entire experience was enjoyable. I will be back again. They also had a nice lunch menu. It is close enough for me to just drop in

Excellent food. Excellent service. Immaculately clean. Great atmosphere. Highly recommend and we will def be back.

Very impressed with Saki! We called 30 min before they were closing to ask if we could place a to-go order. They were very accommodating and didn't make us feel bad at all for placing a late order. We arrived 10 min before closing and the food was fresh, staff was very kind, and the restaurant seemed very comfortable and clean. The food was excellent! I got a Salmon Avocado sushi roll and the Kani salad. The rice to fish ratio was perfect and the fish was very fresh and soft. The avocado was also perfectly ripe which is important to me. The Kani salad was amazing. Excellent blend of cucumber and krab, with a nice spicy mayo and masago. We also ordered the shrimp tempura which was very fresh, crunchy, and light. We would highly recommend this place and appreciate their accommodation for a late night stop on a road trip!

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I got the Hibachi steak and shrimp. Excellent flavor and cooked perfectly. Really good fried rice too. My husband ordered the Sushi 1. It was good and he enjoyed it.

If you're thinking about eating here - DO IT. You'll thank me later. We came 40 minutes before they closed and they graciously welcomed us in. The place looks very nice, new, and clean. The staff attended to us so well, it was some of the best service we have had. You can tell everyone cares about the restaurant. And the sushi was spectacular! I was so apprehensive to try a new sushi restaurant. I'm a ridiculously picky eater especially when it comes to sushi and everything was so fresh from the fish itself to the tempura vegetables. We had the salmon volcano, shaggy roll and crazy girl roll. My only regret is that I didn't take pictures for this review. They presented the food beautifully, especially the dessert! We got the fried cheesecake and omg it was insanely good. I'm only visiting here for a little while but I will definitely be making sure to stop by again!

We stopped in recently for lunch when we were thinking about Japanese food. The menu was varied and we started with the quintessential California roll and spicy salmon roll. The orchid they added was a nice touch. I ordered the tempura bento box lunch and Alan got the bento box teriyaki. It was Saturday, but we were still able to get the lunch specials, usually reserved for M-F. The food came quickly and was good, the tempura had a nice flavor and Alan was pleased with his bento box lunch selection. Our server was pleasant and the restaurant was clean. Japanese food can get quite expensive but this is a moderately priced restaurant and definitely one to visit again.

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Tampa restaurant garnished plates with foxtail ferns from outside. Is that OK?

• Helen Freund Times staff

TAMPA — The foxtail ferns were everywhere.

They snaked across the wooden tray in front of me, poking between dishes at a dinner in March. They were all over Yelp and Instagram and TikTok, where influencers smiled coyly behind platters covered with the green sprigs. They even made an appearance on the restaurant’s website, where they perched quietly in a background photo, hovering over the reservation portal below.

In January, the Tampa Bay Times received a tip that Ko, a Tampa Heights spot, was taking the ferns from a plot of land behind the building and using them to garnish plates. The restaurant is owned by the management group that operates Kosen, a tasting menu restaurant in the same building that recently snagged a Michelin star.

Video showed an employee snipping plants from the courtyard of the neighboring Pearl Apartments — an area where dogs frequently go to the bathroom and where runoff water from the building’s garage can seep into the soil.

I ate at Ko two months ago and saw the ferns for myself. The bright green plants were draped across an elaborate spread of tiny bites as part of the kaiseki restaurant’s “hassun” course, a 10-item tasting that evening.

Save for a lone sprig here and there, the plants were mostly not touching my food, and when I inquired whether they were edible, our server — the restaurant’s director of operations, Max Lipton — informed me that they were not.

But something about it didn’t sit right. My bill for two people came to $464.40, after tax and a mandatory 20% service charge.

At that price, I expected a little more than decorations foraged from a patch used for dog relief.

And I had some questions.

Were the ferns stolen? Were they washed? Had they been sprayed with insecticide and pesticides and who knows what else? Mostly, I just wondered why. Why was a restaurant of this caliber doing something that seemed foolish at best and illegal and dangerous at worst?

