I had dinner at a famous French restaurant, Gion Okumura located in the center of Gion.
It is a serious kyoto-French restaurant, but you can feel free to go there even alone, because the restaurant is cozy, and its main seat is the counter.
First of all, amuse was caviar on tuna, that was flavoured with tartar sauce.
The second dish was assorted appetizers；sea bream sashimi, sea grapes and watermelon salad, marinated mackerel, and roasted duck.
Before they would bake homemade breads, they showed me what kinds of breads they have today, so I could pick what I want to eat.
The third dish was corn soup.
Sea urchin grown in Hokkaido and angel shrimp were on the top.
The fourth dish was crab flan.
Flan is western style Chawanmushi.
The rich Américaine sauce was so delicious.
The fifth dish was Ishiyaki.
I baked raw-eatable foods on a pebble ; prawn, scallop, southern squid, pumpkin.
The sixth dish was yellow grouper saute with rich chicory butter sauce.
The seventh dish was pie-wrapped frost fish soup.
There was truffle in the soup, so it was good smell.
I ate the soup with freshly baked pie.
The eighth dish was foie gras poire with consommé simmered winter melon.
Here was blue curacao and yogurt as a palate cleanser.
The ninth dish was main dish, roasted Ichibo grown in Kyoto.
As you like eat the main dish with salt, pepper, wasabi, and peanut sauce.
The tenth dish was 〆(shime), special made european style curry.
It was a little spicy, and sold as a souvenir.
The eleven dish was peach compote and milk ice cream.
Baked An-nin taste meringue on them.
There were six small snacks after the meal; raspberry marshmallow, sesame cookie, mini pudding, and so on…
I could pick as many as I wanted from them, so I got every six snacks.
Herbal tea had a lavender scent, and it made me be calm and relaxed.
Their meals were based on classic French cuisine, and were incorporated washoku.
I could eat a little bit of many different dishes made from various ingredients.
It was polished Kyoto-French cuisine.
■Gion Okumura
