A few of the restaurant's awards:
An appetiser that looked like a woodland floor. It included a piece of edible bark, some tempura as well as flower petals and a kind of mild cider in the small piece of hollowed out tree.
This looked better than it tasted. It was some sort of onion, with a super-thin burnt crust.
Tiny, crispy fish that had quite a bitter taste.
Japanese oysters, both large and small.
Fantastic fruity, citrus-infused bread that was baked at the table.
Crayfish salad.
Potentially deadly blowfish that was deep fat fried, with a green pepper mayonnaise and wrapped up in newspaper like traditional fish and chips. It had a much richer flavour and denser texture than I've tasted with other fish and I now understand why people undertake the meticulous task of preparing it.
Fish soup.
A great piece of steak, with some parsnip-like vegetables that are only in season two weeks a year.
Dessert...
Vodka cocktail, with freeze-dried yuzu (small Japanese grapefruit).
More dessert.
Tiny, home-made macaroons.
My fantastic lunch friends.