kaiseki
Noun
Meaning
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kaiseki (plural kaiseki or kaisekis)
A style of Japanese cuisine involving a series of small, intricate dishes; a tasting menu
Examples
Chef Niki Nakayama and her sous chef Carole Iida have big plans to push the envelope further at n/naka, through constructing a kaiseki meal with all California ingredients, many of them wild, foraged.
From Latin American fare in South Lake Union to kaiseki in the Denny Regrade.
The dining room area is also being altered, with one portion used for Eatstation, while the remainder of the space will morph into in mid-October, offering elegant kaiseki cuisine for dinner.
Saucer-like cups called sakazuki are also used, most commonly at weddings and other ceremonial occasions, such as the start of the year or at the beginning of a kaiseki meal.
The term is also used to describe the first course served in standard kaiseki cuisine nowadays.
Without a taste for reading folklore and fantasy, I might never have eaten Turkish Delight in Istanbul or a kaiseki feast at a ryokan on a snowy night in Kanazawa.