Coteau is a part of Kashiyama Daikanyama where fashion, food, design, and art overlap and stimulate the five senses. Overseen by Owner and Head Chef Yosuke Suga of Sugalabo, Coteau is all about connecting Japan and the world through food.
Meaning hill in French, Coteau is the hilltop restaurant atop the new and very modern Kashiyama Daikanyama building. The architecture is beautiful as is the restaurant itself. From the open kitchen, the wall of stemware and the wall of wine to the large windows with high sheer blinds that connect to the outside terrace, bathed in sunshine and accompanied by a zephyr on the day we visited.
Mr. Suga has a reputation for seeing the world as a laboratory from which he can provide his guests with a taste of the next generation of French cuisine and has successfully encapsulated this connection in his menu.
Fresh ingredients are presented to you before each dish and the set-course meal so wonderfully brings out the diversity of nature whilst retaining the original taste of the ingredients.
The menu is changed monthly in appreciation that nature, too, changes monthly. We were treated to a horse meat tartare, a soft, creamy chicken liver pate, a marvellous dish of white asparagus with trout, Aomori rockfish that was presented in baking paper and revealed at the table and a delicious Australian veal with French morel and sweet greenpea puree. And the finale, a freshly baked mille-feuille presented with obvious delight by the staff, was scrumptious.
Here is a new gastronomic experience of quality, seasonal food that stimulates the senses and makes you wish for more. Photo Credit: KashiyamaDaikanyama
Denise McCann is a global winepreneur having travelled to over 30 countries in as many years. Currently living in Tokyo after a 4-year stint in Singapore, purveying the culture, sights, sounds and tastes (and tipples) of the internationally inspired orient with her husband, Patrick.
They describe themselves as wine connoisseurs, restaurant gourmands, art lovers and gallivanters! They own and manage a luxury holiday retreat in wine country In Victoria, Australia called TS Valley Villa Luxury Retreat.
Denise seeks out local luxe dining experiences with each culinary experience documented in her exquisite journalistic voice, although this Australian couple are more than inquisitive to get out from the high street and experience hawker dishes, and any concoction of street food available across South East Asia and beyond. In Denise's words, "It’s all about people, place and produce."
a: 東京都渋谷区代官山町14-18 Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 1500034
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