Twenty first among the world's most considered tables
Placed for a fifth year running on the global list of essential restaurants.
We do not chase notice, but we are grateful for it. A few words from those who have written about the room, and the recognition it has gathered over the years.
Held lightly, and with thanks.
Placed for a fifth year running on the global list of essential restaurants.
Recognised for a forest to table model that gives back more than it takes.
For a list built almost entirely from mountain families and natural makers.
For a cellar of koji, miso, and wild pickles aged across full seasons.
Held for a seventh consecutive year in the national fine dining guide.
For a dining room built around ma, the active emptiness between things.
What has been written.
A room so calm that the food seems to arrive from the forest itself, unhurried and entirely sure of what it is.
Restraint handled as an art. Nothing is loud, and nothing is missing.
Fire, ferment, and a deep respect for the season, held together with a rare stillness.
The empty space on the plate carries as much intent as the food set upon it.
Foraging here is not a flourish, it is the whole grammar of the cooking.
An evening that asks you to slow down, and rewards you when you do.
The cellar alone is worth the journey north into the hills.
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