"This high-end, reservations-only restaurant is hidden away in a quiet residential area in Yoyogi, creating the feeling that you’ve been invited to an intimate dinner party at chef Mamta Reid’s home. Deeply unusual for a restaurant in Japan serving a set-course menu, Tudore allows diners to customize each flight of creative dishes to fit their needs; Reid can alter dishes to make them vegan, gluten-free, or low-sodium, or to avoid a particular ingredient. The chef’s Zambian and Jamaican background comes out in the spices, but the melting pot of flavors is far more complex, evolving over eight courses to end in a glittering taster plate of sweets and tea." - Chiara Terzuolo
