Narisawa is one of the leading modern restaurants in the world, and when I was in Tokyo, it was an honor and a truly memorable experience to eat here.
Yoshihiro Narisawa is the head chef and owner of Narisawa, one of Asia’s best restaurants and a two Michelin star restaurant in Tokyo. His personal philosophy of cooking and serving food is strongly related to nature and the world we live in. He derives much of his inspiration from nature and natural landscapes, and he changes his menu and his creations according the seasons of Japan. We had the Winter Collection 2014 menu, and beginning from the very course of our meal, I could clearly see the chef’s passion and his love for both food and respect of nature.
We began our meal with a dish called, Evolve with the Forest, which literally looked like a small forest on my plate, and it was even served on a slab of wood, which gave it a nice touch. The salad included a scene that really looked like a lush forest. After our first course, we then moved onto a dish called “Bread of the Forest 2010,” which was a batter that was added to a scorching hot earthenware pot to and sort of steamed and baked at the same time. After cooking for a while, the bread came out in little buns. It sort of reminded me of a steamed Chinese bun, but with more fruity tones and flavors. Both the bread and the presentation at Narisawa were fantastic. Another amazing thing was even the butter was coated in a dark colored crumblings and something that looked like moss so it really took on a forest look.
One of the specialities of chef Yoshihiro Narisawa is his soil soup, a dish that he literally makes from the soil that he gets from Okinawa. It really did have a soil flavor to it, but at the same time it really worked – it was extremely earthy, and just tasted so natural, yet so good at the same time. One of my favorite courses of the meat was the “Langoustine from Suruga Bay,” a beautiful langoustine, similar to a small lobster, but I think it is actually a type of crayfish. The meat of the langoustine at Narisawa was unbelievable, so succulent and the meat was incredibly sweet as well. It literally melted in my mouth. Next we had a course of “Ash 2009” Scene of the seashore,” which was an entire squid topped in a sauce literally made from ash of the seashore. I don’t even begin to know how he made it, but both the squid and the sauce was incredible. The sauce was again, earthy and rich, and just so well done.
Next up at Narisawa Tokyo we enjoyed a seafood soup of a few different types of seafood, another just marvelous dish with extremely high quality ingredients. Next was a “Spanish mackerel, Hagi-Buckwheat-Root vegetable,” The highlight of the mackerel was how it was smoked in a glass cover, and it had the most amazing smoky flavor, maybe I’ve ever had. Next up we had “Monk fish from Ishikawa,” and again it was stunning – the fish was great quality and it was so buttery.
While everything I ate at Narisawa Tokyo was stunning, no other dish made me as excited as the “Sumi 2009” Kobe beef.” The beef was cooked by spooning hot olive oil over it for 30 minutes, so just the outside had a char to it while the inside meat was so pure and melted in my mouth like no other piece of meat ever had.
Note: This video was filmed and edited back in March of 2014. The menu has likely since changed, but the amazing cuisine and skills of the chef have not.
I didn’t pay for this meal myself, I was sponsored by Chowzter.com (http://chowzter.com/) of which I’m the Bangkok representative. Thank you to Chowzter and to Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa for this extremely memorable meal.
Narisawa Restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
Address: Minami Ayoyama 2-6-15, Tokyo, Japan
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Phone: +81-3-5785-0799
Open hours: Lunch from 12:00 – 13:00, Dinner from 18:30 – 21:00, Closed on Sunday
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not gonna lie i don't miss those facial expressions too much lol
i sat in the same seat lol, knowing that i sat in the same seat that you once did
Your face when you eat the Kobe beef could be a GIF meme , but I am sure I would react the same if I eat such a meat
2:25 that background music was so apt! 😁
Excellent video and good food😋👍💯😍💖
aleluya jajaja saludos desde chile crack !
Not much to do but I contributed Japanese subtitles.