When reached by phone Friday, Johnny Tung, an Orlando-based restaurateur who together with his brother, Jimmy, owns Kosen and Ko, said he was unaware of the practice. Later that day, he replied that Lipton had been under the impression that “it was not a cause for concern as long as everything is properly sanitized and not touching the food.”

If the plants were in fact washed prior to plating, was there a world in which this practice was actually OK?

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Getting to the bottom of this was more complicated than expected.

Kosen and Ko opened in fall 2023 and are owned by the Tungs’ Orlando-based Omei Restaurant Group. The duo started the fast-casual Bento chain 20 years ago in Gainesville and now have 25 locations throughout the state. The group owns several other Orlando-area restaurants, including Zaru, Doshi and Camille, another Michelin-starred restaurant, and has built a reputation on offering mentorship and resources to many up-and-coming Orlando-area chefs.

Though they share the same space, Kosen and Ko are two separate restaurants, with separate chefs and menus. On the Kosen side, a 20-course menu is helmed by chef Wei Chen in the Japanese omakase style. (Dinner there comes to $362 per person, after tax and tip.) Chen previously worked at Kappo Masa, one of several high-end sushi restaurants from acclaimed Japanese chef Masa Takayama. At Ko, a 10-course kaiseki menu is run by chef Andrew Huang, formerly the head chef at Uchiko Houston in Texas.

I showed photographs of the foxtail ferns to researchers with the University of Florida, who identified them as Asparagus densiflorus, a low-growing perennial popular with landscapers. The plant has a “low severity” poison and can cause mild skin irritation upon contact and low toxicity if consumed. The Times also obtained video of dogs going to the bathroom in the fern bed.

Marc S. Frank, an extension botanist with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and a collection manager with the Florida Museum of Natural History’s herbarium, was troubled by what may happen to the plants before the restaurant snips them.

“My concern is that if they are harvesting it from a neighboring apartment complex, there is no telling what insecticides or other chemicals (such as heavy metals or petrochemicals) may be present in the soil where the ferns are growing,” he said.

I reached out to agencies across the state and country to see whether they could weigh in on what the restaurant was doing. I was interested in the legality of urban foraging, which usually refers to ingredients that are consumed. I wanted to understand what, if any, rules the restaurant was breaking by plating the plants as garnish.

An email to Tampa police confirmed that it’s illegal to take plants from public parks. For private property, it depends on permission from the property owner. Two managers for the Pearl Apartments residential complex and the building’s retail operations said they didn’t know the restaurant was taking the ferns and they had not given them permission to do so.

“What people want to do on their own time is on them — there’s no approval on our end,” said Destini Garza, the assistant manager at the Pearl. “We can’t monitor what they do 24/7 … obviously if we catch them we’ll take the necessary steps.”

Talking to someone at the state level proved a little trickier. I contacted the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County and the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. All of them referred me to Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the main agency charged with inspecting and licensing restaurants.

As it turns out, the agency had already paid the restaurant several visits. And it wasn’t the first time Ko had been caught plating foraged plants. Records show that on Jan. 4 an inspector issued a “stop sale” order — a directive to halt the sale and supervise the destruction of a food that could represent a threat to public safety — “due to food originating from an unapproved source.”

“Pine branch used as garnish from back of restaurant,” sanitation and safety specialist Robert Singer wrote in his report, noting the issue as a “high priority” and adding that the violation was “corrected on-site” after the chef discarded the garnish.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Code, all food should be obtained by sources that comply with the law (food cooked in a private home can’t be sold in a food establishment without special licensing, for example), and all food must be “honestly presented,” meaning it’s not served in a way that could mislead or misinform the consumer.

The restaurant kept harvesting the fern and plating food with it after the January violation was issued, evidenced by Times images taken in April, multiple images shown on the restaurant’s own social media feeds, and my own dining experience there.

In a statement, Lipton, the director of operations, said the plants were used “strictly for decorative purposes” and did not come into direct contact with food. Images on social media from 2023 show a dish of tempura-battered mushrooms nestled in and touching a bundle of the ferns, a practice that Tung said the restaurant stopped.

