::Seasonal Dinner::

What I love about Japanese cuisine is that

you can enjoy the whole thing with your eyes, too.

Especially, the local cuisine in Kyoto, Kyo-ryori （京料理),

is beautiful like art.

Dinner on the first day started with local sake.

Prix-fixe menu at Kaji (京料理かじ）

starters.

I love Japanese persimmons :)

Soup

Sashimi (raw fish) with three different sauce.

Grilled pork and mushrooms with mushed nuts and miso.

Lily bulb tofu :)

The texture was lighter than normal tofu.

Stewed veggies and conger eel.

Sake ice-cream for me as dessert :) 

Because I was wearing kimono and obi was squeezing my stomach,

it was hard to breathe at the end of full course dinner.... :P

Dinner at a casual restaurant Kokoroya (ここら屋）on the second day.

I just found out there is a branch in Nakameguro, Tokyo. 

Glad to know!

They serve Obanzai, light Kyoto-style home cooking here.

stir fried lotus root.

stewed yellow tails and radish.

baked wheat starch with miso paste.

one of my favorites :)

Welsh onion with miso sauce.

yam and tofu with butter.

Saba sushi!!! 

This is one of the representative food in Kyoto.

I love the chunkiness of broiled mackerels on top.

Everything in Kyoto was so tasty :)

What I love about Kyoto cuisine is 

that it is more lightly flavored compared to that of Kanto region.

I definitely need to visit there again before long.
Maybe when the weather gets warmer in spring?

Kyoto is such a great city full of tasty food and historic beauty.
I'm in love with it already.

xoxo
Yuki♪