⚠️ The head chef retired in February 2024 and the restaurant operates as a wine bar for now.

Floraison

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🇫🇷 French / 📍 Kagurazaka

📓 Visits: 1

Lunch consisting of amuse, two starters, fish, meat, dessert, coffee and mignardises is JPY 7,700.  At dinner the same menu increased in priced to 8,500 earlier this year.  A cheaper menu minus a starter and the mignardises is JPY 5,000 at lunch, which is what I had on my visit.  A course menu similar to this was previously available at dinner for JPY 6,200.  Prices are inclusive.

The restaurant has large windows on two sides and gets lots of natural light from its second floor location.  Four tables sit up to four and a counter sits up to six.  On my visit the counter was not in use and only two other tables were occupied with two diners each so there was quite a bit of space.  A head chef and assistant man the kitchen and the restaurant manager is the only person front of house.  The manager was friendly and made a couple of attempts at basic conversation, in Japanese, but couldn't really speak English and had a translation device.  The restaurant was a little cold but the manager spotted I was cold and raised the temperature.

Full menu is reproduced below.  Amuse: the cheese tuile in the amuse was excellent (8.5/10) but the fillings in the other two elements were too cold (6.5/10).  Starter: buri was a generous portion and worked well with its accompaniments (8/10).  Fish: kurodai, again a generous portion served with tomato beurre blanc (8/10).  Meat: Yamagata harami.  Served with plenty of veg but, alas, no potato.  Sauce was a bit over-reduced but at least they made the effort (7.5/10).  Dessert: chocolate not rich enough, sorbet a bit grainy, pastry needed to be more buttery and lighter and raw apple?! (6/10).  Bread was OK (6/10).  Coffee (not pictured) was good but perhaps a little bitter.

Floraison was awarded a Star in the 2022 Michelin Guide for Tokyo.  I wouldn't have tipped this restaurant for a Star last year.  Portions were generous and most of the cooking was good but I won't remember anything I ate here in a few weeks and the dessert was certainly not worthy of a Star.  They have a 12k dinner menu but I'd be concerned the dishes would be no more complex but just use more expensive proteins.

I hate slow meals so was pleased this didn't take much more than an hour.  5K is cheap for a 4-course lunch and 8K is cheap for a 5-course dinner.  In fact this is one of the cheapest 1-Star French restaurants in Tokyo at lunch and, even with the removal of the cheaper course menu and with the price increase, still the cheapest at dinner.  I won't be back to Floraison but if you're on a budget, especially at dinner, and looking for a Michelin restaurant then you should have a good meal at Floraison.

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❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 3.8

📱 Booking: 🟩 Easy.  Reservations for lunch are required and must be made by 8pm the day before.  Same-day dinner reservations are possible.  Book online or by phone.

📍 Location:

2F MI Building, 3-6-29 Kagurazaka.  4 mins North-West from the B3 exit of Iidbashi station.  2F multi-tenant building.
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📅 Visit January 2022

💴 Damage: 5,000
⏱️ Time taken: 1h10m