VELROSIER

日本で高級中華料理を食べるのはここで初めてでした。普段食べてる中華料理とまた全然違ったのでけっこう面白かったです。フランスの影響もちょこっとありました。 料理は全体に美味しかったです。次から次にいろんな変わった料理がテーブルに到着しました。お店の名前が上に書いてあったモナカは味がすごく美味しかったです。タピオカのクラッカーを使った料理は食感がとても良くてあと魚が新鮮でした。餃子を解体した料理は旨味がすごく有りました。牛肉がすごく柔らかくてぺろっと食べられました。チョコレートとバナナのデザートは見た目は重そうでしたが割と軽くて食べやすかったです。 部屋はぼくにはちょっと暗すぎたです。もう少し...明るくないと料理がはっきり見られないです。最初のキャナぺやアミュズブッシェにはもうちょっと色んな材料を使って欲しかったです。コーンを使った物が多すぎました。 This was my first time in Japan to eat high end Chinese food. It was very different from the typical Chinese food I’m used to having so it was quite interesting. There was also a slight French influence. Overall, the food was very good. Plate after plate of unusual dishes arrived at the table. The monaca which had the restaurant’s name written on top was very delicious. The tapioca cracker dish had a very good texture and the fish was fresh. The deconstructed dumpling dish was full of flavour. The beef was very soft so was really easy to eat. The chocolate and banana dessert looked very heavy at a glance but was actually very light and went down easily. Personally, I found the dining room a little too dark. If it was brighter, I could have seen the dishes more clearly. It would have been better if the canapés and amuse-bouche at the start had involved a slightly greater variety of ingredients. There were too many things using sweetcorn.

Visited July 2023

The interior of this creative Chinese restaurant is dark, warm, and inviting. With only 5 tables, the space is incredibly intimate. And there are only 5 staff total, including the chefs, making it an impressively efficient operation.  My dinner here was wonderful. Buckle up, because dinner here is ...a 3 hour affair. There were a couple dishes that were rather average, and I hugely protest with their shark fin soup course. But overall, I appreciated the rich flavors and inventiveness of the menu. I'd highly recommend this restaurant if you're looking for a creative break from traditional Japanese cuisine while in Kyoto.  The price of the prix fixe menu was 21,780 JPY, or about $170 USD. The wine pairing was an additional 12,100 JPY, or about $95 USD.  The menu was:  1) Chinese style chicken consomme served in a burgundy wine glass. Why? I'm not sure. Was it necessary? Not really. Was it good? Meh. Like drinking a well prepared chicken broth. 2) Sweet shrimp in a kelp puree topped with egg powder. This dish was good but not great. Hearty flavors. I wish it had been served warm. Instead, it was served chilled.   3) Sweet potato croquette breaded with sweet potato cookie crumbs and topped with caviar. This dish was solid. 4) Chinese sausage made with Kyoto pork, on a bacon cracker and topped with sesame and mustard sauce. This one was super yummy The pork was so tender and full of flavor. The mustard added some wonderful heat.  5) Foie gras and jam in wafer-thin Japanese rice cracker. The presentation for this dish was incredible. The cracker was surrounded by roses and sat on a bed of aromatic cloves. The dish itself was inventive and reasonably yummy 6) Dumpling deconstructed - Fried gyoza wrapper on leek puree and ground pork, topped with powdered asparagus. This dish was divine. 6) Yellow tail fish layered with daikon radish, rolled into a Chinese pancake. This dish was so meaty and savory, despite being seafood  8) Spanish mackerel with Chinese XO sauce, Japanese radish, chicken soup cracker, and foam. Delicious  9) Chinese mantou bread  10) Shark fin soup with Napa cabbage and a crab broth, topped with puffed rice. This dish made me incredibly sad. Shark fin soup, really?? In this day and age? Come on, we can be better than that. In protest, I didn't eat the shark fin. 11) Waygu filet with roasted brussel sprout, beef and cabbage pie, and black pepper sauce with potato puree and pistachio powder. This dish was so incredibly rich 12) Chinese rice wine sweet pudding recipe with caramelized orange. Super bitter, not a fan 13) Almond jello ice cream with chocolate macaroon, wafer cracker, champagne truffle, and chocolate. Solid dessert 14) Coconut sweet ball 15) Black sesame ball Wine pairing: 1) Champagne  2) Georg Breuer Rheingau Riesling 2020 3) Weszeli Purus 2017 4) Spanish Alejairén Crianza 2020 5) Patricius Tokaj 2017 sweet wine 6) German Friedrich Becker Petit Rosé 2020 7) Angelica Zapata Cabernet Franc 2016 8) Malvirà Rodeo Arneis 2014 9) 15-year old Chinese rice wine 10) Iced Oolong tea 11) Silkwood Syrah 2018 12) Maxwell spiced mead, made with Australian honey 13) Hot tea served in a Tiffany & Co cup. Why advertize for Tiffany? I have no idea. The tea was incredible though. I felt like I was drinking flowers.

Visited January 2023