日本語字幕を追加してあります。でも字幕がなくても楽しめる動画ですね。
Are you sure that’s Kobe need? It’s suppose to be super tender and cut really easily, but in the video it looked a bit tough
Wow I must say that I wish I knew how these Japanese ppl become so modernly more advanced than other races of ppl. I thought the Europeans were very advanced for a human that is supposed to be better living in tune with nature… but these Japanese and European elites, specifically, apart from Chinese and Indian and African, take the cake in being some sort of superior human anomaly. Smh how could nobody in the world, especially themselves, know how their specific racial makeup evolved, where and why? I have to wonder this bc Africans were supposed to be genetically, I guess the first humans to evolve, but where and why are they not as advanced and have been able to be conquered and destabilized to the point where they have no system of wealth of their own and cannot seem to do anything technologically advanced without Europeans and or Asians. Not to pit them done bc I respect all life and especially human life (if thats what we are) regardless of race, creed or culture, however its ironic with the advanced systems today that we are all dependent on, that apparently came from the Europeans successful conquest and colonialism, these highly intellectual diabolical ruthless individuals, claim to not know where they came from. They also claim to be just like every African racial culture and that if any tan skin Indian, or African or hybrid type, was put in the same positions as they were, they would be just as advanced. And I don’t buy this anymore. Something is either just not right about this European world takeover or that Africans somehow must lack as the lesser intelligent among our species that supposedly derived from monkeys. Africans history have anomaly’s of pyramids, rich abundant dynasties of luxury and food and natural systems of water and infrastructure that afforded all ppl with wealth and status and poverty didn’t exist like it does today in every culture in the world. So given this history of so called, the first humans were melanoid ( brown skin hued), how tf did they fall and lose the old ways written in stone and have never recovered till this day? This is mind boggling to me bc I am happy for all European and Asian ppl (no matter) that can enjoy wealth and have superior organized culture systems… But what makes me sad is that with their success, conformity to their system of governing and weaponry militarization, non-European and non-White-Asian cultures seem to pay the ultimate prices of poverty, starvation, sickness, disease and death, bc they have-no choice but to conform or die. Why are they not allowed to build their race and cultures back up like they anciently once did? Racism is driving force of the current european imperial domination system, and not even interracial race mixing can cure this disease that causes unlimited sociopathy and terminal psychological depression among all that cannot experience the joys of life like the ppl who have it all. There is something missing and terribly wrong with the history of the and how it went so left. Not blaming white/european/asian ppls at all for anything bc Idk who or what is at fault but one with a critical thinking mindset has to wonder about this all, regardless of racial privilege or poverty. Unless the mind lacks think. Shrugs.
I was fortunate enough to eat there a week ago for dinner. Amazing experience. The meal was even better than the lunch he experienced. 13 courses. Got full 7 courses in. If you ever get a chance I highly recommend it.
Selected as one of the best 50 restaurants in the world ten years in a row.
Chef is awarded Grand Prix of IAG in 2018.
What kind of editing software do you use? Also, great video!!
that face he makes when he's enjoying the food makes me so happy and jelly at the same time haha
2:44 Best part. Kobe beef, Mark and God had a meeting. 😀
when i was young there was a TV show a small dog would jump up and slowly float down to earth when he ate something yummy and that is what it looked like when Mark tried his beef for the first time
Just my point vu your reaction is a bit to much even looks fake then can you try to be more normal! 😉 But anyway i know japan also but you make over dose.
@markwiens – have you been to molecular bar in Toyko? Any reviews?
Couldn’t have loved watching this any more than I did 🙏🏼
2:29 hahahaha I said.
omg i just watched the final table and saw this restaurant featured!
You know you're in a high-end restaurant when they bring a snake to your table, put dirt in your soup and the steak is still mooing.
Bon Appetit!
Taking my first ever trip to Japan next month. I seriously booked this restaurant based on your facial expressions alone. Can't wait.
delicious
Esa cara de mierda que siempre pones XD
I see that emergency formal shirt you got over there.
Por que siempre q prueba algo pone cara de pendejo jajaajaj
lol. he puts an orgasm face on after every bite.
nice
I think it is incredible dining since you wore formal shirt not a T-shirt as you used to wear. Three hours is a real experience but not street food at all…. hahaha….
Great to hear from you as a japanese who live in tokyo. Thank you so much for showing videos for good japanese foods. Im looking forward to wacting always!
love you all… love hallelujah chorus…
this guy looks like jared from silicon valley
How much would this meal have costed you if you paid for it?
Ohhhhuuunnnmmm……………
im sorry im not a fan of any japanese meals…but nice video…
I was smiling so much watching you
Why would you drink chocolate capuccino with a spoon
What a pleasant change from the usual street food. However, some of the menu items do not appeal to me, such as that coiled up snake. How do you eat something like that?!
Mark please may you upload a longer video of this dinner…please
Thousands of indians could have eaten that food
but why chopsticks and a fork
The "halleluya" part is simply orgasmic…
One of the nicest food tripper.
Mark Made Good Food
uuuuugh i need to find something that resembles this in either phoenix, san fran, or denver!