Despite defending the use of the foxtail fern as a garnish, Lipton said the restaurant will no longer decorate dishes with the plants at all.

“We understand that the use of outdoor plants in a dining setting may raise questions about sanitation,” he wrote. “We take community feedback seriously and recognize the importance of public perception in our operations. To address these concerns proactively, we have decided to discontinue using these local plants as garnishes in the future.”

I reached out to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation again, to relay Ko’s response, and asked whether the fern usage was acceptable if the plants were sanitized and not touching food on the plate. The agency did not respond to several emails sent since Friday.

Throughout my reporting, I kept asking myself why the restaurant would resort to a practice like this.

In casual conversations I had with chefs and industry professionals in the Tampa Bay area and across the country, they all agreed: It was definitely in bad taste.

Food that’s on your plate should be edible, period. And though Ko may not have been breaking any major food codes, garnishing dishes with inedible or potentially hazardous ingredients is generally frowned upon by food safety experts.

“There are a whole host of issues with the practice you have described,” said Brooke A. Benschoter, the director of communications for the Association of Food and Drug Officials.

But in this age of social media showmanship, inedible decor shows up on restaurant plates more often than you might think. I’ve come across everything from oysters spread on top of empty sea shells and plastic seaweed to sorbet nestled on a mound of acorns. Flowers and plants not meant for human consumption often poke up out of cocktails in decorative fashion.

Both Kosen and Ko have relied heavily on influencer marketing, which prioritizes aesthetics: Videos shared on TikTok and Instagram from influencers dining at both spaces are all over the restaurants’ social feeds, and many of the reels on Ko’s are chock-full of ferns.

My dinner at Kosen next door was spectacular, each course a delightful pairing of flavor and texture, with intricate details and thorough explanations from chef Chen woven throughout the comprehensive 2½-hour dinner. The evening’s highlights included thoughtful wine and sake pairings, an impossibly silky chawanmushi topped with ikura and uni, and a lengthy nigiri course, with standouts like a shima-aji (striped jack) and a smoky, melt-in-your mouth saba, or mackerel.

But dinner at Ko felt different: hasty, almost rushed at points. The evening started out strong, with an A5 wagyu and onion cream tart and a delicious live Hokkaido scallop, but had more than a few bumps, beginning with the unfortunate fern plating and culminating with a particularly poor dessert course. I left unimpressed.

When Michelin inspectors bestowed their coveted one-star rating to Kosen, it appeared they had dined only at that restaurant and not at Ko. They praised chef Chen’s omakase as well as his “showmanship and style.”

When I pointed out the foxtail fern practice at Ko to Michelin, press officer Carly Grieff responded with a vague and evasive response: “The MICHELIN Guide encourages restaurant consumers to contact the appropriate authorities, should an issue arise while dining in an establishment resulting in health or safety issues. The MICHELIN Guide is not a legal entity and it would like to reiterate that it believes and respects laws, including the principle of presumption of innocence.”

While I don’t think the staff or management at Ko had any intention of endangering public health, the use of the foxtail ferns feels like a thoughtless and careless choice.

What may have looked great at the dinner table and in photographs online can’t be worth the embarrassment. And with such a hefty price tag attached, it feels particularly offensive.

Helen Freund is the food and dining critic, reporting on and reviewing restaurants throughout Tampa Bay. Reach her at [email protected].

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W hile I have had numerous breakfasts at MTR, writing this essay was the perfect excuse for another one. I compared notes with my father and realized that the experience is by and large the same. Walking up the few concrete steps to MTR’s double door is like crossing the threshold into another period. Along the wall to your right is a bench for those waiting their turn. Over the bench are the many framed awards that MTR has been bestowed with over the years.

The cashier at the counter signals us, in the middle of his many ongoing transactions, to make our way upstairs to be seated. On the way, you see wooden panels of framed black and white photographs of famous personalities who have dined at MTR and of events the restaurant has catered. These frames are all over the many dining rooms across the upper floor of the restaurant. If you end up in the waiting area at the top of the staircase, there are large frames displaying multiple photographs—like one of the tenth anniversary of the Chamber of Commerce, Bangalore City, that MTR catered on 19 December 1946.

