You might have noticed that I really enjoy Asian food and last Friday I got a nice treat from my fiance when we went to now one of my favourite restaurants: Sake No Hana near St. James Park in London.
(a new favourite in the category 'for special occasions' :) as it is quite a pricey restaurant)
The interior of the restaurant was designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma who choose to use a lot of light coloured wood which gives the space a warm feel and blonde golden hue.
We started out with a white miso with wild mushroom and red miso soup with asari clams, followed by mirin marinated black cod with chili miso, Chilean sea bass with miso in toban and sliced rib of beef with vegetables, tofu and shiitake mushrooms which was cooked at our table. We choose rice and spinach as side dishes.
All of the food was absolutely delicious, but the beef especially was a dish where both of us just could not get enough from. The taste of the beef that was brought to our table in thin slices - carpaccio style was cooked in front of us in a hot pot that contained vegetables, tofu and mushrooms as well as a large shot of a marinade based on soy sauce. Absolutely stunning!
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| Interior by Kengo Kuma |
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| Open kitchen where all the chefs greet you in Japanese when you come in, at least I suspect they said something like hello or welcome because I don't understand a word of Japanese :) |
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| Love this warm and natural interior! |
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| Red Miso Soup and White Miso Soup |
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| Top: the Chilean Sea Bass, Bottom: the Black Cod |
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| Wooooo, the beef is being cooked at our table! |
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| Smelling the deliciousness in the making... |
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| Definitely one of the best things I have eaten in a long time! It tasted amazing! |
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| My handsome fiance riding the escalator down from the restaurant as a Boris Johnson look-a-like ;) (for those that wouldn't know him, Boris Johnson is the mayor of London) |
Form more information on Sake No Hana
visit http://sakenohana.com/london/
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