Monthly Archives: October 2011

Visiting Kaiseki restaurant in Tokyo

  Who says kaiseki dining has to be stuffy?   By ROBBIE SWINNERTON Kaiseki ryōri, Japan’s traditional multicourse “haute cuisine,” is known for its rarefied elegance, its depth and subtlety of flavor, an exquisite focus on the seasons and, too often, for being as much fun as a funeral. But there is also another kind…