Once seated on the signature red plastic chairs, you either know what you want to order or you ask for the day’s menu. It will be recited, beginning with their popular dishes, and if you still haven’t ordered through the recital, then the rest of the menu. For breakfast that day, we started with the kesari bath. The version here is a mix of both semolina and vermicelli and is not cloyingly sweet. Studded with raisins and made in generous amounts of ghee, it sets the right tone for the rest of the meal. Next up was the rava idli, a MTR creation that harks back to World War II and speaks to Yagnappa’s ingenuity. Idlis, which are a highlight of their menu, are made from rice. However, during World War II, Japan invaded Burma, the largest producer of rice in the region and the chief supplier to South India. Naturally, this caused a shortage, and MTR was among the many affected eateries.

Yagnappa experimented with rava (semolina), soaking it in curd, mixing in curry leaves and coriander, giving it a tempering of mustard seeds and cashew nuts in ghee, and then steaming it as one would a regular idli. The result was a fluffy, lighter idli that people couldn’t get enough of long after the war was over. On our table that day, it came with a small steel container of molten ghee to pour over it and some chutney and sagu (a vegetable curry).

Those were not his only innovations. After his Europe sojourn, Yagnappa created the chandrahara. This pastry-like dessert consists of layers of flour that are deep-fried to a biscuity goodness and then topped with a sweet, thick sauce made from khoya. Available only on Sundays, this sweet was initially called ‘French sweet’, but it didn’t catch the interest of diners. That was until Yagnappa renamed it chandrahara after a hit film that was playing at a theatre nearby. People couldn’t get enough of it. I tried looking up this movie, and while I didn’t find a Chandrahara from that time there was N. T. Rama Rao’s Chandraharam released in 1954.

Yagnappa also came up with the French fruit mixture with American ice cream, a dish which is still served. ‘We have no clue why he called it that, but this Europe trip must have been inspiring,’ Hemamalini tells me, pointing out that even the word tiffin in the establishment’s name was a British term. ‘He did things his own way, and people took to it because it was so different,’ she adds.

‘In my grand-uncle’s time, once the restaurant closed for the day around 7.30 p.m., we had dinner parties for around 100 people. These took place about three times a week,’ she tells me, adding that these were forty-course dinners with seven types of sweets, appetizers, and main courses. And the amazing part? It was a sit-down service!

Coming back to our breakfast, two dosas came to the table. One was the pudi dosa—a thick open dosa with a blob of potato bhaji in its centre and smeared generously with pudi (powdered lentils and chilli that is added over a dosa with a layer of ghee to help spread it). The other was the classic MTR masala dosa—a well-roasted triangle which hides the bhaji. Both are served with a little container of ghee on the side. Accompaniments of chutney and sambar completed the dishes, and there was silence at the table till we were done eating. A filter coffee that is finished with some frothy milk foam on top signalled the end of breakfast.

Their filter coffee played a huge role in MTR’s legacy. It was a beverage that spurred conversations among freedom fighters, businessmen, and more. Yagnappa’s dedication to perfecting the brew was unparalleled. He would painstakingly select, roast, and grind beans every day to ensure he achieved the flavour he wanted. He used buffalo milk to enhance the taste. Back then, the coffee was served in silver cups with a precise quarter inch of froth on top. That froth we were sipping truly had a story behind it, and Hemamalini recounted how the family worked hard on preserving the integrity of their coffee.

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Ordered a variety of dishes for take out and everything was good and tasty. They got my order correct and even made some changes at my request. Very nice people and they took great care for safety during the covid 19 pandemic.

We have been loyal FUDA customers for the last five+ years.....their food is always delicious and ready on time (and quickly) for take-out. The owners/employees are always friendly! A++

The best Chinese in North Pocono, hands down. Friendliest people too.

was here a year ago in the winter for hibachi and it was COLD inside very uncomfortable But this visit was very enjoyable great food, great price and service was great too waitress was very friendly

We had occasion to be visiting friends at Eagle Lake and this restaurant was recommended to us for either sushi or hibachi so we all decided to give it a try and....what a great decision that was because this place was terrific - everything was... delicious and our hibachi chef was comical. Our grandkids loved the noodles side order and both sets of grandparents got the Emperor's Special for two which is a little bit of everything (filet mignon, lobster, scallops and shrimp) and it was all superb.....if in the area, definitely put this restaurant on your list; you will not regret it! More

Me and my wife were at fuda for the first time today March 23 for my bday lunch !! Everything was fantastic from start to finish !! The new remodeling is gorgeous !! So clean and plenty of room !! The service was awesome and... so friendly !! We ordered a few rolls for a starter !! So fresh and super fresh and tasty !! The miso soup we had first was awesome the best I have tasted !! Then I had the hibachi chicken lunch and my wife had the hibachi steak both were so fresh and hot and amazing!! Big portions too!! We were both full !! But next time in daleville make sure you stop by and try fuda !! You won't be disappointed at all !! We can't wait to go back !! Super yummy !! More

This family-run Chinese place serves good food quickly, and they have a really cheap lunch special with generous portions. I've dined in and picked-up from here several times and I've always been impressed with the value for my money here.

Very good Chinese food and always friendly staff. The best General Tso and hot mustard around the area.

very pleasant contemporary decor and surroundings, Both Japanese and Chinese dishes prepared authentically, no confusion in the kitchen. Expected flavors. Attentive service.

I’m giving this 3 stars instead of one because the food was very good. The service was the worst I’ve ever had at a Chinese restaurant. After being seated for a few minutes we were offered water. We waited over for over 20 minutes after... that for the waiter to come over to take our order. There was only one other couple in the restaurant at that time. Thirty minutes after we ordered we finally were given our soup. It was not very warm. The waiter went in circles. In and out of the kitchen, back and forth picking up service plates, going to the computer several times to add orders etc. It was comical to watch him go in circles. Thirty minutes after we finished our soup finally a female waitress came over and told us she’d bring out our food. She must have realized how bad the service had been. It arrived in two minutes and was hot and very good. When our original waiter gave us the check he asked me if I had gotten my food. Clearly very confused. Total time for dinner just under two hours. More

Service was extremely bad, food was extremely bad. I mean I had low expectations because this is a sushi place in the middle of Pennsylvania, but even I’m surprised about how terrible this was. I had to send food back. We asked for water and... spicy mayo twice and it never came and he served other parties instead. we asked him twice for soy sauce trays and eventually resorted to asking a different waitress who gave them to us promptly. This place is a mess. More

The recently updated restaurant is a great place for a special occasion celebration with nice accommodations for large or small groups. The fast take-out service is the best and when you phone in your order it's almost aways ready when you arrive to pick it... up. Friendly folks too! More

Lots of options for all tastes. They will customize dishes to your preference. Very friendly, family-owned restaurant. It's our choice for close to home Chinese/Japanese food.

Food is always good and consistent. Never had a bad meal there. Service is always friendly and excellent.

My kids were impressed by the performance by the chef, but I have had better food. The hibachi at the grill was tasty but not good when they make it in the "back". The atmosphere was nice. They are polite and friendly. Not my first... choice, but not a terrible one. More

FUDA, Moscow - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Phone Number - Tripadvisor

• Service: 4.5
• Atmosphere: 4.5

Multiple people suffer burn injuries after restaurant fire in Salem, authorities say

Four people suffered first-degree burns following a fire at a restaurant in Salem, New Hampshire, according to authorities.

Salem Fire Department said around 6 p.m. Sunday, they received a report of a fire that broke out at Tomo Japanese Steakhouse on 368 South Broadway.

Authorities confirmed several people suffered burn injuries from a fire that happened near a hibachi station. Authorities said no one was transported to the hospital.

Tomo Japanese Steakhouse told News 9 the restaurant stayed open.

Salem Fire said they are investigating the cause of the fire.

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